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The Complete Yes Minister & Yes Prime Minister - Collector's Boxset | 
 enlarge | Actors: Nigel Hawthorne, Paul Eddington, Derek Fowlds
Studio: 2 Entertain Video
Category: DVD
List Price: £49.99
Buy New: £16.98
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 86
Format: Box Set, Full Screen, Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Parental Guidance
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 7
Running Time: 1140 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.5 x 3.1
EAN: 5014503211325
ASIN: B000HXDM0U
Release Date: October 16, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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 Great collection, Great price October 26, 2008
Martin S (london)
This is a fantastic collection and at the current Amazon price it is a total bargain, Amazon has it a 17.98, Cheapest i have seen elsewhere is 48.00.
The show itself a real classic, With the perfect collection of great writing and superb acting.
If you love comedies buy it, If you don't and you want cheering up during the credit crunch buy it,.
You won't regret this purchase.
Brilliant. Definitive version. October 14, 2008
Richard Kirwan (London, England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is something that should be owned by any policital satire-lover as well as any fan of Johnathan Lynn. Witty and enjoyable. The Box-Set is easy to access and not cumbersome in the slightest (occasionally you get fed up with these big boxes of TV DVDs where you have to open fifty compartments to get to one disc).
It would be nice to see some behind the scenes footage or get the audio track of Margaret Thatcher's appearance, but in any case, this is a definitive version. No Yes Minister fan should be seen without it!
 Probably correct to end this after five series August 9, 2008
Gavin Wilson
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
I've just finished watching all five series over the course of about a month. The tragedy of the 'Yes Prime Minister' episodes was that while Eddington and Hawthorne's acting just got better and better, the writing plateau-ed, and conceivably declined.
Whole speeches get repeated -- e.g. "The Morning Star is for people who believe another country should run this country ..." -- but of course, these were written pre-video, so the writers' assumption must have been that, over an interval of nine years, people simply wouldn't notice the repetition. Tedious re-working of "need-to-know" convolutions crop up repeatedly, right to the final episode. But the jewel of the series -- the relationship between 'Humpy' and Hacker -- just sparkles brighter.
Curiously, when the series first screened, I never much bothered with it, and anyway, at the time I much preferred Derek Fowlds to Nigel Hawthorne. But then I was, of course, a Basil Brush babe. Now I just find Fowlds' verbal quips annoying. The writers really didn't fill out his character.
In one episode Hawthorne is shown in bed with his wife, who we assume is a woman, although we never see her face. He occasionally is made to state an anti-gay remark as Sir Humpy. Ironic...
All the women in this series are a bit too strident and verbose; even Hacker's wife seems a proto-Thatcher. But this was the era of big hairdos and shoulder pads. My favourite female is Eleanor Bron's character in the episode where Hacker is desperate to promote a woman. (Despite her obvious competence, she turns him down because she's just accepted a job with a merchant bank.)
Apart from Nigel Hawthorne's wonderful range of expressions, this really isn't visual comedy. In the absence of any eye candy, I found my gaze roving across Paul Eddington's strangely bouffant quiff. I also wondered why he never had his teeth fixed -- his upper right canine really stuck out!
Anyway, heartily recommended, but don't feel the need to speed through the episodes like I have done.
Superb! August 4, 2008
Jordan McClements
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am from Northern Ireland - and don't really follow 'English' politics - but if you don't find 'Yes Minister' and 'Yes Prime Minister' hilarious then, well... what is wrong with you??
Just like fine wine! May 29, 2008
kayjay (london)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This gets better with age.
I can not begin to express how much I love Yes Minister & Yes Prime Minister.
I own this and I still cant get enough of it. Every time I watch it I discover new things I love about it. Classic TV!
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