Product Details

• Actors: Dom Joly
• Directors: Jason Sands
• Producers: Trigger Happy TV Series 3
• Format: Import, PAL
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 2 (Read more about DVD formats.)
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: StudioCanal
• Run Time: 81 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B0012CKACI
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #313,123 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Alternative Footage, Commentary, Interactive Menu, Music Video, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Dom Joly is back with more surreal pranks than ever in Trigger Happy TV 3 - this year's must-have compilation featuring the recent Christmas Specials, a spoof documentary - 'Being Dom Joly' - and masses of unseen footage.; ; With his bizarre sense of humour Dom Joly injects the bizarre into every ordinary situation. Brand new characters on this new compilation include a meditation expert with an explosive temper, Fu-Manchu the Rickshaw driver, the Grim Reaper smoker stalker and Mary with her Three Wise Men fighting in a store window. As ever, each scene is set to a perfectly chosen soundtrack. ...Trigger Happy TV Series 3

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars 'Best of' is 2nd Best. Release "The Complete Series" on DVD., April 25, 2008

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BatGuyverDrahc "BatGuyverDrahc" (Scotland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trigger Happy TV 3 [Region 2] (DVD)

Not "Complete Series" but only a "Best Of" unfortunately: as the show unedited, is one of the best ever to grace a cathoid ray tube or digital tv screen.

Just as the US version of the Trigger Happy TV show doesn't work (due to the lack of the UK public, who are necessary for the gags to work); the timing and length of the show is also crucial. The show must be in it's half hour format to work: it's final gag being punctuated by the familar electric theme song outro; the silence of which is often followed by a final 'response line' from the last 'gag victim' (such as John McCririck) to great effect.

However, 'Best of Trigger Happy' dvd's edit a season's "best of" into one 90 minute programme. Not only is it totally mysterious as to who gets to decide for everyone which bits are "best", but the show simply does not work when edited into a 90-minute episode. It's just too long. The show was devised for half hour episodes, and that's the only way it works.

Like all "Best of" comedy dvds, this one is annoying because watching it will just remind you of all the scenes and sketches that are missing...which of course you'll remember from when you saw it on TV first time round. What's here is good, but it will just make you want to see the rest, which isn't here. That's why 'Best of' Dvd's are so annoying. (I'm looking at -you- 'Best of Adam & Joe'; 'Best of Trigger Happy 1,2,3'; 'Best of Balls of Steel';'Best of Smack The Pony'; 'Armstrong & Miller' etc).

Hopefully one of these days there will be a DVD release of "Trigger Happy TV: The Complete Series" that really is complete. (And a re-release of the 3 cd soundtracks would be a great idea, too!)

Then, can join the ranks of other comedy shows whose DVD's are COMPLETE![Much love to ya 'complete' dvd's out there: Fonejacker; Brass Eye; Jam; Day Today; Big Train; Bo Selecta; Vic Reeves Big Night Out; Stella Street; Sealab 2021; Dream On; Robot Chicken; Police Squad. Thank you for your complete completeness as I first watched you on TV, it's great to view you again the way I remember you!].

Get with the program, Trigger Happy TV! Release a DVD set of the complete series! The original is unequaled, and the US version pales by comparison!