Old friends revisited

I'd seen most of these when they were first broadcast, which is why I didn't bother with the DVD until after I'd had all the later seasons I'd managed to miss. It's as good as I remembered it & I had the added bonus of the original pilot, which I'd not seen before. The picture quality isn't all that great, considering it's recent vintage, but that's just a minor quibble. Not much left to say about this show that hasn't been said already by more eloquent reviewers than I, except maybe to add that I'd forgotten about the very short miniskirts miss Baxendale occasionally wore in the early episodes. In the words of another character made famous by John Thomson, 'Nice!'