Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #50228 in VHS
• Released on: 1998-11-11
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Formats: Box set, Color, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of tapes: 4
• Running time: 350 minutes

Customer Reviews

Excellent TV Series - A Class Act
This is an excellent TV series and well worth purchasing. I am only dissapointed it took me so long to find a copy of it. This is a really classy series, they should have made more. The casting is perfect and John Bowe has some excellent moments. This is an enjoyable watch for anyone of any age. It's not rude or violent just funny.

Class Act Among the Best
Class Act is a light, sophisticated British Comedy/Mystery with characters that are perfect for the part. After watching one episode I just had to see it again to learn more about the characters and their stories. This series really starts at the beginning so that you know the characters and where they come from. It keeps you laughing all the way through. It's great.

A Superbly Entertaining British Comedy!
This is a thoroughly enjoyable, not to mention very, very funny British comedy. With 50-minute episodes, it is not exactly a Britcom, but it is sure to be enjoyed by anyone who enjoys shows typical of that genre.

Joanna Lumley (Absolutely Fabulous) stars as self-centred, avaricious Kate Swift, a feisty, vain and very unsympathetic aristocrat, who has found herself cash-strapped since being shafted by her husband, Donald (who had his fingers in a number of less-than-legal pies!). You see, Donald has disappeared, apparently leaving Kate to weather the repercusions of his illegal ventures but without, alas, the consolation of the corresponding cash.

Kate forms two unlikely alliances. Firstly, there's Jack Booker, an out-of-work, asthmatic journalist with a serious alcohol addiction. Jack is an absolutely hilarious character, a nervous coward whose claim to fame (if one can call it that) is that he revealed his sources. Secondly, there is Gloria, a gutsy, street-wise young Australian burglar who is more than capable of taking care of herself--in short, she's everything Jack isn't!

Kate teams up with these two misfits and together they try to find out what happened to her beloved Donald and, more importantly, to his beloved cash. The episodes often involve Kate crossing paths (though swords may be a more apt term!) with Donald's assorted underworld associates. In some cases, they'd like slice of Donald's now-nonexistent monetary pie; in others, it's Kate who wants her (ie. Donald's) share of what she feels is owed. Regardless, money is at the heart of each episode, and Kate will do whatever it takes to get her hands on some much-needed cash.

There are eight 50-minute episodes in the video boxed set (though the DVD version is nearly twice as long--11 hours as opposed to 6 1/2). Don't worry that you'll be left in mid-air, however, for each episode is an independent little story. (Still, I dearly hope BFS will release the other series of episodes for those of us who don't have DVD players!) This is a witty--at times hilarious--series which I thoroughly enjoyed and highly recommend to all fans of British comedy.