Product Details

• Actors: Judi Dench, Geoffrey Palmer, Moira Brooker, Philip Bretherton, Jenny Funnell
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: BBC Warner
• VHS Release Date: March 6, 2001
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000056HQ7
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #224,298 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's Just Two People, Really, April 12, 2001

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Elizabeth (Issaquah, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: As Time Goes By 7 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

... as quoted by Jean. This is my favorite show of all time. These four episodes have Jean and Lionel traveling to the states and back. It's so fun watching their relationship take such great strides while the comedy just gets stronger. This series does such a great job at showing this loving couple getting more comfortable at having each other in their lives. It's also great to see how they interact with the "Americans". Then, when they return - dealing with jet lag and a dose of humility. Such a brillant, funny show. I highly recommend this show for everybody.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "As Time Goes By", November 20, 2001

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John D. Dotte (Fort Covington, New York United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: As Time Goes By 7 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I am fortunate to have the seven volumes that you have offered for sale. It is by far the finest comedy. The chemistry between Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer serve as the basis for the story. All of the supporting cast are also truely outstanding. I'm hopeful that you will offer many many more volumes. Hopefully, the entire series.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Is Hollywood reading for the love story of Jean and Lionel?, March 12, 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 7 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Volume 7 of "As Time Goes By," the BBC Comedy starring Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer, finds Jean and Lionel more caught up in the story of their love rather than actually getting on with their happy ending. Apparently this is the second half of Series 3, not that I am really sure what that means (I assume a series is something like our season), so I will continue to number the episodes consecutively starting from the first one:

Episode 20 finds Alistair (Philip Bretherton) back from the United States to tell Lionel (Palmer) and Jean (Dench) that an American television company is interested in doing a mini-series about their love story. After all, the dashing young British Army officer and the lovely student nurse who fell in love and lost contact with each other for almost forty years certainly hooked us. However, Lionel has to hurry up and write a treatment before having lunch with a Hollywood type.

Episode 21 has Jean and Lionel traveling to Hollywood to continue the talks about this mini-series. Jean keeps counseling Lionel to play it cool, so, of course, it is she who blows her top during the meeting with the wacky studio executive and his band of lunatics.

Episode 22 has our lovebirds back from Hollywood and suffering jet lag. Of course, Jean refuses to admit she is out of it and insists on dealing with the manager of her second office, who is so competent (and good looking) that Judy (Moria Brooker) and Sandy (Jenny Funnell) cannot stand her.

Episode 23 has Lionel trying to work on the mini-series with the help of two totally different secretarial assistants, both of whom were provided by that "Miss Ice Cubes," who runs Jean's second office. Meanwhile, Lionel's father and his new bride and in the hospital in his and her neck braces.

It is interesting at this point in the series that it is now Jean rather than Lionel who is the target of much of the humor, which always strikes me as odd since we are talking Dame Judi Dench here. Meanwhile, Judy has finally broached the nature of their relationship with Allistair. Apparently Jean and Lionel are comfortable with the relationship (there are actually several scenes of them in bed together), and it seems like they went from fighting the inevitable to total acceptance in between episodes.