Richard Briers
Publisher
Warner Bros Ent. Canada Inc
Pub. Date
2013, c1996
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 400 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Meet handsome Archie MacDonald, a reluctant young Scottish laird torn between his trendy London life and the call of his wild Highland ancestry. Viwers will be seduced by breathtaking scenery, marvelously original and amusing scripts, and eccentric, thoroughly lovable characters. Includes eight episodes of the first series plus extras including cast bios.
Another winner from BBC AMERICA. This time it's a slighty wacky Scottish family. Funny, well...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005, c1975
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 640 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On his fortieth birthday, Tom Good decides to escape the rat race for a life of self-sufficiency with his wife. Soon they're plowing fields and tending goats and pigs in their suburban yard, much to the dismay of their upwardly mobile neighbors.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
To be or not to be? To act or not to act? The questions are the same to Joe, a struggling (jobless) actor whose every sinew and synapse cries out to perform and to soften the blow of not landing a part in a mega budget sci-fi movie. So in the stalwart (desperate) tradition of actors everywhere, Joe vows to put on a show, a special (even more desperate) version of the greatest play in the English tongue.
Author
Language
English
Description
Kenneth Branagh writes and directs a comic tale about an out-of-work actor's desperate attempt to salvage his career and his life by staging a production of Hamlet. Lacking time and money to do the play justice, he hires a motley cast of drunks, incompetents, oddballs and an aging female impersonator to play Queen Gertrude. Now, through backstage dramas, inevitable disasters and the occasional triumph, this cast of would-be losers strives to create...