Mr Selfridge (Series 1 & 2) - 6-DVD Box Set ( Mr Selfridge - Series One and Two )

Mr Selfridge (Series 1 & 2) - 6-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: Mr Selfridge - Series One and Two
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2&4 )

Running Time:
630 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Behind the scenes
Box Set
Deleted Scenes
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2013 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Rob Evans
Lawrence Till

Written By:
Andrew Davies
Kate Brooke

Actors:
Ron Cook ..... Mr. Crabb (26 episodes, 2013-2015)
Amy Beth Hayes ..... Kitty Hawkins / ... (26 episodes, 2013-2015)
Tom Goodman-Hill ..... Mr. Grove (26 episodes, 2013-2015)
Trystan Gravelle ..... Victor Colleano (26 episodes, 2013-2015)
Jeremy Piven ..... Harry Selfridge (25 episodes, 2013-2015)
Amanda Abbington ..... Miss Mardle (25 episodes, 2013-2015)
Samuel West ..... Frank Edwards (25 episodes, 2013-2015)
Aisling Loftus ..... Agnes Towler / ... (24 episodes, 2013-2015)
Grégory Fitoussi ..... Henri Leclair (24 episodes, 2013-2015)
Malcolm Rennie ..... Fraser (24 episodes, 2013-2015)
Frances O'Connor ..... Rose Selfridge (20 episodes, 2013-2014)
Calum Callaghan ..... George Towler (20 episodes, 2013-2015)
Katherine Kelly ..... Lady Mae (20 episodes, 2013-2014)
Greg Austin ..... Gordon Selfridge (20 episodes, 2014-2015)
Lee Moulds ..... Sales Assistant (20 episodes, 2013-2014)
Alexandra Hind ..... Mary (shop assistant) (19 episodes, 2013-2014)
Lauren Crace ..... Doris / ... (18 episodes, 2013-2015)
Kika Markham ..... Lois Selfridge (18 episodes, 2013-2015)
Deborah Cornelius ..... Miss Blenkinsop (17 episodes, 2013-2015)
Sai Bennett ..... Jessie Pertree (16 episodes, 2014-2015)
Amy Morgan ..... Grace Calthorpe (16 episodes, 2014-2015)
Aidan McArdle ..... Lord Loxley (16 episodes, 2014-2015)
Sadie Shimmin ..... Miss Plunkett (15 episodes, 2014-2015)
Poppy Lee Friar ..... Rosalie Selfridge (12 episodes, 2013-2014)
Cal Macaninch ..... Mr. Thackeray (11 episodes, 2014-2015)

Synopsis:

All 20 episodes from the first and second series of the ITV period drama tracing the story of the founder of the famous London department store. In the first series, the year is 1909 and fresh from a successful retail career in Chicago, a dashing Harry Selfridge (Jeremy Piven) arrives in London intent on building the world's largest department store in the capital's Oxford Street. Helped by his association with socialite Lady Mae Moxley (Katherine Kelly), Harry soon has the financial backing necessary for his plans, resulting in the store being completed in record time. But as the company goes from strength to strength, Harry's marriage to his wife Rose (Frances O'Connor) is jeopardised by his continuing infatuation with music hall artiste Ellen Love (Zoë Tapper). In the second series, the year is 1914 and Harry has become even more estranged from his wife Rose, but is ecstatic when she arrives to partake in celebrations for the fifth anniversary of the store's opening. Also, growing tension in Europe has the staff worried that Selfridge might return to the States if war breaks out.

Season 1
Episode #1.1 S1, Ep1 31 Mar. 2013
In 1908 Agnes Towler, a shop girl at Gamages store, is sacked after a flamboyant American customer insists she empty her entire stock of gloves on her counter but later receives an expensive pair of gloves from the man. He is Harry Selfridge, a former shop worker who has moved from Chicago to London with his mother Lois, wife Rose and their children. His aim is to open his own store in Oxford Street. When his original partner backs out journalist Frank Edwards introduces Harry to influential suffragette Lady Mae Loxton, through whom he obtains the required financial ...
Episode #1.2 S1, Ep2 31 Mar. 2013
Agnes gets her younger brother George work in the warehouse at the store but the siblings get a nasty shock when their brutish, drunken father Reg turns up and they reluctantly let him stay. Feeling alienated from her husband's business Rose goes to the National Gallery and strikers up a friendship with handsome young artist Roddy, though she is taken aback when he makes a pass at her. The store is not doing as well as Harry had hoped and he needs a gimmick to attract trade. He therefore approaches the cross-Channel aviator Louis Bleriot and display Bleriot's plane at...
Episode #1.3 S1, Ep3 7 Apr. 2013
Harry continues his affair with Ellen in her new home but Rose visits Lady Mae, who alerts her to her husband's infidelity, causing Rose to agree to pose for a painting by Roddy. Harry shocks his staff by suggesting that all beauty products should be put on display, rather than behind the counter, with perfumes at the fore to mask street smells. Display organizer Henri brings in his old flame, Valerie Maurel, an advertising agent for consultation and, although she hints at caution, Harry gets his way. However Henri also sees that Agnes has a talent and uses her ...
Episode #1.4 S1, Ep4 14 Apr. 2013
Whilst Mr Grove - married to an invalid wife - and Miss Mardle continue their affair Miss Bunting is dismissed for stealing and replaced with the progressive Ravillious, whose new-fangled ideas annoy many staff members. Harry arranges for visiting Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova to come to the store as a publicity stunt. Rose misses the event as she is at the Chelsea Arts Club with Roddy but finally reveals to him that she is Mrs Selfridge and resists an affair. Ellen Love attempts to upstage Pavlova and is dumped by Harry. Another unwelcome diversion is the arrival of...
Episode #1.5 S1, Ep5 21 Apr. 2013
Victor visits Agnes and they kiss. Harry also pays her a call and persuades her to go back to work, buying off Reg and threatening him not to return. Roddy goes to see Rose with a portrait he has painted of her. They too kiss and are seen by Rose's daughter Beatrice, whom Rose swears to secrecy though she tells her father about the portrait. Rose is also visited by Ellen, who is blatant about her affair with Harry though Rose tells her she already knows of it. Victor is disappointed that Agnes is working close to Henri but steps in to save George's job when Harry ...
Episode #1.6 S1, Ep6 28 Apr. 2013
Harry lies in a coma and journalists are keen to know why he was driving, drunk, late at night. Frank tells Lois of Ellen's outburst and insists they keep it quiet, also instructing the recovering Ellen to stay away. Victor is late for work after being bedded by Lady Mae and Mr Grove turns up despite his wife's recent death. All past animosities among the shop girls are forgotten as everybody pulls together in Harry's absence and Agnes and Henri grow closer. The staff meet to discuss a forthcoming march past Selfridge's by the suffragettes on the day the group meet ...
Episode #1.7 S1, Ep7 5 May 2013
Miss Ravillous has Agnes promoted to ladies' fashion - where she and Henri end up kissing. Kitty receives humbugs from a mystery admirer and assumes it is Frank after he has flirted with her but is not too disappointed to discover it is George Towler whilst Doris asks Mr Grove to get Harry to give a reference to Miss Bunting, now destitute and unemployable. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle comes to sign books at the store and persuades Harry - who is anxious to keep in with him - to allow American psychic Rex Crenell to hold a séance on the premises. Staff reaction is mixed, ...
Episode #1.8 S1, Ep8 12 May 2013
Harry hosts a dinner for fellow American Frank Woolworth, who has opened a chain of discount stores in the United States and is extending his business to London. Seeing the need to compete with Woolworth Harry plans a lavish mid-season bargain sale. Kitty and Doris are interviewed by Grove for promotion to replace Agnes and Grove asks Harry to consider a reference for Miss Bunting. Harry refuses but Grove is touched by Doris's humanity and homeliness. Ellen Love comes to the store with Tony to invite the Selfridges to the opening night of his play, in which she will ...
Episode #1.9 S1, Ep9 19 May 2013
News reaches the store that Miss Bunting has killed herself, causing a remorseful Harry to offer to pay for her funeral and Mr Grove to take an upset Doris out for tea, claiming he should have done more to help. Agnes and Henri also discuss the suicide and reach out for each other but they are interrupted by Miss Ravillus, who warns Agnes to be careful about the relationship and consider her career. When Valerie reappears at the store Agnes gives Henri her blessing to see her and gets on with the window display marking explorer Ernest Shackleton's lecture to be given ...
Episode #1.10 S1, Ep10 19 May 2013
Harry wakes up in bed with a one night stand and returns home to an unwelcoming Rose. On arriving at work he is told by Lady Mae that the king wants a private shopping session after hours. Doris has her own good news. Grove has asked her to marry him but Miss Mardle is shocked and insulted when he suggests they continue their affair. Henri tells Agnes that he will be going to New York to work with Valerie. Harry is angry at losing such a valued employee and insists he goes immediately. Agnes is disappointed but finds consolation with Victor. The king's shopping trip ...
Season 2
Episode #2.1 S2, Ep1 30 Mar. 2014
Five years have elapsed since the store opened. Harry's son Gordon is at boarding school but obtains his father's permission to leave and work in the store whilst all his female relatives have returned to America. Rose comes back for the fifth anniversary. On the boat over she has met emancipated feminist Delphine Day, a writer and night-club owner, who advises her to use her own potential. Lady Mae's husband Lord Loxley arrives in London, suspicious of his wife's friendship with Harry and not above using blackmail to get onto a military committee. New head of fashion...
Episode #2.2 S2, Ep2 30 Mar. 2014
Harry is confronted by a delegation of trade unionists led by Arnold Huxton demanding better workers' rights. Union membership is forbidden at the store as the staff have their own council for debates but Ed and Dave, who work in the loading bay with Gordon, are interested and arrange to attend a talk given by Huxton. Gordon overhears and sneaks into the meeting but when the Selfridge staff learns how comparatively well-served they are, the unionists are angry and a fight ensues. Rose, seeing Henri at the club, follows him home to where he is living in poverty though ...
Episode #2.3 S2, Ep3 6 Apr. 2014
The store is preparing for the Empire Exhibition but Agnes is struggling with her display and Thackeray is not pleased when Harry reinstates Henri, who has offered to help her. Nor is Rose happy to find Gordon has some saucy photos but in the resultant confrontation he makes her see that she should give Harry another chance. Consequently she declines her husband's suggestion that she should return to America if there is a war and they agree to support each other. Kitty gives Frank another chance as they take a picnic to Green park whilst Grove reencounters Miss Mardle...
Episode #2.4 S2, Ep4 13 Apr. 2014
Male staff are anxious to enlist in the army, gaining the nickname the Selfridge Brigade. Agnes is upset to learn that brother George has joined up but cannot prevent him whilst Victor is about to sign up but his uncle Gio is dying and asks him to stay and look after the family. Rose, Lady Mae and Delphine hold a charity sale to raise funds for Belgian refugees, taking place in the store's Palm Court restaurant. This leads to a confrontation between Thackeray (angry that a donation tin is put on his counter) and Henri, but Harry has now appointed Henri his deputy and ...
Episode #2.5 S2, Ep5 20 Apr. 2014
At Neuhaus's suggestion Miss Mardle takes in Belgian refugees, including handsome young violinist Florian Dupont. Agnes is asked out by Victor, now running the family restaurant following Uncle Gio's death and Gabriella's return to Italy. Gordon feels guilty that his friends are fighting in the war whilst Harry will not allow him to sign up and women are recruited to take over delivery work at the store, Rose becoming their champion when she demands better conditions for them. Delphine arranges a meeting for Harry with members of the military procurement board - ...
Episode #2.6 S2, Ep6 27 Apr. 2014
As the war progresses German goods are withdrawn from the store and Harry is approached by Bill Summertime, whom he met at the card game and who is part of British Intelligence. He asks if Harry, as an American neutral, will visit Germany as a spy. Henri bumps into Agnes, whilst she is waiting for Victor. Things are strained between them but she tells Henri that Victor is a good man. A party including Henri and Agnes and Miss Mardle and Florian attend the music hall and see popular singer Richard Chapman. Not only is he ideal to headline Harry's patriotic concert but ...
Episode #2.7 S2, Ep7 4 May 2014
Henri is arrested but tells Agnes that the only reason he went to Germany was to find his old lover Valerie. Agnes tells Grove she believes Henri has been set up by the jealous Thackeray, who is forced to admit it. Henri, after being accused of theft in New York went on the run. Rose is concerned that she cannot get in touch with Harry and learns from Delphine that he is in Germany, spying on their manufacturers. An envious Grove warns Miss Mardle that she and Florian could become victims of gossip but she does not care - unlike Grove Florian has declared ...
Episode #2.8 S2, Ep8 11 May 2014
Harry returns to London with information for Summertime but is angry that Bill will not support him in the face of accusations of treachery and talks to the staff to reassure them that Edwards' newspaper story about him was a lie. Edwards is genuinely contrite and agrees to print a letter from Harry telling the truth but the editor refuses. Following the bad publicity business is poor until Delphine brings American film producer Mack Sennett and his actress lover Mabel Normand to the store. They throw a lavish party where Mabel gets young Gordon very drunk. Harry ...
Episode #2.9 S2, Ep9 18 May 2014
Business is still suffering after the newspaper story so Henri brings in the formidable journalist Winifred Bonfils Black. At the same time a contrite Frank Edwards resigns from the paper and meets Lady Mae, who tells him and Harry that she knows Loxley blackmailed Edgerton and is the real culprit. Harry invites her and Pimble to live with the Selfridges, reconciling Mae with Rose, and they unite against Loxley when he storms in to drag his wife back. Rose is feeling unwell and is advised to take a break from London by Delphine. Mae believes Delphine is trying to ...
Episode #2.10 S2, Ep10 18 May 2014
Josie Mardle tells Florian she believes she is too old for him and that she has arranged an audition with the Halle Orchestra in Manchester. The young man is heart-broken but surprisingly it is Grove who apologizes to Miss Mardle and persuades her that she should make a go of the relationship. Agnes and Victor give Harry notice as they are leaving to run the restaurant together. Henri is also quitting to go to France and fight in the army. Agnes, Victor, Franco and George look around the restaurant but Agnes has her misgivings as to whether it is what she wants, given...

Centers on the real-life story of the flamboyant and visionary American founder of Selfridge's, London's department store.

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