Family > Universal Family > 20 GBP to 30 GBP

Advantages: contains every episode ever made, over 20 hours of DangerMouse and Penfold
Disadvantages: lack of decent extras, episodes not in chronological order

...Mouse DANGER MOUSE DangerMouse is 25 years old this year. And what are they going to do about it? Cosgrove-Hall and Fremantle Media are swamping the market with DVDs celebrating the fact. There are 7 DVDs out there with up to 9 episodes on each or you can go for the jugular and invest in the Anniversary Box set that proudly announces all 161 episodes ever made on 12 DVDs plus some extras. I will come back to that claim again a little later. Packaged ...
...DVD has a picture of DangerMouse or one of the characters printed on as well as the episodes contained on that particular DVD. DANGERMOUSE Meet DangerMouse, the greatest super agent in the world. Mouse by nature but not afraid of anything. His trademarks are black eyepatch and while jumpsuit with the letters DM emblazoned on the front. His base is in a post box in London's Mayfair but we find out that it's actually on the corner in Baker Street ... Read review

Advantages: keeps my neices entertained
Disadvantages: not really for boys.

...mother took charge and made cinderella cook, clean and do all the house work after her and the the ugly step sisters. cinderella only has a horse, dog and mice as friends (the mice are very sweet and lovley). there is a ball for the prince to meet his partner when every girl in country is invited to however cinderella's step mum does not allow her to go, but cinderella gets her big break when her fairy god mother appears and allowes cinderella to ...
...befor the clock stricks midnight. cinderella goes to the ball and the prince instantly falls for her but the clock starts to strick midnight cinderella runs off without giving him her name and leaves behind one glass shoe. the prince sets out on a mission to find cinderella by making every girl try on the glass shoe. cinderellas step mother has an idea that it was cinderella who left the shoe behind so when the prince goes to their house she locks ... Read review

Advantages: Very Nostalgic
Disadvantages: Dated

...son of the genius Prof. Joe had lost both parent in a car accident when he was 12 months old. At the start of each episode Joe would enter the chair and the spinning arms would transfer the info direct into his brain, Once the transfer was complete, Joe would don a pair of 'electrode glasses' to trigger the new knowledge housed within him. Equipped with his armoury of gadgets, Joe undertakes a series of daring special missions. Various missions ...
...why was the series called Joe 90? When Joe joined W.I.N. there were 89 London based agents in operation. Joe became the 90th - hence JOE 90 Cast Joe 90 Professor Ian McClaine Sam Loover, head of the World Intelligence Network (W.I.N.), Shane Weston W.I.N. Deputy Controller Supreme Commander of W.I.N. London Office Mrs Harris, the oblivious-to-it-all house cleaner Made from 1968 -1969 and consists of 30, 25 minute episodes. Each disc contains ... Read review

Advantages: Performances, effects, 'magic'
Disadvantages: The Episode 4 wobble and the ending

...sat down to start watching The Box of Delights. I'd first watched it 21 years ago in December 1984, and been entranced by the magical adventures of Kay Harker as he struggles to keep a magical box out of the clutches of magical gangsters in the snowy English countryside. But magical TV dates so quickly, and I was terrified that it was going to be a tired, creaky piece of quaint TV history. For once, nostalgia holds true. They really don't make them ...
...able to get more of the plot this time. Kay Harker is on his way home for Christmas when he meets an old Punch and Judy man who is being chased by dark powers. Kay quickly starts seeing people who shouldn't really be there, and these events start accelerating after the old man gives him The Box of Delights for safekeeping. A magical box that grants its user the gifts of shrinking and of swift movement, the Box is being pursued by Abner Brown, who ... Read review

Advantages: Nothing offensive
Disadvantages: None

Fireball XL5 I had vague memories of this from when I was a child (I was born 1964) and so I guess must have watched repeats but watching the DVDs brought the series back clearly. Fireball XL5 was the fore runner of Stingray, Captain Scarlet and Thunderbirds. This was on tv in 1962, and Contained 39 episode. Synopsis: Set one hundred years into the future, it is the year 2063, and the 300ft spaceship, fireball XL5 is out in space protecting ...
...of the lazoon race. Fireball XL5 had living quarters for the crew with an ultra-modernistic lounge, observation window, a laboratory for research and an astroscope, which the crew would use to see in any conditions. The XL5 had a nose cone called fireball junior, which detached itself from the main part of the rocket and was able to make planetary landings whilst fireball itself remained in orbit. Other equipment included, air cushioned jetmobiles ... Read review