Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #574 in DVD
• Released on: 2009-11-09
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 360 minutes

DVD Description
“ITV’s biggest sitcom hit for years…”____ HEAT MAGAZINE

Winner of the 2008 National TV Award for Best Comedy

Set in Benidorm’s premier all-inclusive Solana resort, with karaoke, sun, sea and sangria on tap, Benidorm has proved a massive hit for ITV and this three-series package, together with a Summer Special, is guaranteed to give hours of unmissable fun. Checking in again are middle-aged swingers Donald and Jacqueline; the Garveys – Mick and Janice, chain-smoking grandmother Madge and her sun-worshipping husband Mel, teenage mum Telle and younger brother Michael; The Oracle and his ‘PA’ (mum); civil partners Gavin and Troy; and Martin and Kate who look as out-of-place as ever; plus some extra-special guests…

With low rent bull fights, mobility scooter duels, roof-top hostage situations and paragliding beach disasters, it’s scorching sun and fun all the way on the Costa Brava.

EXTRAS:

Out takes, Cast Interviews, Behind the Scenes, Audio Commentaries, Deleted Scenes & Photo Album

Customer Reviews

Charmingly funny and moving
Hats off to writer Derren Litten for delivering yet another brilliantly scripted series of Benidorm. This time each episode is an hour long which could so easily have backfired and made the episodes tediously drawn out, but it works really well. I guess that in an hour format you can tell more of a story - and it shows.

This third series is crammed full of guest stars, including: Sheridan Smith, Robin Askwith, Tim Healy, Keith Barron (in a respectful nod to Duty Free's influence on Benidorm), Una Stubbs and Stuart McGugan (It Ain't Half Hot Mum) playing a character called "Wink" - which was very appropriate, as he turned out to be a bit of a "winker!". Derren Litten even managed to successfully shoe-horn back in Martin's wife Kate (played by Abigail Cruttenden).

A fabulous, funny and sometimes moving series (we've got to know and care about these OTT! characters) plus more locations featured around Benidorm, and the Oracle finally finds himself a "proper" girlfriend. It looks as though this will be the last series which I think is the correct decision, you don't want to milk it to death, it's far better to leave on a high, plus all the loose ends were tied up.

Up there with the best
The Christmas special was a bit dissapointing but the third and hopefully not final season was absolutely brilliant! The final episode has had me laughing for a week and I tracked down the song "Blues Spanish Eyes" which features at the end of the series. It is best sung by The Very Best Of Al Martino and has inspired me to also buy Elvis, Humperdink and Julio Iglesias albums.

Usually at the end of a series there is a tragic accident but at the end of this one it is more of a celebration of the characters and possibly the recent death in October of Al Martino who I think sings at the end with Madge and Mel

Thanks ITV for cheering me up and putting a smile on my face. The final episode really takes Benidorm right up there with the best ever British comedy (Faulty Towers, Bless this House... Reginald Perrin..)

BENIDORM JUNK FUN
If you get hooked on BENIDORM it just doesn't matter how awful it is because it becomes wonderful.