What is your all time favourite dvd series? I like Pride and Predjudice. I need suggestions on what

[applegrove]

to buy from the dvd store.

[Justice wanted]

1. The Colin Firth Edition? My series...Hmmm Love Anne Of Green Grables, Anne the Sequal

Megan Follows ) Xena, Ab Fab, Doctor Who... Ask me another day and my answers may change.

[applegrove]

2. Yes the Colin Firth edition. I also love AOGG.

[Flaxbee]

7. Also - and these have been around a while - Dorothy Sayers' Lord Peter / Harriet Vane trilogy --

Strong Poison
Have His Carcase
Gaudy Night


Also, Rumpole of the Bailey episodes - about a very liberal British barrister - are lovely. The books (short stories) are some of my favorite reading.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

25. If you have a region-free (or hackable) DVD player, you can order the complete Inspector Morse

from Amazon UK for less than U.S. dealers charge for a single set of four episodes. Same with Prime Suspect.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

36. They're only about $20 more than a comparable Region 1 player

I ordered mine from an outfit in the Chicago suburbs and didn't have any trouble.

Amazon UK is currently selling the complete Inspector Morse for £32.00, which is $51.20 at today's exchange rate. Buy a few box sets, and you've essentially paid for your region-free player.

[HeiressofBickworth]

4. Doc Martin

an English production. Quirky character. First 4 seasons are available through my local library, perhaps yours? If you haven't been following Downton Abbey, the first two seasons are available on DVD. Third season starts in September. Let us know what you've decided on.

[applegrove]

5. I have Doc Martin. We are enjoying it very much - especially my dad. Someone here suggested that

and thanks if it was you. We have a whole movie festival going on afternoon at my parents' house. Seen Downton Abbey, now Doc. Next 'Brideshead Revisited', then 'Yes Minister' and 'Rumpole of the Bailey'. I'm looking to order stuff for June right now. Did you see the 'West Wing'? My dad was involved in Liberal politics for a while so I think he would enjoy that.

[GCP]

37. Yes, Prime Minister is also excellent

And if you want Machiavellian British political drama, the House of Cards trilogy is great. Then there's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, the MI5 (or Spooks) series, Inspector Lynley, for laughs there's the Blackadder series.
There's a new Sherlock series updated to nowadays, the first series is available on DVD I think.

[bikebloke]

17. Hamish Macbeth is the Doc Martin prototype.

Written by the same writer, Dominic Minghella. Robert Carlyle is Hamish.

[Rambis]

20. Good news

http://docmartinseries5.blogspot.com/

[Staph]

6. If you don't already have them,

grab a copy of Sherlock (the BBC/Masterpiece Theatre version from 2010 -- series two will be on Masterpiece in May) and Downton Abbey (the ITV/Masterpiece Theatre series -- the first season was divine. The second season was merely really good, until the end, when it transcended divine and became a great big pool of squee!).

[Myrina]

16. I LOVE what they've done with Sherlock!!

Simply Brilliant! (and it doesn't hurt that he's totally HAWT!)

[GCP]

38. Yummm

Those cheekbones!

[Aristus]

8. The first four seasons of "The West Wing".

Some of the best television ever written for American audiences. Aaron Sorkin is inspired, and breathtakingly gifted...

[applegrove]

11. Okay. I'll get that for June.

[snagglepuss]

9. Jewel and the Crown. Dramatic series about the British in India. Really well done.

[Justice wanted]

10. lark Rise to Candleford. It is on my list of must buy. Saw it and it was awesome.

[applegrove]

12. Yes. I believe I have that written down on my list of series to get. Thanks.

[sarge43]

13. FWIW

I, Claudius (get 605 minute length. There are edited versions which are worthless)

Prime Suspect

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People

John Adams

The Wire

[auburngrad82]

14. A lot of television series

The Wire (all time best drama, in my opinion)
The Sopranos
The Trailer Park Boys (really stupid but funny Canadian comedy series)
Father Ted (really stupid but funny Irish comedy series)

As far as movies I love, love, love The Wizard of Oz.

[Myrina]

15. Six Feet Under, Dexter (Seasons 1,2 and 4) and Game of Thrones

Enjoy!!

[bikebloke]

18. Life on Mars (UK version)

Being Human (UK series, too)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

26. Yes, the original British version of Life on Mars is fantastic

with the older cop (Philip Glenister) being hilariously offensive and raunchy in a way that he would never be allowed to on American TV. And John Sim (The Master on the current Doctor Who) as a much better Sam Tyler than that catalogue model non-entity who played him in the U.S. version.

[tanyev]

19. The Jeeves and Wooster series with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry are fantastic.

If you like that type of humor.

[Justice wanted]

22. Oh I want to see that.

[CBHagman]

23. I'd second the Jeeves and Wooster suggestion.

And here are a few more:

Bleak House (2005) Dickens adaptation with a huge cast, multiple love stories, multiple mysteries, and a seemingly endless legal case at the center of it all.

Our Mutual Friend (1998)

Vanity Fair (1998)

He Knew He Was Right

Under the Greenwood Tree Thomas Hardy without tragedy (Yes, such a thing exists).

North and South Adaptation of the Elizabeth Gaskell novel. Easily overlooked, highly recommended.

Cranford More Gaskell, utterly outstanding.

Sense and Sensibility (2008) Yes, that is Dan Stevens of Downton Abbey playing Edward Ferrars.

Emma (2009)

Summer's Lease Adaptation of the John Mortimer novel, starring Susan Fleetwood and the irrepressible John Gielgud.

Life on Mars The original British series, not the American version.

State of Play Again, go for the British TV series, not the American cinematic version.

Anything in the Prime Suspect series. It's very dark, but Helen Mirren is so outstanding. Besides, it's fun to spot other notables in supporting roles (Ralph Fiennes et al).

House of Cards, To Play the King, and The Final Cut, all starring the brilliant Ian Richardson.

The Jury (2002)

Anything in the Sharpe series, adapted from Bernard Cornwell's novels.

And for a nice change of pace, William and Mary, starring Martin Clunes and Julie Graham as, respectively, a widowed undertaker and a divorced midwife who embark on an unlikely romance.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

27. Excellent recommendations, and along the lines of State of Play

The State Within.

[Moondog]

21. It's a toss-up between "Midsomer Murders" and "Black Adder".

Kind of an apple and an orange, though. Still, hard to choose between them.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

33. let your wife choose.

[Broken_Hero]

24. hmm

its kinda hard to pinpoint the best dvd series, but the two I struggle with are Smallville, and the Justice League animated series(I include the JLU series as well)...but if you put my soles to the fire, if you put my life in danger by gunpoint...I believe I will have to go with the Justice League animated series....

[Patsy Stone]

28. Prime Suspect

The Prisoner is good and weird in a fab 60s UK way and I have to agree with Jeeves and Wooster.

There was another British series that was fun called "You Rang M'Lord?" But I don't know if it's available on DVD.

[CBHagman]

34. I have fond memories of "The Prisoner."

But yes, it is an acquired taste.

A couple of other programs come to mind with your mention of You Rang M'Lord? -- a series I don't happen to have seen.

I never get tired of As Time Goes By, a gentle romantic comedy starring Geoffrey Palmer and Judi Dench. You can also get an earlier Dench series, A Fine Romance, in which Dame Judi played opposite her real-life husband, Michael Williams, but it's been years since I've seen that one.

Then there were the Adrian Mole series, based on Sue Townsend's novels. I remember them being utterly hilarious and poignant, just like the books, but I haven't looked for them on DVD yet.

[kentauros]

29. Babylon 5

I've heard that even people that normally hate "science fiction" actually like it

[lovemydog]

32. Deadwood

loved it

[HappyMe]

35. Band of Brothers

[kiva]

39. The Sharpe series.

If you like the time period, Sharpe is a soldier in the Napoleonic Wars - it's got drama, a bit of comedy, and

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