Taggart - Vol. 36 Fearful Lightning

Freak Out

Merv Doody (James Heathcote) is a true horror-movie geek, he's seen it all. That is until fate delivers an inept lunatic to his doorstep! Instead of wetting his pants Merv decides to transform this wannabe wacko into a super cool psycho. Enlisting the aid of his best buddy Onkey (DanPalmer), the pair set about creating the greatest masked maniac the world has ever seen. Forget Jason and Freddy. They're losers. The man with the spatula (that's right, spatula. You wanna make something of it?) learns his lessons too well and carves a path of destruction through the sleepy town of Redwater Cove. Merv and Onkey find that they are the only two who can stop the murderous rampage of their own creation. The only question is how do you destroy an unstoppable machine of moronic madness?!

Canterbury Tales

Six BBC productions based on the stories from Geoffrey Chaucer's, Canterbury Tales of the 14th century. Each episode gives a modern retelling of the stories: The Miller's Tale, The Wife Of Bath, The Knight's Tale, The Sea Captain's Tale, The Pardoner's Tale and The Man Of Law's Tale. The universal themes covered are immediately accessible and include: sex, lust, love, greed, jealousy, native cunning (tricksters), the credulousness of the stupid, marital problems, infidelity, mistrust and bigotry.

Pallisers

Based on the political novels of Anthony Trollope, this series is set in the middle years of Queen Victoria's reign, and chronicles three generations in the life of the Palliser family. The sprawling saga documents the era in a story that combines wealth, power, passion, intrigue, and scandal in equal and addictive measure. Plantagenet Palliser and Lady Glencora are unsuitably in love with others when their elders declare that they will marry each other, making a politically advantageous marriage. Includes the complete series.

Endgame

Tom is a young man with a troubled past who finds himself sucked into a seedy underworld. George Norris is a super villain with a sadistic streak who uses Tom in one of his many scams which also involves Dunston, a bent copper. For Tom there seems to be no way out of the downward spiral of vice and violence in which he has become involved until fate gives him a helping hand. Tom seizes his chance to escape but how long will it be before Dunston tracks him down...

Elephant

Based on the events of the Columbine School Massacre, the story follows the course of what seemed to be a typical day at a local high school. Ordinary conversations in the corridors, football practice on the playing field, classes beginning and ending. The world is about to change drastically and tragically for all involved...