Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9933 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-07-03
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 146 minutes

Synopsis
The complete series of THAT PETER KAY THING the show that was the forerunner to the phenomenally successful Phoenix Nights. Peter Kay plays 15 unique charcters in and around Bolton, inluding: Mr Softee the ice cream man; Leonard - the oldest paper boy in Britain; Mark Park - the egocentric pop star; as well as Brian Potter the Phoenix Club owner and Max the hapless doorman.

Customer Reviews

As good as phoenix nights
This was the series that first brought Peter Kay to my attention and I would recommend it to any fans of his. Its as good, if not better than the follow up series to one of the episodes, Phoenix nights. Each episode has a different setting in or around bolton, and follows people of various professions in their day to day lives.

Each episode, whilst following wildly differing characters, has the distinctive Peter Kay stamp on it, and is invariably full of very dark humour and pathos, as well as the more mainstream comical scenes. I would say its darker than some of his later offerings- the scene with the ice cream man and his raspberry sauce in a darkened room is bordering on the surreal. But its never anything less than brilliant- Peter Kays incredible character acting means that all his characters are imbued with a real depth and usually a vulnerability which makes them likeable. The observational comedy is, as in his standup, faultless. I'm pretty sure Peter Kay could have taken any one of these episodes and turned it into a sucessful series, as he did with Brian Potter. Hilarious from start to finish.

His first hilarious series!
This is Peter Kay's first series. This then runs into the two series of 'Phoenix Nights', which then run into the series of 'Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere'.
It is typical Peter Kay...absolutely fantastic, and brilliantly narrated by Andrew Sachs (Manuel from 'Fawlty Towers'). Not as good as Phoenix Nights, but then they were exceptional. Six briliant episodes set in and around Bolton, with the first episode being set in the 'Phoenix Club'.

One of my favourite sections is from the fifth episode, which introduces Leonard-Britain's oldest paperboy. It is as follows:

Leonard: People around here may think I'm a bit odd, but then I ask them 'What hand do you wipe your bum with?' (to cameraman) Go on, which hand do you use?

Cameraman: Erm...my right hand.

Leonard: Yeah, well I use toilet paper. Who's the odd one now?!

Classic stuff!

Better Peter Kay out there
Whilst it is interesting to see the early years of Peter Kay, this is by no means the man at his best. Stick with Phoenix Nights, Max and Paddy and his stand up.