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The New Statesman - the Complete Series Box Set [1987]
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RRP: £39.99
Our Price: £17.77 (subject to change)
5 stars but...
Review date: 2008-07-01 Rating: 10 out of 10
This is an *excellent* series let down only by Network's inability to properly encode a disc. Network have let us all down again with an exceedingly poor transfer indifferently encoded and packaged. I suggest you buy this set only if you cannot wait to record it from TV in what will be much better quality.
Image fidelity: 2/10
Visible under bitrate aliasing: 3/10
Colour quality: 3/10
Contrast/Brightness fidelity: 2/10
Overscan cropping: 0/10 (They just didn't do it)
So far Network have messed up every release of classic television to which they have been given the rights - with possibly the worst being Robin of Sherwood. I suggest content owners take note and stop providing priceless TV moments through a company who care little for professional pride or professional production. Alternatively, Network - I'll come to your office and show you how to correctly re-master analogue tape to DVD.
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Reviews
U won't be disappointed A++ !!
Review date: 2008-01-27 Rating: 10 out of 10
I'm a big fan of all the Rik Mayall sitcoms..... if u loved Bottom and The Young Ones & wanna be reminded what TV was like in the 80s then u will not be disappointed by this box set- I got it for Xmas 07 & watch it over and over!!LOL!!
Reminds u just how TV should be before we were all subjected to ENDLESS S*&%Y 'Reality TV' over the past few years- WHAT HAPPENED TO TV???!! :(
Genius!
Review date: 2008-01-24 Rating: 10 out of 10
Firstly - totally hilarious. Secondly - very very witty and cleaver. Thirdly - damn! Rik Mayall in a suit!!
Rik Mayall plays Alan B'Stard, a caniving, arogant, cold hearted, scheming, sex/money/power/violence-obsessed though devastatingly smooth and cunning Tory MP who would do absolutely anything for his own self-gain (even, as the back of the box states, dump nuclear waste in a childrens playground). His wife, Sarah (played by Marsha Fitzalan) is a total nymphomaniac also money-obsessed and equally as corruptable and dishonest as her husband, sleeping her way through powerful men but mostly women behind his back. Sharing B'Stards office is fellow MP Piers Fletcher-Dervish (Michael Troughton) who is used as a punching bag and scape-goat by him on a daily basis. The humour in this series is acidic satire, rips the Tories (not least by making B'Stard an instantly repulsive character and showing him to be pretty much the same as all the other Tory MPs characterised), one of the funniest, most under-rated comedy shows of all time.
Ps. Ever wondered why B'Stards hair suddenly turns orange in the third series?? I did for ages but I assume it was because Mayall was filming/had filmed Drop Dead Fred at the time where he plays the carrot-topped psychopathic invisible friend....
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Martin Friend
Recording label: Network
Manufacturer: Network
EAN: 5027626253943
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 5
Format: PAL,
Release date: 2006-10-02
Audience rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region code: 2
Theatrical release date: 1987-09-13