Birds of a Feather - Complete Season 5 - 3-DVD Set ( Birds of a Feather - Complete Season Five ) ( Birds of a Feather - Complete Fifth Series )

Birds of a Feather - Complete Season 5 - 3-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Birds of a Feather - Complete Season Five
Alternate Title: Birds of a Feather - Complete Fifth Series
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 )

Running Time:
420 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1989 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Laurence Marks
Maurice Gran

Written By:
Jenny Lecoat

Actors:
Pauline Quirke ..... Sharon Theodopolopodous
Linda Robson ..... Tracey Stubbs
Lesley Joseph ..... Dorien Green
Alun Lewis ..... Darryl Stubbs
Greg Cruttwell ..... Mark
Eddie O'Connell ..... Jason

Synopsis:

Everyone's favourite Essex girls return with this fifth series of Birds Of A Feather - one of the 1990s most successful, long-running and memorable sitcoms. This release comprises all thirteen episodes of Series Five along with the 1993 Christmas Special, featuring guest appearances by George Hamilton, George Wendt and Richard Branson. Created by the legendary comedy partnership of Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran (The New Statesman), the series chronicles the misadventures of Sharon and Tracy (Pauline Quirke and Linda Robson) - North London-born sisters left to fend for themselves, financially and emotionally, when their husbands are jailed for armed robbery. The girls have lived very different lives, Tracey enjoying the neo-Georgian splendour of Dalentrace - the luxury home paid for by husband Darryl s criminal activities - while her sister had remained in an Edmonton tower block. Now, Sharon lives with Tracey, enjoying a few home comforts and offering much-needed moral support - even if some of her habits prove a tad annoying. And if life in Chigwell sometimes seems a little dull, there are always the extra-marital antics of their man-eating Jewish neighbour, Dorien (Lesley Joseph), to keep them entertained...
Season 5
Season 5, Episode 1: High Fidelity (Original Air Date-5 September 1993)
Season 5, Episode 2: Bang (Original Air Date-12 September 1993)
Season 5, Episode 3: Non-Starter (Original Air Date-19 September 1993)
Season 5, Episode 4: Absent Friends (Original Air Date-26 September 1993)
Season 5, Episode 5: Suspicious Minds (Original Air Date-3 October 1993)
Season 5, Episode 6: Dead Loss (Original Air Date-10 October 1993)
Season 5, Episode 7: A Brush with the Law (Original Air Date-17 October 1993)
Season 5, Episode 8: Mind Over Matter (Original Air Date-24 October 1993)
Season 5, Episode 9: East Side Story (Original Air Date-31 October 1993)
Season 5, Episode 10: Find the Lady (Original Air Date-7 November 1993)
Season 5, Episode 11: An Inspector Stays (Original Air Date-14 November 1993)
Season 5, Episode 12: All Gone Pear-Shaped (Original Air Date-21 November 1993)
Season 5, Episode 13: The Beautiful Game (Original Air Date-28 November 1993)
Season 5, Episode 14: It Happened in Hollywood (Original Air Date-25 December 1993)

Season 5

Season 5, Episode 1: High Fidelity
Original Air Date-5 September 1993
Sharon falls for carpet-fitter Mark but he can't read or write so match-making Tracey invites him to the house for literacy lessons. Unfortunately he is attracted to the wrong sister and Tracey is tempted - but only briefly. Dorien's latest young hunk involves in an anti-fur protest which hits the headlines.

Season 5, Episode 2: Bang
Original Air Date-12 September 1993
Thanks to Sharon leaving the gas on ,Tracey's kitchen goes up in smoke so Dorien,looking for an escape from visiting her mother-in-law,lets the sisters spend the weekend with her whilst the new kitchen is installed.There is the inevitable culture clash but the girls reward her with a shopping trip where Tracey's delayed shock spells trouble for Dorien and the brand new kitchen brings a shock of its own.

Season 5, Episode 3: Non-Starter
Original Air Date-19 September 1993
Whilst Dorien finds a new line selling furniture,Sharon badgers Tracey into teaching her how to drive. She is anything but an apt pupil and ends up crashing into a prison van transferring Chris and Darryl, which leads to the sisters being accused of attempting to organize a jail break.

Season 5, Episode 4: Absent Friends
Original Air Date-26 September 1993
Chigwell is in the grip of a burglar and anonymous calls and letters are aimed at Tracey as an accomplice since hers is one of the only houses not targeted. To square things up Chris,who knows the burglar and has warned him off Dal'n'Trace and Dorien's,gets him to stage a break-in at Tracey's house. Dorien, meanwhile, has her own security advisor.

Season 5, Episode 5: Suspicious Minds
Original Air Date-3 October 1993
After a row with Dorien at their barbecue Marcus suddenly disappears. Dorien gives away some of his clothes for Chris and, when the sisters see her digging in her garden in the night,they suspect that she has done away with him and decide to investigate. Fortunately the 'corpse' reappears and Dorien explains the situation but the cheap food Sharon bought for the cafe from Chris's dodgy friend Barry has long since expired.

Season 5, Episode 6: Dead Loss
Original Air Date-10 October 1993
Chris gets compassionate leave after his mother dies but,after the funeral,he goes on a drunken bender,ending up at the cafe,where Sharon and Tony track him down. He is adamant that he is not going back to jail and needs a knuckle sandwich to persuade him. On return he can remember nothing.

Season 5, Episode 7: A Brush with the Law
Original Air Date-17 October 1993
Tracey does some decorating for Dorien's enemy Melanie Fishman,who tells her the source of their feud. Sharon meets the attractive Colin in a cinema queue and they click but he has failed to tell her that he is a policeman,a fact which comes to light when Dorien gets accused of buying stolen antiques. Sharon feels that their future is doomed though he would still like them to be friends.

Season 5, Episode 8: Mind Over Matter
Original Air Date-24 October 1993
Sharon has toothache and badly needs to visit the dentist but she's terrified. Fortunately Dorien comes to the rescue by hypnotising her so that she feels no pain. Unfortunately Dorien does not seem to be able to get her out of her hypnotised state and back to normal.

Season 5, Episode 9: East Side Story
Original Air Date-31 October 1993
Dorien's visiting niece,Rosa,seems the shy,retiring type so Dorien and Tracey are amazed to find her in the Jacuzzi with Garth and none too happy when the youngsters start dating. It causes a neighbourhood split but Dorien and Tracey make up after Dorien learns Rosa is using Garth to get her father to buy her a new car and Garth discovers that Rosa is not his type.

Season 5, Episode 10: Find the Lady
Original Air Date-7 November 1993
Tracey is pleased to find that Darryl started a pension fund with the money from a cash in hand job which he was advised to declare as an inheritance. Chris did the same cash in hand job but when Sharon eventually tracks down the broker she realises that he has not let her down - he's still a loser and she ends up owing brokerage charges!

Season 5, Episode 11: An Inspector Stays
Original Air Date-14 November 1993
Confusion reigns when Colin's superior,Inspector Dunsford and a female colleague stake out Emil, the possibly drug-dealing Frenchman across the road from Tracey's front bedroom. Dorien sees two people kissing silhouetted on the bedroom blind and Sharon tells her Tracey has a love slave whilst Tracey is disgusted that Garth has been paid fifty pounds by Emil. Eventually it turns out that Emil is a chef, paying Garth to help him and the married Dunsford is using the room to have sex with his bit on the side.

Season 5, Episode 12: All Gone Pear-Shaped
Original Air Date-21 November 1993
Tracey is spending a lot of time helping Hayley,a first time prisoner's wife,and feels stronger as a result. Sharon tells Chris she is seeing Colin but ultimately breaks off with the policeman as she sees they live in different worlds and assumes Chris will think she did it for him. Dorien, stood up by her latest conquest,feels the sisters are neglecting her and is lonely but all three unite for a slap-up meal at the new restaurant where the waiters 'undress you with their eyes'.

Season 5, Episode 13: The Beautiful Game
Original Air Date-28 November 1993
Sharon and Tracey go to watch Chris's nephew's junior football team,which Tracey takes over after a row with its manager,and she shocks everyone with her ruthlessly competitive attitude. Dorien visits a clairvoyant,who tells her she will be swept off her feet by a man in black but,after this comes true and Tracey gets the sack from the team, Sharon and Dorien show her what competitive really means during a bitterly-fought game of Monopoly.

Season 5, Episode 14: It Happened in Hollywood
Original Air Date-25 December 1993
Years ago Auntie Sylvie told the sisters that they were adopted and now she has died they get to see their birth certificates, stating that their real father was called G. Hamilton. They get it into their heads that this is the American actor George Hamilton,who could have been in the area at the time and, thanks to Dorien,who of course goes with them, they fly out to Hollywood to meet their daddy. Their plans to confront him do not go well as they are chased off the film set but they are befriended by actor George Wendt,who eventually arranges a meeting with the perma-tanned player. Inevitably he is not their father and, on return to Chigwell,the truth is far less glamorous.

Sisters Sharon (Pauline Quirke) and Tracey (Linda Robson) return along with their man-hating neighbour Dorien (Leslie Joseph) for this fifth series of the popular Essex-based sitcom BIRDS OF A FEATHER.

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