Stars: Leonard Rossiter, Frances De La Tour, Richard Beckinsale, Don Warrington

Director: Ian MacNaughton

Summary: All six episodes from the first series which centre on the antics of the land lord who lets out a number of bedsits: 'Rooksby', 'Black Magic', 'Charisma', 'Night Out', 'All Our Yesterdays' and 'The Prowler'.

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First broadcast in 1974, the ITV bedsitland sitcom Rising Dampwas an instant and enduring success. It starred Leonard Rossiter as the miserly and lovelorn landlord Rigsby who is constantly needling young lodger Alan (Richard Beckinsale), a science student whose long hair and earrings are symptomatic to Rigsby of the parlous effeminacy of the modern age. He's also in love with Frances De La Tour's dowdy spinster Miss Jones, though his tentative advances are forever rebuffed. She in turn carries a torch for Philip (Don Warrington), the elegant son of an African chief who also resides at Rigsby Towers.

Some aspects of Rising Damphave not aged well, principally Rigsby's stream of racist jibes at Philip. Although these were doubtless well-meant and supposed to illustrate Rigsby's foolish bigotry, you suspect that that was a convenient cover for audiences in the 1970s to enjoy racist humour. However, Rossiter's Rigsby--stuttering, stammering, bent perpetually over backwards--remains a great comic creation, embodying all the festering prejudices, small-mindedness and self-delusion of the lower middle class Little Englander. --David Stubbs

Aspect Ratio:	4:3
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Year:	1974
Release Date:	May 7, 2001
Runtime:	143 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	G V D 020
Keywords:	First, Comedy, Rising, General, Series, Damp, Tv, Complete, 1st
Genre:	Comedy