Stars: Reece Shearsmith, Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton

Director: Steve Bendelack

Summary: The locals from Royston Vasey return with the third series. Episodes are: 'The Lesbian And The Monkey', 'The One-Armed Man Is King', 'Turn Again Geoff Tipps', 'The Medusa Touch', 'Beauty And The Beast' and 'How The Elephant Got Its Trunk'.

The third and perhaps most bizarre of the League's devilish offspring so far. Some old faves like Pauline have a welcome return--she's been released from HMP Clitclink--but still wonderfully sinister and creepy goings-on all round, as per. When dab-hand Charlie gets a massage job at Spit & Polish, he's a bit reluctant to offer the handy 'extras' until they prove too lucrative. And Lance, the one-armed joke-shop owner, regrets getting a second one when it appears to have a nail-varnished life of its own. Spine-chillingly twisted fine fare.

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The third series of The League of Gentlementakes the portmanteau horror approach of their Christmas Special and extends it daringly across the entire six episodes. Here, each half-hour instalment is a self-contained story featuring various familiar and less well-known inhabitants of Britain's most accursed town, Royston Vasey. But each individual tale leads--horribly, inevitably--towards a single shocking event, the full circumstances of which are only realised in a final, macabre twist. It's all far too bleak to be called comedy, just too damn funny to be anything else. This is a team who have always defined their own rules, nowhere more boldly than here.

Opening with a funky new theme tune, the six episodes feature--among others--ex-con Pauline and Mickey in a touching tale of transvestisism; Lance the one-armed comedy shop owner yearning for a new limb; foul-tempered Geoff Tipps trying to make it as a stand-up comic in "Lundun"; some eye-popping fetishist behaviour at the local B&B; seedy goings-on in the massage parlour; and, most horrendously of all, the dreaded return of Papa Lazarou. It all proved too much for some viewers--too grotesque, too offbeat, too surreal. Packed with knowing references to obscure movies and filled with the most unpleasant characters ever to grace a "sitcom", this is certainly an uncompromising series, and one that invites fascinated speculation on what dark delights await in their upcoming movie.

On the DVD:The League of Gentlemen, Series 3two-disc set maintains the high standard of extra features established by the previous series. Here there's more raucous "Local Gossip" with the four gents on the first disc, plus a second disc of insightful background material including: a 30-minute making of documentary by Adam Buxton (of Adam and Joe); a candid video diary from Steve Pemberton; a truly dire magic tutorial from Dean Tavalouris (Reece Shearsmith); Joby Talbot's music score; an interview with costume designer Yves Barre; outtakes and deleted scenes; plus a Mike King Enterprises editing suite, enabling you to muck about with the ending sequence and ruin it completely. --Mark Walker

Aspect Ratio:	16:9 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Local Gossip Commentary, Interview With The Costume Designer Yves Barre, Deans Magic Teach In, Local Out Takes And Deleted Scenes, Photo Gallery, Isolated Music Cues, New Video Diaries, The Making Of Series 3, SFX Footage, Character Biographies
Year:	2002
Release Date:	November 10, 2003
Runtime:	170 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	B B C D V D 1129
Keywords:	League, Comedy, Two, General, Third, Series, Wide, Screen, Gentlemen, Tv, Discs, Entire
Genre:	Comedy