Chance In A Million DVD

Sunday 24th January 2010 11:43pm [Edited]

London

1,736 posts

Well hurrah! The first series of Chance In A Million starring Simon Callow and Brenda Blethyn will be available to buy from 1st March 2010.

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Aaron

Monday 25th January 2010 1:04am

Royal Berkshire

69,947 posts

I think there may be a thread for this already somewhere... Certainly been mentioned. Nevertheless, hopefully its release is an indicator of the Channel 4 and/or Thames archives opening further.

Afinkawan

Monday 25th January 2010 2:40pm

Huddersfield

2,302 posts

About time. I did manage to pick it up on VHS a few years back, from the States but a DVD would be good - particularly as I don't currently have a working video and it's one of those annoying American box sets where the tapes just fall out of the bottom.

Dolly Dagger

Monday 25th January 2010 2:47pm

10,428 posts

I'd like to have a look at this show again.

Afinkawan

Monday 25th January 2010 5:05pm

Huddersfield

2,302 posts

Quote: Dolly Dagger @ January 25 2010, 9:47 AM GMT
I'd like to have a look at this show again.

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It wasn't quite as good as I remembered - it dated quite a bit and the humour was definitely old-fashioned farce but Brenda Blethyn and Simon Callow is a pretty awesome amount of acting prowess in one tiny sitcom.

Dolly Dagger

Monday 25th January 2010 5:11pm

10,428 posts

Quote: Afinkawan @ January 25 2010, 12:05 PM GMT
It wasn't quite as good as I remembered - it dated quite a bit and the humour was definitely old-fashioned farce but Brenda Blethyn and Simon Callow is a pretty awesome amount of acting prowess in one tiny sitcom.

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Yeah I think my brother and I became fans when it was on, partly to take the piss and be ironic and partly because we did actually find it funny.

Morrace

Monday 25th January 2010 5:14pm

2,727 posts

Quote: Aaron @ January 24 2010, 8:04 PM GMT
I think there may be a thread for this already somewhere...

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https://www.comedy.co.uk/forums/thread/6303

Mr Snodworthy

Tuesday 26th January 2010 7:41am [Edited]

91 posts

Vaguely remember this from when I was a kid - I think I liked it - just YouTubed it though and was very surprised to see how oddly the Tom Chance character spoke. Must've been a pain in the arse to write and for Simon Callow to act. The character had a really strange, stilted way of speaking.

In a scene where his wife asks him how he developed the skill for mending her leather skirt, he says:

"Out swimming. In 1965. Over-ambitious heron dropped 28 pound salmon pike on head. Temporary amnesia, came round 3 months later doing leatherwork apprenticeship in remand home."

He always misses out words like "I, was, a, had, my, an, your, the," etc

Bizarre.