Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights All 12 Complete Episdoes First and Second Series Collection: (2 Discs) Season 1 + 2 + Loads of Extras

One of the best English comedy shows written

The item arrived in good order and as described. Well recommended

Classic Peter Kay at his best

Great laugh! Well worth the money

2nd series doesn't play properly ...it goes all weird when he is stuck on his chairlift lasts about 30 seconds but you miss that joke ...and then episode 5 won't play at all...you go from 4 to 6 and its half way through 6 at that.......very very disappointing

Phoenix Nights is one of those shows you don't necessarily "get" the first time you see an episode. From the start, you can see how well written it is, and how well observed, but my recollection of first seeing it is that I didn't think "This is really funny". Still, I was intrigued, and I watched another episode, and then a third, and I was hooked. Now, having watched both series right through five times I find it overwhelmingly funny. But that's the point: even if you love it immediately, it still grows on you to the extent that you wonder how you didn't ever think it was 100% genius. Some of the humour is pretty up-front: a bouncy castle with a snake attachment that's actually a ... well, you can guess; the running gags about Paddy's bald spot; the appalling acts that are "auditioned" at the end of each episode - like the escapologist who forgets to pack his keys. But there's much more subtle stuff, too, about friendships, or about the lies we tell ourselves. The idea of Peter Kay playing a disabled nightclub owner is one of those things you either find instantly hilarious or not very funny, but what makes Phoenix Nights is the amazing cast of minor characters - Ray Von the silver-tongued DJ with his inappropriate taste in music, Jerry St Clair and his terrible songs, Max and Paddy's doorman routine (they deserve their own series), Den Perry, who's like something out of a North-West Goodfellas, and the Chinese chefs with their amazingly improbable culinary skills. Having seen all this several times, I love every detail. The scripts are the kind of thing you want to quote endlessly, but there's also an indefinable quality - the way there is with all great comedy. Phoenix Nights is right up there with the likes of Blackadder and Fawlty Towers. The best British sit com (although those words don't do it justice) in over ten years.

Delivery times were great, no complaints at all there but quite literally the opening scenes on episode 1 starts then it jumps to much later in the episode when the fruit machine is getting delivered....if you're ripping disks and and selling them as second hand at least check before you send!!!

Really quick delivery and great condition! Impressive I must say!!I am looking forward to watching these as I have heard so much about the series but never really saw any of them originally. A little Christmas present to myself being honest.