Stars: Windsor Davies, Donald Sinden

Summary: The first series of the classic comedy about rival antique dealers Oliver Smallbridge and Simon Peel. Features the episodes 'Families At War', 'Of Meissen Men', 'A Night At The Opera', 'A Matched Pair', 'Nothing But The Truth' and 'Father Of The Groom'.

NEVER THE TWAIN is a sitcom starring Windsor Davies and Donald Sinden as two rival antique dealers. This collection presents the entire first series.

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Remarkably, the Johnny Mortimer-scripted series Never the Twainran to over 50 episodes between 1981 and 1984 on ITV. It starred Donald Sinden as Simon Peel, a stuffy, upper-middle class antiques dealer who lives next door to Oliver Smallbridge (Windsor Davies of It Ain't Half Hot, Mumfame), a working-class lad made good, also in the antiques trade. As the first series establishes, theirs is a prickly relationship, not just because they're rivals in trade but also rivals for the affections of the middle-aged, comely Veronica. They are aghast when they discover their respective son and daughter plan to marry, coming on like the Capulets and Montagues of Middle England. Never the Twainis a pleasantly predictable antique of the sitcom variety, redeemed by Sinden and Davies' gruff, blustery and persistent antagonism. It depicts a cosy, never-never world of "dirty weekends", huge suburban houses, borderline homophobic mirth and reliable puns on "genes" and "jeans"--the sort of series in which characters greet surprising news by spraying a mouthful of tea halfway across the room. Some will find it barely endurable, others a welcome reminder of a bygone televisual era before alternative comedy became the ubiquitous norm.

This DVD contains an episode guide and picture gallery. --David Stubbs

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Animated Menu, Picture Gallery, Episode Synopses And Transmission Times, Episode Selection
Year:	1981
Release Date:	June 4, 2001
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	S I T D V D 002
Keywords:	Comedy, Never, General, Series, Tv, Complete, Twain
Genre:	Comedy