The Catherine Cookson Collection - 24-DVD Box Set ( The Moth / The Black Velvet Gown / The Black Candle / The Secret / The Mallen Streak / The Mallen Girls / The Mallen Secret / The Mallen Curse / The Girl / The Fifteen Streets / Rag Nymph / The Wingless Bird / The Dwelling Place / The Glass Virgin ) ( Tilly Trotter / The Cinder Path / The Man Who Cried / The Round Tower / The Tide of Life / Colour Blind / A Dinner of Herbs / The Gambling Man )

The Catherine Cookson Collection - 24-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

$93.99

Original Title: The Moth / The Black Velvet Gown / The Black Candle / The Secret / The Mallen Streak / The Mallen Girls / The Mallen Secret / The Mallen Curse / The Girl / The Fifteen Streets / Rag Nymph / The Wingless Bird / The Dwelling Place / The Glass Virgin
Alternate Title: Tilly Trotter / The Cinder Path / The Man Who Cried / The Round Tower / The Tide of Life / Colour Blind / A Dinner of Herbs / The Gambling Man
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Emmy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
English ( Mono )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
3392 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1979 - 2000 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Roy Battersby
Norman Stone
Alan Grint
Richard Martin
Mary McMurray
David Wheatley
Catherine Cookson
Gavin Millar
Sarah Hellings
Simon Langton
Michael Whyte

Written By:
Catherine Cookson
Gordon Hann
T.R. Bowen
Jack Russell
Rob Bettinson
Alan Seymour
Ray Marshall
Stan Barstow

Actors:
Juliet Aubrey ..... Sarah Thorman
Alan Bird ..... Solicitor
David Bradley ..... Dave Waters
Jeremy Clyde ..... Reginald Thorman
Janet Dale ..... Alice Bradley
Jack Davenport ..... Robert Bradley
Judi Earl ..... Mary Taggart
William Gaminara ..... Mr. Quinton
Sally Grey ..... Carrie Bradley
Michael Gunn ..... Greg Hubbard
Harry Herring ..... Arthur Bloom
David Howey ..... John Bradley
Dave Johns ..... Man
Delena Kidd ..... Peggy Waters
Bob Peck ..... Percival Miller
Janet McTeer ..... Riah Millican
Geraldine Somerville ..... Biddy Millican
Brendan P. Healy ..... Tol Briston
Jean Anderson ..... Madame Gallmington
Christopher Benjamin ..... Anthony Gallington
Wendy Williams ..... Grace Gallmington
David Hunt ..... Laurence Gallmington
Aran Bell ..... Stephen Gallmington
Jonathan Firth ..... Paul Gallmington
Louise Lombard ..... Lucy Gallmington
Madeleine Moffat ..... Jessie Hobson
Val McLane ..... Annie Griston
James Garbutt ..... Doctor Pritchard
Donald Bisset ..... Mr. Morgan
Cathy Sandford ..... Lily Whitmore
Nathaniel Parker ..... Lionel Filmore
James Gaddas ..... Joe Skinner
Bob Smeaton ..... Fred Skinner
Brian Hogg ..... Bill Whitmore
Mo Harold ..... Annie Whitmore
Anne Jameson ..... Ma Skinner
Samantha Bond ..... Bridget Mordaunt
Roger Avon ..... George Fields
Peggy Shields ..... Peg the Maid
Tara Fitzgerald ..... Victoria Mordaunt
Preston Lockwood ..... Bright
Denholm Elliott ..... William Filmore
Robert Hines ..... Douglas Filmore
Siân Phillips ..... Daisy Barnett
Colin Buchanan ..... Freddie Musgrave
Clare Higgins ..... Maggie Hewitt
Hannah Yelland ..... Belle Hewitt
Stephen Moyer ..... Marcel Birkstead
June Whitfield ..... Mrs. Birkstead
Marlene Sidaway ..... Jinny Musgrave
Joanna Rowden ..... Nancy Musgrave
Adam Ironside ..... Young Freddie
Milton Johns ..... Taylor
Malcolm Terris ..... Sir Christopher Bell
Daniel Ainsleigh ..... John Musgrave
Elizabeth Carling ..... Connie Wheatley
William Finnigan ..... Billy Venables
Stephen Hawksby ..... Exercisman
Lynn Hender ..... Biddy Wheatley
Caroline Blakiston ..... Anna Brigmore (13 episodes, 1979-1980)
Mary Healey ..... Mary Peel (11 episodes, 1979-1980)
Gillian Lewis ..... Jane Radlet (9 episodes, 1979-1980)
Matthew Long ..... Harry Bensham (8 episodes, 1979-1980)
John Duttine ..... Donald Radlet (7 episodes, 1979)
Ian Saynor ..... Matthew Radlet (7 episodes, 1979)
Pippa Guard ..... Barbara Farrington (7 episodes, 1979)
Julia Chambers ..... Constance Radlet (7 episodes, 1979)
June Ritchie ..... Constance Radlet (6 episodes, 1980)
Juliet Stevenson ..... Barbara Mallen (6 episodes, 1980)
Gerry Sundquist ..... Michael Radlet
John Southworth ..... Michael Radlet Sr.
Neil Dickson ..... John Bensham
Jeremy Clay ..... Jim Waite (6 episodes, 1980)
Julie Shipley ..... Sarah Waite (6 episodes, 1980)
Michael Thomas ..... Dan Bensham (6 episodes, 1980)
Victoria Williams ..... Kate Bensham (6 episodes, 1980)
Siobhan Flynn ..... Hannah Boyle
Jonathan Cake ..... Ned Ridley
Mark Benton ..... Fred Loam
Susan Jameson ..... Mrs. Daisy Loam
Jill Baker ..... Anne Thornton
Kerry Angus ..... Dickinson
David Auker ..... Walters
Charlotte Barrymore ..... Young Margaret
Oliver Cheetham ..... John Thornton
Jon Croft ..... Mr. Beaumont
Denny Ferguson ..... Dapper Man
Scott Frazer ..... Dandy Smollett
Donald Gee ..... Reverend Crewe
Daphne Goddard ..... Miss Barrington
Owen Teale ..... John O'Brien
Sean Bean ..... Dominic O'Brien
Anny Tobin ..... Mary Ellen O'Brien
Leslie Schofield ..... Shane O'Brien
Faye Dannell ..... Katie O'Brien
Gillian Hope ..... Molly O'Brien
Scott Frazer ..... Mick O'Brien
Clare Holman ..... Mary Llewellyn
Frank Windsor ..... James Llewellyn
Billie Whitelaw ..... Beatrice Llewellyn
Ian Bannen ..... Peter Bracken
Jane Horrocks ..... Christine Bracken
Colin Bavidge ..... David Bracken
Barbara Marten ..... Hannah Kelly
Madeleine Moffat ..... Bella Bradley
Patrick Ryecart ..... Mr. Crane-Bolder
Crispin Bonham-Carter ..... Bernard Thompson
Paul Brennan ..... Boswell
Carli Norris ..... Tilly Trotter (4 episodes, 1999)
Simon Shepherd ..... Mark Sopwith (4 episodes, 1999)
Gavin Abbott ..... Simon Bentwood (4 episodes, 1999)
Neil Armstrong ..... Fred Leyburn (4 episodes, 1999)
Gavin Makel ..... Steve McGrath (4 episodes, 1999)
Ciarán Hinds ..... Abel Mason
Kate Buffery ..... Florrie Donnelly
Amanda Root ..... Hilda Maxwell
Daniel Massey ..... Peter Maxwell
Gemma Craven ..... June
Angela Walsh ..... Lena Mason
Bobby Pattinson ..... Fred Donnelly
Colin Brown ..... Benny Layton
Gary Catlin ..... Man in Church Hall
Heather Chapman ..... Woman in Park

Synopsis:

Catherine Cookson was born Catherine McMullen in 1906. Her life began in poverty and she grew up believing her real mother was her sister. In a life that could have been taken from any of her own novels, Catherine aspired to achieve more than many of her time. From poverty to wealth she left the sadness behind to start a new life in Hastings where she was to meet her husband Tom Cookson. As a form of therapy, Catherine began to write and never stopped and became one of the world's best selling authors.
This box set includes:
Secrets & Lies
1. The Moth
2. The Black Velvet Gown
3. The Black Candle
4. The Secret
5. The Mallen Streak
6. The Mallen Girls
7. The Mallen Secret
8. The Mallen Curse
Rags To Riches
9. The Girl
10. The Fifteen Streets
11. The Rag Nymph
12. The Wingless Bird
13. The Dwelling Place
14. The Glass Virgin
15. Tilly Trotter
16. The Storyteller
Birth, Death, Love & Marriage
17. The Cinder Path
18. The Man Who Cried
19. The Round Tower
20. The Tide Of Life
21. Colour Blind
22. A Dinner Of Herbs - Parts 1 & 2
23. The Gambling Man

The Moth (1997)
Robert Bradley gives up his job in the shipyards to work with his Uncle John as a carpenter. He starts to explore the surrounding countryside and soon encounters Millie, a strange girl-child known as 'Thorman's Moth'…

The Black Velvet Gown (1991)
The story is set in rural Northumberland amidst the prejudices of the 1830s. The widowed Riah has become housekeeper at Moor House to a scholarly recluse, Mr Miller. Her three children, already able to read and write, are given further tuition by Miller. But his devotion for one of them becomes more than academic...

The Black Candle (1991)
Bridget Mordaunt, a young woman in 1880s Britain, inherits a factory from her father and wins respect from the workforce as she turns it into a solid business, yet all the while a dark cloud looms on the horizon…

The Secret (2000)
A tale of suspense and intrigue set amongst the atmospheric streets and riverside of 19th century Tyneside, 'The Secret' is based on Catherine Cookson's only thriller novel. Freddie Musgrave's life is in turmoil when a letter implicates him in murder. Further complications arise due to his feelings for his boss's foster daughter Belle, who is trapped within a loveless marriage to a madman.

The Mallen Streak (1979)
A saga of passionate love and hatred, turbulent life and violent death. John Hallam (Robin Hood Prince of Thieves) stars as Thomas Mallen, a ruthless squire whose many illegitimate sons are marked by the Mallen streak - a lock of snow white hair and a streak of merciless self will. They are also said to be cursed to meet a violent end and when Thomas's passions lead to his eventual destruction, his daughter is left with a disturbing legacy.

The Mallen Girls (1979)
The Squire of High Banks Hall has to move to a cottage with his two wards, Barbara and Constance. The Squire's two bastard sons become regular visitors there and eventually Constance agrees to marry Donald. Then one night Barbara is savagely raped...

The Mallen Secret (1979)
Before the late Squire Thomas Mallen killed himself, he left a trail of illegitimate children all over the hills of 19th Century Northumberland. One of them, Miss Barbara, is deaf and has been kept from the truth by her governess. Now a beautiful and willful young woman, she falls in love with her cousin, Michael, whose mother is also obsessed with keeping him ignorant of his own illegitimacy.

The Mallen Curse (1979)
Barbara has been rejected by her cousin, Michael, and enters into a loveless marriage with Dan whose family, the Benshams, have owned the Hall since her father, Squire Mallen, went bankrupt. The widowed Mr. Bensham proposes to Anna Brigmore, fulfilling her ruthless ambition to be mistress of High Banks. But their happiness is soon shattered when they discover that Barbara and Michael have become lovers again...

The Girl (1996)
In the middle of the 18th Century, 18 year old Hannah Boyle and her sick mother are travelling from Newcastle; seeking shelter they hide in a stableyard…

The Fifteen Streets (1989)
Catherine Cookson's powerful drama is set against the harsh, turbulent background of poverty, bigotry and the class division of Northern England at the turn of the century. It tells the moving story of the romance between a rugged Tyneside labourer and the daughter of a wealthy local shipbuilder. Their love throws both their worlds into turmoil as they struggle to overcome the class divide that is 'The Fifteen Streets'.

Rag Nymph (1997)
Ten year old Millie is taken in by 'Raggie Aggie' after her mother dies in a Newcastle brothel. Aggie soon has to hide Millie in a convent after the brothel owner turns his attentions to Millie. Years later, and a beautiful young woman, she returns to her Aunt but after a desolate relationship she is abducted into the same brothel in which her mother died...

The Wingless Bird (1997)
A stirring human drama set as Britain hovers on the brink of the First World War. As the war looms it is clear the England is facing huge social change and relationships across the class divide are bound to cause problems. Three very different families are linked by the strong-minded Agnes Conway, who works in her father's confectionery shop and dreams and plans a better life.

The Dwelling Place (1994)
A story of high emotion, tragedy and romance set against the dramatic landscape of Northumberland in the 1830's. Cissie Brodie is just sixteen when she finds herself in charge of her five younger brothers and sisters after their parents die in a Cholera epidemic. The workhouse seems the only choice but Cissie can not split up the family.

The Glass Virgin (1995)
Living a life of luxury at Redford Hall, Annabella Lagange is blissfully unaware that her father Edmund is a spendthrift and a womaniser. His debts are threatening to ruin the wealthy family into which he married. Plus Annabella doesn't know the shameful secret that she is the daughter of a local prostitute. Annabella grows into a beautiful young woman but when she reaches 17 her cozy world is shattered.

Tilly Trotter (1999)
Set in 1930s rural England, Tilly Trotter is the compelling story of a courageous young girl envied by women for her beauty, lusted after by men, accused of witchcraft and forced to rise above the prejudice of many people in the community in which she lives.
The Cinder Path (1994)
A year before the outbreak of the First World War, Charlie MacFell returns from university to Northumberland, to visit the farm where he spent an unhappy childhood and where his brutal father would subject young farm hands to vicious beatings on the hot cinder path. Marriage to the beautiful but adulterous Victoria Chapman turns out to be a further humiliation for Charlie, but when he joins the army he discovers amongst the horrors of the Western Front a strength he never knew existed. Respected by his family and by his men on the battlefield, he finally finds true love with his wife's younger sister. Just as lasting happiness is within his grasp, fate seems poised to snatch it all away...

The Man Who Cried (1993)
Abel Mason is a man caught in a loveless marriage with a harridan wife who constantly berates him and beats their son Dick. When the one woman he loves dies at the hands of her husband after he was sent a letter by Mason's wife, exposing the affair, Abel leaves her for good taking to the road and young Dick with him.

The Round Tower (1999)
Vanessa Ratcliffe is the 17 year old daughter of wealthy, socially conscious parents while Angus Cotton is the son of their housekeeper. When Angus is wrongly blamed for Vanessa's pregnancy a train of events is set in motion which draws the unlikely pair together and puts Angus on the road to success.

The Tide of Life (1996)
Tide of Life follows the fortunes of young housekeeper, Emily Kennedy, as she learns about relationships with three very different men. Forced from home of her first employer, Sep McGilby after his plans to marry her come to tragic end, Emily finds work as housekeeper for farmer, Larry Birch. Another tragedy occurs, and when Nick Stuart inherits the farm owned by Birch's wife, Nick gives Emily a new future.

Colour Blind (1998)
Bridget Paterson seriously offends her Geordie family's Irish Catholic sensibilities by marrying an African sailor, whom she is also pregnant by. After being accused of murder, her husband is eventually forced to leave town with half of Newcastle out to get him. As their daughter grows up, she must learn to cope with the racism which surrounds her.

A Dinner of Herbs (2000)
Based on author Dame Catherine Cookson's best-selling thriller, this six-part drama takes place over 40 years of the later half of the 19th century. When Roddy Greenbank's (Jonathan Kerrigan) father is unexpectedly killed, Kate Makerpeace (Billie Whitelaw), a friend of the deceased, agrees to take in several of the surviving children. Though the relationships between the children are strong, the bonds are put to the test as they become aware of several painful secrets from the past. Seemingly destined for tragedy, the fates of the artistic Roddy and his revenge-obsessed brother Hal (Tom Goodman-Hill) converge in a consequence that could easily spill over into the next generation.

The Gambling Man (1995)
Rory Connor knows what he wants out of life and he knows he won't get it working as a rent collector. He believes his way up in the world is through his disapproved of passion for gambling. Rory uses his talents as a launch to a better life - he becomes the proud owner of a boatyard and marries his childhood sweetheart. However, beneath his success is a tangled web of lies and deceit.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 09 December, 2011.