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What a bargain this Brittas box set is

Advantages: All the bonus bits you could imagine, excellent value and no obvious episode "cropping"
Disadvantages: None really

...to being so used to the interactive features and extras that it almost always comes as a disappointment when I play a DVD without the bonus bits. So I have been totally spoilt by this box set. I've mentioned my notorious sense of bargain-hunting and I'm also well-known for my reluctance to part with serious sums of money. With the cash I received for my twenty-first birthday, I went back to uni, hit the shops and tried to spend it. I notice the listed ...
...back then but - given the choice at the time of buying seven separate series on DVD for £19.99 each or this complete set for £69.99 at HMV, it didn't take me too long to make up my mind. The other thing that strikes me is that - back when The Brittas Empire was shown and most TV series appeared on video because DVDs didn't exist - the makers of this box set have done a frankly amazing job of finding special features and extras. I think every single ...

KateHurst 17.05.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Brittas Empire - The Complete Brittas Empire - Series 1 To 7 (Box Set) (DVD)

(noun) - longing for something past...

Advantages: Another chance to see a wildly successful comedy troupe...
Disadvantages: ...and that success might baffle you

...this misheard lyric may constitute the Goodies's most significant contribution to popular culture in the 1990s: an astonishing fall from grace for a comedy combo that were a bedrock of the BBC's light entertainment output in the 1970s. How did this happen? For all the while that Messrs Garden, Oddie and Brooke-Taylor languished as a trace memory for a generation, the BBC were merrily flogging the wares of most of their contemporaries on video, and ...
...as successful. What exactly had the Goodies done to deserve such ostracising? Did they kidnap and eat children as they slept? Were they responsible for Idi Amin's regime in Uganda? Was 'The Funky Gibbon' really that bad? 'Here We Come, Into Town...' The constituent parts of The Goodies fell together at Cambridge University in the mid 1960s: Tim Brooke-Taylor studying law, Graeme Garden studying medicine (hence his occasional utilisation in ...

greenierexyboy 31.05.2008 · Read full review
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Review of The Goodies At Last! (DVD)

AN APPLE A DAY

Advantages: FUNNY
Disadvantages: NONE

THESE FILMS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN IN MY COLLECTION.I NEVER GET TIRED OF WATCHING THEM OVER AND OVER AGAIN.OLD BRITISH SLAPSTICK COMEDY AT ITS BEST.THE STORYLINES ARE GOOD,AND THE ACTORS ARE TOO.THEY REMIND ME VERY MUCH OF THE CARRY ON FILMS IN A WAY.NOT AS MUCH AS A FARCE AS CARRY ONS,BUT A GOOD SUBSITUTE.TO ME THERE IS NOTHING BETTER THAN THE OLD COMEDYS.YOU ARE ALWAYS GUARENTEED A GOOD LAUGH.THIS COLLECTION IN MY OPINION,IS DEFINETLY WORTH BUYING.IF ...

TRAY64 26.01.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Doctor In The House - Complete Collection (DVD)

The laughter continues ..............

Advantages: Great laughs, series hasn't lost anything with age
Disadvantages: None

...recently written a review about the complete boxed set of every episode of the seventies comedy The Good Life in which I promised to do reviews on each of the individual DVD's in the set. I have already done the review on series one and now here is series two ……. I won't repeat the set up here as I would be repeating what I said in the previous reviews and that wouldn't be fair on you as the reader or on Ciao who would be paying me twice for the ...
...and a goat! The next door neighbours are Margot and Jerry Leadbetter who are good friends with Tom and Barbara. However Margot is a snob and is horrified at the new set up next door. The sit com is then a series of various events and their consequences to all parties. So the second DVD in the set has the seven episodes of Series Two which were originally broadcast in 1976. Just my Bill In this episode Tom sets out to sell his surplus in order ...

SusanLesley 27.03.2008 · Read full review
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Review of The Good Life - Series 2 (DVD)

Back to the Future 1/2/3

Advantages: Great entertainment
Disadvantages: may sometimes be a bit repetitive

...I even have watched them back to back one day and I didn't get bored, they all just linkk so well and the way the same people crop up like Biff, is great as it makes it easy to understand as its like just going into a paralell world not a totally different one which I think makes less concentration on that and more on the story in hand. ...

bluemini127 22.01.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Back To The Future/Back To The Future - Part 2/Back To The Future - Part 3 (DVD)