Anyone read the new Derel Robinson yet?

Hi Lancman,

You can order from any of the amazon sites. You just pay the postage. I bought Battle of Britain from amazon.com (USA) for £6.00 plus about £2.50 for postage and it took three or four days to arrive. That was probably quicker than if I had ordered it from somewhere in the UK (allow 28 days for delivery 😉 ).

I wouldn’t give up on it coming out on region 2 DVD. There’s a series called ‘The High Life’ that was shown ages ago that we’ve been waiting years for on either video or DVD, and it’s finally been released on both! (Anyone ever see that one? Very funny series) So PoC may yet get it’s chance.

Hey, brill, I didn’t realise that you could order from international Amazon like that!

MikeJ, what’s the DVD like? Good picture transfer? Individual episodes, or the long edits of the VHS version?

Nope, none of the R1 suppliers seem to have it listed. Here’s a link to it on Amazon.com, anyway. If anyone finds it available of course, do let us know!

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004W5P1/sitescraper-20/002-0475170-7627238

So much for my theories! POC IS available on DVD, but only Region 1 it seems, 3 discs for about fifty dollars, but only from Amazon.COM, so even if you’re multi-region like me, you might not be able to actually buy it. Play.com don’t have it listed in their R1’s-I’ll keep looking!

POC has been available on video for ages, either in a double pack or on two separate tapes-each tape being put together into one long piece minus the episode credits each time. This wasn’t brilliantly done-the editing jumps a tiny bit here and there-and there’s also a comedy ‘beep’ on top of the single ‘f’ word that appeared in the series. (In the brilliant episode 4)

I’m not sure if there are any plans for this ever to be put out on DVD, though if it is, I suspect it will be a hasty transfer on a budget label-it’s just not considered a ‘seller’ for the big guns to put it out.

Good grief, when it was first transmitted (Sunday nights, remember?) I taped it on Betamax!!! 😮 😮 😮

That’s two things I want to see on Region 2 DVD – Piece of Cake and Battle of Britain 🙂

I managed to acquire the whole series on video about five years ago (taped from TV, obviously) by putting an ad in a radio-controlled model magazine and got it for a tenner! A long-shot turned out bloody good, in my opinion! 😀

🙂 Does anyone know if P o Cake is coming out in region 2 dvd at anytime,i thought it was fantastic:D

IF you haven’t got Hurricanes you can’t have Hurricanes,end of story:D

By the way, a few years ago ‘Derel’ was advertising signed first edition hardbacks of ‘Piece Of Cake’ in the small ads in FlyPast; I guess he either had a huge surplus stock cluttering up his house, or he was very short of money, though I don’t recall it costing me very much!

He replied to my letter at great length, signed my first ed of POC which I now treasure, and also threw in a signed copy of one of his other books for free! A heck of a nice guy, a great writer who didn’t deserve all the fack that came his way after POC came out in print and then on TV.

Did anyone else get one of these signed first eds at the time?

Thanks for the heads-up, Cattermole! That’s one added to my Crimbo list straight away! 😀

“Derel” Robinson, Moggy? Spot of finger trouble again?? 😉

I read it in hardback either this year or end of last – bloody good! Features “Skull” Skelton from PoC and A Good Clean Fight.

Recommended!