The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency [videorecording] / The Weinstein Company ; Home Box Office ; BBC ; Mirage Enterprises ; Cinechicks ; Film Afrika Worldwide ; series producer, Tim Bricknell.
Material type: FilmPublisher number: 1000100553 | Home Box OfficeLanguage: English Summary language: English, French, Spanish Original language: English Publication details: [New York, NY] : Home Box Office ; [Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, distributor], c2009.Description: 3 videodiscs (480 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:- 1419883380
- 9781419883385
- Number One Ladies' Detective Agency
- No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Television program). Season 1.
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult DVD | Dr. James Carlson Library | DVD | DRAMA No.1 lad | Available | 33111005824574 | ||||
Adult DVD | Main Library | DVD | DRAMA No.1 lad | Available | 33111005710930 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The uplifting fictional story of a Botswana woman who fulfills a longtime dream by opening her country's first and only female-owned detective agency. Based on the best selling novels by Alexander McCall Smith.
Based on the novels by Alexander McCall Smith.
Contains the pilot and all 6 episodes from the first season.
Title from container.
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.
Jill Scott, Anika Noni Rose, Lucian Msamati.
Originally broadcast on BBC1 in 2009.
Follows Mma 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 Mma 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 father, to another lady who has a boyfriend who may or may not be faithful to her.
TV-MA.
DVD, widescreen (letterbox); Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo.
English dialogue, French or Spanish subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.