Tim Matheson
Author
Language
English
Description
Tom Langdon, a weary and cash-strapped journalist, is banned from flying when a particularly thorough airport security search causes him to lose his cool. Now, he must take the train if he has any chance of arriving in Los Angeles in time for Christmas with his girlfriend. To finance the trip, he sells a story about a train ride taken during the Christmas season. Thereupon begins one of the most hilarious-and heartwarming-journeys ever told. Along...
2) Black sheep
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Every time Mike tries to help his brother Al during his campaign for governor it becomes a disaster. Campaign-aide Steve volunteers to baby-sit Mike and soon realizes he made a big mistake. When Mike discovers the incumbent is a crook he reaches a new level of destruction.
Pub. Date
[date of publication not identified]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (929 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Manhattan native Dr. Zoe Hart accepts an offer from a stranger to work in his medical practice in Bluebell, Alabama, and when she arrives, she finds he has died and left half the practice to her in his will.
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (423 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The belles and boys are back as Hart of Dixie continues for a fourth fun-filled season. At the end of season three, Zoe finally admits to herself -- and the town of quirky BlueBell, Alabama -- that she is in love with Wade, who decides to turn down a lucrative opportunity to franchise the Rammer Jammer and stay in BlueBell, but does this mean he returns Zoe's feelings? Meanwhile, Cricket (guest star Brandi Burkhardt) surprises everyone with a big...
6) Fletch
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
While working on a drug expose, investigative reporter Irwin Fletch attracts the attention of a strange businessman. The wily Fletch senses a scam and soon he's up to his byline in frameups, murder, police corruption and forbidden romance. It'll be the story of the year, if he can stay alive to meet his deadline.
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (928 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Season three finds Dr. Zoe Hart fighting to regain her practice from Dr. Brick Breeland, New Yorker Joel struggling to blend in with small-town life, Lemon Breeland and Wade Kinsella becoming unlikely business partners, Mayor Hayes finding happiness with AnnaBeth Nass, and George Tucker suffering yet another broken heart.
10) Child's play
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A mother gives her son a toy doll for his birthday, unaware of its more sinister nature.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Colombia is in chaos, caught in a bitter war between its government and insurgent guerrillas. A team of U.S. Navy SEALS are sent on a secret mission to observe a meeting between the factions and ensure peace is the end result. But when the meeting is attacked and the leaders of both sides are murdered, the SEAL team is framed for the assault. Abandoned by their own government and trapped behind enemy lines, the group must survive long enough to find...
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jake Peterson is a man who has spent his life climbing the corporate ladder at a tractor corporation. He's a lonely man living in a big city. His boss has ordered massive downsizing a week before Christmas, and Jake's mission is to go back to his hometown and assess who should be fired at the local assembly plant. Complications arise when he meets Emma, a young widow whose father manages the factory.
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Van Wilder is a seventh year student with no plans to graduate. He has a coed in every closet and a party to go to every night. He meets reporter Gwen when she decides to do a story featuring his life on campus.
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 6 hours) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Misty: On Chincoteague Island, off the coast of Virginia, a young brother and sister try to capture a wild mare named Phantom.
Wildfire, the arabian heart: A teenage girl visiting her uncle falls in love with a ranch hand and finds herself racing at the county fair.
Wind Dancer: A girl loses her ability to walk during a riding accident. Her physical therapist hopes that the girl can form a bond with her therapy horse that will allow her to walk...
15) 1941
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (146 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet
Language
English
Description
This zany comedy spectacular from Steven Spielberg is set in Los Angeles just days after the attack on Pearl Harbor when the fear of a Japanese invasion threw the city into a state of pandemonium.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (544 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
We all use mathematics every day-- but in a world of body counts, multiple criminal masterminds, and percentages involving perpetrators who may act again, figures are especially valuable. This is the world of Numb3rs. Don Eppes is an FBI agent who recruits his mathematically gifted brother Charlie to help the Bureau solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles, thus tackling the most baffling criminal cases from two very distinctive perspectives....
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (286 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fletch: Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher is a Los Angeles journalist who really lives for his profession. As Jane Doe, he publishes articles that have caused several heads to roll in the past. This time, Fletch is in disguise as a bum, living at the beach, researching drugs and their dealing. One day, Fletch is addressed by Alan Stanwyk, a rich man, who asks him, the bum, a favour. For the sum of $50,000, Fletch should kill poor cancer-ridden Mr. Stanwyk with...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Brian Cox is Rory MacNeil, a rugged old Scotsman who reluctantly leaves his beloved isolated Hebridean island for San Francisco to seek medical treatment. Moving in with his estranged son, Rory's life will be unexpectedly transformed through a newly found love for his baby grandson.
19) Redline
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The idle rich need something unconventional to spend their hard-earned money on. So, they bet on and/or sponsor illegal car races. Unfortunately, one of the drivers, Jason, gets killed trying to impress his Uncle Michael. Michael's philosophies do little to camouflage the fact that he's a psychopathic Mafia don. Carlo is Jason's older brother and a returning Iraqi War hero who goes to an old gun-running buddy and stocks up on military weaponry. Along...
20) Judas
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Judas Iscariot is a lowly wine seller with a fiercely rebellious streak. Resentful of the treatment of his people by the Romans, Judas wants radical action. Hearing rumors of a Messiah, Judas senses the time has come. He seeks out Jesus, who preaches love, heals the sick and rocks the boat. Welcomed into his band of disciples, Judas is at once in awe of Jesus. But tensions soon surface. While Jesus draws on spiritual powers, Judas has more physical...
