Acorn Media (Firm)
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 270 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Five cash-strapped supermarket employees are bracing for their store's imminent shutdown when their lottery pool wins big. It seems like a godsend--but the syndicate soon learns that good fortune can come at a high price.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (238 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Veteran DI David Bradford heads an elite murder squad, but he's been on leave following the unexplained disappearance of his wife. In his absence, ambitious DS Vivienne Cole has been leading the investigations, and when Bradford returns to work, the two clash over their methods. Despite the tension, Bradford and Cole strive to solve complex crimes. The only case David can't crack is the most personal to him until one of their investigations uncovers...
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 400 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. Midsomer life: After the unpopular editor of a local magazine is found dead, Barnaby stumbles upon a nest of bribery, adultery, and secrets kept too long. The magician's nephew: Barnaby must determine if witchcraft is to blame when several members of a pagan cult are killed in an unusual manner. Days of misrule: Christmas comes...
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries inspired by the novels of Caroline Graham. Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby has policed the murderous county for decades, and now he is ready to retire. In these four episodes Barnaby investigates his final cases before leaving the denizens of MIdsomer in the capable hands of his cousin, DCI John Barnaby and his partner,...
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (18 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Detective Murdoch and Dr. Ogden are thrilled with their new baby, but domestic bliss eludes Crabtree on his path to the altar and coroner Miss Hart as she deals with her menacing father.
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 400 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these four contemporary British television mysteries. Dance with the dead: A young man's apparent suicide leads Barnaby and his team searching for the man's missing girlfriend and ballroom dance partner. Animal within: When a woman presumed dead in a plane crash visits her uncle's estate three years later, she surprises everyone there, but it's an even greater shock when the...
308) Wentworth: Season 3
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 580 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After receiving a life sentence without parole, Bea Smith assumes the mantle of top dog and asserts her dominance over the other inmates, including Franky Doyle, who finds herself more vulnerable than ever before. Enlisting the help of both prisoners and officers, Bea wages war with sadistic governer Joan "The Freak" Ferguson but does not anticipate the collateral damage her schemes may cause.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 151 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of an unhappily married man who goes to desperate lengths to provide his son with a virtuous life. His adventures lead to murder, bigamy, and emotional upheavals.
Series
George Smiley novels volume 5
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 108 min. each) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Some say George Smiley is in innocent retirement. Others say he was sacked after the Czech scandal. But all agree that nobody ever leaves the 'Circus' without some unfinished business. Brought out of retirement to trace an enemy infiltrator in the department where he was once the prize employee, the shy and retiring master of espionage moves forwards to investigate and finds himself going backwards over very old ground.
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 11 hrs.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Crime abounded in late Victorian and Edwardian times--from the streets of London to the country houses of nobility; from the royal apartments of Vienna to the hotel rooms of quiet Copenhagen. Sherlock Holmes took on many of the era's crooks, killers, blackmailers, and schemers, but so did the fictional sleuths of other celebrated writers of the time. (from container.)
Series
800 words volume 1
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 364 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After the death of his wife, newspaper columnist George Turner decided to move his family from Sydney to the small New Zealand seaside town of Weld. He wanted his kids, Shay and Arlo, to have a fresh start, but all did not go according to plan. In Season Two George must reunite his family and bring Shay home from her self-appointed exile in Australia. George is also finding out what it means to be a local in the quirky town of Weld.
Series
800 words volume 1
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 365 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After the death of his wife, newspaper columnist George Turner decided to move his family from Sydney to the small New Zealand seaside town of Weld. He wanted his kids, Shay and Arlo, to have a fresh start, but all did not go according to plan. In Season Two George must reunite his family and bring Shay home from her self-appointed exile in Australia. George is also finding out what it means to be a local in the quirky town of Weld.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 355 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Brilliant historian Diana Bishop is a witch denying her heritage. But when she unexpectedly calls up an ancient, bewitched manuscript from Oxford's Bodleian Library, she finds herself thrown into the heart of a dangerous mystery--and into the path of enigmatic geneticist and vampire Matthew Clairmont. Matthew is driven to solve the looming threat of magical creatures' decline and believes that the lost manuscript could answer the mysteries of their...
Publisher
[Acorn Media]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 342 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a body is found along the coast, Jay teams up with a local constable to investigate. Facing obstruction from an archaeologist working nearby, Jay must expose the web of corruption plaguing the town as the body count rises.
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
19 DVDs (approximately 32 hours) : sound, color ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle works in the English town of Hastings. As World War II tears the social fabric of this once quiet coastal community, Foyle investigates crimes the conflict has fostered the home front.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 372 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Miss Marple returns to help solve mysteries with her keen powers of observation and her quiet common-sense analysis. Towards zero: Eyebrows arch when the dashing Wimbledon tennis star Nevile Strange arrives with his attractive new wife, even though the first wife is also attending. Miss Marple observes the tightly wound group as they holiday by the sea, sensing the sexual tensions and unresolved jealousies that lead to murder. Nemesis: Miss Marple...
318) Mystery road: Origin
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 349 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's 1999, and freshly minted detective Jay Swan arrives in a dusty Outback town. Although he's the new copper on the beat, he grew up nearby, and his estranged family still lives here as does the woman who will change his life forever, Mary. Before Jay can even report for duty, he finds himself in the middle of an armed holdup, one of a series being perpetrated by a masked gang. The heists seem to be random: a cattle truck is stolen, a popular pub...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 372 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Miss Marple returns to help solve mysteries with her keen powers of observation and her quiet common-sense analysis. A pocket full of rye: Who poisoned the wealthy businessman Rex Fortescue ? Miss Marple barely has time to ponder this question before her former maid Gladys turns up strangled on the Fortescue estate. Murder is Easy: Murder is easy, says elederly Miss Pinkerton to Miss Marple during a chance encounter on a train. However, when Miss...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 318 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When two boys disappear from a remote cattle station, local police sergeant Emma James calls in indigenous detective Jay Swan to help find out what happened. As Emma and Jay butt heads over their conflicting methods, the unexpected arrival of Jay's troubled daughter only inflames the tension. But when their investigation uncovers other crimes haunting the backwater town, the detectives must look to the past to get justice in the present.