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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Acorn
EAN: 0054961615391
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Acorn Media
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Manufacturer: Acorn Media
MPN: ACRDAMP6153D
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Acorn Media
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 10, 2003
Running Time: 192 minutes
Studio: Acorn Media
Theatrical Release Date: 1974
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Studio: Acorn Media Release Date: 06/10/2003
Amazon.com:
A great find for Britcom enthusiasts, the eight-part, 1974 series Thick as Thieves catches two beloved English actors in prime satiric form. Bob Hoskins stars as George "Dobbsy" Dobbs, a mediocre thief released from prison a day before the end of his three-year term. Arriving home to find his strong-willed wife, Annie (Pat Ashton), living with his old friend and partner in crime, Stanley (John Thaw), Dobbsy demands an end to the affair but is outmaneuvered by Annie's surprisingly avant-garde views on open marriage. The result is more farcical than provocative as Stanley and Dobbsy struggle with social progressiveness while sliding back into their seamy, underworld ways. Series writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais (the two would later team on The Commitments) mercilessly mine the comic tension between middle-class tradition, early-70's social experimentation, and the grotty, dimwitted world of petty larceny. --Tom Keogh
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Rating:  -
With theme music reminiscent of something written by the Partridge Family, Thick as Thieves is a light, enjoyable, little-known britcom from the early 1970s. Bob Hoskins stars as George Dobbs ("Dobbsy" as he's known to his mates), a thief who, as the series opens, has just been released from prison--only to find out that his wife, in the interim, has fallen in love and shacked up with his best friend and partner in crime, Stan (played by the late John Thaw (Inspector Morse--who would've been in his ... Read More
Rating: -
Wow -- who'd have ever imagined what the world of DVD would
bring us. A U.S. release of this more or less forgotten
British sitcom. Written by the great Dick Clement & Ian
La Frenais, this is not in the same league as their classics
THE LIKELY LADS (and especially its sequel series) or PORRIDGE
(which THIEVES is something of a dry run for) or AUF WIEDERSEHEN,
PET -- but like those landmarks explores with their customary
humanity and humor the joys and tribulations ... Read More
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As Burl Ives once sang, "Watch the donut, not the hole." To put it into this context, focus on what the people on screen are doing and saying and don't get hung up on technical quality. "Thick As Thieves" is a product of early 1970s British television production and is far from pristine in its picture quality. This is true of many British programs of the era, including such milestone series as "Elizabeth R", where the source materials were not as carefully preserved as perhaps they should have been.
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Rating:  -
The quality of this DVD is terrible. It looks like it was mastered from an old VHS tape with a bad tracking problem.
Rating: -
I have an encyclopedia of British television series and notice all the Britcoms that look promising but have never been shown over here to my knowledge. Well, would you believe there is one in which a young Bob Hoskins ("Roger Rabbit") and a not yet white haired John Thaw ("Inspector Morse") play a pair of very inept thieves? There are only eight episodes, mainly because Thaw had other commitments, but what there is ranges from downright silly to genuinely funny and all eight are now available on two DVDs ... Read More
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