Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13630 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-04-21
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Formats: Box set, PAL
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 16

Amazon.co.uk

Shameless, the BAFTA award-winning and brilliantly funny drama series from writer Paul Abbott, follows the roller coaster lives and loves of the highly un-orthodox yet extremely tightly-knit Gallagher family.

Head of the family, in name only, is Dad Frank – a feckless, charmless, self-pitying, unemployed bully – a model father. Since mum went AWOL, dad hit the bottle leaving his six remarkably well-balanced children Fiona, Lip, Ian, Debbie, Carl, and Liam to fend for themselves. But the Gallaghers need not worry anymore, now they’ve teamed up with the local gangsters the Maguires, who continue to explode the myth of a conventional family.

The Complete Series 1-5 Box Set is a sixteen disc set consisting of all five series, plus the feature length Christmas and New Year Specials.

Extras
- Behind the scenes with David Threlfall
- Audio commentaries on Episodes 9 & 11
- Building the Shameless estate
- Outtakes
- Deleted Scenes

Synopsis
SHAMELESS flows from the pen of acclaimed writer Paul Abbott (RECKLESS). Fiona, Lip, Carl, Liam, Ian, and Debbie are the sons and daughters of loveable waster Frank Gallagher, and he even found the time to sire another two kids with his lover, Sheila. The mother of the family disappeared years ago, so responsibility falls on the shoulders of the oldest sister, Fiona, who has to cope with innumerable problems as the family members go through all-too familiar growing pains. This collection includes series 1 through 5, serving up a heady cocktail of sex, drugs, gratuitous violence, love, and scams – so there's something for everyone!

Customer Reviews

The best family drama available on DVD
Now every now and again we get people saying what a great TV series they have seen and this was one of the ones I was asked to watch.

Now sceptical as I was to think that a drama about a Manchester Family and its neighbours on the Chatsworth Estate and their exploits could be enjoyable but how wrong I was. The Gallagher Family and its neighbours are a real joy. Each episode picks on one member of the family (with the others interwoven) and it goes from better to better. I will ask that you at least give it three episodes to get to know the family and when you do you will be hooked.

The basis of the family is Frank the father is a drop out of the first degree but is ever the philisopher, he spends his day drunk or stoned and often found behind the sofa or on the kitchen floor out of it. Everyone knows Frank and tries their hardest to avoid him as they usually end up being owed money. The mother of the family ran off to be a lesbian and is not seen until Series two and as you will see more of the family you will see why she did it HA HA HA. The kids are Fiona (18) the eldest sister and rock of the family who looks after them all as if hey are her own, Philip (16) but they call him Lip as he has the gift of the Gab, Ian (15) is the gay brother that no one knows is gay, Carl (12) who is allways rushing about and being generally a pain in the .... anyway he is a bit procupied with the other sex, Debbie (10) who is the schemer and probaby the fastest thinker of the family and does not see any wrong in Frank and finally Liam (6)who is basically a turbocharged kid who upsets all who come into contact with him. The family live next to Kevin Alan Ball and his girlfriend Veronica, Kevin works in the local pub called the "Jockey" and Veronica is a Stripagram and a Webcam porn actress who lets people watch as she irons topless..... I did say these were disfunctional didn't I .........

So all in all there are many others that come into the series but to name them all is just too much for me but suffice to say they have trades such as an Executive Car Thief, a school girl Lolita, a sex mad woman who wants
Frank badly, an arsonist, a Lesbian Landlord, a Local Gangland family that think going to football is kicking the living daylights out of someone who owes them money and finally a corner shop run by an Indian Family where the father is secretly gay and the mother is a Mancunion Islamic convert who is as hard as they come.

So all in all this is a family that you must see to believe and if you have seen them you will want to see more.

I hope this has wetted your appetite for the series and I for one tell most of my friends that this is the best series I have seen for sheer gritt and laughs that never stop coming. I hope you enjoy the series as much as I have.

Catch up on Shameless now!
If you've never watched Shameless then I highly recommend that you buy the box set of all 5 series! It's by far the best show on TV and where other series become stale after a couple of series - this remains as strong as ever!!! Frank is comedy genius!!!

Shameless indeed!
i only very recently started watching Shameless and I am now aditcted! I'm always on the look out for new series to buy and this one is a must! I really enjoyed watching how a normal family can cope with what ever is thrown at them and how they managae to cope in spite of everything. Hilarious, a must watch!