Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause. This special collector's set includes the entire first season of the popular and critically acclaimed BBC television series, A VERY PECULIAR PRACTICE. Written by Andrew Davies, the show was a black dramedy .. Read more
| Starring | Peter Davison, David Troughton, Barbara Flynn, Graham Cowden |
|---|---|
| Director | David Tucker |
| Genres | Drama |
loading...
Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause.
This special collector's set includes the entire first season of the popular and critically acclaimed BBC television series, A VERY PECULIAR PRACTICE. Written by Andrew Davies, the show was a black dramedy about Great Britain's National Health Service (NHS) and its internal dramas and politics.
| Starring | Peter Davison, David Troughton, Barbara Flynn, Graham Cowden, John Bird |
|---|---|
| Director | David Tucker |
| Studio | NETWORK |
| Run time | DVD: 6 hrs 25 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | English |
| Released | DVD: unknown Production year: 1986 |
| Format | DVD |
Or you can rent each disc individually:
Anyone who has ever worked in a redbrick university will immediately recognise the world of Andrew Davies' rapier-sharp satire on modern British university culture.
The wilderness of brutal concrete buildings (the exteriors were shot at Keele), the vicious infighting and turf wars among academics who are supposed to be colleagues, the demoralised, ground-down staff trying to do their best with a constantly-rising amount of bureaucracy, interference and massive pressure to publish at all costs.
An all-time classic of TV drama. Davies admits on the commentary that a few characters were based more or less directly on people he had worked with at Warwick, and I can well believe it. The only part of this series which has aged is the wardrobe - the rest is as true today as it was back in the eighties.
I first saw this as a youth before I went to university. This comedy captures the essence of the british 'red-brick' university. It's isolated idiosyncacies and bizarreness. The characters are extreem and funny. Jock the alcholic philispher. Buzzard, the Tory computer wizz kid and Rose Marie, the manipulative bi-sexual. This comedy hasn't aged, except for the fashions, which in some ways adds to the comedy.