Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #181 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-09-19
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Formats: Box set, PAL
• Original language: English, German
• Number of discs: 4
• Running time: 663 minutes

DVD Description

The Brideshead Revisited - Complete Series four-disc box set contains the complete collection of episodes from this award-winning ITV series, based on Evelyn Waugh's bestseller of the same name. First broadcast in 1981, the show stars Jeremy Irons (as Charles Ryder), Anthony Andrews (as Lord Sebastian Flyte), Dianna Quick (as Lady Julia Flyte), Laurence Oliver (as Lord Marchmain), Claire Bloom (as Lady Marchmain) and John Gielgud (as Edward Ryder). Much of the series is set in the beautiful Castle Howard in North Yorkshire.

Customer Reviews

TV drama the like you will not see again
Reading of the new film due out of Brideshead this autumn, of the book Madresfield and it's influence on Waugh, and the issue over whether John Mortimer wrote this script or not, the conclusion I came to is 'who cares?'. This is one of the finest TV dramas made, and it's like we will never see again.

It's 13 hours, impeccable casting and boasts a script that is second to none. Iron's laconic narration is perfect and the whole production simply outstanding.

'My theme is...' well I don't want to spoil it. As a novel it's regarded as one of Waugh's lesser achievements, but as a TV production it's one of our finest.

Buy it. It's vintage television. A compelling and classic drama.

The Ultimate British TV-series

I saw Brideshead Revisited for the first time on TV in the early 1980s and I remember it well for its nostalgia for what we today call old-fashioned values. After having watched all the episodes on the DVD some 25 years later, I must say that the series still manage to hold its grip on me who have always admired British cinema and the reserve of excellent British actors like Jeremy Irons and John Gielgud. I still think the series is one of the most outstanding ever produced by a British television company. For the excellent bargain of about 17 pound you can still witness the doomed relation of Charles Ryder with the Marchmain family - a human drama set in grand locations in England and Venice in the recent past. Brilliant!

There is no better adaptation ever
This is the most perfect series ever - end of story. Don't bother with the rubbish on the box today...just sit back and watch it again and again...i still find gems on my fifth viewing.