British Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Led by Captain Jack Harkness, the Torchwood team delves into the unknown and fights the impossible. From an underground base built on a rift in time and space, the team responds to any alien threat-- a meteorite crash landing, sightings of extra-terrestrial technology, an unusual autopsy report, the spread of a deadly alien virus. Everyone who works for Torchwood is under 35. Some day that's because it's a new science-- others say it's because they...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Inspector Edmund Reid travels deep into the seedy criminal London underworld hell-bent on taking back the blood-stained streets of Whitechapel. But Reid isn't fighting this battle alone. He's joined by Detective Inspector Bennet Drake, a hard man who prefers to let his fists do the talking, Captain Homer Jackson, a brash American with a voracious appetite for vice, and Long Susan, a madam with shady secrets.
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Christmas Eve, 1892, and the falling snow is the stuff of fairytales. When the fairytale becomes a nightmare and a chilling menace threatens Earth, an unorthodox young governess, Clara, calls on the Doctor for help. But the Doctor is in mourning, reclusive and determined not to engage in the problems of the universe. As old friends return, will the Doctor really abandon humankind, or will he fight to save the world and Christmas from the icy clutches...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Daniel Deronda is sensitive and charming, the illegitimate son of an aristocrat, haunted by the secrets that shroud his birth. Beautiful, vivacious Gwendolen Harleth is a gambler and short on cash. When they meet at the roulette table, sparks fly. But above all, Gwendolen needs money, and the icy aristrocrat Henleigh Grandcourt is more than happy to provide. As her situation becomes more and more oppressive, she turns to Daniel for help-- only to...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Set in the rugged beauty of the dales of Yorkshire, England, this season continues the true-life story of young veterinarian James Herriot. Newly married to Helen and settled into a partnership with Siegfried Farnon--with the sporadic support of Siegfried's errant younger brother, Tristan--James finds that there is no end to the joy and heartache, tears and laughter that go with caring for all creatures great and small.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
At the Bayview Retirement Village, the elderly are expected to grow old gracefully, enjoying their final years in peace, quiet and comfort-- but not if Tom and Diana have anything to do with it! Meet two elderly eccentrics who refuse to put up with the appalling food and condescending staff in this BAFTA-nominated comedy series.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Set in the rugged beauty of the English countryside, this series begins with the arrival of James Herriot to the Yorkshire Dales in the late '30s. The newly qualified outsider from Scotland finds he still has much to learn if the country folk are ever to accept him as a vet on par with Siegfried Farnon, who established the Darrowby practice. As Herriot struggles with the native dialect, skeptical clients and ingrained rural superstitions, he must...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The world's longest-running sitcom set in the glorious Yorkshire Dales is back and the ageing delinquents are up to their old tricks again. Sometimes sober, sometimes not, they exercise a suit of armor to get rid of the squeaks, challenge a legless man to a bicycle race, and cross-dress with hilariously disastrous results.
Language
English
Description
Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve when she falls in love with the charming but unsuitable John Willoughby, ignoring her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behavior leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Elinor, sensitive to social convention, struggles to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Will the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness...
Series
Jon Pertwee years 1970-1974 volume story no. 62
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Arrested after the events at Devil's End, the Master has been incarcerated at a top security prison on a remote island off the south coast of England. When the Doctor and Jo Grant pay a visit to their old enemy, they find him a reformed character. But can the spate of mysterious shipping accidents and garbled reports of sea monsters in the local area really be a coincidence? The Doctor soon finds himself pitted against the Sea Devils, an ancient race...
Series
Jon Pertwee years 1970-1974 volume story no. 52
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Exiled to Earth and now working for UNIT as their scientific advisor, the Doctor is summoned to an underground research center at Wenley Moor to investigate a series of inexplicable power losses. Initially suspecting sabotage, he soon discovers that the nearby cave system conceals a colony of an ancient race called the Silurians. Awaking from a hibernation which has lasted millions of years, they are now planning to reclaim the Earth from humankind....
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
At the Bayview Retirement Village, the elderly are expected to grow old gracefully, enjoying their final years in peace, quiet and comfort-- but not if Tom and Diana have anything to do with it! Meet two elderly eccentrics who refuse to put up with the appalling food and condescending staff in this BAFTA-nominated comedy series.
Series
Peter Davison years 1982-1984 volume story no. 131
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Earth, 2084. Two global superpowers hover on the brink of war. When the TARDIS is forced to make an unplanned visit to Sea Base Four, the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough find themselves accused of being enemy agents. Quickly embroiled in a deadly game of paranoid intrigue, it becomes clear that others on the base have sabotage and murder in mind. However, there is a greater threat to humankind: the Silurians and Sea Devils, prehistoric reptiles seeking...
Series
William Hartnell years 1963-1966 volume story no. 17
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The TARDIS lands on the Northumbrian coast, where new companion Steven discovers a Viking helmet and the Doctor deduces they must have arrived in the 11th century. Steven remains skeptical, especially when he and Vicki encounter what appears to be a Saxon hunter with a modern wristwatch. Investigating a monastery, the Doctor discovers further anachronisms. Who is the mysterious monk observing the time travelers' every move, and why is he so interested...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Television series that follows the true-life adventures of veterinarian James Herriot. Set in the windswept dales of Yorkshire, England, the series perfectly captures the warm drawing room fires and freezing wintry barns of the English countryside of the '30s. While this remote area cannot remain untouched by the threat of impending war, there are still plenty of battles to be fought on the home front: on the farms, in the fields and hand-to-hand...