Product Details

• Actors: Rik Mayall
• Format: Box set, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 4
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Image Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: June 26, 2007
• Run Time: 640 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000O78614
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #58,389 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

The hilarious Rik Mayall (The Young Ones, Bottom) stars as the cunning politician Alan B'Stard in this outrageously satirical British TV series. In his ruthless pursuit of power and money, there are no depths to which B'Stard will not happily sink, no plot too dastardly. With the help of his equally deceitful wife and his wimpy assistant, B'Stard schemes his way through his career. You'll be gasping with laughter through all 26 irresistible episodes of this award-winning series, plus the feature-length special, Who Shot Alan B'Stard? EPISODES: Happiness Is a Warm Gun - Passport to Freedom - Sex Is Wrong - Waste Not, Want Not - Friends of St. James - Three Line Whipping - Baa Baa Black Sheep - Labour of Love - The Party's Over - Let Them Sniff Cake - Keeping Mum - Natural Selection - Profit of Boom - Fatal Extraction - Live from Westminster - A Wapping Conspiracy - The Haltemprice Bunker - California Here I Come - May the Best Man Win - Piers of the Realm - Back from the Mort - H*A*S*H - Speaking in Tongues - Heil and Farewell - A Bigger Splash - The Irresistible Rise of Alan B'Stard

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars At Last! At Last! At Last! At Last!, April 22, 2007

By	silversea86 (Texas) - See all my reviews

I'm so excited I can't stand it! Britcom aficianados (sp?) are in for a special treat. Rik Mayall's vicious and viciously funny New Statesman is finally coming to DVD. If you've only ever seen RM on Young Ones or Bottom, the new character is very different. But there are plenty of trademark Mayall-isms. The propensity for shouting, the sexual morals of a rabid mink in heat, cheating, lying, victimizing the terminally stupid, blackmail, insults so clever and cutting in their wording that you gasp in admiration. The part that hurts? He almost always gets what he wants; he's a winner. Not fair, is it.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thank God it's finally in the US!, June 26, 2007

By	Edward Novak - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've been to the UK a few times. Last time was in 1993. There I picked up PAL VHS copies of a show called the New Statesman. Never heard of it, but I loved Rik from the Young Ones so I gave it a shot. One of the BEST British comedies never to be shown in the US. A treat for Doctor Who fans is that Pat Troughon's son, David, is one of the co-stars.

Just get it. You won't be sorry.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An all time favorite, September 15, 2008

By	T. Hughes (Maryland USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I rate this up there with Yes, Minister, & Father Ted as some of the best stuff to come out of Britain. It is just inconcievable that the Right Wing in this country could ever get skewered in the manner they seem to get away with in Britain. My favorite moment has to be when Mayall is with Hugh Laurie & Steven Fry at Mussolini's...or maybe it's when B'stard is shaking down the Nazi he has been protecting for his gold stash...'It wasn't 40,000. It was only 37,000!' Oh, there are so many golden moments!