Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #353 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-04-03
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 3
• Running time: 450 minutes

DVD Description

The award-winning comedy series Green Wing follows new surgical registrar Dr. Caroline Todd (Tamsin Greig) through her under-deodorised first day at work and beyond, as she becomes acquainted with her bizarre and eccentric co-workers. Created by the makers of "Smack The Pony", Green Wing combines the cream of British comedy actors, inventive use of editing--in which sequences are often sped up and slowed down--and an offbeat sense of humour to create an unusual and imaginative comedy. The Green Wing - Series 1 DVD features: deleted scenes; four audio commentaries with the cast and crew; a behind-the-scenes featurette; and cast and crew biographies.

Synopsis

Green Wing - Series 1 follows the exploits of Dr. Caroline Todd (Tamsin Greig) and her hilarious encounters with a number of eccentric co-workers. The assortment of bizarre characters she meets includes: Guy Secretan (Stephen Mangan), the smooth talking part-Swiss anaesthetist and all-round misogynist; Dr. Alan Statham (Mark Heap), possibly one of the kinkiest doctors on the ward and a man whose affliction is to think out loud (something that the cheeky intern Boyce likes to exploit quite frequently); the dashing but aloof Dr. 'Mac' Macartney (Julian Rhind-Tutt), whom Caroline may or may not have a crush on; Joanna Clore (Pippa Heywood), the moody, age-obsessed HR Director; Sue White (Michelle Gomez), the sociopathic staff relations counsellor; the hapless junior doctor Martin Dear (Karl Theobold); and the irritatingly perfect Dr. Angela Hunter (Sarah Alexander).

Customer Reviews

Genius writing and delivery
Having chanced upon the very beginning of the first episode when it was first aired I became hooked, cancelling appointments that might conflict with subsequent airings.

The writers are developing ideas which are taking the sit-com genre to a rib-bustingly painful new level.

Many things combine to translate a good script into a good product.
All of these are in evidence in Green Wing Series 1 [2004].
I find myself watching and re-watching the DVD's thinking, "That's a clever way to shoot that bit" and "I wonder if that was written or improvised". It's hard to tell because there is so much talent in evidence at any one time.

I am a fan, so I apologise if I sound a little too fanatical. I am trying to be objective, but Green Wing is so well done and so different to anything else on offer I find it hard to restrain my memories of it when reviewing it for others.

Just buy it! Take the phone off the hook and try to watch just one episode at a time. Bet you can't.

Make sure you've enough left in the bank for the second series.
And the Special.
And your own Penny Whistle.

I love it, but this also comes with a warning!!!
I've only just discovered this show via Four on demand, you can watch all of the episodes for free there, I only watched the first episode of this series and the first two of series 2 and I knew that I'd enjoy the rest, which is the case.

I came across a strange problem with this series, on the first disc it would not allow me to select an episode, I could select/watch the deleted scene no problem at all, the other 2 discs worked with no problems at all, the first disc does work in my other 2 DVD players though, so hopefully not many other people will endure this small inconvenience, or large if you have no other means of playing the first 3 episodes.

Outrageous is the one word I'd use for this series, where comic actors can and do do just about anything for a laugh, expect totally over the top comedy with I guess alot of generally childish humour, but I've no problems with that, if you have a broad sense of humour then I'm sure that at least 90% of people will love this, if not then it's best left alone for the rest of us to enjoy.

I've tried to watch Scrubs, but for me Green Wing far outstrips that, I honestly don't know what comedy to compare this to, so I won't, but the Office or Scrubs this isn't, at least not for me anyway.

Not funny
Didn't make me laugh once. It was just full of smart arse jokes which don't make me laugh. I guess I like to be reeled in with a bit of emotion before the punch lines. I just didn't feel any of the characters were likable. I don't think anyone can beat Spaced or Black Books - although I only really watched Black Books for Bill Bailey. It was described as surreal and its just not surreal if its ALL surreal ALL the time. It has to be surprising, strangeness in moments you least expect. Spaced had this down to a t. Oh well.