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Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"Meet Martin Ellingham, an eminent physician with a nasty disposition. Forced to give up his career as a London surgeon after developing a fear of blood, he takes a job as GP in the sleepy Cornish village of Portwenn. His irascible manner and permanent scowl soon have the town in an uproar; he insults each patient he sees and offends nearly everyone else. The only person who's glad to see him is his aunt Joan."--sleeve.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Martin Ellingham is brilliant, dedicated, and highly efficient. He's also brusque, abrasive, and terrified of blood. Once a successful London surgeon, he's now a GP in the idyllic Cornish fishing village of Portwenn, where he's every bit as eccentric as the villagers he serves.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Doc Martin continues his misanthropic adventures in the idyllic seaside village of Portwenn. The fourth season of the hit dramedy sees two unexpected arrivals that complicate the good doctor's already messy life. Contains eight episodes.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
All is not well for brilliant but boorish Dr. Martin Ellingham as the hit British dramedy returns. To Martin's utter disgust, his medical practice remains under official scrutiny because of his pre-existing blood phobia, and he is forced to attend refresher courses starting with phlebotomy. His wife, Louisa, and aunt Ruth urge him to take this risk to his career seriously, but events conspire against him.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
This final series sees the Doc making efforts to overcome his phobia and beginning to question whether he made the right decision about resigning. He and Louisa have also welcomed a baby daughter, Mary Elizabeth, a sister to four-year-old James Henry; includes the feature-length finale special.
9) Mr. Turner
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Explores the last quarter century of the great if eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851). Profoundly affected by the death of his father, loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and occasionally exploits sexually, he forms a close relationship with a seaside landlady with whom he eventually lives incognito in Chelsea, where he dies.
Publisher
Shout! Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
For documentary filmmaker and dating app addict Zoe Stevenson (Lily James), swiping right has only delivered an endless stream of Mr. Wrongs, much to the dismay of her eccentric mother, Cath (Emma Thompson). For Zoe's childhood friend and neighbor, Kaz (Shazad Latif), the answer is to follow his parents' example and opt for an arranged marriage to a bride from Pakistan. As Zoe films his hopeful journey from London to Lahore to marry a stranger chosen...
12) Dolittle
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After losing his wife seven years earlier, the eccentric Dr. John Dolittle, famed doctor and veterinarian of Queen Victoria's England, hides behind the walls of Dolittle Manor with only his menagerie of exotic animals for company. But when the young queen falls gravely ill, a reluctant Dolittle is forced to set sail on an epic adventure to a mythical island in search of a cure. The doctor is joined on his quest by a young, self-appointed apprentice...
13) Ballet shoes
Publisher
Koch Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Three orphans raised by the niece of an eccentric explorer in 1930s London aspire to careers on the stage and in the theater.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Emmy Award-winning actor Jeremy Piven stars as American entrepreneur and colorful retail magnate Harry Gordon Selfridge. Pioneering and reckless, with an almost manic energy, Harry Selfridge created a theater of retail for early 1900s Londoners where any topic or trend that was new, exciting, entertaining-or sometimes just eccentric-was showcased. Based on the book Shopping, Seduction and Mr. Selfridge by author Lindy Woodhead.
16) 5 children & It
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Set during World War I in England, five children are sent to live with their eccentric uncle where they discover a fairy named It who grants them a wish every day.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The English village mystery gets a contemporary spin in this hit British television series that has earned a worldwide following. Bucolic settings harbor macabre crimes and eccentric characters that are no match for DCI John Barnaby and his assistant, DS Charlie Nelson.
18) Honeymoon hotel
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A charming novel in the vein of The Wedding Planner featuring an ambitious and by-the-books event planner who finds herself at odds with her new assistant, who happens to be the son of her boss, on the eve of the biggest wedding of her career--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Runaway Princess and the Little Lady Agency series. The Bonneville Hotel is the best-kept secret in London: its elegant rooms and discreet wood-paneled cocktail...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The English village mystery gets a contemporary spin in this hit British television series that has earned a worldwide following. Bucolic settings harbor macabre crimes and eccentric characters that are no match for nice-guy detective Tom Barnaby (John Nettles, Bergerac) and his assistant, Sergeant Dan Scott (John Hopkins, Love in a Cold Climate). zDelightful in a murderously charming wayy (Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy). Guest stars include Harriet...
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The English village mystery gets a contemporary spin in this hit British television series that has earned a worldwide following. Bucolic settings harbor macabre crimes and eccentric characters that are no match for DCI John Barnaby and his assistant, DS Jamie Winter.
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