Box set: Rising Damp The Complete TV Series Plus the Movie

Rising Damp: Season 2

Acorn Media (1975)

Comedy
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Plot

Rumour has it that somewhere deep in the rain forests of South America, there still exist undiscovered tribes of people completely cut off from civilisation, untouched by technology, and oblivious to the existence of the great world beyond the waterfall. If this is so, then these people are quite possibly the only humans on the entire planet that have never stood with hands on hips, nodded their heads vigorously back and forth and uttered the line "Yes, Miss Jones." Certainly everyone else, however, has. Such is the legendary status of one miserly, prejudiced, scheming and generally unlikeable bed-sit landlord called Rigsby. Rising Damp originated as a script for a stage play, The Banana Box, in 1970. It's author, Eric Chappell, was inspired by a newspaper article about a black man who had guested at a hotel for a year, pretending to be an African prince as a means of avoiding discrimination. The play enjoyed a short lived run in 1

Cast

Leonard Rossiter
Frances de la Tour
Don Warrington
Gabrielle Rose
Christopher Strauli
Richard Beckinsale

Episodes

Disc 01

1
Permissive Society
30 mins  07/11/1975
Philip arranges a blind date for Alan, so he can be alone with Ruth, who's been let down by her latest suitor.
2
Food Glorious Food
30 mins  14/11/1975
Rigsby has to choose between his pride and his stomach when Philip challenges his ability to go without food for three days.
3
A Body Like Mine
30 mins  21/11/1975
Rigsby reluctantly joins a communal fitness craze.
4
Moonlight and Roses
30 mins  28/11/1975
Rigsby jumps to the conclusion that Ruth has fallen in love with him.
5
The Perfect Gentlemen
30 mins  05/12/1975
A well-bred new tenant brings out Rigsby's aristocratic aspirations.
6
The Last of the Big Spenders
30 mins  12/12/1975
Rigsby tries to seduce a new tenant while fending off bill collectors.
7
Things That Go Bump in the Night
30 mins  19/12/1975
Rigsby tries to spook Alan by telling him that the boarding house is haunted.

Director:  Len Lurcuck 

8
For the Man Who Has Everything
30 mins  26/12/1975
Rigsby spends Christmas alone, but both Alan and Philip return early looking for some solitude for romance.

Edition Details

Series Rising Damp
Release Date 2005
Packaging Custom Case
No. of Disks/Tapes 1

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