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Anything for you my dear !

"Seya next time!"

tvden

not quite a charity shop, but as I had to go to Clacton this morning to pick up some televisions I called in at two bootsales on the way total haul was 7 vhs titles
Great Expectations
Carry on at your convenience
Carry on loving
Hancock one tape with the radio ham the economy drive
Hamlet cigar adds
Clockwork orange
Carry on nurse/ cabby




total cost £1.70

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You need to buy your own shop

"Seya next time!"

tvden

yes prob dont tempt me !!!! but I was really excited by the hamlet video it was just so cheap there are not many people buying vids at bootsales now so bargains to be had

clitheroekid

Hamlet cigar ads???

Lord Brett

Good god, I've picked up a lot of stuff lately!

The highlights are Percy and Anthony Asquith's The Final Test, on VHS, new for 50p each from a paper shop, plus a three-hour compilation video of party political broadcasts for 30p from a charity shop! It's actually really interesting and goes back to 1947.

Then today I got a double VHS of Wodehouse Playhouse from a book fair, and found a recording I forgot I had of Channel 4's 1967 edition of TV Heaven . It's absolutely brilliant (would the current C4 bother with anything so hard to compile, but with such obvious value?), and includes the Armchair theatre production A Magnum for Schneider, the pilot for Callan.

Life is good indeed!

batman

A Magnum for Schneider is superb. It's interesting to compare to the movie version a few years later. So different but equally compelling, and they both contain inferior non-Valentine incarnations of Meres. Peter Bowles (miscast) in Magnum ... and Peter Egan (very Hogg-like) in Callan-The Movie.

I trawl charity shops and boot sales etc mainly for stuff for m'boy but have picked up some good 'uns recently too. The BBC Douglas Wilmer Holmes video new and sealed from a charity shop for £1 and a couple of ITV compilations with stuff like The Buccaneers/William Tell/Sir Lancelot etc for 25p each.

Bats.

"Boom boom a baby .... Banham Zoo .... Banana pants! Hahahaha"

Lord Brett

The novelisation of Magnum for Schieder is also very good (it was rereleased under the titles Red File for Callan, and then Callan when the film came out). James Mitchell wrote several other Callan novels, including a final one, Bonfire Night just a couple of years ago, which you can probably still get on Amazon.

Interestingly, Callan was predated by a series of excellent spy novels Mitchell wrote under the pen-name James Munro, featuring the character John Craig. The last of these, The Innocent Bystanders, was a virtual re-write of Magnum for Schneider, and was filmed in 1972 as Innocent Bystanders. Stanley Baker played Craig (if I read the books now, it is Sir Stan I imagine), and I believe it was his last appearence in a British-made movie.

Those ITC compilations were great - I've still got a few of them from when they first came out.

Tony Pendrey

Quite a few of the charity shops in my town are actually turning donated VHS tapes away. As more and more folk replace tapes with DVDs the amount of stuff to be had for pennies at boot fairs is astounding.

5p - 10p a tape is not unusual now.

The most sickening thing I have seen is boxes of tapes hoyed into the crusher at the local tip.

Having said that, I am about to move again and my missus has made it quite clear that I won't be boxing up me tapes for the journey.

Ah Yes, the Soviet Union. All them wheatfields and ballet in the evenings

batman

I have the book and have read it a couple of times, it's very good. I have never read Innocent Bystanders or seen the film, but I would love to. (Hint hint).

Bats.

ps-just ordered the book of Innocent Bystanders from Amazon for £1.

"Boom boom a baby .... Banham Zoo .... Banana pants! Hahahaha"

christoph404

I remember seeing "Innocent Bystanders" at the cinema, it was a supporting feature and I am now racking my brains to try and remember what the main film was! I think it may have either been a Bond film or Zulu?

tvden

this mornings two bootsales yielded on vhs
The Graduate
Mr Benn
A Room With A View
Brookside
In Which We Serve
Trainspotting
The Fly
The Train
Carry On Loving
Dads Army wake up walmington
Cockleshell Heroes

on dvd promos
on the busses
carry on jack
carry on cabby
carry on screaming
carry on spying
Total cost £3.70

Deepfocus

Once at Smiths they gave me a whole pile of free dvds from newspapers for about a quid - I got all those Ealings, among other classic British films. I felt like I'd robbed them.

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Was this a one off or did this seller seem to do a lot of factory pressed sealed DVD's?

"Seya next time!"

Carmel

No sadly a one off or i would of bought more. She said her husband bought it for her and she hates horror's, some husband when he does not know what his wife likes.