Film and TV Favourites

Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers!

2007-05-11T16:31:00.000Z

Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers boxset from the Disney pocket money series.

No crime is too small for the Rescue Rangers! Join the courageous Chip 'n' Dale along with their friends Gadget Hackwrench, Zipper and Monterey Jack as they face off against some of the most outrageous villains the world has ever seen in this fun-filled three-disc collection.

20 episodes are included in this collection:

Catteries Not Included
Three Men And A Booby
The Carpetsnaggers
Piratsy Under The Seas
Adventures In Squirrelsitting
Flash The Wonder Dog
The Pound Of The Baskervilles
Parental Discretion Retired
Risky Beesness
Bearing Up Baby
Out To Launch
Dale Beside Himself
Kiwi's Big Adventure
A Lad In A Lamp
The Battle Of The Bulge
Ghost Of A Chance
An Elephant Never Suspects
A Case of Stage Blight
The Luck Stops here
Fake Me To Your Leader

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Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light (Cartoon Series)

2007-03-10T17:17:00.000Z

Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light

Set on the planet Prysmos, located in another dimension, the Visionaries consist of two groups of knights — the Spectral Knights and the Darkling Lords, both of whom have their magical powers gifted from Merklynn after successfully completing a quest to reach Merklynn's shrine on Iron Mountain.

Knights on both sides had magical powers of lightspeed, fear, wisdom, might, etc. once the characters spoke a special verse out loud. Among the verses are:

SPECTRAL KNIGHTS

* Leoric Wisdom

"Whispered secrets of a shattered age,
I summon you: renew this sage!"

* Arzon Knowledge

"A whim, a thought, and more is sought.
Awake my mind; thy will be wrought!"

* Cryotek Strength

"Three suns aligned pour forth their light
And fill the archer's bow with might!"

* Witterquick Light Speed

"Sheathe these feet in the driving gale,
Make swift these legs o'er land I sail!"

* Ectar Protection

"Shield this craft from one and all.
Reflect, deflect, depose and fall!"

* Feryl Fire

"Draw upon the breath of stars,
And scorch the sky with fiery scars!"

* Galadria Healing

"By warmth of heart, your pain I feel.
Grant me the power, your wounds to heal!"

DARKLING LORDS

* Darkstorm Decay

"By what creeps, what crawls, by what does not,
Let all that grows recede and rot!"

The cartoon showed an additional power to reverse this Decay:

"Power of rot, obscuring truth,
What once was old restore to youth!"

* Cindarr Destruction

"By nature's hand, by craft, by art,
What once was one now fly apart!"

* Cravex Fear

"Oh mist-filled pits, dark, dank, unclear,
Touch all before me with frost-fingered fear!"

* Lexor Invulnerability

"The arrows turn, the swords rebel,
let nothing pierce this mortal shell!"

* Mortdredd Flight

"Wings of steel shall ride the breeze.
Invade the air, the land, the seas!"

* Reekon Magic Extractor

"Flay the flesh, lay bare the bone.
Upon this field, let grief be sown!"

* Virulina Disease

"Wind of sickness, illness most vile,
Strike down my enemy, with disease revile!"

Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light is a half hour animated television series from 1987. It is based on the action figure toy line of the same name by Hasbro. A total of 13 episodes were produced by Sunbow Productions, and were released on Region 2 DVD in 2004. There was also a short-lived comic book series published by Star Comics and eventually Marvel Comics - it lasted only 6 issues, and was cancelled mid-way through a 4-part adventure.

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Children's Favourites : Mr Benn

2007-03-06T19:07:00.000Z

Mr Benn is a character created by David McKee who appears in several children's books, and an animated television series of the same name transmitted by the BBC in 1971 and 1972. Whether in a book, or on television, Mr Benn's adventures take on a similar pattern. Mr Benn, a businessman wearing a black suit and bowler hat, visits a fancy-dress shop where he is invited by the moustachioed, fez-wearing shopkeeper to try on a particular outfit. He leaves the shop through a magic door at the back of the changing room and enters a world appropriate to his costume, where he has an adventure (which usually contains a moral) before the shopkeeper re-appears, and the story comes to an end. Mr Benn returns to his normal life as a businessman, but is left with a small souvenir of his magical adventure.

McKee wrote and (with Ian Lawless) animated thirteen Mr Benn episodes for the BBC in the early 1970s. These episodes were repeated many times over the years, and many people retain fond memories of him. The episodes were narrated by Ray Brooks, and the music composed by Don Warren.

The titles of the thirteen episodes (in alphabetical order) are: The Balloonist, The Caveman, The Clown, The Cook, The Cowboy, The Diver, The Hunter, The Magic Carpet, The Pirate, The Red Knight, The Spaceman, The Wizard, and The Zookeeper.

After over thirty years, a brand new Mr Benn episode was screened for the first time on 1 January 2005, on the UK channel Noggin. The episode was based on McKee's 2001 book Mr Benn, Gladiator and is also included in the new DVD release of 'Mr Benn - Complete Series'.

Even after more than thirty years, Mr Benn still remains one of the best-loved childrens programmes ever. It recently came joint third (with playschool) in the 2006 'CBeebies Weekly' poll of the most popular pre-school children's TV shows of all-time. It also came sixth in the 2001 Channel 4 poll The 100 Greatest Kids' TV shows.

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Children's Favourites : Bagpuss

2007-03-02T18:50:00.000Z

Bagpuss is a popular 1974 UK children's television series, made by Smallfilms. It is fondly and widely remembered, despite the fact that only 13 episodes were ever made.

The titles of the thirteen episodes each refer in some way to the object Emily found.

* The Ship in a Bottle - "Where would it sail to?" (first shown 12 February 1974),
* The Owls of Athens - A dirty rag that reveals a picture once cleaned (first shown 19 February 1974),
* The Frog Princess - assorted jewels, which initially are thought to represent a cat and mouse but which Gabriel decides were the crown jewels of a frog princess (first shown 26 February 1974),
* The Ballet Shoe - put to inventive use by the mice, and the subject of a very silly song about its possible use as a rowing boat (first shown 5 March 1974),
* The Hamish - a tartan pin cushion (first shown 12 March 1974),
* The Wise Man - a broken figurine of a Chinaman, claimed by Yaffle to be the very wise Ling-Po (first shown 19 March 1974),
* The Elephant - missing its ears (first shown 26 March 1974),
* The Mouse Mill - demonstrated by the mice to make chocolate biscuits out of butterbeans and breadcrumbs. This turns out to be a mischievous fraud (first shown 2 April 1974),
* The Giant - a statuette (first shown 9 April 1974),
* Old Man's Beard - a tangly plant (first shown 16 April 1974),
* The Fiddle - which plays itself (first shown 23 April 1974),
* Flying - a basket which the mice attempt to turn into a flying machine (first shown 30 April 1974),
* Uncle Feedle - a piece of cloth, decided to be a house for a rag doll (first shown 7 May 1974).

Each programme would begin the same way: Through a series of sepia photographs, we are told of a little girl named Emily (played by Emily Firmin, the daughter of the illustrator Peter Firmin), who owned a shop. The shop didn't sell anything, however - instead, Emily would find lost and broken things and display them in the window of the shop, so that their owners could one day come and collect them. She would leave the object in front of her favourite stuffed toy - a large, saggy, pink and white striped cat named Bagpuss. She would then recite a verse:

Bagpuss, dear Bagpuss
Old Fat Furry Catpuss
Wake up and look at this thing that I bring
Wake up, be bright, be golden and light
Bagpuss, oh hear what I sing

When Emily had left, Bagpuss would wake up. The programme shifted from sepia to colour stop motion film, and various toys in the shop would also come to life: Gabriel the toad and a rag doll called Madeleine. The wooden woodpecker bookend became the drily academic Professor Yaffle (distantly based, it is said, on the philosopher Bertrand Russell, while the mice carved on the side of the "mouse organ" (a small mechanical pipe organ which played rolls of music) woke up and scurried around, singing in high-pitched voices. Sandra Kerr and John Faulkner provided the voices of Madeleine and Gabriel respectively, and put together and performed all the proper songs. All the other voices (including the narrator and one out-of-tune mouse) were provided by Oliver Postgate.

The toys would discuss what the new object was; someone (usually Madeleine) would tell a story related to the object (shown in an animated thought-bubble over Bagpuss's head), often with a song, which would be accompanied by Gabriel on the banjo (which often sounded a lot more like a guitar), and then the mice, singing in high pitched squeaky harmony as they worked, would mend the broken object. The newly mended thing would then be put in the Shop window, so that whoever had lost it would see it as they went past, and could come in and claim it. Then Bagpuss would start yawning again, and as he fell asleep the colour faded to sepia and they all became toys again.

In 1999 it came first place in a BBC poll selecting the nations' favourite children's show. It also came fourth in the 2001 Channel 4 poll The 100 Greatest Kids' TV shows.

The Complete Series of Bagpuss is currently available on DVD here :

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JEM Cartoon - Truly Outrageous!

2006-11-28T19:36:00.000Z

Taken from the DVD cover:

Jerica Benton runs the Starlight Music Corporation. Jem is the hottest female singer since the creation of rock ‘n’ roll and the leader of the sensational Holograms. Two sides of the same person: by the power of ‘Synergy’ Jerrica becomes Jem!

Jem the Movie follows the dazzling journey of Jem and the Holograms as they grow to become the most incredible band on the planet – but the group have to compete with the power-hungry Misfits who will stop at nothing in the lead up to the legendary Battle of the Bands finale. Will Jem and the Holograms overcome the devious Misfits and win the ultimate prize?

Released on DVD for the first time in the UK – experience Jem and the Holograms in their classic, "Truly Outrageous!" movie!

JEM Cartoon - Truly Outrageous! The Movie

UHF starring 'Weird Al' Yankovic

2006-10-06T13:58:00.000Z

Short clip from 'Weird Al' Yankovic's UHF

UHF is currently available on DVD from www.filmandtvfavourites.com
UHF starring Weird Al Yankovic

Doctor Who Wardrobe Tardis

2006-08-26T22:25:00.000Z

Doctor Who Tardis Zipperobe

If you have ever wanted your own Tardis now might be your chance!

Doctor
Who Tardis

Disney Animated Classics

2006-08-26T11:16:00.000Z

Disney Animated Classics - Listed in Chronological Order:

1. Snow White (1937)
2. Fantasia (1940)
3. Pinocchio (1940)
4. Dumbo (1941)
5. Bambi (1942)
6. Saludos Amigos (1943)
7. The Three Caballeros (1945)
8. Make Mine Music (1946)
9. Fun and Fancy Free (1947)
10. Melody Time (1948)
11. Ichabod and Mister Toad (1949)
12. Cinderella (1950)
13. Alice in Wonderland (1951)
14. Peter Pan (1953)
15. Lady and the Tramp (1955)
16. Sleeping Beauty (1959)
17. 101 Dalmatians (1961)
18. The Sword in the Stone (1963)
19 .The Jungle Book (1967)
20. Aristocats (1970)
21. Robin Hood (1973)
22. The Rescuers (1977)
23. Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh (1977)
24. The Fox and the Hound (1981)
25. The Black Cauldron (1985)
26. Basil The Great mouse Detective (1986)
27. Oliver & Company (1988)
28. The Little Mermaid (1989)
29. The Rescuers Down Under (1990)
30. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
31. Aladdin (1992)
32. The Lion King (1994)
33. Pocahontas (1995)
34. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
35. Hercules (1997)
36. Mulan (1998)
37. Tarzan (1999)
38. Fantasia 2000 (2000)
39. Atlantis (2001)
40. The Emperor's New Groove (2001)
41. Lilo & Stitch (2002)
42. Treasure Planet (2002)
43. Brother Bear (2003)
44. Home on the Range (2004)

Disney DVDs and Videos

Rupert and The Frog Song

2006-08-22T22:34:00.000Z

Rupert and the Frog Song on DVD.

Directed by: Geoff Dunbar
Executive Producers: Paul McCartney & Linda McCartney
Produced by: Geoff Dunbar
Story by: Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney & Geoff Dunbar
Voices by: Paul McCartney, June Whitfield & Windsor Davies

The complete 'Rupert and the Frog Song' animated short including the 'live-action' opening of Paul McCartney finding his old Rupert annual in the attic.

"Win or lose, sink or swim
One thing is certain, we'll never give in
Side by side, hand in hand
WE ALL STAND TOGETHER"

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Doris Day Musicals On DVD

2006-08-19T10:49:00.000Z

Doris Day Musicals on DVD including:

"By The Light of the Silvery Moon"
and
"On Moonlight Bay"

Limited Stock. You will not find these in many shops.
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Round The Horne : The Complete Radio Archive

2006-08-19T10:26:00.000Z

Released for the 40th Anniversary of Round the Horne, this CD Boxset contains the entire collection of Collectors Editions of Round the Horne, including the Complete and Utter History which has never before been available on CD.

Please note. This is a limited Edition. Only 1000 copies available.

Round The Horne: The Complete Radio Archive

Donald In Mathmagic Land

2006-08-19T10:13:00.000Z

Donald In Mathmagic Land (1959)

In this highly acclaimed, award-winning short, a curious Donald Duck ventures into a mystical world of fantasy. MATHMAGICLAND is his destination - a wondrous land where trees have square roots and rivers are brimming with numbers!

Donald In Mathmagic Land is currently available only in DVD format :
http://www.filmandtvfavourites.com/store/view_product.php?product=FABS0EGV11