Red Dwarf Series 1-8 for £16.97 delivered @ Tesco Entertainment

[tech_guy]

Just the shows on DVD - no extras included. £16.97 delivered:

 

Tesco Entertainment

 

Use the voucher code: FTSL15-1 to get this price, as it takes 15% off the advertised price of £19.97!

[ChrisH]

Bargain!

[CSNM-Carl]

Surprised it had so many series, I just didn't find it funny!

 

When I was at school our GCSE R.E. assignment was based on 1 of the episodes.

[LeMarchand]

Surprised it had so many series, I just didn't find it funny!

 

i thought I was the only one who thought that!

[synaesthesia]

Certainly an acquired taste. I'm a huge fan, and will definitely say it's well worth that money Would buy it myself if I didn't have all the DVD's separately

[amvc]

I just didn't find it funny!

BLASPHEMER!!!! Wheres the Spanish inquisition when you need it?

 

P.S. I know nobody expected the Spanish inquisition

[tech_guy]

I found Red Dwarf very funny but Black Adder was about as humorous as a nosebleed.

[Pete10141748]

The first series of Red Dwarf was a little "meh", the show hit it's stride once all the characters were on board and melded, the "monster of the week" formula worked well, towards the end it trailed off, once the whole crew was brought back it kinda died for me.

 

And the recent(ish) specials on Dave were appallingly bad, I cringed throughout most of it.

 

I really REALLY loved the books though

[synaesthesia]

The books rock. Like many people, I was hoping the movie (which ended up as said Dave specials) would be a re-telling of the story nearer to the books. Ok there's repetition but there's so much in the books not in the series which really is comedy gold.

 

* imagines a line of lovers, strawberry sheathed, patiently queuing outside his wife's bedroom door *

[CHR1S]

+1 for the books being so good!

 

Im a bit of a die hard tho, even the later episodes were good, just not as good as

[cookie_monster]

Surprised it had so many series, I just didn't find it funny!

 

When I was at school our GCSE R.E. assignment was based on 1 of the episodes.

 

 

Personally I think series 1 & 2 were superb situation comedy that happened to be set in space from 3 onwards it became a Sci-Fi comedy and went downhill, there was still some great episodes but the scripts didn't live upto the quality of series 1 & 2.

[synaesthesia]

Makes you wonder - Series 1 and 2 were very cultish, yet bore inspiration to many sci-fi and comedy programs/films for years afterwards. Several episodes from later series, especially Legion and Gunmen of the Apocalypse bagged some serious awardage and for very good reason. Were series 1 and 2 slightly less of a cult thing at the time (christ, thats 22 years ago now - I feel old, I remember watching them on their first runs!) perhaps many of those scripts might have been forwarded for similar awards for scriptwriting.

Funny really - even in the later series some of the scenes were also comedy gold and very strangely for the time, original. I think half the reason the Dave commissioned specials were not as well regarded as the others is the age in which they were shown. Comedy is not original now. It's all been done, and we have talentless gits like Ricky Gervais lapping up the credit for the laugh-dregs at the bottom of barrels scraped long ago.

[localzuk]

Comedy is not original now. It's all been done, and we have talentless gits like Ricky Gervais lapping up the credit for the laugh-dregs at the bottom of barrels scraped long ago.

 

Couldn't agree more. Most is copied from other series'. And I hate Ricky Gervais with a passion. He's just so irritating!!

[CHR1S]

Look at the quality of comedy from that era - Red Dwarf, Black Adder, Filthy Rich & Catflap/Young Ones/Bottom, Python... I could go on... then look at the main names behind them - Ben Elton, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Mayall and Edmondson, Richard Curtis all worked together in many forms. Doug Naylor & Rob Grant did Red Dwarf but also did Jasper Carrot and Spitting image, where almost all of these Writers and actors all wrote and performed at some time. Spitting Image - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

They all had a relationship and all worked together at some point and I think its because of that we had that comedy era

[tech_guy]

I hate Mr. Gervais - he smiles like someone who has just realised they have a bit of poo stuck between their buttocks. He isn't funny at all - just really really irritating!

[synaesthesia]

Definitely was a good era. It was all completely mindless fun, especially the likes of Young Ones and Bottom. Just couldn't do it these days, for instance they've wanted to bring back Bottom several times but the Daily Mail brigade didn't think too much of it, hence it only survived until recently in live shows (the DVD's for which I've just recently completed collecting). And look at what some of these people have done since those days - Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie are both legends in their own rights. Chris Barrie and Danny John Jules have had some major movie roles and doing very well for themselves, Craig Charles quite enjoying his stint in Corrie. Rowan Atkinson has done too much to count, and how many films have Ben Elton and Richard Curtis done? That all came from a load of knob gags in half hour episodes in the 80s with no budget. Will we ever see those sort of days again?

[cookie_monster]

Makes you wonder - Series 1 and 2 were very cultish, yet bore inspiration to many sci-fi and comedy programs/films for years afterwards. Several episodes from later series, especially Legion and Gunmen of the Apocalypse bagged some serious awardage and for very good reason. Were series 1 and 2 slightly less of a cult thing at the time (christ, thats 22 years ago now - I feel old, I remember watching them on their first runs!) perhaps many of those scripts might have been forwarded for similar awards for scriptwriting.

Funny really - even in the later series some of the scenes were also comedy gold and very strangely for the time, original. I think half the reason the Dave commissioned specials were not as well regarded as the others is the age in which they were shown. Comedy is not original now. It's all been done, and we have talentless gits like Ricky Gervais lapping up the credit for the laugh-dregs at the bottom of barrels scraped long ago.

 

 

I think series 1 & 2 became cult very quickly I remember it being massive when I was at school I can't comment on the age range appeal then as I was only 10.

 

I don't agree with the "Comedy is not original now" statement completely. I think allot of mainstream comedy is exactly as you said but there's still great new comedy out there it just takes a while for the general population to 'get' it in my opinion. Shows like Nathan Barley or Brass Eye are an example I think you only see genuine new comedy approaches come along once a generation and this is due to a general change in taste and tolerance. Not to mention how hard it is to come up with original ideas in such a media saturated market I wonder how many 'great' ideas are swamped and never make it. Or maybe it's just that most of the writers are taking less recreational LSD these days.

[gibbo_ap]

gutted they cost me loads when they were all released each year. mmmm i still need to look at this years dimension jump convention