Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #41815 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-09-16
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Full Screen, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 120 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
First broadcast in 1974, the ITV bedsitland sitcom Rising Damp was an instant and enduring success. It starred Leonard Rossiter as the miserly and lovelorn landlord Rigsby who is constantly needling young lodger Alan (Richard Beckinsale), a science student whose long hair and earrings are symptomatic to Rigsby of the parlous effeminacy of the modern age. He's also in love with Frances De La Tour's dowdy spinster Miss Jones, though his tentative advances are forever rebuffed. She in turn carries a torch for Philip (Don Warrington), the elegant son of an African chief who also resides at Rigsby Towers.

Some aspects of Rising Damp have not aged well, principally Rigsby's stream of racist jibes at Philip. Although these were doubtless well-meant and supposed to illustrate Rigsby's foolish bigotry, you suspect that that was a convenient cover for audiences in the 1970s to enjoy racist humour. However, Rossiter's Rigsby--stuttering, stammering, bent perpetually over backwards--remains a great comic creation, embodying all the festering prejudices, small-mindedness and self-delusion of the lower middle class Little Englander. --David Stubbs

Special Features
4:3 Full Frame
DVD 5
English
Region 2
Mono English
Mono
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Synopsis
Eric Chappell's wildly popular and hilarious comedy RISING DAMP stars Leonard Rossiter as Mr. Rigsby, the mean, bigoted, and boastful landlord of a decrepit boarding house. It charts Rigsby's constant romantic failure with Miss Jones (Frances De La Tour) and barely-disguised disgust for his 'lesser' tenants, students Alan and Philip. The show's four-year run earned it a huge following, even though the show only produced 28 episodes. This is a compilation of some of the best and includes Charisma, A Perfect Gentleman, For the Man Who Has Everything, Stage Struck, and Come on In, the Water's Lovely.

Customer Reviews

The 'missing' Christmas episode is here!
If you've never seen Rising Damp before then this is a good place to get a taster of the series, but the real reason this is an essential purchase alongside Rising Damp:The Works DVD (CCD30101) is that this compilation contains the Xmas episode ('For the Man Who Has Everything') that was mysteriously absent from that supposedly complete box set collection. Buy both these releases and you have every Rising Damp episode ever broadcast.

A Brilliant Comedy
Ihave been a fan of Rising Damp since i was a child and watched every single epidode when they were originally broadcast.This dvd and the compete first series are excellent.Timeless classics you can watch again and again that cheer you up no end.Please, please please the powers that be release the complete 2nd seies as one of the best comedy episodes of all time is the episode things that go bump in the night.The sheer brilliance of rigsby, Alan and the whole cast are in this its just perfect comedy.

what a terrible loss to the world that Leanard Rossiter and Richard Beckinsale are no longer with us.However they will be immortalised forever in this dvd and the others to come.Buy it.

6 great episodes from this classic series
Rather than a collection of excerpts from the series, as one might imagine from the title, this is a collection of 6 of the best episodes. Whether they are the best ones or not is a matter of opinion but they are certainly very good episodes. Rigsby is at his best in each and every one of them.

As the first series is the only one that seems to have been released on DVD to date , this collection is the only way to watch some of the episodes from the following series.

The picture and souind quality are reasonably good.