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Cracker: The Complete Collection £28.75

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Robbie Coltrane, to many people, is now seen as Hagrid from the Harry Potter world. Before that though, he actually did some serious acting - some may remember his appearance in a couple of James Bond films, but most will remember him as Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald in the crime series Cracker.

The criminal psychologist (or "cracker") helps solve often complex cases by getting inside the mind of the criminal, whilst being seemingly unable to sort his own life out.

If you fancy Cracker: The Complete Collection, click here to get it for £28.75 from Blah DVD. Snap this up while you can, as a more expensive set is on the way (which looks exactly the same as this one!).

Flash Gordon: Season One £5.93

There’s been a fair few attempts to get a Flash Gordon series off the ground, but almost every single one has failed miserably. The 2007 version is the newest effort which started off well, before losing so many viewers that it was inevitably cancelled.

Flash Gordon: Season One contains all 22 installments, plus an alternative version of the pilot episode.

Click here to buy this set of cheap DVDs for £5.93 from Asda.

The Equalizer: Season One £16.99

British actor Edward Woodward, he of The Wicker Man fame, stars in The Equalizer as a former secret agent who is trying to make up for his past sins by offering his services as a troubleshooter, protector, and investigator.

The Equalizer: Season One comes with the full 22 episodes from the first year. Interestingly, the UK version has all of the original music uncut and intact, whereas the US release doesn’t.

Zavvi have this available for £16.99 - click here for more details.

The Devil’s Backbone £3.99

Guillermo del Toro is perhaps better known for directing the two Hellboy films that have been made so far, but he’s also done a couple of other interesting movies in the shape of The Devil’s Backbone and its spiritual sequel Pan’s Labyrinth.

This gothic horror is set in the year of 1939 in Spain during the Spanish Civil War and tells the tale of a remote orphanage whose young inhabitants are terrorised by a decomposing spirit who stalks the dark hallways. As the film continues, the children learn the true story of Santi’s death and vow vengeance on his vicious murderer…

Click here to get this DVD for £3.99 from HMV.

Porky’s And Porky’s II: The Next Day Double Feature £4.99

Porky’s is a comedy film about a bunch of teenagers at the fictional Angel Beach High School in Florida in 1954 who are trying to lose their virginity. Hearing of a bar called Porky’s where prostitutes are available, the group travel there and end up getting ripped off by the owner - this leads them to plot their revenge…

Porky’s II: The Next Day sees the group return, looking for a new challenge. As the High School drama club are preparing to do a Shakespeare play, a religious leader wants it stopped because he and his group believe Shakespeare to be indecent. Queue a whole load of craziness from those wacky teens.

To get the Porky’s and Porky’s II: The Next Day double feature for £4.99 from Play.com, simply click here.

Star Trek: Enterprise - The Complete Collection £92.97

Star Trek: Enterprise is actually set over 100 years before any of the other series’ that have been made, on board Earth’s first warp-five capable starship (The Enterprise) which is commanded by Captain Jonathan Archer. The elements that become common in the other Star Trek series’ have their origins shown during the four years the show lasted.

Star Trek: Enterprise - The Complete Collection is a massive 24 disc boxset that contains all 98 episodes from the four seasons that were produced, as well as a whole host of extra features.

Amazon are selling this for £92.97 (which is a saving of over £150 compared to anywhere else!) - for more information, click here.

Star Trek: The Original Series - Season One (HD-DVD) £15.93

Although this version of Star Trek: The Original Series - Season One is labelled as an HD-DVD release, you don’t actually need to be able to have an HD-DVD player to be able to play the discs. This is because the standard DVD version is contained on the other side.

Looking at other retailers, if you were to buy the original normal DVD release of this boxset you’d end up paying about £24.99. This is nearly £10 more than if you were to get this set (which is exactly the same, but with high definition possibilities).

Click here to buy this for £15.93 from Asda. Star Trek fans may also be interested to know that the Star Trek: The Movies I-XI - Special Collector’s Edition boxset is still priced at £32.47 over at Amazon.

Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace: The Complete Series £3.73

Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace is a Channel 4 comedy show that revolves around fictional horror author Garth Marenghi and his publisher Dean Learner. It’s interesting the way in which this is presented - as a 1980s series that hasn’t been shown until now.

Numerous aspects of 80s low-budget television are lampooned (including the fashion, music, and special effects) to great success. Even though the viewing figures where quite poor, this has since gone on to become something of a cult hit with rumors that a film could be in the works.

If you fancy Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace: The Complete Series, click here to get it for only £3.73 from Asda.

Blade: The Complete Series £7.99

The Blade films have all been pretty good, even if Blade: Trinity was a bit dodgy in places (Triple H as an actor! Ryan Reynolds!). Blade: The Series continues the story of the character who started life in a Marvel Comics book called Tomb Of Dracula in 1973.

Wesley Snipes doesn’t reprise his role from the movies, so Kirk Jones (who is a rapper apparently) steps into his shoes as the only man who can save the human race from hordes of evil bloodsucking vampires.

Click here to buy Blade: The Complete Series for £7.99 from Zavvi. This is also part of the 5 for £30 offer currently running at Zavvi (click here for the full list), so you could end up getting it for just £6.

Hard Boiled: Collector’s Edition £3

John Woo did many films before becoming more well-known for other works like Broken Arrow and Face/Off, with Hard Boiled being one of them. It was actually the last movie he did in Hong Kong before moving to Hollywood.

An apparently straightforward film about the bond between a detective and an undercover cop as they fight a triad gang soon develops into an action extravaganza with a whopping body count (307!). A sequel in the form of video game Stranglehold was released in 2007.

Instore at Blockbusters you can get the Hard Boiled: Collector’s Edition DVD for just £3.