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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play.  Based on the classic comic French novel, adapted for television by the acclaimed comedy writing team of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson (Hancock/Steptoe & Son); welcome to the small French village of Clochemerle. Nestled in the Beaujolais region of France, this happy little enclave has avoided all hints of modernity, producing fi ne wine in an atmosphere of timeless calm and culture... until now. Now, in the autumn of 1922, the mayor wants to build a new public edifice, something that will draw a crowd and he will, and it does, but none of it will happen in the way that he planned. A small village with a powerful church, a republican government, several beautiful wives, one handsome lover, a staunch catholic spinster and many more headstrong personalities are about to clash in a way that will bring pain to some, mirth to others and even the army to fail to keep the peace in a small French village called Clochemerle.

Ray Galton and Alan Simpson script this 1970s BBC adaptation of the novel by Gabriel Chevallier. The programme follows life in the small French village of Clochmerle, where plans to install a public urinal in the village square trigger a series of disagreements between the many institutions and individuals in competition for power. Cyril Cusack, Wendy Hiller and Kenneth Griffith are among the stars, with narration from Peter Ustinov.