Quite late in my British Library membership days, I stumbled upon a collection of old DVDs. They were much borrowed and viewed repeatedly. Yet the quality of most was alright.
I started with Bergerac - a police detective in the Jersey island. He is in and out of the police force and has a powerful local magnate for a father-in-law. John Nettles played the detective. He has two loyal buddies in the force and his chief is against him but Bergerac manages to crack cases. I must have watched seven seasons of the series with each season 7 or 8 episodes. The series is old but was wildly popular on BBC TV in the 1990s.
Then there was John Mortimer's Rumpole. Again old Bailey world by itself. All these DVDs had subtitles. Without them I was lost.
There were a few hit movies. Goodbye Mr. Chips had Peter O'Toole in the movie I had watched in theatre. This one was older, longer and more charming.
Then inevitably Agatha Christie's Miss Marple series.
There were others too. When Corona began, our library was shut down and a year later, I had to shift to digital membership. It is better in many ways. Two old DVDs remain with me as there was no way to return them when my old membership was over. So I gather that the stock of DVDs does not survive anymore. That makes me nostalgic. Even in these days of OTT and web series and streaming, I would love to go back to those DVDs.
