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Never the Twain - Complete Series 1 [VHS]

Never the Twain - Complete Series 1 [VHS]Actors: Donald Sinden, Windsor Davies, Derek Deadman, Teddy Turner, Maria Charles
Studio: Clear Vision
Category: Video

Buy New: £29.99
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Rating: Parental Guidance
Media: VHS Tape
Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1

EAN: 5021123107235

Release Date: June 4, 2001
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days

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Amazon.co.uk Review
Remarkably, the Johnny Mortimer-scripted series Never the Twain ran to over 50 episodes between 1981 and 1984 on ITV. It starred Donald Sinden as Simon Peel, a stuffy, upper-middle class antiques dealer who lives next door to Oliver Smallbridge (Windsor Davies of It Ain't Half Hot, Mum fame), a working-class lad made good, also in the antiques trade. As the first series establishes, theirs is a prickly relationship, not just because they're rivals in trade but also rivals for the affections of the middle-aged, comely Veronica. They are aghast when they discover their respective son and daughter plan to marry, coming on like the Capulets and Montagues of Middle England. Never the Twain is a pleasantly predictable antique of the sitcom variety, redeemed by Sinden and Davies' gruff, blustery and persistent antagonism. It depicts a cosy, never-never world of "dirty weekends", huge suburban houses, borderline homophobic mirth and reliable puns on "genes" and "jeans"--the sort of series in which characters greet surprising news by spraying a mouthful of tea halfway across the room. Some will find it barely endurable, others a welcome reminder of a bygone televisual era before alternative comedy became the ubiquitous norm.

This DVD contains an episode guide and picture gallery. --David Stubbs

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