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• Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads - Series 2 | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £9.21   |  Saving you £6.78 (73.62%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Terry Collier (James Bolam) and Bob Ferris (Rodney Bewes) return for another series of Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? Episodes Comprise: 1. Absent Friends 2. Heart to Heart 3. The Ant and the Grasshopper 4. One for the Road 5. The Great Race 6. Some Day We'll Laugh About This 7. In Harms Way 8. Affairs and Relations 9. The Expert 10. Between Ourselves 11. The Go Between 12. Conduct Unbecoming 13. The Shape of Things to Come

• Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads - The Very Best Of Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads | DVD | (30/09/2002) from £4.95   |  Saving you £8.04 (162.42%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads was actually a revival, in 1973, of the successful Dick Clements/Ian La Frenais 1960s comedy The Likely Lads, so notable for its fibrous but sympathetic treatment of life for two young men coming of age in North East England. This "Very Best of" collection brings together classic episodes from the 1973 series. Although tinged with nostalgia--the décor and styles of the early 1970s are almost pungently evocative--the quality of the writing defies the passage of time. Seven years on from their initial adventures, Rodney Bewes (upwardly mobile, self-improving Bob) and James Bolam (feckless, chippy Terry) meet by accident on the train. Bob is about to marry Thelma and move into modern semi-detached heaven, while Terry is just out of the army and drifting back home without a great deal of purpose. The relationship between the two men, basically sound but frequently compromised by their very different aspirations, is very cleverly drawn and played so that your sympathies never stay on one side for very long. Best of all, Brigit Forsyth's Thelma, a dragon in the making, adds an astringent dynamic. She is, says Terry, "so stuck up she thinks her backside's a perfume factory". The insecurity he generates in her is responsible for much of the comedy. On the DVD: The Very Best of Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads comes to disc with no extras, simply standard 4:3 picture format video production and episode selection. But it's still fresh as a daisy all the same. --Piers Ford

• Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £14.09   |  Saving you £1.90 (13.48%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais returned to the world of The Likely Lads with this sequel series which is generally considered to be even better than the original show. Terry Collier (James Bolam) returns from his stint in the army to find his north-east home-town and its inhabitants have changed beyond recognition. Out of contact during the intervening years his best friend Bob Ferris (Rodney Bewes) has settled into a respectable white-collar job and is engaged to his boss'