Silver Spring, MD — The Invisibles, starring popular British actors Anthony Head and Warren Clarke, debuts on DVD from Acorn Media on May 26, 2009. The six-episode comedic drama follows a pair of aging, big-hearted retired thieves that decide to take another crack at crime. Filled with heists, hijinks, and humor about being over the hill, The Invisibles is pure fun. The series aired on BBC1 in the U.K. in the summer of 2008 and is available to U.S. audiences for the first time with its DVD release.

Former crooks and best friends Maurice Riley (Anthony Head, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Little Britain) and Syd Woolsey (Warren Clarke, Dalziel and Pascoe, Bleak House) are back in dear old Britain after 15 years of living off their ill-gotten gains in Spain’s “Costa del Crime.” Now they’re determined to stay on the straight and narrow in a quiet new seaside town. And Maurice’s wife, Barbara (Emmy® and BAFTA award-winner Jenny Agutter, MI-5/Spooks, Logan’s Run), is determined to make sure that’s exactly what happens. Despite their best intentions, the local pub manager (Dean Lennox Kelly, Shameless) proves more persuasive than Barbara, and “The Invisibles” are soon back in business. But after years out of the game, they discover they can’t crack safes like they used to. As the criminal competes with the comical, The Invisibles hurtles between drama and laughter, with entertainment the winner every time.

Anthony Head’s daughter in the series is played by his real-life daughter, Emily Head.

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