The Comic Strip on DVD

COOL! I have been hanging out for those for years!!!!!!!!!!

Gus

Excellent, thanks for that - have they only recently been issued? Loved the famous five episodes, I think I might treat myself.

Is 'War' among them?

Yes to all of the above.

Everything (39 in all) is in one 9 DVD set which went on sale yesterday. 8 DVD's worth of features and 1 of extras. When you consider the running time it's well priced too (can't remember exactly - look it up on Amazon!).

I've been waiting for these for as long as I can remember. With the recent release of Drop the Dead Donkey series 1 (with all the others to follow) my legacy want list has just decreased a fair bit.

Happy day

"Pot of Tea for two, bitch"

I was quite looking forward to this, as I had very fond memories of the show when it aired 20 or so years ago.

There was a free DVD of "Five Go Mad In Dorset" with Saturday's Torygraph, so I eagerly slipped the DVD disc into my player while the Stereochronics were playing at Live8.

It was very disappointing. The whole thing seemed as feeble and as dated (and, in its own way, as objectionable) as the Enid Blyton novelsit presumably meant to satirise. I didn't laugh once.

Is it just me, or - like The Young Ones - has all this stuff very much of its era and thus hasn't stood the test of time?

Kevin

Mr Jolly lives next door was on Paramount 2 last night.

Still enjoyable

'ESCORTS BESTCORTS!'

DS

It's much like you say kevin. But I remember it in the context of its time - when it was outstanding - and still well observed even today. I got the whole Monty Python collection last Xmas from the US (good exchange rate even then) and what can I say? Lots of it just not funny - but again, you have to mentally time shift to fully appreciate it.

Is that all with sugar?

My copy is awaiting collection at the Post Office. Can't wait - favourites have to be Geno and A Fistfull of Travellers Cheques.

Supergrass should be good though - there's a classic scene near the end where Robbie Coltraine walks along a harbour wall with waves literally crashing over him to the tune of Frankie's Two Tribes. I remember hearing that the locals thought he was mad as at any time a wave could have swept him to his almost certain death and that the cases he was carrying were heavily weighed down to help him stay put!

Matt.

A remarkable tracking sequence by any standard. I always wondered how they did that until RC revealed that they just did it! Bonkers.