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Summary: Visiting with Good Friends
Review: "As Time Goes By" is warm and entertaining, having no need to resort to low comedy, sarcasm or smut to be funny. Real people
with real problems, good supporting friends and quirky relatives
complete the "day in the life" routine which most of us face.
Alistair Deacon (Phillip Bretherton) is my favourite character.
A little off-the-wall but always fun and a much needed safety
net for the Hardcastle household, Alistair is a full dimensioned
character brilliantly portrayed by Mr. Bretherton. You get the
feeling that things are going to "pop" when Alistair is around!
We are collecting all the series and we can hardly wait until the
remaining three are released. You won't find better at any price!
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Summary: Better Than Love Story
Review: As Time Goes By is a tribute to British Television. This isn't the most hysterical series ever written but it's the most true to life sitcom I have seen in a long time. The characters that Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer create as the long lost lovers who finally meet their destiny in time are three dimensional and recognizable. Dench's and Palmer's characters deal with all sorts of problems of life from an older perspective. They deal with whether to retire, whether to trust and fall in love again, etiquette, helping out the younger set of the cast with love and loss, the couple's finances, and older children. Hijinxs do occur but they are the most honest type rather than some kind of bizarre "Urkle" of Family Matters which American TV seems to repeat all too often. A good sitcom has the characters grow and expand their characters becuase that is wht life is as you grow older. PBS introduced me to this series and I am glad it did. It's one fo those that you can light the candles too and sit back with that special someone and see yourself no matter your age or orientation.
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Summary: Just wonderful!!
Review: I don't even remember when I first saw this show, but I fell in love in that instant! The premise of the show is touching, and those who are only familiar with Judi Dench's movie performances will be delighted by her comic timing. All in all this is a fantastic series and I cannot wait for the whole series to be issued on DVD so I can own each one!
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Summary: Just wonderful!!
Review: I don't even remember when I first saw this show, but I fell in love in that instant! The premise of the show is touching, and those who are only familiar with Judi Dench's movie performances will be delighted by her comic timing. All in all this is a fantastic series and I cannot wait for the whole series to be issued on DVD so I can own each one!
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Summary: They Still Say I Love You
Review: Imagine my excitement when I found that the first two seasons of "As Time Goes By" are heading for the DVD format. It is simply a wonderful series, well-deserving of such good video treatment. The previous season to be released on DVD (season 4) looked absolutely stunning in the crystal clear format. The images just came alive. Very beautiful. I already own these episodes on VHS, but there is no question that I will more than happily re-buy them."As Time Goes By" begins here with Lionel Hardcastle (the sublime Geoffrey Palmer) needing a secretary to help type-up the manuscript to his new book "My Life In Kenya". The secretarial agency he hires is run by Jean Pargetter (the great Judi Dench). Lionel and Jean meet, and realize that they used to be sweethearts 38 years previous, in the few short months before Lionel was sent away to the Korean War. After they parted, they lost touch, got re-married, and moved on with their lives. Now Jean is widowed and Lionel is divorced, and the stage is set for a possibly warm reunion. Warm is not the word to describe the first season, however. The romance is very up and down, and there are actually other *possible* love interests that come into the fray. But the season does have its positively sweet moments -- pre-cursors of the enjoyable situations to come. And I found the up & down nature of the romance at first one of the more believable elements. Relationships aren't always easy, whether new or old, and to show that two people who are really meant for each other may hit some bumps along the way, almost makes the romance that much more satisfying when things start working out. I love "As Time Goes By". There are very few TV series that I can say that about - less than I can count on one hand - but this is one of them. The writing is always impeccable, the acting superb, and the stories warm and funny. And on DVD, it all looks great. I wish more shows were like it.
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Summary: Where is my Lionel?
Review: Okay,I have never met a British TV series that I didn't like,so it comes as no surprise to anyone who knows me that I own Sets 1-V of As Time Goes By. It is a gentle, civilized comedy about two lovers separated by a undelivered letter forty years before the series opens in c. 1992. Judy Dench and Geoffrey Palmer, as Jean and Lionel, are the perfect middle age lovers: Jean has lines on her face, is not a stick in a size 0 dress, and Lionel has jowls and thinning hair. It matters not! They adore each other and we adore them! The supporting cast is excellent -- especially the young women who portray Judy and Sandy, Jean's daughter by her first marriage, and her assistant respectively. Nothing very profound can be resolved in 30 minutes, but what is is interesting is the process of rediscovery, falling in love, and learning to love and accept each other, "warts and all," that the viewer sees in episode after episode. It is refreshing to see that someone believes that love is just not for the under 30 set. Jean and Lionel are never treated as "cute," as in "how cute that people that age can be in love." Why they even have sex -- always implied and never seen -- and it is treated as a natural and normal state of being for a middle aged couple. Buy the series -- you won't be sorry!
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Summary: The First shows. Getting to know the charecters.
Review: Series 1 and 2 of As Time Goes By, are in many ways the geting to know the charecters stories. Judy and Alister meet in show 3 of series 1 and right away there was a mutual attraction, almost going side by side with Jean and Lionel getting back together after 38 years. But it's really the Series 2 shows where Lionel's book is published that the show starts to look and feel like it will be for the reminder of it's time on the air.Great writing,casting, and set designs. Makes you wish most American TV shows were this well made.
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Summary: The Beginning......
Review: The beginning of one of the best comedy series, British OR American, I've ever seen. And I'm as old as Lionel and Jean, so that's a lot of comedy shows. Totally believable in true-life situations, each episode runs the gamut of frustration, tears, joy, compromise and, of course, what binds it all together, love. The only downside is that there are three more years and thus far, no indication of when they are to be released. We need years 7, 8 and 9!
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Summary: Warm and Witty
Review: The entire "As Time Goes By" series is brilliantly acted by Dame Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer with a superb supporting cast. "As Time Goes By" is a warm and witty comedy of a love lost and found in the golden years.
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Summary: A Fantastic Britcom !
Review: This DVD is one of the best and successful British Situation Comedies of all time. It mixes the excellent acting of Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer. It is an old fashioned comedy, that is completely harmless and brings back what comedy used to be like ! Easy and VERY Funny. If you like Series 1 & 2. I recommend getting the other series' as well. Buy Now !
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