Tony Slattery on DVD (Region 4)

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For years we have had questions from Tony Slattery fans as to where they can purchase copies of TV shows and films in which he has appeared. Happily, more and more of these are being released on DVD. We have complied a list of products available from reputable retailers with decent supplies. To purchase, or find out more about the product in which you are interested, simply click the relevant link/s listed in the 'available from' table below its item description.

A Bit of Fry and Laurie
The Complete Second Series

Starring: Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.
Bonus feature: The Cambridge Footlights Revue (1982) also starring Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Tony Slattery and Emma Thompson.

Before Hugh Laurie was House, before Stephen Fry was Wilde, even before they were Jeeves & Wooster, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie wrote and stared in their own inimitable sketch comedy series on the BBC. Witty and urbane, Fry and Laurie lampoon an endless array of targets with a delicious turn of phrase and elaborate wordplay. Absurdities abound as they devise new swearwords not yet banned for broadcast, and Fry impersonates Michael Jackson. Catch such Fry & Laurie favourites as the profane cliché-slingers John and Peter, international gunrunner and man of mystery Alan, and insipid MI5 agent Tony Murchison and his coffee-obsessed boss Control. Only a handful of creative works succeed in capturing the totality of human existence, from birth to death, through love, transfiguration and redemption. A Bit of Fry and Laurie, the BBC television series co-starring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, has been said, on two occasions, to be among this group.

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Bad Girls

All 12 episodes from the seventh season of the hard-hitting ITV prison drama set in the women's wing of HMP Larkhall. In this series, a new governor wants to take full responsibility of the prison, Jim (Jack Ellis) finds himself locked up in a cell of his own, and Sylvia (Helen Fraser) finds herself in trouble on her honeymoon when she confesses to her gold-digging new husband that there is no inheritance money after all. Also included is the Christmas Special episode.

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Blackball

Starring: Alice Evans, Bernard Cribbins, Imelda Staunton, Vic Reeves, Mark Little, Paul Kaye, Johnny Vegas, James Cromwell, Tony Slattery, James Fleet, Vince Vaughn

Directed by: Mel Smith

Try as he might, Cliff Starkey (Paul Kaye) just can’t keep out of trouble. In his sleepy hometown on the English coast, nothing much inspires him... apart from bowls. Cliff dreams of playing for his country, but has always preferred following his own rules much to the disapproval of the stuck up local bowls club. When Rick Schwartz (Vince Vaughn), a slick American sports agent, takes Cliff under his wing, the bad boy of bowls’ rock ‘n roll attitude and outrageous hero antics soon turn him into a national icon, with hysterical results. Also starring James Cromwell, Alice Evans and comedian Johnny Vegas, Blackball is a hilarious British comedy that will quite literally bowl you over!

DVD Extras: Director’s audio commentary. Cast and crew interviews. Trailers and TV spots.

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Carry on Columbus

Starring: Rik Mayall, Jim Dale, Tony Slattery, Peter Gilmore, Maureen Lipman, Leslie Phillips, June Whitfield, Bernard Cribbins, Jon Pertwee, Sara Crowe, Peter Richardson, Nigel Planer, Alexei Sayle, Charles Fleischer, Richard Wilson, Julian Clary, Larry Miller, Keith Allen

It is 1492 and the Sultan of Turkey controls overland trade from the Far East to Europe. Christopher Columbus looking to make his fortune, persuades the King and Queen of Spain to finance an expedition to find a new sea route to India. In the best traditions of the original 'Carry On' series, this historical farce features the cream of current comedy talent. Including... Jim Dale, Maureen Lipman, Alexei Sayle, Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Julian Clary and a host of others. So it's sure to be a well crewed voyage, so why not grab an oar and set sail with the biggest bunch of anchors who ever put to sea!

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Grumpy Old Men - Series 3

Starring: Rory McGrath, Will Self, Arthur Smith, Tony Slattery and more.

35-54 year olds are the grumpiest group of people in Britain today. Grumpier than their parents, who survived the war and were grateful to draw their pension. Grumpier than their children, who just want to do drugs and surf the internet. Grumpy Old Men have been content to grumble queitly - but no longer. Grumpy Old Men is not so much a television series - it's more a way of life. The cast of Grumpy Old Men Series 3 includes some of th favourites, plus some new faces... they are: Arthur Smith, Rory McGrath, Rick Wakeman, Will Self, John Stapleton, Sir Tim Rice, John O'Farrell, Des Lynam, Nigel Havers, Sir Gerry Robinson, Tony Slattery, Don Warrington and Peter York.

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Life Begins - Series 1

Starring: Caroline Quentin, Alexander Armstrong

Maggie thought her 2.4 family life was fairly perfect until her husband runs off with a younger model and all of a sudden she's got to start all over again. But she soon discovers that what entails may not be the worst thing that's ever happened to her.
Tony Slattery guest stars as a man Maggie (fellow Whose Line performer, Caroline Quentin) meets while speed dating.

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Peter's Friends

Starring: Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Tony Slattery, Rita Rudner

Friends for ten years, they gather together one New Year's Eve weekend to share laughter, tears, sex, no sex, old friendships and new discoveries, all the while making absolute fools of themselves.

Ten years after they were members of a music and comedy troupe at Cambridge University, a diverse group of friends in their early 30s gather at the expansive estate of Peter Morton (Stephen Fry), who's invited them there for a reunion. Among the guests are Andrew (Branagh), who has married Carol (Rita Rudner), the star of the American situation comedy he writes; lonely Maggie (Emma Thompson), who thinks she may be in love with Peter; Roger (Hugh Laurie) and Mary (Imelda Staunton), a couple in advertising who have lost a child; and single Sarah (Alphonsia Emmanuel), who's always attracted to the wrong men, including her latest boyfriend, the married Brian (Tony Slattery). Also on hand is Vera (Phyllida Law, the real-life mother of Thompson), a housekeeper who has protectively watched over Peter since childhood. Over the course of the weekend, various jealousies and fears are revealed between joyous feasts, but a startling, tragic announcement from Peter puts everyone's petty dramas into proper perspective. American stand-up comedienne Rudner wrote the screenplay with her husband, (Martin Bergmann).

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Red Dwarf
Just the Shows (Volumes I - IV)

Contains all the episodes from Series 1-4 of Red Dwarf

Series one to four of the smash hit comedy series created and written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor. Chicken soup machine repairman and intergalactic loser Dave Lister awakes from suspended animation to discover he is the lone survivor of a radiation leak and is now three million years into deep space and the last surviving member of the human race. Dave is soon joined by a hologram of his dead bunk-mate, a life-form who's evolved from his pet cat, and a neurotic sanitation mechanoid. Together this unlikely bunch of heroes attempt to find their way back to Earth, under the guidance of Holly, the ship's senile computer, encountering a whole heap of smeg on the way.

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Red Dwarf
Just the Shows (Volumes V - VIII)

All twenty-eight episodes from series five through to eight of the popular TV comedy.

SERIES 5: In Series Five, Rimmer is taken prisoner inside his own mind and ends up being stripped, oiled, manacled, licked, chained, taunted, humiliated SERIES 6: Red Dwarf has been stolen and our intrepid heroes are hot on its trail. Starbug, unable to match its speed, has to take a short-cut to overtake it. Unfortunately this involves going through a very dangerous area which is patrolled by rogue droids that absolutely despise humans. SERIES 7: When the generator and its back-up go down in the middle of the night, the crew has to crawl through the mile-long labyrinth of service ducts to restart their engines. SERIES 8: Series Eight highlights include Cat engaging in a stunning dance sequence with the spacecraft Blue Midget, Kryten's metamorphosis into a scheming media-show host, Rimmer's metamorphosis into an irresistible sex object and Pete the Sparrow's metamorphosis into a gigantic dinosaur.

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Red Dwarf Vol. 2

Amazon.co.uk Review
The second series of Red Dwarf is, as Danny John-Jules says in the accompanying DVD commentary, "the one where it really went good". First broadcast in the autumn of 1988, these six episodes showcase Rob Grant and Doug Naylor's sardonic, sarcastic humour to perfection. The writing has matured, no longer focussing solely on SF in-jokes and gags about bodily functions, instead allowing the humour to develop from the characters and their sometimes surprisingly poignant interactions: Lister's timeless love for Kochanksi, for example, or Rimmer's brief memory-implanted love for one of Lister's ex-girlfriends. The cast had gelled, too, and there's even more colour this year as the drab sets are spiced up, a little more money has been assigned to models and special effects, and the crew even go on location once in a while.

"Kryten" introduces us to the eponymous house robot (here played by David Ross), although after this first episode he was not to reappear until Series 3, when Robert Llewellyn made the role his own. Then in "Better Than Life" the show produced one of its all-time classic episodes, as the boys from the Dwarf take part in a virtual reality game that's ruined by Rimmer's tortured psyche. Other highlights include "Queeg", in which Holly is replaced by a domineering computer personality, the baffling time travel paradox of "Stasis Leak", the puzzling conundrum of "Thanks for the Memory", and the astonishingly feminine "Parallel Universe".

On the DVD: Red Dwarf, Series 2 has another chaotic and undisciplined group commentary from the cast, all clearly enjoying the opportunity to reminisce. The second disc has a host of fun extras, including an "A-Z of Red Dwarf", outtakes, deleted scenes, a Doug Naylor interview, model shots, and the full, unexpurgated "Tongue Tied" music video. As with the first set, the animated menus are great fun and the "Play All" facility is the most useful little flashing button ever created. --Mark Walker

Special Features
Cast Commentary
Deleted Scenes
Smeg Ups
Original Trailer
Red Dwarf A To Z Documentary
Doug Naylor Interview
Alternate Personalities Featurette
Tongue Tied Uncut
Special Effects Raw Footage
Isolated Music Cues
Talking Book Chapters
Photo Gallery
Hidden Easter Egg

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Red Dwarf Vol. 8

Red Dwarf is back in style with all the episodes from Series VIII.

'Back In The Red - Part 1 - Not only have the Nanobots recreated Red Dwarf they've also populated the ship with its original crew. This is extremely good news for Rimmer.

'Back In The Red - Part 2' - Rimmer is invited to dinner with the captain and to make the evening go with a swing douses himself with the 'Sexual Magnestism Virus' making himself irresistible to the female crew.

'Back In The Red - Part 3' - The Dwarfers face two years in the brig for crimes against the Space Corps. Realising their defence has more holes than Lister's underpants they escape to prove their innocence.

'Cassandra' - Taking Holly's advice Lister joins the "Canaries" - a battle hardened convict army trained to go on suicide missions, and not as he thought, the prison choir!

'KRYTIE TV' - Kryten starts his own pirate TV station to entertain the prisoners.

'PETE - Part 1' - When Rimmer and Lister are forced to take on the guards in a basketball game they sabotage the opposition's half time juice with 'Boing' - the virility enhancement drug.

'PETE - Part 2' - The Dwarfers discover birds are descended from dinosaurs when they de-evolve a sparrow into a T-Rex!

'ONLY THE GOOD...' - Rimmer crosses into a mirror universe where he discovers another version of himself captaining the ship.

DVD Extras: Cast Commentary. Feature-Length Episodes Back in the Red (which is also 'Xtended' with several new scenes) and Pete presented as full-length stories. Comedy Connections documentary. The Tank Original Documentary. Deleted Scenes. Smeg Ups. Trailers. Storyboard Sequences. Super Models. Raw FX Footage. Fight! Featurette. Isolated Music Cues. Dave Hollins Radio Sketch. Photo Gallery. Weblink. Easter Eggs.

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The Crying Game

Neil Jordan's The Crying Game is an unpredictable, unconventional, multi-Oscar nominated masterpiece that became a genuine sleeper hit. Starring Stephen Rea and Miranda Richardson as Irish terrorists, Forest Whitaker as their hostage, and Jaye Davidson as Whitaker's exotic girlfriend, The Crying Game is a haunting, humorous and shocking romantic thriller. Rarely has a motion picture undermined viewer expectations so thoroughly and enjoyably...

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The Last Detective
Series 3

Get ready for more misadventures of Detective Constable “Dangerous” Davies. Beleaguered by life and belittled by colleagues, Davies (Peter Davison, Doctor Who, All Creatures Great and Small) is still living with his flatmate, Mod Lewis (Sean Hughes, The Commitments), still trying to get back together with Julie (Emma Amos, Bridget Jones’s Diary) and still getting stuck with cases nobody else wants. Somehow, he always manages to get his man—and maybe one day he’ll get that promotion. Showcasing a decent man in an indecent world, this series is a perfect antidote for grittier, violent detective dramas. Based on the popular novels by Leslie Thomas. Beleaguered by life and belittled by colleagues, Davies (Peter Davison, Doctor Who, All Creatures Great and Small) is still living with his flatmate, Mod Lewis (Sean Hughes, The Commitments), still trying to get back together with Julie (Emma Amos, Bridget Jones’s Diary) and still getting stuck with cases nobody else wants. Somehow, he always manages to get his man—and maybe one day he’ll get that promotion. Showcasing a decent man in an indecent world, this series is a perfect antidote for grittier, violent detective dramas. Based on the popular novels by Leslie Thomas.

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