Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #56345 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-02-14
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Formats: Black & White, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 650 minutes

Synopsis
Features the complete episodes from the first series of the drama focussing on an ambitious executive that everyone loves to hate.

Customer Reviews

Sir John Wilder - Lochinvar in a Rolls Royce
This series was one of the top rated shows of its day, and even 40 years on it's not hard to see why. This is an intelligent, layered drama which requires you to watch and pay attention, not just view, and repays your effort with a gripping storyline - will Sir John Wilder get the better of his business rivals and colleagues or will they pull him down - and fine acting from all involved. Patrick Wymark is superb playing a hard-nosed, utterly ruthless tycoon who claws his way to control of civil engineering firm Bligh Construction, tramples on the opposition and sleeps with a senior secretary on the National Export Board to gain sensitive business information. He is still human enough however to elicit the viewer's sympathy when his wife decides that what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander and begins a liaison with one of Wilder's top engineers. Peter Barkworth is also excellent as the heir apparent to Bligh's, who is nonetheless in mortal danger of being swept away by Wilder's overweening ambition. The second series is out soon, and let's hope that the third and final season also gets an airing along with the original series The Plane Makers. Watching this, it is clear that Wymark's tragic early death in 1970 cost this country one of its finest actors. Unmissable.

Cigarettes and alcohol
A 40+ year old ATV TV series in Black & White, about a construction company - What's to like?

A great deal, actually. Excellent scripts with arch dialogue, terrific cast and wonderful performances. It's a gripping series and you can't wait to see what happens next.

Look out for the number of cigarettes smoked and the alcoholic drinks consumed - quite extraordinary.

overlooked why ?
A rare piece of telvison drama that is accessable and intreguging engough to hold the casual viewer as well as engage viewers looking for something more substancle and layered then the usual soap opera faire.
The series can be viewed as a bunch of stand alone epesodes each with the underyling power game between Bligh and Wylder each gaining the upper hand over one another at some point ablit temporily.

It is so refreshing to see something that is free from cliche and sterotypical characters a class apart.