As Time Goes By: Complete Original Series
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Brand: Warner BrothersDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 1920 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-08-30
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: E2362
Studio: BBC Worldwide
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- Condition: New
- Format: DVD
- Box set; Closed-captioned; Color; DVD; NTSC
DVD Reviews of As Time Goes By: Complete Original Series
DVD Review: An Almost Brilliant Series!
Summary: 4 Stars
As Time Goes By stars the incredible Dame Judi Dench OBE CH and Geoffrey Palmer OBE as former lovers who reunite after 38 years by accident. Judi plays Jean Pargeter, a widow who ran her own typing agency called Type for You which is like assigning secretaries for her clients. Her secretary, Sandy, is well-played by the actress and her daughter, Judith, is played by Moira Brooker who became an actress after watching Judi play Lady Macbeth. Despite Judi Dench's honors and awards, she can still do a sitcom. Unfortunately, she's very dry and British but does a great job in sometimes corny situations like when her sister-in-law of her late husband played brilliantly by Moyra Fraser bumps into her at a music store. Instead of telling Penny and her dentist husband, Stephen, that Lionel Hardcastle (played by Palmer) was a writer who just written his memoirs about his life in Kenya, she tells them that he's a psychiatrist who she met on the dodgems instead of 38 years ago before Korea and her marriage to Penny's brother. Penny and Stephen are childless couple who have been married for years and Penny runs the household and the marriage.
Lionel's father, the late wonderful Frank Middlemass plays Rocky Hardcastle who decides to get married to the funny and charming, Madge, and honeymoon in Memphis. Rocky and Madge are big country music fans and are going to Graceland. They also love Johnny Cash and other country music without being over the top. Madge is played by the queen of the Carry On comedies, Joan Sims, who should have been made a Dame herself. Unfortunately, both the actors who played Rocky and Madge are gone in real life. Sims died in 2001 and Middlemass died a couple years ago but they are brilliant to watch. Also there is Mrs. Bale played by Janet Henfrey who reminds you of Allison Janney. She is a divorced woman who is a devoted housekeeper to senior Hardcastle and is like a member of the family.
Rounding out the cast is Lionel's publisher, Alistair, played by Philip Bretherton who outdoes the role but makes him believable. Alistair falls in love with Jean but ends up with Judith. Sandy has somebody else. The series was never outrageous like other British comedies. There is almost 100 episodes of the series. According to Judi, the acting legend as she has been described, she prefers stage first, television second and film third. Because in television unlike films, she can revisit the character like Jean Pargeter Hardcastle and make her better each time. She does it naturally rather than over the top. The show is still shown wildly on American public television stations and is popular more than ever.
I have written to Geoffrey Palmer once and Judi Dench twice and received responses. Believe it or not, they are down to earth and enjoy doing this series. Palmer could easily play Nixon, he has such a strong resemblance. With As Time Goes By, there are no losers but winners and hopeless romantics for a good romance story with all the problems intended.
Description of As Time Goes By: Complete Original Series
Once upon a time, a dashing young British Army officer and a lovely student nurse fell deeply, magically in love. Then he was shipped off to Korea and they never heard from one another. Forty years later, fate brings them together again... with hilarious results. From the first moment Jean and Lionel meet again to the wedding of Alistair and Judith, all the classic moments are here for fans to enjoy.As Time Goes By: The Complete Series, Vol. 5
It may be odd for Americans to imagine Dame Judi Dench, award-winning powerhouse British thespian, in a TV sitcom, but she and Geoffrey Palmer star in the wonderful As Time Goes By. As Jean and Lionel, they're a couple whose romance during the Korean War went awry due to a lost letter--then, 38 years later, they meet by accident and pick up where they left off. In Series 5, they are now a comfortable couple (though prone to spar and bicker), living with Jean's daughter Judith and her friend Sandy. The stories revolve around a house in the country, the long-delayed airing of a miniseries that Lionel wrote, and grappling with their troublesome in-laws--but the plots are secondary to the fantastically well-written and acted interplay between the richly drawn characters. Even if you haven't seen any earlier episodes, you'll quickly be drawn into their world. --Bret Fetzer
As Time Goes By: The Complete Series, Vol. 6
Every series of British sitcom As Time Goes By is an astonishing pleasure. Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer star as Jean and Lionel, two long-ago sweethearts who fell out of touch during the Korean War, then--due to a chance re-meeting--rekindled their romance in their late middle age. Series 6 mostly revolves around Jean's reluctantly retiring from her business, along with the stumbling romance of her daughter Judith (Moira Brooks) and their friend Alistair (Philip Bretherton, particularly strong this series). The plots of the show are often gossamer-thin--one entire episode revolves around circumventing the nosiness of Jean's sister--but it doesn't matter. The rapport between Dench and Palmer holds a treasure trove of alternating comfort and prickliness. It only takes a half-finished sentence and a disgruntled look to be screamingly funny. They're as attuned to each other as dancers; their waltz through As Time Goes By is a pleasure to behold. --Bret Fetzer
As Time Goes By: Complete Series 8 & 9
Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer continue their prickly but loving affair in the eighth and ninth series of As Time Goes By. Young lovers reunited 38 years after a lost letter ended their relationship, Jean (Dench, Shakespeare in Love, Iris) and Lionel (Palmer, He Knew He Was Right) have settled into cozy married life, but that doesn't stop Jean from meddling right and left with the lives of the younger folk around them--Jean's daughter Judy (Moira Brooker), her best friend Sandy (Jenny Funnell), and Lionel's wealthy and excitable publisher Alistair (Philip Bretherton). After eight years, you'd expect a sitcom to be played out, but As Time Goes By sustains its spark; it helps that British comedy-makers don't crank out dozens of mediocre episodes each season, but instead pour as much imagination and humanity as they can into a handful. The six episodes of Season eight are straightforward, with stories revolving around such tidbits as a lost dog or Jean's efforts to get on the Internet, but the simplicity of the plots only lets the rich rapport between Dench and Palmer be the show's true subject. The four-episode 9th and final season not only maintains quality but even picks up energy from bringing a satisfying resolution to the characters, with proposals and weddings skillfully managed by the man who wrote the entire series, Bob Larbey. He must have felt like he was bringing an enormous novel to a close, yet he avoided the temptation to go for some kind of spectacle, ending the show with the same basic pleasures of human foibles with which he began. This is obviously not the ideal starting point for a newcomer (though the show's tart but gentle humor is always accessible and enjoyable), but for any long-time fan, these final seasons will prove warmly satisfying. --Bret Fetzer
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