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The High Life [1995]
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RRP: £15.99
One of the BEST theme songs and sequences, ever!
Review date: 2008-01-11 Rating: 10 out of 10
If you're feeling kinda tedious
If life is seriously mediocre
Here's how youse can get adrenalin flowing
Just step aboard a Boeing going highhhhhhhhhhhh
We're living the high life
We're living it well
We're living the high life
Where everything's swell
We're riding so high... up in the sky... oh, my oh my
We're living the high... life...
The high life!
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Reviews
A Cracking TV Show
Review date: 2007-05-07 Rating: 10 out of 10
A series of great quality with catchphrases such as "Oh dearie me," brilliantly written, and the Eurovision episode has to be seen to be believed. I have fond memories of this series when it was originally aired back in 1995. If only they had done a 2nd series....
Camp Creative Comedy from Cumming & Co.
Review date: 2006-08-20 Rating: 10 out of 10
Britcom is fine form...
Never saw this when it was first released, but found it on special and got it anyway, as I knew Alan, and was totally blown away by the well written and presented comedy.
It is highly camp, but gets easy laughs as the actors seem to gel well together, and it produces a seamless tapestry to observe...
It is a terrible shame, that so few episodes were made... but maybe it is for the best, that the original format was not diluted!!!
GREAT BOXSET - well worth ever penny, given repeated viewing will occur!!!
Fantastic!
Review date: 2006-04-21 Rating: 10 out of 10
I bought this DVD when it came out, due to the fact that Siobhan Redmond was in it - and I'm SO pleased I did! If you're looking to cheer yourself up after a miserable day, THL is the way to go. Although explicitly Scottish, anyone can enjoy its "camp" humour & enjoy all the characters flaws which make them hilarious.
Definitely worth it!
Ganting Screechs? Piff Paff Poff? Oh deary me!
Review date: 2006-01-25 Rating: 10 out of 10
There are many barmy moments of deranged genius in this series. I watched it both times it was aired on the BBC, loved it to pieces and was delighted to find it finally on DVD at a VERY low price.
Wonderful characters: Captain Hilary Duff - part-Volcan, lamenting his marital difficulties 'she didn't understand me, she's from Sri Lanka', and always having to be reminded that he's meant to be piloting the plane to Heathrow. Shona Spurtal - Chief Stewardess - aka Mussolini in Micromesh, Hitler in Tights or Goebals in a Gossard. Steve McCracken - ginger haired, sex-starved with a passion for finding ever elusive passion. Sebastian Flight - Bitchy fellow steward with Eurovision stardom pretension, composer of that fabulous null-point corker 'Piff Paff Poff'. Cameo roles by such luminaries as Guy Wersh - Scottish rock star 'Pushing 30.... Years in showbiz, babe!', composer of classic albums such as 'Badger Ma Tadger' by the Ganting Screechs. And so on.
Really hilarious, perfect viewing for those evenings when you need to recover from your soul-destroying job. Just think, it could be worse - you could be a trolley-dolly driven to cabin-aisle performances of Bolero in a cleaning pinny to liven up the early hours... Oh deary me!
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Alan Cumming
Patrick Ryecart
Siobhan Redmond
Forbes Masson
Director(s):
Recording label: Network
Manufacturer: Network
EAN: 5027626217341
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: PAL,
Release date: 2003-04-28
Number of discs: 1
Audience rating: Parental Guidance
Region code: 2
Running time: 205 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1998-10-02
Language: English (Original Language)