Gimme Gimme Gimme
The Complete First Series

Distributed by
Vision Video

Cert:

Cat.no: 0783042

Running time: 180 minutes

Year: 1998

Pressing: 2001

Region(s): 2, PAL

Chapters: 6 plus extras

Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0 (Stereo)

Languages: English

Subtitles: None

Widescreen: 14:9 (1.55:1)

16:9-enhanced: No

Macrovision: Yes

Disc Format: DVD 9

Price: £19.99

Extras: None

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Directors:

Liddy Oldroyd

Producer:

Sue Vertue

Screenplay:

Jonathan Harvey

Music:

Philip Pope

Cast:

Linda: Kathy Burke
Tom: James Dreyfus
Suze: Beth Goddard
Jez: Brian Bovell
Beryl: Rosalind Knight

"It was this big, I tell you!"

Occasionally, Gimme Gimme Gimme has its bad days as well as its good days, but on the whole this flat-sharing comedy of two male-obsessed housemates, Linda (Kathy Burke) - complete with disastrous orange hair - and Tom (James Dreyfuss), who has fantasies aplenty about Peak Practice's Simon Shepherd. Linda, on the other hand, goes for Liam Gallagher, or more recently in the third series, Danny from Hear'Say.

While I thought that the comedy quotient would lessen as time passed on, I was surprised to find that it hadn't and once you'd re-learned to appreciate the clever wordplay, endless smut and double-entendre of always-failing wannabe actor Tom and.. "well, what does she do for a living?" Linda you could jump straight into it again.

Making up the rest of the principal cast is ex-prostitute landlady Beryl (Rosalind Knight) and the upstairs well-to-do eco-friendly couple Suze (Big Bad World's Beth Goddard) and Jez (Prospects' Brian Bovell), each of which give their all to their characters.

All six episodes from the first series are here. It doesn't really matter what the titles are as each one is packed with one-liners and doesn't restrict itself to the subject matter alone. However, they are: Who's That Boy, The Big Break, Legs & Co, Do They Take Sugar?, Saturday Night Diva and I Do, I Do, I Do.

Linda: "Where you goin?"
Tom: "Why, you gonna miss me?"
Linda: "Like a cat with no neck misses licking his own arsehole!"
Tom: "....is that a yes or a no?"