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Available form Play.com for ?34.99, I have to say I'm tempted.  

I found a lot of the comic strip stuff REALLY unfunny.  But Bad News, More Bad News are genuine classics, and I'd have bought a DVD with them on.  Mr Jolly Lives Next Door I seem to remember liking.  FIstfull of Travellers cheques being crap, but funny.  Quite liked Supergrass.  

Is that enough to buy it?  Anyone reccomend any of the others?

1. Five Go Mad In Dorset (1982)
2. War (1983)
3. The Beat Generation (1983)
4. Bad News Tour (1983)
5. Summer School (1983)
6. Five Go Mad On Mescalin (1983)
7. Dirty Movie (1984)
8. Susie (1984)
9. A Fistful Of Travellers Cheques (1984)
10. Gino - Full Story and Pics 1984)
11. Eddie Monsoon- A Life? (1984)
12. Slags (1984)
13. The Bullshitters (1984)
14. The Supergrass (1984)
15. Consuela (1986)
16. Private Enterprise (1986)
17. The Strike (1988)
18. More Bad News (1988)
19. Mr Jolly Lives Next Door (1988)
20. The Yob (1988)
21. Didn't You Kill My Brother? (1988)
22. Funseekers (1988)
23. South Atlantic Raiders (1990)
24. South Atlantic Raiders Part II (1990)
25. GLC (1990)
26. Oxford (1990)
27. Spaghetti Hoops (1990)
28. Les Dogs (1990)
29. Red Nose Of Courage (1992)
30. The Crying Game (1992)
31. Wild Turkey (1992)
32. Detectives On The Edge Of A (1993)
33. Space Virgins From Planet Sex (1993)
34. Queen Of The Wild Frontier (1993)
35. Gregory - Diary of a Nutcase (1993)
36. Demonella (1993)
37. Jealousy (1993)
38. Four Men In a Car (1998)
39. Four Men In a Plane (2000)

The Strike used to be amusing, but now we know it to be a documentary of how Hollywood works, rather than a comedy - plus the premise was lifted wholesale for Churchill The Hollywood Years.  GLC is more of the same, but without the behind the cameras stuff (ie, just the terrible Hollywood movie version of events surrounding the dissolution of the first GLC), Five Go Mad is just 'Jack Black and his dog Silver' from Viz, but with the Famous Five, Didn't you kill my brother? is quite funny if you don't mind Alexi Sayle, and Mr Jolly Lives Next Door is a pre-Bottom version of Bottom, but with funny jokes, swearing and Peter Cook.
Can't speak for the rest, but I'd say (going by vague memories of a few of those listed) that it's worth a pop.  A lot of misses, but a couple of hits pretty much cover the cost of buying it.

The "Five Go Mad in..." ones are all quite good.

I liked "The Strike".

The "Four Men in a..." are bloody awful.

Haven't seen anything else.

"It's a Euro Rover...old man!"

I bought this for 30 quid at a record fair on Saturday and it's great being able to rewatch some of these for the first time in 20-odd years.

My only (slight) niggle is the lack of subtitles, but apart from that, the set's great, with an entire disc dedicated to extras.

A hearty recommendation from the House of Wils.

4. Bad News Tour (1983)

Spinal Tap with Brit-Rock.

POWER!

'Didnt you kill my Brother?' is probably the best thing Sayle ever did (well apart from the best bits of 'Stuff'

'Gino - Full Story and Picks' Was about the best thing Keith Allen ever did...

The stone cold classics will remain classics Bad News (who go on tour to Grantham!) and Five etc ('Blah Blah Blah Missing Scientist Blah Blah Blah Spyglass Hill') but some of them were really shite. However it'll be 20 years (jesus wept) since I've seen some so my opinion may changed.

Surprised Eat the Rich isnt there... thought that was a comic-strip film?

The Supergrass (1984)is good to see Ade working the scene on his own.20.

The Yob (1988)is frankenstienish....I think.


"Bad News" and the "Five go" are definates but also "My Jolly lives...etc" is a dark classic,apparently.

The Bullshitters was amazing at the time.  Liked a lot of the others but can't remember the titles. Some of them were really dramas by comedy actors - labelled as comedies but with no intention to be funny, such as Gino.  Pretty good though (strangely enough, I looked at the DVD about two minutes ago as part of my Amazon Recommends...)

Mr Jolly is proto-Bottom but don't let that put you off as it's got the late great Peter Cook in it

Never liked Bottom much (he said) but I'll always have a soft spot for Mr Jolly.

I never liked strike or GLC much, Churchill Years was a bit of a mixed bag - had some funny moments (and some bad ones).

Hmmm... really undecided on this.

"Detectives on the edge of a nervous breakdown" is genius and possibly worth the entry fee on its own, not least for Peter Richardson's brilliant take off of Peter Wyngarde, and Jim Broadbent as "Shouting George from the Weeney" - "SHUT IT!!"

"I'm a ten guv a day man. I'm gonna be calling you guv all day long. Guv! Guv! Guv!"

"I can remember when there were ships on the Tyne. Big Ships. With funnels and everything."

'Bonehead, d'ya see what I see? What? Boxes! I'm gonna drive through them!'

davidbishop

I must have seen quite a few of these at the time they were first shown, but the only one I would definitely fork out for is Mr Jolly.  Taking out Nicholas Parsons, with some Tom Jones on the soundtrack and the great Peter Cook - how can you go wrong?  Show me the way to the Neon Teepee!

"I'm gunna warlk sloerly over hee-ar and look poignantly out of this window."

Of the ones I've seen I'd recommend:

1. Five Go Mad In Dorset (1982)
2. War (1983)
4. Bad News Tour (1983)
6. Five Go Mad On Mescalin (1983)
8. Susie (1984)
9. A Fistful Of Travellers Cheques (1984)
10. Gino - Full Story and Pics 1984)
11. Eddie Monsoon- A Life? (1984)
12. Slags (1984)
16. Private Enterprise (1986)
18. More Bad News (1988)
19. Mr Jolly Lives Next Door (1988)
20. The Yob (1988)

Why, for each of them, is too complicated to go into.

Private Enterprise is my absolute favourite, concerning a couple of chancers who steal a master tape of a new-wave band's studio sessions and get rich off the back of it in a dodgy deal where they have to impersonate band members.

Slags is good, a sort of Mad Max/BladeRunner dystopian future where rival gangs command the loyalty of the populace by controlling access to consumer goods.

Susie has Dawn French as a slutty rural school teacher who ditches her husband for a wealthy popstar. Good turns by Dawn French, Pter Richardson and Alan Pillay.

Detectives on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Fistful of Travellers Cheques and the two Famous Five stories were my favorite, but I've only seen the first dozen or so.  Most of them were never syndicated in the States.

--Grant

"Traveller's Cheques" and "Mr Jolly" are my favourites, the others are a bit hit or miss. Loads of Jolly quotes are always in my head:

"It's the chance of a lifetime!"
"It's the pinnacle of escorting..."

"NICHOLAS...PARSONS!"

"WHO DARES GINS!"

"Can I have a name, please?"
"QUIET YOU!"
"This is a Mr. Quietyou, it's Hungarian I think..."

...not forgetting "Balmy fluid!" during the identification of Fatty...

"Let's play a game..."
"NOT FATTY'S GAME?!"
"No, no not Fatt'y game, you're all right with us Nicholas."

Can't remember most of these except for the usual 'five go mad..' 'bad news'.

Remember Dirty Movie(scubba dooba)being funny as well as Mr Jolly lives next door.

Anyone remember 'Filthy, Rich and Catflap'? Great stuff.

Anyone remember 'Filthy, Rich and Catflap'?

Yep. Got it on DVD last year. :)

"Get a dying man a drink, would you, daughter?"

The Bad News two are EASILY as good as Spinal Tap.
Only want them two!

Yeah, shame there wasn't a DVD of just bad news with extras, and an in-character commentary.

"Detectives on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown", Ah, I remember the Jason Wyngard spoof now, that was pretty good.

Was there only one series of filty, rich & catflap? My faded memory seems to recall more.

Filthy's 'school for gifted youngsters' still makes me chortle.

Might treat meself to that dvd some day.

Buy buy buy! That sounds fucking great! I've really missed my old VHS copies of some of those.

Which is the one where they hijack a plane to save the Faulklands?

...South Atlantic Raiders.

Just finished a marathon 9-day-marathon-DVD-a-day viewing of the boxed set.

Pastiche (as Alexi says in the extra bits) is what it's all about.

Fistfull of travellers cheques ripping off spagheti westerns, Strike poking fun at Hollywood, Bullshitteras poking fun at The Professionals, Detectives on the Edge ripping off the whole TV detective genre, 5 go mad at Enid Blyton etc

A lot of them have a moment or two, but generally speaking, if I had to run back into a burning house to save one disc - it'd be the one with Mr Jolly lives next door on it.

The "Kill Nicholas Parsons" board game is in development.

Watch this space...