Product Details

• Actors: Judi Dench, Geoffrey Palmer, Moira Brooker, Philip Bretherton, Jenny Funnell
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: BBC Warner
• VHS Release Date: March 6, 2001
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000056HQ6
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #223,285 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lionel finally agrees to move in with Jean (this might work), March 10, 2003

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Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: As Time Goes By 6 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

For Volume 6 of the BBC comedy series As Time Goes By we get to the point in the relationship where Jean (Judi Dench) and Lionel (Geoffrey Palmer) finally move in together and bring an entirely new dimension of discomfort to their relationship:

Episode 17 (my number of the episodes in the series, the videotape just says 1-2-3, but else where I have seen them described as Series 3 episodes 4-5-6, so take your pick) fines another encounter with Jeans Achilles heel, her sister-in-law Penny (Moyra Fraser), who continues to be worried about Poor Jean. As we saw in a previous episode, the prim and proper Jean cannot stop from coming up with wild stories to cover up the truth about her lovey-dovey relationship with Lionel. He has his own problems, when Pennys husband Stephen (Paul Chapman) wants to see Lionel in his professional capacity as a psychiatrist. Not only a psychiatrist, but, according to Jeans continuing web of lies, one with a badly sprained ankle received while playing golf.

Episode 18 finds that Jean and Lionel have at long last agreed that he should move in with Jean. But once he is actually moved in they find themselves having trouble adjusting to little things: like where should the pictures of their former spouses end up in the bedroom?

Episode 19 opens up a new front for problems as Jean is opening up a second office of her secretarial agency and the question of the moment is who is going to run the place? Sandy (Jenny Funnell) assumes it is going to be Jeans daughter Judy (Moria Brooker), which is why she is receptive to an offer from Alistair (Philip Bretherton) to be his personal assistant. Meanwhile, Jean wants Lionel to find something to occupy his time besides ironing her underwear.

At this point in the series As Time Goes By is working on the level of being charming and comfortable. There are no major embarrassments at this point, beyond Jeans inability to tell sister-in-law Penny the truth, so the overall humor is gentler for the most part. Writer Bob Larbey is not adverse to taking his time in letting these two old lovers, who have rediscovered each other after 38 years, try to live happily ever after.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars As Time Goes By Volume 6, January 14, 2002

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Lisa Kevin Calladine "lisa.k.calladine@exxonm... (Annandale, Virginia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: As Time Goes By 6 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Jean and Lionel look so real together and so familiar that it feels as though everything I do in my own personal life is alright because Jean and Lionel have lived through it too and it all makes sense somehow. I relate to them from the heart and my own expectations. Little by little I am building my own Jean and Lionel Library of Love. Their chemistry is so real and so honest.

I wish there were books on this series because I'd be the first one to buy all of them.

-Calladine

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Yet another review by Me, October 3, 2001

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This review is from: As Time Goes By 6 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I should write reviews on every volume of the video collection of "As Time Goes By". Certainly the best sitcome/drama/soap opera...whatever that I've ever seen on TV or in film. I have all the video volumes and am presently taping what comes out on PBS. The quality of the shows is consistently excellent...one keeps expecting a weak show, after 3 or 4 years of broadcast (as it was in England) and it never comes...a few are outstanding but none are really weak.
Bob Larbey is a genius in that his scriptwriting has all the intricacies and subplots of an excellent novel. The character development makes these people almost literally jump out of the screen they're so real. It's almost hard to believe that Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer are NOT married to each other!..which they are not incidentally. (You know, I think they love each other as friends though...don't you agree?) That kind of chemistry doesn't come from nowhere.
My only lament is that the series is years old..the actors have moved on to other projects and the writers are working on other things. It's impossible to get new news or even old news from the UK about these people. I have questions that will never be answered.
Give yourself a treat..get all these videos and watch the rest on PBS. One warning though, have a dictionary nearby because the show is so smart they use words that even I had to look up! (sounds vain I know, but I consider myself fairly literate) Absolutely Awesome.