The Best Of The Two Ronnies (Paradox Films/Total Home Entertainment)

For those who downloaded and enjoyed my earlier rip of a rare video called The Best Of The Two Ronnies and for those who downloaded and enjoyed my rip of an old LP called The Best Of The Two Ronnies, here's another rare video called, get ready for this, it's called: The Best Of The Two Ronnies. This one is from 1995 and released on some label called Total Home Entertainment via Paradox Films, under licence from the BBC. Like the previous video, I believe all - or the majority - of the footage on this video is yet to appear on a dvd release so it's a must for Two Ronnies fans.

Barker's facial expressions are priceless in this sketch!

Sketches, skits and what-have-you of the usual perfect comic timing and fruity humour kind include: "Harry and Bert Down The Pub", "Cinema Commissionaire", "Ice Cream Parlour Sketch" (very funny sketch: "I'd like an ice cream, please." "What flavour would you like?" "Cheese and onion!"), Corbett's Monologue, "Barber's Shop Medley" (look out for Barker's Porridge co-star Sam Kelly as one of the barbershop singers - strangely this appearance is not listed on IMDB for some reason), "Optician's Sketch" (possibly the funniest sketch on the video), "A Life On The Ocean's Waves Medley" (one of their best musical skits in my opinion - and Barker's looking quite tasty!) and "The News", amongst others. Forty-five minutes well worth spending, this is timeless comedy entertainment of the highest order.

Ronnie Corbett's new cyberpunk image...

The Best Of The Two Ronnies
Paradox Films/Total Home Entertainment
1995
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Approx. 45 mins
700 mb
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Doctor Who - The Curse Of Fatal Death

I planned on ripping and posting this years ago when I did the Dimensions In Time thing but I ended up doing something else instead! But better late than never and it fits in time perfectly with the fact that the Who returns this Saturday (I can't wait!). So, anyway. Here we have the video release of the 1999 Comic Relief all-star special Doctor Who - The Curse Of Fatal Death. Written by new/current Doctor Who producer Steven Moffat (who wrote the brilliant series Press Gang) and produced by his wife Sue Vertue (who also produced shows such as Mr. Bean). Mr. Bean and Blackadder co-creator Richard Curtis is executive producer. Comedy genius Rowan Atkinson - star of Blackadder and Mr. Bean - plays the Doctor - along the way he frequently regenerates into further incarnations of the Doctor played by Richard E. Grant, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Grant and Joanna Lumley. Jonathan Pryce hams it up brilliantly as the Master and lovely Julia Sawalha (of the brilliant series Press Gang) plays the Doctor's assistant in stockings and short skirt - an outfit not unlike what the eleventh Doctor's gorgeous new assistant Amy Pond will be wearing in the upcoming series. Roy Skelton, longtime Dalek voice for the original Doctor Who series provides one of the Dalek voices for the last time. As you may know, Skelton also provided the voice for Zippy on Rainbow and this is entirely noticeable at one point when Skelton's Dalek whispers about killing the Master as he sounds exactly like Zippy!


The plot: The Doctor agrees to meet his old foe the Master on the planet Tersurus. But when the Doctor arrives, assisted by the lovely Emma, the Master has prepared a series of hideous tortures for them. Horrible tortures. Evil, nasty and decidedly unpleasant tortures... As the Doctor and the Master attempt to outwit one another a bizarre odyssey unfolds, featuring treacherous trapdoors, bottom burps, foul-smelling sewers and the infamous sofa of reasonable comfort. When the Daleks become involved, a series of mishaps trigger the Doctor's regeneration cycle, leading to the biggest and most exciting adventure of his lives!

The special was originally shown in four segments during Comic Relief's night (I still have the original tv recording of near-enough the whole evening's "entertainment"). This video features not just the complete adventure (now combined into two parts rather than four) but also a special behind-the-scenes/making of documentary narrated by Harry Enfield (in a Mister Chumley-Warner stylee) with interviews with full cast and crew including Richard Curtis, Steven Moffat and Richard E. Grant.


A great bonus that ends the video is a batch of three Doctor Who-related comedy sketches including a previously untransmitted French & Saunders sketch co-starring George Layton as the Doctor (despite it being very well written and pretty funny, this sketch is rather long-winded - you can see why it wasn't used), a funny sketch from Victoria Wood's As Seen On TV starring Jim Broadbent as the Doctor and gorgeous Georgia Allen as his assistant, and - best of the bunch - a rather amusing Lenny Henry Show sketch with Lenny as the newly-regenerated funky black Doctor complete in new outfit which includes a long Shaft-type leather coat and shades, long scarf and Rupert The Bear trousers!

Doctor Who - The Curse Of Fatal Death
1999
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Approx. 62 mins
700 mb

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Watch out... It's Thatchos!