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• The Young Ones - Series 1 & 2 | DVD | (29/10/2007) from £10.99   |  Saving you £0.89 (8.10%)   |  RRP £11.88

  A mad helter-skelter rude awesomely violent unpredictable swaggering staggering joyously infantile exhilarating steamroller of a sitcom The Young Ones provided the breakthrough for the new generation of aggressive and forthright 'alternative' comedians. Join Rik Vyv Neil and Mike in their crazy and surreal comedy adventures!

• Victoria Wood - Live | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £7.95   |  Saving you £5.04 (63.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Over half a million people packed into over 200 venues throughout the country during 1997 to see her best show ever. This tour included an unprecedented fifteen night sell-out run at the Royal Albert Hall which the media hailed as the best stand-up show of the decade. With her cheek charm and dazzling wordplay she reduced her audience to a state of delirium. Recorded during her record-breaking tour Victoria Wood - Live is your opportunity to see the queen of humour at her most brilliant.

• Dinnerladies - Series 1 & 2 Complete | DVD | (24/05/2010) from £11.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Created by written by and starring the one and only Victoria Wood 'Dinnerladies' chronicles the antics of a group of workers in a manky old canteen up in the north of England... Series 1: 1. Monday 2. Royals 3. Scandals 4. Moods 5. Party 6. Nightshift Series 2: 1. Catering 2. Trouble 3. Holidays 4. Fog 5. Gamble 6. Christmas 7. Minnellium 8. Christine 9. Gravy 10. Toast

• The Young Ones - Series One | DVD | (05/08/2002) from £8.08   |  Saving you £7.91 (97.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A horrible, vile, disgusting sitcom about four students who live in the most revolting house in Britain", The Young Ones became an instant BBC comedy landmark in 1982 by launching an all-out assault on the moribund sitcom, mixing Monty Python-esque madness with post-punk anarchy. There are no real stories, only a succession of often hysterically funny scenes as ingenious gags collide with deliberately corny lines, cartoon-like ultra-violence, pop music breaks, surreal interludes with characters ranging from the Three Bears to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and gross-out moments based on various bodily functions and substances. Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Nigel Planer and Christopher Ryan are the four housemates: Rick (Cliff Richard-worshipping radical sociology student), Vyvan (violence-loving punk medical student), Neil (put-upon suicidal hippie) and Mike (self-styled cool guy). Alexei Sayle appears regularly playing various mad Russians. Taking a cue from National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) the show now seems to anticipate the teen gross-out flicks of the late 1990s but to far more amusing effect. In retrospect The Young Ones is cheerfully un-politically correct in a way which may shock more now than 20 years ago; certainly some of the insults and drug-taking would have trouble getting on TV today. The first series was followed by a second equally hilarious series; Mayall and Edmondson played essentially similar characters in Filthy, Rich and Catflap (1987) and Bottom (1991-5). On the DVD: The Young Ones on disc has disappointingly no extra features except optional English subtitles. The sound is full, clear mono and the 4:3 picture is as good as can be expected from a 1980s BBC comedy shot on video and certainly far better than the show appeared when it was broadcast.--Gary S Dalkin

• Acorn Antiques | DVD | (07/02/2005) from £5.39   |  Saving you £10.60 (196.66%)   |  RRP £15.99

  All the sketches from the classic spoof soap! Thrill to the heartwarming exploits of these antique-loving scallywags as they ply their skilled (or perhaps not so skilled) trade in that tiny (and yet at times not so tiny) shop on the outskirts of Manchesterford. All your favourite episodes are here all the rascally yet therapeutic shenanigans that showered fame fortune and glittering prizes!

• Victoria Wood - As Seen On TV | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £5.74   |  Saving you £14.25 (248.26%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Victoria Wood's sketch show As Soon On TV finally appears on DVD with all six episodes of comedic gold dust.

• Dinnerladies | DVD | (15/11/2004) from £6.22   |  Saving you £13.77 (221.38%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The complete first series - on DVD for the first time! Victoria Wood Julie Walters and a superb ensemble cast serve up the laughs in this critically acclaimed comedy set in a factory canteen. Episodes Comprise: 1. Monday 2. Royals 3. Scandals 4. Moods 5. Party 6. Nightshift

• The Young Ones - Series 2 | DVD | (18/08/2003) from £8.08   |  Saving you £7.91 (97.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The second and final series of The Young Ones was screened in 1984 and continued in the anarchic, surreal, scatological, slapstick yet subtly satirical vein of the first series. When hippie Neil's blazer and furcoat-clad parents step horrified into the filthy student digs he shares with prissy sociology student Rick (Rik Mayall), the psychotic punk Vyvyan (Ade Edmondson) and wide-boy Mike (Christopher Ryan) a parody of The Good Life promptly ensues, signalling just what a giant leap this show represented from mainstream sitcom of the time. Nigel Planer's put-upon Neil is as fine a creation as the putting-upon Vyvyan. Guest appearances from Alexei Sayle, Stephen Fry, co-writer Ben Elton and Jennifer Saunders among others confirmed The Young Ones' status as an academy for future establishment comedians. But Mayall's creation is still the show's greatest legacy: Rick is self-righteous to the point of fascism in his right-on-ness, a mass of studenty pretentiousness, pathetic inadequacy and egotism ("Hands up who likes me!"). Anything went in The Young Ones--talking hamsters and toilets, bizarre digressions into period sketches, subliminal images, guest appearances by bands from Dexy's Midnight Runners to Motorhead--yet through Rick in particular, the show implicitly mocked shopworn Goodies-style notions of "zaniness" ("You have to watch me, I'm a bit nutty!"). This series includes "Bambi", the University Challenge episode; "Cash", in which Vyvyan announces his pregnancy; and the final show, a parody of Cliff Richard's The Young Ones itself, in which the quartet exit ingloriously. The Young Ones is among the most youthful and radical of all sitcoms, yet it still manages to contain a timelessly astute critique of youthful radicalism--and bottom-burp jokes aplenty. On the DVD: The Young Ones, Series 2 comes to DVD with no extra features. Visually, it's well up to the usual BBC standards but the transfer can't disguise the datedness of some of the early 80s special effects. --David Stubbs

• Victoria Wood - The Best Of Victoria Wood - As Seen On TV | DVD | (05/08/2002) from £13.14   |  Saving you £5.84 (57.54%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Another BBC raid into their archives, The Best of Victoria Wood is taken solely from her early television series, a period that established her as a major name in British mainstream comedy. Although rooted firmly in a cosy, almost bygone age of English culture (her work is full of Northern references), Wood's reputation as one of the UK's sharpest writers is well deserved. She is particularly adept at creating a range of characters that not only provide great humour but also a fair amount of depth and empathy as well. Assembling an excellent cast of players (the majority of whom she continues to work with to this day), the sketches here are a mixture of group pieces (the fantastic soap opera pastiche Acorn Antiques), musical numbers, a succession of wonderful head-to-heads with long-time sparring partner Julie Walters and, uniquely, the odd monologue (Patricia Routledge's Keeping Up Appearances character makes an embryonic debut in the shape of Kitty). Television watchers of a certain age may find the clips a little over familiar but this should take nothing away from a fine compilation. On the DVD: The Best of Victoria Wood is another example of the BBC falling flat with their approach to the possibilities of DVD. The picture and sound quality seems to have improved little since the show's original broadcast and there are no extras beyond the standard interactive menus. Given the amount of fine work that Wood has produced over the years, we could have hoped for at least the beginning of an insight into her methods, inspirations and influences. --Phil Udell

• Dinnerladies - The Complete Second Series | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £9.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (150.15%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Created by written by and starring the one and only Victoria Wood 'Dinnerladies' chronicles the antics of a group of workers in a manky old canteen up in the north of England... Episodes comprise: 1. Catering 2. Trouble 3. Holidays 4. Fog 5. Gamble 6. Christmas 7. Minnellium 8. Christine 9. Gravy 10. Toast

• Lazarus and Dingwall | DVD | (19/10/2015) from £9.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A stuntman has been murdered. A supermodel has been painted to death. A shipment of cocaine has turned up inside a batch of Colombian cod. Only one team can solve such evil crimes: it’s time to call the Really Serious Crimes Squad! The ‘Oblivion Boys’ Mark Arden and Stephen Frost (The Young Ones) star as the unconventional murder detectives Steve Lazarus and Mark Dingwall. Together, the troublesome duo solve crimes with their microwave-meal-loving, part-time cinema attendant Police Chief (Peter Bland), the lovely Beverley (Race Davies), and the incredibly boring plain clothes detectives and resident git Gary (Jeremy Gittins). Other crimes include a bizarre art installation involving a corpse, the mysterious death of a newspaper astrology expert and a spate of murders that seem to be imitating Cluedo scenarios… Directed by BAFTA winner Bob Spiers (Absolutely Fabulous, French and Saunders, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Fawlty Towers) and Co-written by Victoria Pile (The Green Wing, Spitting Image). Stars comedy duo ‘The Oblivion Boys’ Stephen Frost and Mark Arden (The Young Ones, Who’s Line is it Anyway, Blackadder Goes Forth) Directed by BAFTA winner Bob Spiers, who also directed episodes of other well-renowned BBC shows including Fawlty Towers, Absolutely Fabulous, French and Saunders, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Are you being Served? and The Goodies.

• Victoria Wood Presents | DVD | (21/05/2007) from £5.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (166.94%)   |  RRP £15.99

  After two series of her sketch show Victoria Wood - As Seen on TV (BBC 1985-86) Victoria Wood returned to longer narratives with these slices of comic observation. Modest in ambition and scale but rich in wit and acuity the six playlets showcase Wood's eye for human foibles and her distinctively eccentric characters.

• Milton Jones - Lion Whisperer | DVD | (21/11/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Milton Jones, - you know the weird bloke with the shirts from Mock the Week. As well as star of the Michael McIntyre Roadshow, and the voice of 9 series for Radio 4 (including The Very World of Milton Jones and Another Case of Milton Jones) and all sorts of other radio and telly as well. Awards too. Well it's his new show with new stuff, not in his last show.

• Steve Coogan - Live 'N' Lewd / The Man Who Thinks He's It | DVD | (27/11/2000) from £7.32   |  Saving you £8.67 (118.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Live 'N' Lewd: Meet Paul Calf - notorious student-basher and lager lout - the man who put the Shite in bag. Meet Pauline Calf - Manchester's very own size ten maneater. She's quite literally a babe with balls. Plus meet the worst comedian in the world Duncan Thickett and legendary Chief Assistant to the Fire Health and Safety Executive for the North West region Ernest Moss. And your show's host for the evening John Thomson as politically correct Bernard Righton. The Man Who Thin

• Dinnerladies: The Complete Collection - Series 1 & 2 | DVD | (15/11/2004) from £29.55   |  Saving you £0.44 (1.49%)   |  RRP £29.99

• Catherine Tate's Nan - The Specials | DVD | (18/01/2016) from £14.60   |  Saving you £5.39 (36.92%)   |  RRP £19.99

  NANGER MANAGEMENT When Nan assaults a harmless charity worker for no good reason, she gets into trouble with the Police and is forced to attend anger management classes - or face a custodial sentence. KNEES UP WILMOTT-BROWN The freehold on Nan's block of flats in London's newly fashionable East End is bought up by some ruthless property developers, and all the residents join together to fight for their survival. NAN Whilst Nan's long suffering grandson Jamie is away in Africa doing voluntary work, the unfortunate Alice - from the 'Young and Old Buddy-Up Foundation' - is allocated to Nan to keep her company and cheer her up. NAN'S CHRISTMAS CAROL The Scrooge-like Nan welcomes the festive season with her usual mix of sweetness, sarcasm and expletives, causing an unwelcome visit from her late husband who warns her of some impending visitors.

• Steve Coogan in ... Coogan's Run | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £12.46   |  Saving you £3.53 (28.33%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The six 30-minute episodes of Coogan's Run, originally broadcast in 1995, serve as a reminder that there's more to Steve Coogan than just Alan Partridge. Most Partridge-like here is the horrendous Gareth Cheeseman, the Ford Probe-driving sales rep in "Dearth of a Salesman", whose empty life unravels as spectacularly as his Norwich-based counterpart. Familiar from Coogan's stage act are handyman Ernest Moss, here accompanied by John ("Eccles Cakes!") Thomson, and Paul and Pauline Calf, whose "Get Calf" is the series highlight. Perhaps because the other instalments venture into less familiar territory they tend to feel less successful, though both the writing and the characterisations are always strong. Paired with cowriter Patrick Marber in "Natural Born Quizzers", Coogan is a quiz nerd bent on revenge; in "Thursday Night Fever" saddo DJ Mike Crystal finds empowerment in a brash alter ego; while "The Curator" heads towards the spoof-horror territory later served up so disappointingly in Dr Terrible's House of Horrible. --Mark Walker

• Dinnerladies - The Complete Series | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £34.99   |  Saving you £-15.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Created by written by and starring the one and only Victoria Wood 'Dinnerladies' chronicles the antics of a group of workers in a ""manky old canteen"" up in the north of England... Series 1: 1. Monday 2. Royals 3. Scandals 4. Moods 5. Party 6. Nightshift Series 2: 1. Catering 2. Trouble 3. Holidays 4. Fog 5. Gamble 6. Christmas 7. Minnellium 8. Christine 9. Gravy 10. Toast

• Victoria Wood - Live in Your Own Home | DVD | (18/10/2010) from £4.74   |  Saving you £11.25 (237.34%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Victoria Wood: Live In Your Home

• Big Top | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A colourful upbeat comedy set in and around a travelling circus Big Top stars Amanda Holden John Thomson Sophie Thompson Ruth Madoc Bruce Mackinnon and Tony Robinson What do you do when you've advertised a death-defying stunt that everyone has bought tickets to see and the performer is just a little bit too injured? How do you manage a group of people who are so jealous of each other that they are happy to sabotage their colleagues' performances? How do you hold onto your star acrobat when he is being chased by immigration officials? Fraught with problems and dealing with a cacophony of egos Ring Mistress Lizzie (Amanda Holden) must somehow keep the whole thing going.