Well hurrah! The first series of Chance In A Million starring Simon Callow and Brenda Blethyn will be available to buy from 1st March 2010.
See Amazon product listing
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I think there may be a thread for this already somewhere... Certainly been mentioned. Nevertheless, hopefully its release is an indicator of the Channel 4 and/or Thames archives opening further.
About time. I did manage to pick it up on VHS a few years back, from the States but a DVD would be good - particularly as I don't currently have a working video and it's one of those annoying American box sets where the tapes just fall out of the bottom.
I'd like to have a look at this show again. 
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ January 25 2010, 9:47 AM GMTI'd like to have a look at this show again.
It wasn't quite as good as I remembered - it dated quite a bit and the humour was definitely old-fashioned farce but Brenda Blethyn and Simon Callow is a pretty awesome amount of acting prowess in one tiny sitcom.
Quote: Afinkawan @ January 25 2010, 12:05 PM GMTIt wasn't quite as good as I remembered - it dated quite a bit and the humour was definitely old-fashioned farce but Brenda Blethyn and Simon Callow is a pretty awesome amount of acting prowess in one tiny sitcom.
Yeah I think my brother and I became fans when it was on, partly to take the piss and be ironic and partly because we did actually find it funny.
Quote: Aaron @ January 24 2010, 8:04 PM GMTI think there may be a thread for this already somewhere...
Vaguely remember this from when I was a kid - I think I liked it - just YouTubed it though and was very surprised to see how oddly the Tom Chance character spoke. Must've been a pain in the arse to write and for Simon Callow to act. The character had a really strange, stilted way of speaking.
In a scene where his wife asks him how he developed the skill for mending her leather skirt, he says:
"Out swimming. In 1965. Over-ambitious heron dropped 28 pound salmon pike on head. Temporary amnesia, came round 3 months later doing leatherwork apprenticeship in remand home."
He always misses out words like "I, was, a, had, my, an, your, the," etc
Bizarre.
Series 2, 3, and the complete box set are now available to pre-order:
Series 2
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Series 3
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Complete Series
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The complete set is just £17.99 from Play - get in there whilst you can!
Nice. I think it was only series 1 I got on tape.
