The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency the complete first season

DVD 2009

Follows Precious Ramotste, a recently bereaved woman, as she sets up the only woman-run Private Detective Agency in Botswana and her attempts to get it off the ground. She gets help from Grace Makutsi, her new secretary, and Mr. JLB Matekoni, the owner and super mechanic of the wonderful Speedy Motors. Mma Ramotste takes on cases, meets many new people who need her help - from a woman who thinks the man who has turned up at her door is not her fa...

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ISBN:

1419883380

Uniform Title:

No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Television program). Season 1

Description:

3 videodiscs (480 min.) : sound, color ; 12 cm
polychrome
digital
optical
stereo
Dolby digital 2.0
NTSC
video file
DVD video

Target Audience Note:

CHVRS rating: 14A

Other Title:

Number One Ladies' Detective Agency

Notes:

Based on the novels by Alexander McCall Smith
Contains the pilot and all 6 episodes from the first season
Home use only. Public performance rights NOT included
Special features include series index, Anthony Minghella's no. 1 film ; Botswana, the gem of Africa, the making of No.1 ladies detective agency, the beat of Botswana
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Directors, Anthony Minghella, Charles Sturridge, Tim Fywell ; series producer, Tim Bricknell
Jill Scott, Anika Noni Rose, Lucian Msamati, Desmond Dube
Originally broadcast on BBC1 in 2009
DVD, NTSC, widescreen (letterbox); Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
In English or Spanish with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned in English

Contents:

Disc 1. Pilot The big bonanza
disc 2. Poison The boy with an African heart Problems in moral philosophy
disc 3. Beauty and integrity A real Botswana diamond

Control Number:

3145467

UPC:

883929076666

Other Authors:

Bricknell, Timothy, producer
British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service
Cinechicks (Firm)
Film Afrika Worldwide (Firm)
Home Box Office (Firm)
McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948- No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series
Minghella, Anthony, director
Mirage Enterprises (Firm)
Rose, Anika Noni, 1972- actor
Scott, Jill, 1972- actor
Warner Home Video (Firm)
Weinstein Company

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