Note: Our refurbished grades - Pristine, Very Good and Good - are solely based on the cosmetic condition of the phone. In June 1990, a pilot episode was filmed which was later titled " Contest" and broadcast as part of the first series.

Previously available on individual video cassettes and DVDs, the entire collection can now be purchased as a box set on DVD. An episode from the 1995 series has been pulled from the catch-up service of TV channel Gold over scenes that ‘could be deemed offensive to the Royal Family’. Truly the wild boys of comedy, they despatch expletives like bullets, confronting every volatile situation with the force and momentum of an express train.Seasons 1 and 2 were made in 1991-2, while Season 3 came out in 1995, and the difference in video quality is apparent. Before I begin, the entire purpose for this thread is solely for the discussion of DVD's edited from the original TV version. It focuses on Richard "Richie" Richard (Mayall) and Edward Elizabeth "Eddie" Hitler (Edmondson), two unemployed, crude, and perverted flatmates living in Hammersmith, London, who aspire to better themselves. The show is notable for Rik Mayall's near ten minutes of infectious laughter when he messes up his lines and struggles to carry on with the plot.

The quality of the discs isn’t too great either, with a soft image, and odd artefacts including ghosting. Ask MetaFilter is a question and answer site that covers nearly any question on earth, where members help each other solve problems. After a Bottom fan account tweeted the news yesterday that some episodes were being dropped for ‘not being PC’, many fans made the same joke: ‘That would be all of them’. During an appearance on Desert Island Discs in 2023, Edmondson revealed that he wrote the initial scripts with Mayall in the hope that they'd be declined by the BBC. It turns out that I had yet to watch over half of the episodes, and my nostalgic memories were mostly based on my experience of the final series.I missed out on a formative period of television comedy that changed the face of broadcasting in so many ways. Series 3 -More pungent episodes from two head-banging morons whose idea of a wild night is pulling nose hair out with a pair of pliers. A few months ago, I was suddenly in the mood to watch something funny, something unrelenting, something non-conforming, something silly, daft, disgusting, and something that refused to pander to the sensibilities of the easily offended. Currently it's the only theatrical movie from the year (that isn't brand new) that I liked which still doesn't have any kind of bluray announcement.

You have a married couple, most of the action takes place in one location, or at the most two, and it’s usually centred on a sofa in front of a TV, or the breakfast table. Sanity is the Home of Country Music - if you're looking for a CD or DVD, if it's available, we will get it for you! Fawlty Towers' humour stems from the fact that Basil is an inhospitable* person in the hospitality industry. How can this be achieved if the BBC has the nerve to sneakily censor its programmes without any announcement? In most cases, the bottom of the DVD-Rs look a bit blue or purple, while the back of the CD-Rs a a bit more green.Mayall supported this view, saying they took the show as far as it could on television while continuing the franchise with stage tours and home video releases, preferring to retain full creative control over the characters. Nickelodeon, SpongeBob SquarePants and all related titles, logos and characters are trademarks of Viacom International Inc.