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I'm Alan Partridge finds Steve Coogan's media creation back in his native Norwich, having lost his beloved chat show Knowing Me, Knowing You, and now reduced to the pre-Breakfast slot playing old T'Pau and Soft Cell singles to an audience of farmers and all-night bakery workers. He's also lodged at the Linton Travel tavern, whose permanently smiling manageress, bland decor and themed buffets are redolent of what vast tracts of England have become. He's very much at home there. While there's much media satire in Partridge's pitiful pitches of programme ideas to the BBC ("Inner city sumo? Monkey tennis?"), I'm Alan Partridge is more a bleakly hilarious take on Modern Middle English Man, irascible and profoundly bored. Between innumerable moments of high, wild comedy, such as a disastrous video Partridge does for a boating agency and an encounter with his one (insane) fan, the most telling moments of the series come with his efforts to fill his dismally empty days, taking a trouser press to pieces, staring at the astro turf at an owl sanctuary or walking to a service station to buy windscreen cleaning fluid just for something to do. All this proved a little too darkly uncomfortable for mainstream audiences--yet Alan Partridge was probably the finest British comic creation of the 1990s. --David Stubbs
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
The character of Alan Partridge had always been a brilliant creation - in my opinion, he was the standout section of TV's The Day Today - but these six episodes of I'm Alan Partridge illustrate the brilliance of creator Steve Coogan's mind. Moving on from the brilliant yet farcical Knowing Me, Knowing You (or KMKYWAP!)the audience now sees the real Alan at 'home' in his room in the Linton Travel Tavern, with only a 12" plate and tales of Bangkok from geordie Michael for entertainment. This series arouses many emotions within the viewer - Alan had always been seen as a little tragic, a bit lonely, somewhat naive, but I'm Alan Partridge proves this point and emphasises it in style - how can anybody not feel sympathy for a man trapped underneath a cow on a narrowboat in the Norfolk broads?? However, the main reason to enjoy this brilliant series is for the pure laugh-out-loud moments it provides. There are too many to list, but standout scenes include Alan drunk on his home made cocktail "The LadyBoy" (Lager with a Gin and Tonic and Bailey's chaser), the chocolate mousse scene, "There's More To Ireland Dan Diss" scene and many, many more. Not since Only Fools and Horses has a British sitcom made so many people laugh or introduce so many new phrases into the vocabulary of fans. It has recently been announced that Alan series 2 is in the scripting stages and this series is receiving a long overdue DVD release in October. If the new material is anywhere near as good as series one (or indeed Coogan's recent film The Parole Officer - check it out) we will all be in for a treat. Until then, BUY THIS NOW!!!
24 of 26 people found the following review helpful
By Anthony Lynas
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Format:DVD
I'm Alan Partridge, without a shadow of a doubt, began the subversion of the sitcom format that took place at the end of the 90s and the start of the 21st century - without this series, it's unlikely Phoenix Nights, League of Gentlemen or The Office would have been made in the format they were. Alan is a failed TV chatshow host, left to languish on the early morning show on Radio Norwich. He's also bitter, conceited, ill-mannered, cruel and insensitive. The six episodes chart the end of his TV career and the disasters that follow as he desperately tries to cling onto D-list stardom.
The script is brilliant, particularly the moments when Alan Partridge's fascination with the, erm, more bizarre aspects of human life clash with his narrow and secluded view of the world. There isn't a bad episode amongst the six - and Watership Alan and To Kill A Mocking Alan are 2 of the funniest half hours ever to grace TV.
Even more importantly, the BBC seem to have finally got the hang of the DVD format - this one is brilliant, from the clever menus on both discs, through excellent commentaries, deleted scenes and so on on the second disc. The series alone would have been excellent value at the price - the added material just wraps it all up with a big bow.
Excellent stuff. Better than the second series? Who knows, who cares. When that's released it'll be in my collection as well as the first, and they should both be in yours too.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By S J Buck
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Format:DVD
This marvellous 1997 series is one to savour. 6 episodes of genius from Steve Coogan and Armando Iannucci. Each episode is a masterpiece in its own right and whilst its difficult to pick a favourite episode I can pick out my favourite moment..
Alan phones down to the Motel reception, and the camera pans back so we can see him sitting on the bed.
"Oh Hello Susan umm slight problem I was a bit bored err so I dismantled my Corby Trouser Press... I err I can't put it back together again... um will that show up on my bill? Right thanks". Alan has all our human failings in him (in this case extreme boredom) and we get to observe them all in cringe worthy (but very funny) detail.
There are many many other great moments: Alan interviewing the Farmers representative (brilliantly played by Chris Morris). The sequence in the car park where Alan is sitting in the car with Lynn and doesn't have anything to say. This leads me neatly on to the extras...
These are marvellous; firstly the commentaries are essential listening, informative, funny and of course you may find out whats in Alan's draw! The outtakes and cuts are very good and the extended version of the car scene with Lynn is well worth seeing. Watching the extras you also find out that not everything you see on the screen was scripted, there was a little bit of improvisation in this series.
This is the best comedy series of the 1990's and I can't recommend it highly enough.
Alan phones down to the Motel reception, and the camera pans back so we can see him sitting on the bed.
"Oh Hello Susan umm slight problem I was a bit bored err so I dismantled my Corby Trouser Press... I err I can't put it back together again... um will that show up on my bill? Right thanks". Alan has all our human failings in him (in this case extreme boredom) and we get to observe them all in cringe worthy (but very funny) detail.
There are many many other great moments: Alan interviewing the Farmers representative (brilliantly played by Chris Morris). The sequence in the car park where Alan is sitting in the car with Lynn and doesn't have anything to say. This leads me neatly on to the extras...
These are marvellous; firstly the commentaries are essential listening, informative, funny and of course you may find out whats in Alan's draw! The outtakes and cuts are very good and the extended version of the car scene with Lynn is well worth seeing. Watching the extras you also find out that not everything you see on the screen was scripted, there was a little bit of improvisation in this series.
This is the best comedy series of the 1990's and I can't recommend it highly enough.
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Brilliant
Partridge at his best, every episode on this DVD is a classic. Highly recommended. Not laughed this much for ages, can't wait for the new partridge movie which is coming out this... Read more
Published 4 days ago by S. Webster
5.0 out of 5 stars
Ahaa.
I'm batman.
A full English breakfast, you blonde bast@rd. From the future.
I know a cracking owl sanctury. The best thing ever made in the history of man.
A full English breakfast, you blonde bast@rd. From the future.
I know a cracking owl sanctury. The best thing ever made in the history of man.
Published 1 month ago by Paul Taylor
3.0 out of 5 stars
vhs
didnt really read small print and did not realise it was VHS! I don/t have a player! so have kept it as an antique.
Published 3 months ago by Johnny Riches
5.0 out of 5 stars
When Steve Coogan Was Really Funny
I'm never quite sure whether I should find this as funny as I do. The original incarnation of Alan Partridge was funny and clever, but I found the joke wore thin and it doesn't... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Richard Allen
5.0 out of 5 stars
simply brilliant
I have seen the series before and loved it and this time was no exception. Steve Coogan is soooooooo funny as Alan
Partridge, this is well worth a watch and I hope you enjoy... Read more
Partridge, this is well worth a watch and I hope you enjoy... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Ms. L. A. Price
5.0 out of 5 stars
Cook Pass Babtridge
This series kicks off with Alan now occupying the graveyard shift on Radio Norwich and living in a motorway travel tavern somewhere between Norwich and London. Read more
Published 13 months ago by meatshake
5.0 out of 5 stars
Lovely stuff
Inimitable and classic. Yes the laugh track does harm it ultimately but these 6 episodes chronicling the continued downfall of z-list celeb Alan Partridge (a macabre hybrid of Bing... Read more
Published 14 months ago by ratmonkey
1.0 out of 5 stars
Ripped Off big time !
When I finally got around to watching this DVD it was not the correct show as specified. Instead I got a screen with a hotel menu to watch in house movies, and I couldn't even... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Wayne A Rheinberger
5.0 out of 5 stars
Flowers
Of all the documentaries I've ever watched about flower arranging this one is easily the best. Horticulture?, more like HAUGHTY CULTURE!
Published 19 months ago by Mel Norman
3.0 out of 5 stars
Audience laughter really dates this
The Alan Partridge sitcom was quite innovative in a way. The faux-documentary look, hand-held cameras and real locations certainly inspired other TV shows such as Curb and The... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Inspector Gadget
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