Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13934 in DVD
• Released on: 2003-10-13
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 4
• Running time: 500 minutes

DVD Description
Miss Emmeline Lucas, known universally to her friends as Lucia, is a dreadful snob, but in Miss Elizabeth Mapp of Mallards, Lucia meets her match.  On the surface they are the most genteel of society ladies, but beneath the veneer of manners and etiquette lies a bitter seething malice. Striving for social supremacy the two women battle to out-charm each other as they vie for the position of 'toast of the town'. Starring Prunella Scales (TV's Fawlty Towers), Geraldine McEwan (The Magdalene Sisters) and Nigel Hawthorne (The Madness of King George), adapted from the stories of E.F.Benson.

Series One:

• The Village Fete
  
• Battle Stations
  
• The Italian Connection
  
• Lobster Pots
  
• The Owl and the Pussycat

Series Two:

• Winner Takes All
  
• Change and Change About
  
• Lady Bountiful
  
• Worship
  
• Au Reservoir

Synopsis
Based on the novels of E.F. Benson, MAPP & LUCIA follows the social-climbing friendship/rivalry between Elizabeth Mapp (Prunella Scales) and Emmeline Lucia Lucas (Geraldine McEwan). Episodes include The Italian Connection, The Owl and the Pussycat, and more.

Customer Reviews

Telly at its best
This will be brief, you have simply got to buy this boxed collection, I have owned it now for a few months and have watched it over and over again, it is the perfect way to unwind after a hard stressful day. The acting is superb and unrivalled the sets and surroundings make you want to live there, its that good. Go on treat yourselves!

Superb and hilariously funny period piece
Every episode of the two series are a joy, with each round of genteel hostilities cleverer and wittier than the last. The whole cast are perfectly selected, especially Geraldine McEwan as the effortlessly regal Lucia and Prunella Scales as the evil Miss Mapp (if you thought she played a bitch as Sybil Fawlty, then just wait until you see her as Elizabeth Mapp), not to mention the wonderful supporting cast including Nigel Hawthorne as the effeminate Georgie and Mary Mcloud as the wonderful Diva, always on hand to put Elizabeth in her place, and a reliable barometer of feeling between the two leading lady rivals. This series is enormously entertaining, with the exceptional exchange of so many sugared but lethal words between the characters. What a pity there have not been more drama series of this quality of recent years. Oh, and buy the books too :-)

THE AGE OF GREAT TELEVISION
If anyone wants to know why so many reviewers of past
television series wax so lyrical and lament so strongly
for great programs of the past, watch and enjoy this series.

The acting is superb, the location is gorgeous, the whole project is faithful to the book and the characters in it.

As with the P.G.Woodhouse books, this series's characters are all outrageous, over the top and immensly loveable.
The whole make believe world grows seemlessly and your enjoyment is the better for it.

In todays cynical world this is pure escapism, to an age that never really existed (but we wish it had).... Wonderful

Geraldine McEwan, Nigel Hawthorne and Prunella Scales must
have had a wonderful time making this series,
they all shine and their enthusiasm is infectious.

Enjoy