Max Boyce Down Under DVD

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...Like all good entertainers, Bill Bailey is a bit difficult to categorise, sitting halfway between comedian and musician, he is however more than a latter-day Max Boyce. He inhabits a world of his own creation, one that runs fairly parallel to the one we inhabit, and one which at times may seem familiar, but it takes only a finely crafted punch line or weird tangent to remind us that Bill Bailey is probably a time travelling jester a troubadour, wit and all round fool. Move over Renaissance man and welcome Renaissance twit. He is probably known to more people from his appearances on Never Mind the Buzzcocks and the part that he plays there is fairly representative of his act, but add his musical ability and his well crafted script and he really come into his own. Filmed at the Grand Theatre, Swansea, Bailey comes across like a mad wizard... Read review

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Advantages: Disappointing episode
Disadvantages: It's the last one - complete your collection

...The Green Wing Special DVD delivers the final ever Green Wing episode. In theory we find out whether Mac is really dying and if Caroline gets to marry him, or ends up marrying Guy. The same wacky cast of characters is back for the special episode, drawn together to attend a funeral. Sue White is still pursuing Mac, Guy is still desperately in love with Caroline, and Guy is ever more mysterious. Will we ever find out his real name? Boyce misses his mentor, but Statham and Joanna have problems of their own and there's surprises in store for the rest of the HR department. In practice the finale is very disappointing, with no real answers, and doesn't make up for the fact that the series is no more.... Read review

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Advantages: Marlene and Boycie play these parts so well.
Disadvantages: Nothing can compare to Only Fools and Horses!!!

...different to London folk. The farm manager Elgin Sparrow, Ploughman Jed, Herdsman Bryan and Housekeeper Mrs Cakeworthy. Lets just say they agree to use their slightly 'dippy' appearances and personalities to trick Mr Boyce into keeping their jobs at the farm. You dont learn much about these characters lives outside the farm as such but they play great parts and they join in to make the series what it is... Also you will meet the mad Welsh neighbour - Llewelyn who appears many times in the series just to cause a bit of trouble! Best Parts: - There are some hillarious scenes in this series which John Sullivan has created perfectly as in Only Fools and Horses: - * Boycie purchasing an £18,000 bull when under the influence of alcohol of which he could have got it for £9000 and then waking up in the barn the next morning to have the bull staring... Read review

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