Despite the fact it's nearly 2 decades old (!) it remains sharp and funny, in a large part, due to the brillant acting by Nigel Hawthorne, Paull Eddington and Derek Fowlds. They all click so well they could have been doing it for real.

Hawthorne's Sir Humphrey has to be one of the most deviously machiavellian performances ever broadcast - a true master class in spin! The real joy is how this has to be used every episode to retrieve the idiot politician from a near catastrophic disaster of his own making. This farce frequently leads to the whole of government being brought to it's knees by the egotistical Hacker's insecurities.

Great fun and very repeatable.

Brilliant!
Review date: 2006-01-01 Rating: 10 out of 10

8 Episodes of pure brilliance! It is one of the funniest series out on the market today. The way it potrays the goings on inside "Number 10" are hilarious and beleivable. I seriously recommend this DVD!

Great series, lazy DVD
Review date: 2005-05-17 Rating: 8 out of 10

First the good news. This is a DVD of one of the finest, funniest and cleverest comedies ever created, and in even an average DVD presentation would be a definite five stars. However the BBC, renowned for releasing some of the laziest, cheapest DVDs out there, have today plumbed new depths. Series 1 was released in the usual box, with no special features at all, on a single double-sided DVD with no apparent effort made to improve the sound or picture quality.
Series 2 is exactly the same. Except it's released on two single-sided DVDs, instead of one double-sided DVD. The quality seems the same, so why two DVDs? But here's the thing that spurred me to write this : They haven't bothered to even print the title on one of them! It's 2 virtually-identical sides, and unless you peer closely you can't tell which way is top.

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