Birds of a Feather - Complete Season 8 - 2-DVD Set ( Birds of a Feather - Complete Season Eight ) ( Birds of a Feather - Complete Eigth Series )

Birds of a Feather - Complete Season 8 - 2-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Birds of a Feather - Complete Season Eight
Alternate Title: Birds of a Feather - Complete Eigth 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:
240 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

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

Directed By:
Gary Lawson
John Phelps

Written By:
Maurice Gran
Laurence Marks

Actors:
Pauline Quirke ..... Sharon Theodopolopodous
Linda Robson ..... Tracey Stubbs
Lesley Joseph ..... Dorien Green
Matthew Savage ..... Garth Stubbs
Jeremy Brook ..... Gary
Bunny May ..... Electrician

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 six episodes of Series Eight, originally screened in 1998, alongside the 1997 Christmas Special, also starring The Bill s Christopher Ellison. 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 8
Season 8, Episode 1: Trouble and Strife
Season 8, Episode 2: The Essex Patient
Season 8, Episode 3: The Maids of Ongar
Season 8, Episode 4: Baggage
Season 8, Episode 5: Can't Judge a Book
Season 8, Episode 6: Money

Season 8

Season 8, Episode 1: Trouble and Strife
Original Air Date-5 January 1998
Sharon turns into one of the lads when she gets a job as a porter in a abattoir and Tracey feels used until Sharon tells her she got sacked for stealing meat to help Tracey and her unborn baby out. Dorien prepares for her flat-warming party but unfortunately for her none of the guests bother to show up.

Season 8, Episode 2: The Essex Patient
Original Air Date-12 January 1998
The sisters start work as cleaners with a view to setting up their own cleaning company. However Sharon is not feeling well and goes to hospital. She believes that she may be suffering from an allergy but her illness is actually due to her over-eating.

Season 8, Episode 3: The Maids of Ongar
Original Air Date-19 January 1998
Sharon and Tracey want to set up their cleaning business the Maids of Ongar but the manager of the bank their husbands robbed is not keen to provide the loan. Dorien is prepared to put up the cash if she is cut in as a partner, and gives the sisters a test - which they pass with flying colours - and the business is born.

Season 8, Episode 4: Baggage
Original Air Date-26 January 1998
Some things never change,as the sisters discover at their school reunion where Tracey - literally - exposes Poxy Loxy as the class sleaze and erstwhile bully Margie Harris still manages to torment Sharon, even though she is now in a wheel-chair. For Dorien,however, things do change. Her handsome young Luke,whom she re-encounters,has gone off her so she treats the girls to a night out instead.

Season 8, Episode 5: Can't Judge a Book
Original Air Date-2 February 1998
When Tracey goes for her pre-natal check-up the doctor agrees with her that Sharon should go on a diet,which she does until she discovers that Chris has fallen for Josie, his amply-proportioned prison visitor. Dorien also reneges on her efforts to dress more her age when she finds that, for new beau Richard, less is more and hunky young Dominic, the new cleaner, has all the ladies crying out for more - massages.

Season 8, Episode 6: Money
Original Air Date-9 February 1998
Garth's endowment policy,started when he was a baby,has matured but Tracey spends it on herself, leaving him to use credit cards to buy into the restaurant where he is now a chef. Tracey makes it up to him after she and Sharon visit the restaurant for a meal and defend him against a loud-mouthed diner though it is Dorien,whose efforts to bond with Richard's stroppy kids at the next table are failing, who saves the day.

Birds of a Feather was based on 'A Rift in the Loot', a play by George Foster. British music-hall great George Robey stars as a "nouveau riche" sausage manufacturer. Hoping to break into society, Robey moves himself and his loved ones into the castle of a noble but impecunious family. So as to avoid the scandal of their poverty, the castle's real owners pose as servants. It isn't long before the lowbrows and highbrows discover that they're really not all that different underneath, especially when Robey's daughter and the aristocrats' son fall in love.

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