Ronnie Corbett's The Prince Of Denmark coming to DVD
- A forgotten Ronnie Corbett sitcom is to be released on DVD
- The Prince Of Denmark is a sequel series to Now Look Here and No - That's Me Over Here!
- The DVD will be released by Simply Media later this year
1974 Ronnie Corbett sitcom The Prince Of Denmark is to be released on DVD later this year.
The series, created and written by Graham Chapman and Barry Cryer, is a sequel to Now Look Here, which itself is a prequel to No - That's Me Over Here!, which began in 1967 and was co-created by the same writers, with Eric Idle.
Simply Media are due to issue the single series DVD within the next couple of months.
Almost every surviving episode of No - That's Me Over Here!, the sitcom's complete third and final series, was released in 2015. The show saw Corbett starring as a put-upon and havoc-prone office worker, with Rosemary Leach co-starring as his wife, Laura.
Corbett and Leach revived their roles for the prequel series, Now Look Here, which started on BBC One a year after the original comedy ended on ITV, and charted the pair's meeting and initial romance.
Simply had been intending to release Now Look Here on DVD as well, but clearance issues have proved impossible to surpass.
The latter of the three series, The Prince Of Denmark, saw Laura inherit a pub of that name and the pair become landlords.
The Ronnie character that Corbett played in the sitcoms was very similar to that he would become more famous for in BBC 1980s hit Sorry!, including a similarly oppressive and fussing mother.
The release date for The Prince Of Denmark DVD is expected to be confirmed in the next few weeks.
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No, That's Me Over Here
In his first leading sitcom role, Ronnie Corbett dons bowler hat, brolly and briefcase to play a quintessential suburban commuter on whom disaster fits more snugly than his pin-striped trousers!
Created by comedy legends Barry Cryer, Eric Idle and Graham Chapman, No - That's Me Over Here sees Ronnie battling the relentless forces of time while struggling to keep his place in a ruthless suburban status race. Bewildered by office politics, rapidly losing the fight to retain his non-fattening centre and belittled at every opportunity by his patronising neighbour, he's the kind of chap who gets dressed up only to be unceremoniously brought down.
Also starring Rosemary Leach as Ronnie's better half, The Saint's Ivor Dean as his boss Mr Robinson and Benny Hill Show stalwart Henry McGee as his semi-detached arch-enemy and workplace rival Cyril, this set comprises all thirteen episodes made by London Weekend Television in 1970 - the third and final series of this sitcom.
First released: Monday 13th July 2015
- Distributor: Network
- Region: 2
- Discs: 2
- Catalogue: 7954334
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The Prince Of Denmark
In the wake of No, That's Me Over Here! and Now Look Here!, this is the third sitcom series penned by Graham Chapman and Barry Cryer for Ronnie Corbett's archetypal everyman. Corbett shines as a pompous but affable ingénue whose witless bluster and eagerness to fit in land him in unwelcome scrapes.
The Prince of Denmark is a frayed-at-the-edges pub to which wife Laura (Rosemary Leach) has inherited the lease. But Ronnie soon takes charge, convinced that his past skills as a frustrated insurance salesman will help get things ship-shape.
Ronnie's run-ins feature brewery reps posing as customers, a rugby team on a rowdy binge, a woman about to give birth on the billiards table, and a cast of irregular regulars including a ragingly alcoholic commuter (Tim Barrett) who can be relied upon to miss train after train, and a crossword fiend (Michael Nightingale) who talks only in cryptic riddles. Luckily Laura and dependable barman Steve (David Warwick) are on hand to smooth the waters whenever unsinkable Ronnie drifts out of his depth.
Corbett may have been put back in a box at Mother's in his next, wildly successful sitcom Sorry!, but Chapman and Cryer's freestyle six-episode precursor is smarter, more satisfying, and just a little more grown-up.
First released: Monday 17th July 2017
- Distributor: Simply Media
- Region: 2
- Discs: 1
- Minutes: 180
- Catalogue: 167513
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