David Jason
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One moonlit night, Sophie is snatched from her bed by an awesome giant who whisks her away on a magical and funny adventure. When Sophie learns that a monstrous crew of meanies is gobbling up children, she sets out to stop them once and for all, with the help of her new, rather large, friend. The enchanting children's book from author Roald Dahl comes to life in this classic, animated musical feature.
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Detective Jack Frost is called to investigate when a couple return from holiday to find the body of a complete stranger in their bed. He also becomes involved in a murder inquiry and uncovers a crime ring involved in the importing of endangered species and illegal animal goods.
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Detective Jack Frost returns to seek out the unpleasant truth, often at great personal cost. This season Frost raids an illegal dogfighting ring, hoping to nab a local gangster, but the thug eludes him, and a brutal killing follows. Meanwhile, he is disturbed to find that someone is copying a series of unsolved crimes from years earlier, and Frost himself may be the killer's next victim. Most unexpected of all, love finally finds the aging detective,...
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Awkwright, the brown-coated, stuttering, northern shopkeeper, is forced to open his corner shop for as long as the law will permit. But he still finds time for his passions-- parting unsuspecting customers from their hard-earned cash, and his tireless pursuit of nurse Gladys Emmanuel.
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Discworld is a magical realm quite unlike, yet hauntingly familiar to, Earth, and it finally has it's first tourist. Rincewind is an inept ex-student wizard who is given the task of guiding Twoflower through the city-state of Ankh Morpork. But unfortunately Rincewind has two problems. First, he is an expert coward and he doesn't feel that he is the best person to guard a naive, and extremely rich, tourist through one of the roughest cities in the...
17) Hogfather
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It's the holiday of Hogswatch in the parallel universe of Discworld, the night when kids anticipate presents from the beloved Hogfather. But someone--or something-- wants the Hogfather out of the way. Now it's up to the most unlikely of heroes to get the holiday back on track before humanity loses all hope.