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Clocking Off : Complete BBC Series 1 [2000]
from inD DVD Ltd
starring Philip Glenister, Lisa Millett, Jack Deam, Wil Johnson, Siobhan Finneran

Features:

• PAL

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Great northern romp
  I bought this a few weeks ago as it was so cheap.
  Again,when it was first on the telly [think back in 2000]I never watched it but remember my mum banging on about not missing it.
  Anyway,I can honestly say I was hooked from the first episode.
  What great acting.
  Its 6 ,near hour long ,episodes all about different people that work at a textiles factory.Sounds boring but believe me it's far from that.
  Some great faces in this,Christopher Ecclestone,Sarah Lancashire,Lesley Shape and... more info

• Top class British drama series
  Just rewatched this through on the DVD, and it's brilliant to remember how good it is. I loved it the first time around on tv, love it again now. Fantastic performances, great storylines, brilliant all round. Six episodes on this two disc set. Worth watching for earlier glimpses of John Simm, Jason Merrells, Christopher Ecclestone, the brilliant Lesley Sharp and Philip Glenister. Set in and around the lives and loves of those working in a textile factory in Lancashire, with each episode focussing on one or... more info

• Gets better and better
  As a not native English speaker I had some trouble understandig the speech at times, because there was no possibility of subtitles and the dialect was quite heavy at times. I could not quite get the track of the first chapter and the second wasn´t that good either but it started getting much better after that.

• The Best of the Beeb
  Judging from the standard fare on our terrestrial TV, it seems to be an extraordinarily difficult task to make a drama series about the lives of ordinary Northern people which doesn't include hard-done by but strong women, hen-pecked blokes down the working mens' club, unemployment, redundancy and general deprivation. I lose count of how many times we have been subjected to repeat viewings of gaggles of cackling women gagging for Barcardi Breezers and male strippers, and "folk" who are as poor as church... more info

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