ltd London Weekend Television
Series
Superintendent Battle mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Set in the 1920s, a feisty flapper turns to amateur sleuthing, teaming up with a suave man-about-town. The dark forces of murder and international intrigue combine with the froth of romance and frivolity for a thriller with wicked Christie wit.
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Elinor Carlisle has been accused of killing her wealthy Aunt and a rival love. When Poitrot comes to the case he quickly finds motive, opportunity and means for Elinor to have done the double murder. But a tidy package is not enough to satisfy Poirot's curiosity, and he eventually pieces together an entirely different picture of what really happened in a case that appeared to be cut and dried.
Publisher
Image Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
c1985
Description
"Made in 1985 seven years before Bacon's death, this program explores the way in which the artist's life influenced his work, following him from his studio where he began work at dawn every day to his favorite drinking club and gambling joint in Soho.
10) The ABC murders
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
Belgium sleuth Hercule Poirot untangles a baffling mystery of a murderer who announces his next victims through a series of letters each addressed to the detective himself.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
Set in the summer of 1917, the story follows the war-wounded Captain Arthur Hastings to the Styles St. Mary estate of his friend John Cavendish. The Cavendish household is wrought with tension due to the marriage of John's widowed mother to a suspicious younger man. Hastings runs into his old friend Hercule Poirot In the village. When the estate's trouble turns deadly, the friends unite to solve a most baffling case.
13) Jane Eyre
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
Jane Eyre, a mistreated orphan, learns to survive by relying on her independence and intelligence.
14) Thomas & Sarah
Publisher
A&E
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Follow the up-and-down adventures of the former chauffeur and parlor maid, a couple often as at odds with each other as they are with their efforts to strike it rich. Each episode finds our duo tackling new endeavors.
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
2003, c1998
Description
Tess Durbeyfield is a luminous beauty who is violated by one man and forsaken by another, but she refuses to remain a victim. Her struggle to endure despite the abandonment of her true love, and despite her desperate attempt to attain happiness, propels Tess toward a tragic end.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
A handful of dust: In 1930s England, Tony and Brenda Last and their son, John Andrew, live an idyllic life in the huge Victorian country house that is the symbol of Tony's family pride. The chance arrival of a penniless scrounger irrevocably shatters the gentle balance of their lives as Brenda's search for excitement and Tony's determination to hold on to what is his eventually lead in the direction of divorce and send Tony to South America.
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