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Review Warner Home Video / Friends - Series 10 - Vol. 1 - Episodes 1-4 [VHS] [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Courteney Cox
  • Lisa Kudrow
  • Jennifer Aniston
  • Matt LeBlanc
  • Matthew Perry
Release date: 2004-02-16
Run time: 22 min.
Creator: Marta Kauffman
Price: £12.99

Review Friends - Series 10 - Vol. 1 - Episodes 1-4 [VHS] [1995] / Warner Home Video:


Review Cinema Club / Porterhouse Blue [VHS] [1987]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Knights
  • David Jason
  • Griff Rhys Jones
  • Ian Richardson
  • John Sessions
  • Charles Gray
Release date: 2002-04-08
Run time: 194 min.
Creator: Tom Sharpe
RRP: £5.99
Price: £11.79

Review Porterhouse Blue [VHS] [1987] / Cinema Club:

Based on Tom Sharpe’s satirical novel and set in a fictional, all-male Cambridge College, 1987’s Porterhouse Blue is a crusty delight. Ian Richardson stars as the austere moderniser who takes over as master of Porterhouse with a view to bringing in radical changes; David Jason is Skullion, head porter for 45 years and a bulldog-style traditionalist. Porterhouse Blue is a wonderfully grotesque and not inaccurate depiction of an Oxbridge college that has set itself resolutely and decadently against the modern world. Crammed with hoggish, port-swilling dons who are more concerned that the college stay "head of the river" than with academic achievement, the highlight of Porterhouse’s year is the Founder’s Feast, in which students and tutors gorge debauchedly on roast swan stuffed with widgeon, to the horror of the new vegetarian master. Jason’s Skullion looks on approvingly: he’s a stickler for Porterhouse’s inverted values, disapproving, for instance, of student Zipser (John Sessions), the only fellow at the college actually there to work. When the master eventually fires Skullion, the forces of traditionalism gather in sympathy and attempt their revenge. Unfolding over 190 leisurely minutes, Porterhouse Blue is an elegantly turned comedy in which practically every morsel of dialogue is to be savoured for its delicious tang. Jason and Richardson are reliably excellent in what is an overall exhibition of British TV thespianism at its finest. -David Stubbs.

Review Orbit Media Ltd. / The George Burns And Gracie Allen Show [VHS] [1950]
Actors & Directors
  • Harry von Zell
  • George Burns
  • Bea Benaderet
  • Gracie Allen
  • Fred Clark
  • Rodney Amateau
Release date: 1995-10-09
Run time: 60 min.
Creator: Harvey Milk
Price: £9.99

Review The George Burns And Gracie Allen Show [VHS] [1950] / Orbit Media Ltd.:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Harry Enfield's Television Programme - Series 2: Part 1 [VHS] [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Kathy Burke
  • Paul Whitehouse
  • Harry Enfield
  • Aden Gillett
  • Jon Glover
Release date: 1996-02-26
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Paul Whitehouse
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.99

Review Harry Enfield's Television Programme - Series 2: Part 1 [VHS] [1990] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Friends - Series 9 - Episodes 9-12 [VHS] [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Matt LeBlanc
  • Courteney Cox
  • Lisa Kudrow
  • Matthew Perry
  • Jennifer Aniston
Release date: 2003-10-27
Run time: 22 min.
Creator: Marta Kauffman
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.90

Review Friends - Series 9 - Episodes 9-12 [VHS] [1995] / Warner Home Video:

Nine years is a long time for any group of Friends to stick so closely together, but somehow the gang are still as daftly charming as ever. After the birth of Emma, Rachel comes to terms with being a mother surprisingly well. It's how everyone else deals with it that makes things interesting. Joey's accidental proposal creates weird friction between him and Ross, who breaks his finger throwing the show's first ever punch. Monica becomes desperately broody and attempts all manner of convoluted ways of persuading Chandler (unfortunately he inadvertently bankrupts them in a move to Tulsa). Phoebe, on the other hand, occupies herself in the dating game, holding on to Mike (Paul Rudd) in the longest guest star relationship anyone's ever had. Other surprise guests this year include Freddie Prinze Jr as an overly sensitive nanny (in the 200th episode), Christina Applegate as another of Rachel's sisters and Jeff Goldblum playing himself on the set of another movie on which Joey is trying to get a break. As always the sparks occasionally fly between Rachel and Ross, while the others manage to strain their own relationships to the max. The real reason for watching now is the one-off kooky scenarios in which they-or rather Joey-get into. His endless dating finally sees him stuck for remembering if he's already slept with a girl; he botches an attempt at eyebrow waxing; and he manages to make Chandler think that Monica wants a breast enhancement. [+]
A 10th series and potential movie spin-off were announced well before the year was over, meaning six very rich actors will be supplying the fun for some time yet to come. -Paul Tonks.

Review ITV DVD / Jim Davidson-The Truth..... [VHS] [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Jim Davidson
Release date: 1993-11-01
Run time: 58 min.
Creator: Jim Davidson
RRP: £10.99
Price: £12.98

Review Jim Davidson-The Truth..... [VHS] [1993] / ITV DVD:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Yes Minister - The Writing On The Wall [VHS] [1980]
Actors & Directors
  • Diana Hoddinott
  • John Nettleton
  • Paul Eddington
  • Derek Fowlds
  • Nigel Hawthorne
Release date: 1997-07-02
Run time: 86 min.
Creator: Nigel Hawthorne
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.17

Review Yes Minister - The Writing On The Wall [VHS] [1980] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Acorn Media / The Good Life - Pig's Lib/The Thing in the Cellar/The Pagan Rite [VHS] [1975]
Actors & Directors
  • Penelope Keith
  • Reginald Marsh
  • Felicity Kendal
  • Richard Briers
  • Paul Eddington
Release date: 2000-04-17
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Felicity Kendal
RRP: £12.99
Price: £9.00

Review The Good Life - Pig's Lib/The Thing in the Cellar/The Pagan Rite [VHS] [1975] / Acorn Media:

The Good Life has proved an enduring jewel in the BBC's mainstream comedy archive. More than 25 years after it first appeared in our living rooms, nostalgia must be a major reason for its appeal. A whole generation of young men-and their fathers-found the weekly sight of Felicity Kendal as Barbara Good, pert in denim dungarees, irresistible. But it's the quality of the playing that has really stood the test of time and triumphs over a premise-self-sufficiency in Surbiton-that now seems naïve. Even in 1975, a Tom Good (a masterpiece of comic eccentricity from Richard Briers) quitting the rat race would probably have sold up his semi and chanced his luck as a small holder somewhere more remote than suburban Surrey. Comic tensions arise not just from the Goods' daily struggle to beat the system on their own terms, but also from the relationship with their incredulous, often horrified, but usually supportive neighbours. Penelope Keith's Margo Leadbetter remains one of the great comic creations in British sitcom history-a simmering volcano of conservatism waging her own battle against creeping mediocrity in all aspects of life, whose human frailty somehow keeps her loveable. Paul Eddington as Jerry, her long-suffering husband, spars splendidly. -Piers Ford.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The Simpsons - The Dark Secrets Of [VHS] [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Julie Kavner
  • Harry Shearer
  • Nancy Cartwright
  • Dan Castellaneta
  • Yeardley Smith
Release date: 1997-04-28
Run time: 80 min.
Creator: Matt Groening
RRP: £12.99
Price: £0.98

Review The Simpsons - The Dark Secrets Of [VHS] [1990] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Harry Enfield's Television Programme - Series 2: Part 2 [VHS] [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Whitehouse
  • Aden Gillett
  • Jon Glover
  • Kathy Burke
  • Harry Enfield
Release date: 1996-02-26
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Paul Whitehouse
Price: £5.99

Review Harry Enfield's Television Programme - Series 2: Part 2 [VHS] [1990] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review ITV DVD / The Plank [VHS] [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Eric Sykes
  • Tommy Cooper
  • Jimmy Edwards
  • Eric Sykes
  • Graham Stark
  • Roy Castle
Release date: 1992-06-01
Run time: 46 min.
Creator: Jon Penington
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.99

Review The Plank [VHS] [1967] / ITV DVD:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Fawlty Towers - Series 1 & 2 [VHS] [1975]
Actors & Directors
  • Prunella Scales
  • Ballard Berkeley
  • John Cleese
  • Andrew Sachs
  • Connie Booth
Release date: 1998-10-12
Run time: 400 min.
Creator: Prunella Scales
RRP: £34.99
Price: £23.67

Review Fawlty Towers - Series 1 & 2 [VHS] [1975] / 2 Entertain Video:

Often hailed as the greatest ever British sitcom, Fawlty Towers is closer to the more elaborate tradition of farce. Comprising two series made in 1975 and 1979, the total of just 12 episodes were painstakingly constructed by writers John Cleese and Connie Booth. Unlike most British farce, however, Fawlty Towers deals with the big themes-death, psychology, xenophobia and even sex-o-phobia (Basil's marriage to Sybil is the most sterile ever depicted in a sitcom). Basil's contempt for his guests is, of course, legendary. It takes little from patrons to unleash his sledgehammer sarcasm: "Rosewood, mahogany, teak? Sorry, I was wondering what you'd like your breakfast tray made out of", he sneers at a guest who dares to request breakfast in bed. Like every Englishman, he wants to be king of his own castle and resents having to take in lodgers to maintain the place, especially the open-necked younger generation, whom he regards as sub-human. Mostly, though, Fawlty Towers is comedy of exasperation-who can forget the "damn good thrashing" Basil gives his clapped-out car, or the nervous breakdowns he almost suffers trying to make himself understood to Manuel? It's also comedy of embarrassment. The very fear of losing his dignity generally leads Basil into the most spectacularly undignified of predicaments. His inevitable misery is our sheer delight. - David Stubbs On the DVD: each six-episode season is given its own disc with a commentary track from John Howard Davies and Bob Spiers, directors of Season 1 and Season 2 respectively. [+]
The third disc has all the additional material, the best of which are new interviews with John Cleese, Andrew Sachs and Prunella Scales. Also included are text biographies of all the leads and the guest stars, a short background featurette on Torquay and the hotel owner who is said to have inspired Basil, a very short blooper reel of outtakes and a brief teaser with Cleese in character entitled "Cheap Tatty Review". Much of this extra material was comfortably fitted onto the individually available Season 1 and 2 discs, so it's a bit of a mystery why a third disc was deemed necessary for the box set. -Mark Walker.

Review Dinnerladies / Dinnerladies [VHS]
Release date: 2004-11-15
Run time: 172 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.94

Review Dinnerladies [VHS] / Dinnerladies:


Review Munsters / The Munsters - Vol. 5 [VHS] [1965]
Release date: 1992-06-22
Run time: 48 min.
Price: £7.99

Review The Munsters - Vol. 5 [VHS] [1965] / Munsters:


Review 2 Entertain Video / The Tony Ferrino Phenomenon [VHS] [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Mick Hucknall
  • Steve Coogan
  • Geoff Posner
  • Gary Wilmot
  • Kim Wilde
Release date: 1997-10-06
Run time: 60 min.
Creator: Henry Normal
RRP: £10.99
Price: £14.95

Review The Tony Ferrino Phenomenon [VHS] [1997] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Munsters / The Munsters - Vol. 4 [VHS] [1964]
Release date: 1992-06-22
Run time: 73 min.
Price: £7.99

Review The Munsters - Vol. 4 [VHS] [1964] / Munsters:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Victoria Wood - Live In Your Own Home [VHS] [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Lill Roughley
  • Julie Walters
  • Victoria Wood
  • Anne Reid
  • Celia Imrie
Release date: 1994-10-31
Run time: 79 min.
Creator: Lill Roughley
RRP: £10.99
Price: £9.77

Review Victoria Wood - Live In Your Own Home [VHS] [1994] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Vision Video Ltd. / The Vicar of Dibley - The Complete Second Series (1997) [VHS] [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Gary Waldhorn
  • Dawn French
  • Emma Chambers
  • James Fleet
  • Roger Lloyd-Pack
Release date: 2000-04-17
Run time: 136 min.
Creator: Dawn French
RRP: £14.99
Price: £9.99

Review The Vicar of Dibley - The Complete Second Series (1997) [VHS] [1994] / Vision Video Ltd.:


Review VCI / Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell [VHS] [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Tom Kinninmont
  • Royce Mills
  • Timothy Ackroyd
  • Peter O'Toole
  • Annabel Leventon
  • Peter O'Toole
  • Sarah Berger
Release date: 2000-10-02
Run time: 123 min.
Creator: Keith Waterhouse
Price: £14.99

Review Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell [VHS] [1999] / VCI:


Review Playback / Naked Jungle [VHS] [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Keith Chegwin
Release date: 2000-08-21
Run time: 56 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Naked Jungle [VHS] [2000] / Playback:


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Friends - Series 10 - Vol. 1 - Episodes 1-4 [VHS] [1995], Porterhouse Blue [VHS] [1987], The George Burns And Gracie Allen Show [VHS] [1950], Harry Enfield's Television Programme - Series 2: Part 1 [VHS] [1990], Friends - Series 9 - Episodes 9-12 [VHS] [1995], Jim Davidson-The Truth..... [VHS] [1993], Yes Minister - The Writing On The Wall [VHS] [1980], The Good Life - Pig's Lib/The Thing in the Cellar/The Pagan Rite [VHS] [1975], The Simpsons - The Dark Secrets Of [VHS] [1990], Harry Enfield's Television Programme - Series 2: Part 2 [VHS] [1990], The Plank [VHS] [1967], Fawlty Towers - Series 1 & 2 [VHS] [1975], Dinnerladies [VHS], The Munsters - Vol. 5 [VHS] [1965], The Tony Ferrino Phenomenon [VHS] [1997], The Munsters - Vol. 4 [VHS] [1964], Victoria Wood - Live In Your Own Home [VHS] [1994], The Vicar of Dibley - The Complete Second Series (1997) [VHS] [1994], Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell [VHS] [1999], Naked Jungle [VHS] [2000]

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