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Review 2 Entertain Video / Steptoe And Son - Divided We Stand
Actors & Directors
  • Wilfrid Brambell
  • Harry H. Corbett
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.99

Review Steptoe And Son - Divided We Stand / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Vision Video Ltd. / An Audience With Alf Garnett [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Warren Mitchell
Release date: 1997-11-10
Run time: 77 min.
Price: £12.99

Review An Audience With Alf Garnett [1997] / Vision Video Ltd.:


Actors & Directors
  • Leonard Rossiter
  • Pauline Yates
Release date: 2002-10-21
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.00

Review The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin - The Complete Second Series / Second Sight Films Ltd.:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Ally McBeal - Season 1 Part 1 [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Calista Flockhart
  • Peter MacNicol
  • Greg Germann
  • Courtney Thorne-Smith
  • Jane Krakowski
Release date: 2002-10-07
Run time: 528 min.
Creator: David E. Kelley
RRP: £19.99
Price: £2.60

Review Ally McBeal - Season 1 Part 1 [1998] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

Much lighter in tone than creator, producer and writer David E Kelley's other forays into legal drama LA Law, and The Practice, the slick thirtysomething series Ally McBeal has never been out-and-out comedy but it spikes its exploration of emotional territory with sharp funny lines. Ally (Calista Flockhart) is a kookie cutie, a ditzy, skinny, single lawyer and we are privy to scenes from her overactive imagination (courtesy of CGI), surrounded by larger-than-life peripheral characters-almost grotesques-like outspoken boss Richard Fish (Greg Germann), nervy courtroom wizz John "The Biscuit" Cage (Peter MacNicol) and nosy secretary Elaine Vassal (Jane Krakowski). In later series these characters (including popular newcomers Lucy Lui and Portia de Rossi as frosty law babes Ling and Nelle) would edge towards one-dimensional caricatures as the same ground was retrodden relentlessly, but in this first series there is something compelling about the intrusive dynamics of this group of oddballs. The point is you don't have to like them to find them entertaining. Ally herself can be extremely irritating in a love-to-hate-her kind of a way. She is a curious dichotomy, a 1990s woman with a go-getting career and a penchant for her own way and yet with the romantic ideals of someone from another generation. Basically still hung up on ex-boyfriend Billy (Gil Bellows) who works for same Boston practice, alongside wife Georgia (Courtney Thorne-Smith), Ally is on the look out for her Prince Charming. The first series and its lead both garnered Golden Globes, a lot of gossip and a healthy audience for the Fox television network in America. Channel 4 snapped it up for British audiences who were intrigued, not least by the unisex toilets and sophisticated afterwork bar soirées where chanteuse Vonda Shepherd was always to be found crooning away in the corner. All in all, Ally McBeal leaves you with the conundrum of wanting more but not being able to say why. [+]
-Emma Perry.

Review 2 Entertain Video / Paul Merton - The Series - The Video [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Merton
Release date: 1993-09-27
Run time: 75 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £12.99

Review Paul Merton - The Series - The Video [1993] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Playback / Keeping Up Appearances - Series 1 And 2 [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Geoffrey Hughes
  • Judy Cornwell
  • Patricia Routledge
  • Josephine Tewson
  • Clive Swift
Release date: 2003-03-17
Run time: 480 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £29.95

Review Keeping Up Appearances - Series 1 And 2 [1990] / Playback:


Review Vision Video Ltd. / Steve Coogan - The Man Who Thinks He's It [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • David Tyler
  • Steve Coogan
  • Geoff Posner
  • Julia Davis
  • Simon Pegg
Release date: 1998-11-09
Run time: 86 min.
Creator: Peter Baynham
RRP: £14.99
Price: £0.95

Review Steve Coogan - The Man Who Thinks He's It [1998] / Vision Video Ltd.:


Review Warner Home Video / Daffy Duck's Quackbusters [1988]
Actors & Directors
  • Friz Freleng
  • Mel Blanc
  • Julie Bennett
  • Terry Lennon
  • Greg Ford
  • Robert McKimson
  • Roy Firestone
  • Ben Frommer
  • June Foray
  • Chuck Jones
Release date: 1994-11-07
Run time: 75 min.
Creator: Tedd Pierce
Price: £5.99

Review Daffy Duck's Quackbusters [1988] / Warner Home Video:


Review Granada Media / Mapp And Lucia - Complete [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • Mary MacLeod
  • Geraldine McEwan
  • Denis Lill
  • Donald McWhinnie
  • Prunella Scales
  • Nigel Hawthorne
Release date: 2002-08-05
Run time: 502 min.
Creator: Gerald Savory
Price: £24.99

Review Mapp And Lucia - Complete [1985] / Granada Media:


Review Classic Entertainment / The Classic TV Comedy Collection
Release date: 2007-03-05
Run time: 700 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £13.97

Review The Classic TV Comedy Collection / Classic Entertainment:


Review HBO Home Video / The Heist [1988] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Stuart Orme
  • Tom Skerritt
  • Wendy Hughes
  • Tom Atkins
  • Noble Willingham
  • Pierce Brosnan
Release date: 2005-08-30
Run time: 98 min.
Price: £3.49

Review The Heist [1988] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / HBO Home Video:


Review delta home entertainment / Worzel Gummidge 3 Captain Worzel Choir Practice Muvvers Day [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • James Hill
  • Jon Pertwee;Jeremy Austin;Charlotte Coleman;Barbara Windsor;Joan Sims;Bill Maynard;Una Stubbs;Sarah Thomas;Denis Gilmore;Thorley Walters;Mike Berry;Lorraine Chase;Megs Jenkins;Geoffrey Bayldon;Norman Bird
Release date: 2001-09-01
Run time: 78 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.97

Review Worzel Gummidge 3 Captain Worzel Choir Practice Muvvers Day [2001] / delta home entertainment:


Review BBC Warner / Ballykissangel: Series Four [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Niall Toibin
  • N.G. Bristow
  • Simon Massey
  • Chris Clough
  • Mike Cocker
  • Lorcan Cranitch
  • Tina Kellegher
  • Peter Lydon
  • Peter Hanly
  • Tony Doyle
Release date: 2006-02-14
Run time: 600 min.
Creator: Jimmy Doyle
Price: £21.55

Review Ballykissangel: Series Four [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / BBC Warner:


Review Trinity Home Entertainment / Maid for Each Other [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Costanzo
  • Garrett Morris
  • Paul Schneider
  • Dinah Manoff
  • Joyce Van Patten
  • Nell Carter
Release date: 2004-05-04
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Rob Gilmer
Price: £7.95

Review Maid for Each Other [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Trinity Home Entertainment:


Review Vision Video Ltd. / French And Saunders - Live [1987]
Actors & Directors
  • Derek Lyons
  • Dawn French
  • Tristram Shapeero
  • Rowland Rivron
  • John Birkin
  • Ed Bye
  • Simon Brint
  • Jennifer Saunders
Release date: 2000-11-20
Run time: 30 min.
Creator: Sue Perkins
RRP: £15.99
Price: £0.93

Review French And Saunders - Live [1987] / Vision Video Ltd.:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Father Ted - The Complete 1st Series [UMD Mini for PSP] [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Frank Kelly
  • Pauline McLynn
  • Declan Lowney
  • Ardal O'Hanlon
  • Dermot Morgan
Release date: 2006-04-24
Run time: 147 min.
Price: £15.99

Review Father Ted - The Complete 1st Series [UMD Mini for PSP] [1995] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Anchor Bay / Roseanne: The Complete Seventh Season [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Gail Mancuso
  • Roseanne
  • Sara Gilbert
  • John Goodman
  • Laurie Metcalf
  • Mark K. Samuels
  • Sarah Chalke
Release date: 2007-04-03
Run time: 598 min.
Creator: David Forbes
Price: £19.94

Review Roseanne: The Complete Seventh Season [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Anchor Bay:


Review Direct Source / Backfield in Motion [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Roseanne
  • Tom Arnold
  • Colleen Camp
  • Richard Michaels
  • Dorothy Davis
  • Olivia Burnette
Release date: 2006-12-26
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Cliff Eidelman
Price: £12.95

Review Backfield in Motion [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Direct Source:


Review Cinema Club / Mind Your Language - The Best Of Mind Your Language - Vol. 4 [1977]
Actors & Directors
  • George Camiller
  • Jacki Harding
  • Barry Evans
  • Robert Lee
  • Stuart Allen
  • Kevork Malikyan
Release date: 2001-08-20
Run time: 74 min.
Creator: Vince Powell
Price: £5.99

Review Mind Your Language - The Best Of Mind Your Language - Vol. 4 [1977] / Cinema Club:


Review Granada Media / Rising Damp - The Complete First Series [1974]
Actors & Directors
  • Gabrielle Rose
  • Richard Beckinsale
  • Frances de la Tour
  • Leonard Rossiter
  • Don Warrington
  • Vernon Lawrence
  • Len Lurcuck
Release date: 1998-10-19
Run time: 180 min.
Price: £12.99

Review Rising Damp - The Complete First Series [1974] / Granada Media:

First broadcast in 1974, the ITV bedsitland sitcom Rising Damp was an instant and enduring success. It starred Leonard Rossiter as the miserly and lovelorn landlord Rigsby who is constantly needling young lodger Alan (Richard Beckinsale), a science student whose long hair and earrings are symptomatic to Rigsby of the parlous effeminacy of the modern age. He's also in love with Frances De La Tour's dowdy spinster Miss Jones, though his tentative advances are forever rebuffed. She in turn carries a torch for Philip (Don Warrington), the elegant son of an African chief who also resides at Rigsby Towers. Some aspects of Rising Damp have not aged well, principally Rigsby's stream of racist jibes at Philip. Although these were doubtless well-meant and supposed to illustrate Rigsby's foolish bigotry, you suspect that that was a convenient cover for audiences in the 1970s to enjoy racist humour. However, Rossiter's Rigsby-stuttering, stammering, bent perpetually over backwards-remains a great comic creation, embodying all the festering prejudices, small-mindedness and self-delusion of the lower middle class Little Englander. -David Stubbs.

Models & Brands:
Steptoe And Son - Divided We Stand, An Audience With Alf Garnett [1997], The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin - The Complete Second Series, Ally McBeal - Season 1 Part 1 [1998], Paul Merton - The Series - The Video [1993], Keeping Up Appearances - Series 1 And 2 [1990], Steve Coogan - The Man Who Thinks He's It [1998], Daffy Duck's Quackbusters [1988], Mapp And Lucia - Complete [1985], The Classic TV Comedy Collection, The Heist [1988] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Worzel Gummidge 3 Captain Worzel Choir Practice Muvvers Day [2001], Ballykissangel: Series Four [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Maid for Each Other [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC), French And Saunders - Live [1987], Father Ted - The Complete 1st Series [UMD Mini for PSP] [1995], Roseanne: The Complete Seventh Season [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Backfield in Motion [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Mind Your Language - The Best Of Mind Your Language - Vol. 4 [1977], Rising Damp - The Complete First Series [1974]

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