What is the best TV series box set

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Originally posted by ROTF:


Trumptonshire Box Set - it doesn't get any better than this.

Also recommended

1 Danger Man: Special Edition (13 Discs)
2 The Prisoner (7 Discs)
3 Steptoe & Son: Complete Box Set (13 Discs)
4 Hancock's Half Hour: 50th Anniversary Collection (8 Discs)
5 Thunderbirds: Complete Series Box Set (9 Discs)
6 Space Patrol: The Complete Series Box Set (6 Discs)
7 Fawlty Towers: Remastered (3 Discs)
8 The Office: Complete Box Set
9 Hot Metal: Complete Series 1 and 2

Hi ROTF,
I second numbers 1&2, great entertainment and still stand up after 40 odd years.

Chris N

Another one not for family viewing ,but excellent show!

'A Very Peculiar Practice' - if you could buy it for a sensible price.

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Originally posted by Adam Meredith:
'A Very Peculiar Practice' - if you could buy it for a sensible price.

What WAS that all about? Bonkers but enjoyable.

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Originally posted by Eloise:

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Originally posted by Musicmad:
I've thoroughly enjoyed Only Fools and Horses over many seasons/years

Personally though I'd stop watching after they auction the watch ... I really think that would have been the perfect ending to this usually great series.

Eloise

Yes, I'm tempted to agree.

I've enjoyed the subsequent episodes but none capture the essence of what went before. On a different level I also enjoyed the (so far) one-off prequel Rock and Chips broadcast early this year.

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Originally posted by Adam Meredith:
'A Very Peculiar Practice' - if you could buy it for a sensible price.

Agreed, we recall enjoying that first series; the second series less so.

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Geoff,
That is good and he has a good setup in the corner of his room.
Its fun trying to work out what it all is.
SME TT and black boxes.

Stu
The black boxes are Krell.
Evolution series I believe?

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Originally posted by Blueknowz:
Another one not for family viewing ,but excellent show!

Yes, I too have thing about Mary Louise Parker, but haven't seen Weeds on sale as a box-set yet. I was hoping it might appear on Virgin "TV Choice".

The Wire - all five seasons
Riget (The Kingdom) - series 1

Try The Inbetweeners for something juvenile, adult and bonkers.

Rockingdoc, if you haven't already, give this a try as it's an absolute must see in my opinion:



Deadwood, the complete series.

Acting and direction is beyond anything I've seen so far in a TV series. In my mind it equals Twin Peaks which has been my number one for years.

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Originally posted by munch:

Very good suggestion munch ... watched series 1 and 2 recently - was half-expecting them to be disappointingly dated and remembered through rose-tinted specs ... but really funny and entertaining a decade or two later.

Would have to add Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister as other great box-sets.

Eloise

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Originally posted by Rockingdoc:

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Originally posted by Blueknowz:
Another one not for family viewing ,but excellent show!

Yes, I too have thing about Mary Louise Parker, but haven't seen Weeds on sale as a box-set yet. I was hoping it might appear on Virgin "TV Choice".

Season 1-5

the sopranos is a must - agree weeds and in betweeners are up there with the best of them!

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Originally posted by munch:

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Originally posted by Eloise:

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Originally posted by munch:
Only Fools And Horses.

But make sure you buy it off a dodgy market stall for ultimate authenticity!!

On Betamax.

If you have a cunning plan for this, may I suggest the 'Blackadder' box set?!!

One that always amused me, some light easy-watching comedy.

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Originally posted by munch:
Mal,
If you are not confused ?You will be
This is one of the all time greats.

Stu

Excellent choice munch,one of my all time favs.

This is going well, lot of TV series that I didn't previously know.

"Inbetweeners" very good, but I prefer "Skins", which I think is the best current UK TV since "Shamless" went silly.

Watched all of "Carnivale" on Virgin, and while HBO series are usually a safe bet, I thought it lost the plot badly in the second series.

Wasn't impressed by Mad Men at first but getting into it.

Deadwood looks like it would be my cup of tea.

Always been a British comedy fan, so already very familiar with the greats like; "Dead Donkey", "Blackadder", anything Python etc.

Tend to like US crime series from Warner, but much less sure about US comedy, I just can't get "Curb your Enthusiasm" for example.

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Originally posted by nap-ster:
Alan Bleasdales "The Street" or "Boys From The Blackstuff". Gizza Job.

Some bloody scouser or other! Or was one of them by Jimmy McScouse? Whatever, two great scouse series.

and of course, just in case there is anyone on the planet who missed it

E.R. certainly changed my life.

p.s.

Damn, I wish I could get pictures to post here.

Battlestar Galactica - the 'Reimagined' version. Series 1-4 made between 2004 and 2008. Bloody brilliant if very dark most of the time.

24 - series 1 -7 Box set

The shield there is no debate.

The Beiderbecke Trilogy: The Complete Series.

Well worth watching, I tend to put it on every few years and never fail to enjoy the humour and interaction between the quirky characters.

Will.