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Seen on Mystery!, these classic British thrillers will keep you on the edge of your seat.  The series was a primetime ratings hit in England in the late 1970s, with 17 million viewers.

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Seen on Mystery!, these classic British thrillers will keep you on the edge of your seat. Each set features stellar casts (Ian McKellen, James Bolam) and scripts based on novels and stories by acclaimed crime writers (Antonia Fraser, Lionel Davidson). The series was a primetime ratings hit in England in the late 1970s, with 17 million viewers. Set 2 The Chelsea Murders (series version and feature-length version), The Circe Complex, Quiet as a Nun. Approx. 547 min. on 4 DVDs.

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Disc 1
Vol. 1: THE CHELSEA MURDERS

Episode 1
Three murders in Chelsea yield only one clue: a poem mailed to the police before the latest crime. As the cops search for a connection, a reporter looks for a scoop.

Episode 2
A second letter arrives, mocking the police with the identity of the next victim. Somehow, the Gazette writer also knows about the letters—could she be involved?

Episode 3
The police zero in on a hard-pressed filmmaking team. Their suspicions mount when the killer attacks again, dressed in a theatre costume.

Episode 4
The police grow increasingly frustrated, especially after one of their main suspects gets assaulted himself.

Episode 5
The police find a video of the most recent killing, but the reporter is a step ahead. Then a vital piece of evidence allows them to close the net.

Episode 6
The police finally figure it out, but the journalist puts herself in harm’s way trying to solve the case.

Disc 2
Vol. 2: THE CHELSEA MURDERS (feature-length version)
Originally commissioned for the Armchair Thriller series as six short installments, The Chelsea Murders aired instead as a feature-length television movie in 1981. Both versions are included in this set for the complete viewing experience.

Disc 3
Vol. 3: THE CIRCE COMPLEX

Episode 1
Tom Foreman kills a policeman after stealing jewelry worth a fortune. Caught and incarcerated, he refuses to reveal the loot’s whereabouts, even to prison psychiatrist Ollie Milton.

Episode 2
Ollie and Tom’s wife, Val, enlist the help of ex-con “Cat” Devlin in their plot to locate the hidden jewels.

Episode 3
Ollie takes harsh measures to get Tom to talk, but things go dreadfully wrong. Cat realizes it’s his word against that of the respected Dr. Milton.

Episode 4
The case against Cat looks watertight, but Detective Bannister has doubts. Why does Cat stick so doggedly to his story—and insist his relationship with Val wasn’t strictly business?

Episode 5
Bannister remains suspicious about Tom’s death but starts an affair with Val, who is more than happy to provide an easy out for the conflicted detective.

Episode 6Ollie finally learns where the jewels are stashed, but his quest to recover them spirals out of control.

Disc 4
Vol. 4: QUIET AS A NUN

Episode 1
Television journalist Jemima Shore investigates the death of her old friend, a nun who starved herself to death in her convent’s tower.

Episode 2
Shore learns that Sister Miriam had recently inherited a fortune. While one nun warns Shore to get out while she can, another is all too eager to confide her suspicions.

Episode 3
Shore hears of an apparition that haunts the hallways at night and seems to portend death. Flashlight in hand, she goes off in search of the “Black Nun.”

Episode 4
The schoolgirls speculate that Sister Miriam wanted to leave the convent and had recently changed her will.

Episode 5
Shore finds an underground passageway from the crypt to the tower and discovers a link between the dead nun and a missing schoolgirl. Unfortunately, the Black Nun is also on the hunt.

Episode 6
With Shore’s life in danger and the future of the convent at risk, help arrives from an unexpected source.
Packaging: Boxed set
Run Time: 547 minutes
Format: Full screen
Number of discs: 4
Language: English
Subtitles: N/A
Color or B&W: Color
CC: No
SDH: No
Region Code: 1
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Rating: N/A

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Disc 1
Dying Day
Episode 1
On the commute home one evening, Antony Skipling picks up a cassette tape left behind by a strange man. What he hears on it will change his life forever.

Episode 2
Convinced there is a plot to kill him, Skipling goes to the police, who dismiss him as a crank. He then turns to a counseling service and reconnects with Susie, a female “befriender” that the service assigned to him years ago.

Episode 3
Skipling suspects that his ex-wife and the new man in her life have planned his murder. He confides in Susie, the only person who sympathizes—and whose friendship turns more intimate by the day.

Episode 4
With time running out, Skipling becomes increasingly desperate. And on the morning of February 28, while waiting on the platform for his train, he encounters the man he believes has come to kill him.

Disc 2
The Limbo Connection
Episode 1
After a bout of heavy drinking, Mark Omney cannot account for his movements over the last 12 hours. When he sobers up, he learns that his wife, Clare, has had a car accident.

Episode 2
Omney suspects that Clare is being held against her will at Meadowbank Clinic. Or has she finally left him, sick of his drunken and aggressive behavior?

Episode 3
For help, Omney turns to Annabelle Frazer, his old girlfriend. He is convinced that a conspiracy is afoot—and that Clare is sending him covert messages.

Episode 4
Omney attends the funeral of one of the clinic’s former residents, suspecting his wife’s body lies inside the coffin. Later that night, he and Annabelle return to find out for themselves.

Episode 5
The police catch Omney red-handed, and a deadly attack leaves him with only one way out.

Episode 6
Omney turns up the heat on Meadowbank, which is forced into the most desperate of measures.

Disc 3
Rachel in Danger
Episode 1
Freckle-faced and bespectacled, 10-year-old Rachel travels from Scotland to London to visit her father. She hasn’t seen him in the eight years since her parents divorced—and has no idea that the man who collects her at the train station is an imposter.

Episode 2
Rachel meets her supposed stepmother—in reality, another member of a terrorist group with plans for the upcoming Royal Garden Party at the palace. The conspirators are divided over whether to dispose of Rachel or use her as a front.

Episode 3
One of the team gets cold feet about killing a kid. Left to her own devices, Rachel tries to get a message to the police. She seizes her chance on a shopping outing for the next day’s royal event.

Episode 4
Too late, the police uncover the plot against the palace. Rachel’s “father” has his target in his sights, while her “stepmother” has her hands on the girl’s throat. Unable to rely on the adults in her world, Rachel must find a way to save herself.

Disc 4
The Victim
Episode 1
When kidnappers abduct his teenage daughter, Sue, industrialist Vincent Craig could easily raise the ransom money. But Craig intends to do things his own way.

Episode 2
Craig believes he knows who is behind the kidnapping—and that the motives are personal, not financial. Shaking off the police, he heads to the town of Hepton to begin his search.

Episode 3
Enlisting the help of a local crime reporter, Craig tracks down a disgruntled ex-employee named George Neecham.

Episode 4
While Craig’s desperation mounts, Sue becomes increasingly comfortable with her kidnappers—especially with a young man named Frankie.

Episode 5
Detectives trace Craig to Hepton, but he has moved on to the abandoned factory where his daughter is being held.

Episode 6
Craig confronts his daughter’s captor, but Sue—very much her father’s daughter—does the unexpected.
Packaging: Thinpak
Run Time: 487 minutes
Format: Full screen
Number of discs: 4
Language: English
Subtitles: N/A
Color or B&W: Color
CC: N/A
SDH: N/A
Region Code: 1
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Rating: N/A