The Old Guys - Series 1 ( The Old Guys - Series One )

The Old Guys - Series 1 (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: The Old Guys - Series One
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 2&4 )

Running Time:
174 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2009 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Dewi Humphreys
Sam Bain

Written By:
Jesse Armstrong
Simon Blackwell

Actors:
Roger Lloyd-Pack ..... Tom
Clive Swift ..... Roy
Jane Asher ..... Sally
Katherine Parkinson ..... Amber
Justin Edwards ..... Steve
Stephen Clyde ..... Party Guest

Synopsis:

From the writers of Peep Show and The Thick of It comes a new comedy about settling into old age with style. Housemates Tom and Roy are the ying to each other's yang. Roy is well-read, organised, clean and sensitive. Tom, well, isn't. As both of them settle into retirement, they are faced with the prospect of life simply not turning out quite how they imagined. Together, however, they manage to muddle through life - answering the important questions that retirement poses. Questions involving religion, true-love and precisely how early is too early to start drinking in the day. Original, funny and only a little distasteful - this new comedy takes a fresh look at retirement and the joys of growing old disgracefully.

Season 1
Season 1, Episode 1: Sally's Party
Original Air Date-31 January 2009
Tom and Roy are two grumpy pensioners sharing a house and lusting after next door neighbour Sally, though the feeling is not mutual. When Sally throws a party hoping to match her son with Tom's daughter Amber, the gents are happy to help in the hopes that this will ingratiate them with Sally, But then Tom falls over and Roy's time is occupied in looking after him, and when they actually make it to the party,both are caught short and discovered in an embarrassing situation by Sally.
Season 1, Episode 2: The Therapist
Original Air Date-7 February 2009
A depressed Roy goes to see a therapist and tells him about his frustrating unrequited love for Sally. Unfortunately the therapist, Ned, and Sally actually meet and are attracted to each other. To make matters worse,Roy has been acting as Sally's campaign manager in her bid to save the local post office from closing and at the celebratory party who should turn up to take Sally's attention from him but Ned?
Season 1, Episode 3: Marriage
Original Air Date-14 February 2009
Amber is anxious to get in with her new boss,Marianne, who is a keen cyclist but she never learnt to ride a bike as a child so Roy agrees to teach her. Tom is of course jealous but discovers that a lump sum would be added to his pension if he was married. Since none of the women from his past offer any hope he bribes Sally to marry him. Things start well but inevitably he ends up single again.
Season 1, Episode 4: The Old Flame
Original Air Date-21 February 2009
When Mark, an old flame of Sally's, moves in with her Tom feels doubly isolated as Roy gets on very well with him and to make matters worse his daughter Amber wants to know why he has never said he loves her. Sally and Amber discover that they are both fans of the poetry of W.H.Auden whose 'Funeral Blues' Tom claims to know off by heart. Unfortunately this is about to be put to the test.
Season 1, Episode 5: The Croft
Original Air Date-28 February 2009
Sally suggests the old guys might like to have a holiday away from it all in a Scottish croft she would have stayed in with Mark had he not died. Tom is bored to tears and asks Amber to visit them and bring some DVDs. Having just split with her boyfriend Steve, Sally's son, Amber picks up Malcolm, a local ,in the pub and brings him back to the croft. However Sally and Steve arrive unexpectedly and Roy has to ensure Steve does not find out about Malcolm - as well as coping with the fact that he thinks the croft is haunted. Roy makes his play for Sally, asking her to move to the country permanently with him but she only sees him as a friend.
Season 1, Episode 6: Courtesan
Original Air Date-7 March 2009
Having been celibate for many years and appreciating that he will get nowhere with Sally, Roy goes to Soho and visits Katia, a prostitute from Belarus. Amber has a crush on Phil, the handsome vicar, and takes Tom to church with her. Tom has also started seeing Katia and finds it hard to balance with being a church-goer. Eventually Roy and Tom each discover that Katia has been pleasuring them both. Will they fall out over her or will they carry on living together as two ill-matched old guys?

Tom and Roy are two grumpy pensioners sharing a house and lusting after next door neighbour Sally, though the feeling is not mutual. When Sally throws a party hoping to match her son with Tom's daughter Amber, the gents are happy to help in the hopes that this will ingratiate them with Sally, But then Tom falls over and Roy's time is occupied in looking after him, and when they actually make it to the party,both are caught short and discovered in an embarrassing situation by Sally.

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