Stars: Steve Coogan

Summary: With his chat show career ended, Alan finds himself working as local DJ and living in a hotel room at Linton Travel Tavern. Episodes are: 'A Room With An Alan', 'Alan Attraction', 'Watership Alan', 'Basic Alan', 'To Kill A Mocking Alan' and 'Towering Alan'.

Steve Coogan is Alan Partridge, a failed talk show host, in this hilarious BBC sitcom. The collection features six episodes, including "Room with an Alan," "Alan Attraction," "Watership Alan," and "To Kill a Mocking Alan."

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I'm Alan Partridgefinds Steve Coogan's media creation back in his native Norwich, having lost his beloved chat show Knowing Me, Knowing You, and now reduced to the pre-Breakfast slot playing old T'Pau and Soft Cell singles to an audience of farmers and all-night bakery workers. He's also lodged at the Linton Travel tavern, whose permanently smiling manageress, bland decor and themed buffets are redolent of what vast tracts of England have become. He's very much at home there. While there's much media satire in Partridge's pitiful pitches of programme ideas to the BBC ("Inner city sumo? Monkey tennis?"), I'm Alan Partridgeis more a bleakly hilarious take on Modern Middle English Man, irascible and profoundly bored. Between innumerable moments of high, wild comedy, such as a disastrous video Partridge does for a boating agency and an encounter with his one (insane) fan, the most telling moments of the series come with his efforts to fill his dismally empty days, taking a trouser press to pieces, staring at the astro turf at an owl sanctuary or walking to a service station to buy windscreen cleaning fluid just for something to do. All this proved a little too darkly uncomfortable for mainstream audiences--yet Alan Partridge was probably the finest British comic creation of the 1990s. --David Stubbs

Aspect Ratio:	4:3
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Commentary By Alan Partridge And His PA Lynn Benfield, Commentary By Steve Coogan Armando Iannucci And Peter Baynham, Deleted Scenes And Outtakes, An Improvised Deleted Scene, Cast And Crew Biographies, Photo Gallery, Scene Selection
Year:	1997
Release Date:	November 25, 2002
Runtime:	180 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	B B C D V D 1202
Keywords:	One, Comedy, General, Series, Alan, Partridge, I'm, Tv, Childrens, Episodes
Genre:	Comedy