The League Of Gentlemen - The Complete Collection - Import Zone 2 UK (anglais uniquement)

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Set in a fictitious village in the north of England called Royston Vasey, we witness the lives of over sixty fascinating characters all played by Mark, Steve and Reece. This boxset contains all previously released individual titles: series 1, series 2, series 3 and the Christmas specials.

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The bizarre yet critically acclaimed BBC television series The League of Gentlemen is to sitcoms like The Good Life or even Friends what David Lynch's films are to Frank Capra movies. Instead of the usual one-family-in-suburbia or group-of-pals set-up, Gentlemen centres on the whole town of Royston Vasey.

A northern village of, to say the least, eccentric characters, the weird people of Royston Vasey (actually, the real name of lewd northern comic Roy Chubby Brown) look like they've been intermarrying for too long and are suffering from a particularly demented variety of xenophobia that drives them to extremes of tetchiness and psychosis.

Principal characters

• Edward and Tubbs, local shopkeepers who go to murderous lengths to ensure their shop remains for local people only
• the Denton family, toad-breeders obsessed with maintaining their household rituals at all costs
• Dr Chinnery, an inept veterinary surgeon who's never yet saved a patient
• Barbara, the local transsexual taxi driver, one of the show's more well adjusted characters
• Pauline, the demonic restart officer at the local job centre
• Lance, the sadistic owner of Lance's Joke Shop, which sells poisonous sweets and the ever-popular finger in a matchbox (with a real finger)

Most of the characters are performed by the three core members of the group, sporting a disturbing variety of prosthetic demi-masks and latex make-up. They started the concept off with a stage show and then transferred it to radio before taking it on TV, which may explain why The League of Gentlemen seems blithely oblivious to normal sitcom conventions and has a stately air of surrealism that feels like The Archers as written by playwright Eugene Ionesco.

Brilliant stuff. --Leslie Felperin