Gimme, Gimme, Gimme (Complete Series 1, 2 & 3) - 3-DVD Box Set ( Gimme Gimme Gimme: Series One, Two and Three )

Gimme, Gimme, Gimme (Complete Series 1, 2 & 3) - 3-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

$30.99

Alternate Title: Gimme Gimme Gimme: Series One, Two and Three
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2.4 )

Running Time:
554 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1999 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Liddy Oldroyd
Tristram Shapeero

Written By:
Jonathan Harvey

Actors:
James Dreyfus ..... Tom Farrell (16 episodes, 1999-2001)
Kathy Burke ..... Linda La Hughes (15 episodes, 1999-2001)
Brian Bovell ..... Jez Littlewood (11 episodes, 1999-2001)
Beth Goddard ..... Suze Littlewood (11 episodes, 1999-2001)
Doña Croll ..... Norma / ... (7 episodes, 1999-2001)

Synopsis:

Gimme Gimme Gimme is quite simply the chaotic adventures of one over the top tart (Kathy Burke) and one perennially lonely gay guy (James Dreyfus) who happen to share both a flat in London and a yearning lust for whatever luckless man happens to cross their paths! This release includes all the episodes from the three series.

Series 1:

1. Who's That Boy?

2. The Big Break

3. Legs And Co.

4. Do They Take Sugar

5. Saturday Night Diva

6. I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do

7. Millennium

Series 2:

1. Teacher's Pet

2. Stiff

3. Prison Visitor

4. Dirty 30

5. Glad To Be Gay

6. Sofa Man

Series 3:

1. Down And Out

2. Lollipop Man

3. Secrets And Flies

4. Trauma

5. Singing In The Drain

6. Decoy

Season 1

Who's That Boy? S1, Ep1 8 Jan. 1999

Screamingly vulgar Linda La Hughes and screamingly camp Tom share a flat in a house owned by resident landlady and former prostitute Beryl Merit. One day they find an attractive,scantily-clad black man in their kitchen and both make a play for him. He teases them by pretending to be an escort but in fact he is Jez who has just moved in the flat below them - with Suze, his girlfriend.

The Big Break S1, Ep2 15 Jan. 1999

When Linda finds a love letter from an admirer she assumes it to be from Jez and does her best to vamp him - though her best is not good enough. Tom has an audition to play a criminal in a reconstruction sketch in the television show 'Crimewatch' but slips on the overly polished floor on his way to the audition and breaks his leg.

Legs and Co. S1, Ep3 22 Jan. 1999

Tom is stuck in the flat with a broken leg so gets some home-help, someone called Shirley. Shirley turns out to be a mentally unstable man who doesn't like people mentioning the fact that he has a woman's name. Linda finally gets a date with a flower delivery man called Joe only to find out he's a Christian so she can't sleep with him!

Do They Take Sugar? S1, Ep4 29 Jan. 1999

Tom is overjoyed when Linda's sister Sharon, known professionally as Sugar Walls, seeks sanctuary from the gutter press after reports of her twelve in a bed romp with a football team. Suze mistakes her for Pam Ayres whilst Linda just wants her out until the press assume she is having an affair with Tom, opening doors for both the flat-dwellers, including an imagined quickie with Dale Winton for Linda, and, even after Sugar has gone, Linda still has Liam Gallagher's phone number.

Saturday Night Diva S1, Ep5 5 Feb. 1999

Tom is in on a Saturday night and suddenly panics over feeling old so decides to hit the clubs on his own, whilst Linda stays in drinking wine and drunkenly flirting with Jez. Whilst Tom is out he meets a good looking Italian called Nino, only to find out the next day that Nino's real name is Kevin and he's from Manchester.

I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do S1, Ep6 12 Feb. 1999

Tom agrees to a show marriage with Gloria,an American Lesbian,so she can stay in the country with India,her girl-friend. Linda of course hates her but is attracted to her brother Vince,who promises to star her in his porn film. Degsy,another gay man whom Tom fancies, designs the extravagant wedding gown. After the wedding Linda and Tom exchange confessions regarding the two objects of desire,unaware that they will both be in for a shock.

Millennium S1, Ep7 29 Dec. 1999

On New Year's Eve, the eve of the new century, Linda is at a glitzy party and Tom holding hands with heart-throb Simon Shepherd - and then they wake up to find themselves spending the evening in the flat with each other. Tom's guests seem to have got lost and the couple ending up playing Charades and, out of desperation, kissing each other. By the time the party starts they have both fallen asleep.

Season 2

Teacher's Pet S2, Ep1 14 Jan. 2000

Tom decides to give acting lessons, his first pupil being Linda's sister Sugar, who is preparing for a play and whom he takes to see 'Macbeth', where he ends up getting socked by Patsy Palmer. Linda acts as baby-sitter to Petula,a doll Suze and Jez have bought as a rehearsal for parenting but becomes so attached to it she refuses to return it - until its head blows up.

Stiff S2, Ep2 21 Jan. 2000

Linda and Tom are shocked to find an open coffin in the building containing the corpse of land-lady Beryl. They are visited by a jocular undertaker and then by Beryl's handsome young Spanish toy-boy Pedro, whose grief Linda and Tom plan to exploit to bed him. However they are interrupted by Beryl, who explains that it was her twin sister who died, allowing her a foreign holiday where she met Pedro. Suze still thinks it thoughtful that Beryl turned up for her own funeral.

Prison Visitor S2, Ep3 28 Jan. 2000

Tom purchases a cat which he hopes will make him lots of money, something along the lines of £5000 a week, whilst Linda is busy visiting her prison pen pal 'Freddie Windrush'. Freddie escapes from prison to see Linda and they plan to go to Spain together. Linda tells Tom that Freddie is called Fritz and he's her long lost German cousin which Tom believes. Tom and 'Fritz' end up sleeping together as well so he decides he's going to take Tom to Spain instead, until they find out he's an escaped convict and Beryl calls the police.

Dirty 30 S2, Ep4 4 Feb. 2000

This episode sees Tom hit the big 3-0. Tom's parents come round to wish him happy birthday and to unintentionally aggravate him. They tell him they'll be staying in a caravan and using his bathroom which he's not pleased with so he comes up with a cunning plan.... he asks Linda to come onto his father to scare him off but it backfires - Linda actually sleeps with him and it turns out his parents are swingers anyway!

Glad to Be Gay? S2, Ep5 11 Feb. 2000

After a night out Tom wakes up with Neville, an irritating security guard whom he throws out, whilst a horrified Linda finds she has gone to bed with Maddie, a Lesbian who praises her sexual technique. In an effort to prove she is straight she accosts a man in a bar where Neville works and is saved from prosecution by arranging another date with Tom for Neville. As final proof of her heterosexuality she takes on one of dominatrix Beryl's clients.

Sofa Man S2, Ep6 18 Feb. 2000

Tom lands a job in the World of Sofa series of adverts, attracting the attention of conceited actor Rick Cheesecloth, with whom he starts a relationship, despite Rick's animosity to Linda, though it all ends when Rick goes back into the closet. Linda falls for Ron, an attractive co-worker on the mashed potato assembly line but loses him to plain colleague Daisy. She and Tom end up advising each other on picking up, given their lack of success with men.

Season 3

Down and Out S3, Ep1 2 Nov. 2001

Linda gets a visit from Shirley Twitch, a wardress when Linda was at the Eva Braun borstal for girls and who is now down and out. Linda allows her to pitch a tent in the back garden, which she turns into a camp site and even Suze and Jez decide to spend a holiday there. Tom is excited for another reason since he has written a play for his heart throb Simon Shepherd, who graces him with a visit.

Lollipop Man S3, Ep2 9 Nov. 2001

Tom has a one-line walk on part as a lollipop man in 'Salmon',a surreal Japanese play supposedly starring Tom Cruise and staged in a converted fire station. After he and Linda have swapped school stories in the dressing room, where he breaks a sink, he forgets his one line and, billed for the sink, he and Linda have to escape down the fireman's pole.

Secrets and Flies S3, Ep3 23 Nov. 2001

Following the deaths of his foster parents, Zippy, the boy Linda gave up for adoption as a teen-ager, calls to see her and takes her out for a make-over. Unfortunately they do not really bond and after Tom has delivered Suze's baby boy - videoed by Beryl to send to 'You've Been Framed' in his presence, Zippy makes his escape, declaring that 'You're all freaks.'

Trauma S3, Ep4 30 Nov. 2001

Tom has a part in a medical soap called 'Doctor Deaf' but for Linda the journey to hospital is a reality after arguing with a bus conductor, falling off the bus into a shop window and ending up in casualty with a saucepan stuck on her head. She is diagnosed with reversed body dysmorphic disorder - which accounts for why she erroneously thinks she is beautiful. When Tom comes to collect her he finds one of the doctors is old school contemporary Bart, who once put it about that he was a cross-dresser so Tom punches him before leaving with Linda - who still has the pan on ...

Singing in the Drain S3, Ep5 7 Dec. 2001

Tom is offered a part in a musical so he takes singing lessons from outrageous Heidi Honeycombe, who dresses like, and gets on with, Linda. Linda is offered a job modelling on a cat-walk. However Linda accidentally sprays deodorant into Tom's mouth, which prevents him from speaking or singing so he does the same to her.

Decoy S3, Ep6 14 Dec. 2001

When Suze suspects Jez of having an affair, Linda is only too happy to go undercover to find him out. However she has a more pressing problem as Tom has won the part of a bellboy in the soap opera 'Crossroads', which will involve him leaving London. In order to persuade him to stay Linda pretends to have a terminal illness but he sees through the ruse and leaves her.

A sitcom about two dreamy roommates in London. Gay unemployed actor Tom Farrell has a vague ambition to become the British Tom Cruise, but his career is going nowhere, and his love life isn't too hot either. Linda La Hughes is about as attractive as a centenary nun, yet has delusions of romantic love and actually aims at Tom, by far the most attractive man in her life, even if he is only into men. Yet as life keeps knocking them down, they are sort of condemned often to depend on each-other for want of better.

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