To see a film or TV series you really enjoy is a great feeling. However, to discover something this epic that was made 35 years ago that you previously knew nothing about it an incredibly rare treat indeed.
I bought a box of old DVD's for £5 in a charity shop. Must have been thirty discs in there in paper sleeves. Mostly rubbish or popularise TV series - couple of Friends discs, a few Kevin and Stacy etc etc. Then two discs called Nightingales. Looked at them, then for four months, didn't even put them in a player to see what they were. Oh my word, then I did!
I watched both discs right through all on that same evening. Finished at four in the morning and went to bed like a giddy school child.
These programs cut the mustard like VERY few other comedies. Father Ted, Black Books, maybe a couple of others. If you like your comedy main stream, to have a noble parable for an end, or to contain easy going situations that are more see-through than a piece of glass, then keep moving. If you like completely off the wall, unfathomable plots, great great acting with brilliant word play, then there is virtually no other series like this.
I am stunned, and in many ways sad that this series isn't better known or more available. Surely this is THE hidden gem of comedy series.
Find it - download it (if that's possible), buy the discs (if they are even still available), borrow it (if you have a friend who's taste is so great that they already have it), but what ever you do - GET IT & WATCH IT!
Trevor Oblong needs your views!
I bought a box of old DVD's for £5 in a charity shop. Must have been thirty discs in there in paper sleeves. Mostly rubbish or popularise TV series - couple of Friends discs, a few Kevin and Stacy etc etc. Then two discs called Nightingales. Looked at them, then for four months, didn't even put them in a player to see what they were. Oh my word, then I did!
I watched both discs right through all on that same evening. Finished at four in the morning and went to bed like a giddy school child.
These programs cut the mustard like VERY few other comedies. Father Ted, Black Books, maybe a couple of others. If you like your comedy main stream, to have a noble parable for an end, or to contain easy going situations that are more see-through than a piece of glass, then keep moving. If you like completely off the wall, unfathomable plots, great great acting with brilliant word play, then there is virtually no other series like this.
I am stunned, and in many ways sad that this series isn't better known or more available. Surely this is THE hidden gem of comedy series.
Find it - download it (if that's possible), buy the discs (if they are even still available), borrow it (if you have a friend who's taste is so great that they already have it), but what ever you do - GET IT & WATCH IT!
Trevor Oblong needs your views!