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This is one of the finest episodes of this top sitcom ever made. The batman and robin scene will make you laugh time and time again. Overall a fitting finale to a fabulous tv series.

Garland has a pretty nasty voice by any measure, and the songs themselves set a high standard in banalty.

The awful sweetness of this DVD would make a hardened sailor wretch, but the thing trots along briskly enoough, for which it merits 2, not 1 stars.

I am writing this review for all the DVD and Video with the Famous Five on. I must have seen nearly evey Famous five book as a TV show and have found the perfect they all keep as close as possible to the book if your are a fan of Blyton's Famous Five books 21 in total you'll love these videos.

In an unusual blend of genres Gentlemen's Relish combines the appeal of well-mannered comedy romances such as A Room with a View with the ribaldry of a Carry On movie. Following numerous award nominations for Mrs Brown (1997), Billy Connolly reunites with the BBC to play Kingdom Swann, a delightfully good-natured artist in this light period drama. In Edwardian London, with his art out of fashion, Swann turns to photography, only to have his semi-nude Biblical tableaux exploited as erotica by an assistant, a splendid Douglas Henshall. The film is balanced by a subplot about political hypocrisy and the Suffragette movement, which revolves around an impressive performance from Sarah Lancashire as the housekeeper who Swann eventually realises he is in love with.

Without ever being either particularly dramatic or more than gently amusing, Gentlemen's Relish is an amiable romp with the star role perfectly tailored to Connolly's charm. Like Stiff Upper Lips (1998), the sexual comedy is predictably entertaining, while an overly sign-posted ending suggests a sequel. Given the subject, postcard-humour fans may be amused that the name of the screenwriter is David Nobbs, whose adaptation of Love on a Branch Line (1993) offered a more elegant slice of farce. --Gary S. Dalkin

I have to say that this season is one of the best. "Beer Bad" was a bit of a disappointment as it came across as a bit dull. The rest of this season though was great. As we've come to expect, it has humour, drama, violence and gore. The puns are just as good as ever so I would be surprised if you don't want to watch this more than twice. If you look deeper into it, theres also life stories in the plots so it would make you think at the end of it. I would recommend that ANYONE buy this and all the other seasons - even those who buy it for the first time will soon be hooked and begging for more. My rating? 10/10.

Voted Britain's best ever sitcom in millennium polls, Only Fools and Horses has a muddled history on video. This release should make things clearer, containing for the first time the complete fifth series on a double-video. Dating from 1986, the episodes have previously appeared on the compilations Tea for Three and Watching the Girls Go By.

Like so much great comedy, pathos lies behind these cleverly scripted, deceptively straightforward tales, continuing the tradition of lovable rogues in BBC sitcoms from Steptoe and Son and Porridge. David Jason's Del Boy dreams of becoming a millionaire, "this time next year", but we know life isn't like that. In "From Prussia with Love", Del, kid-brother Rodney (Nicholas Lyndhurst) and Uncle Albert (Buster Merryfield) replay Three Men and a Baby , while "The Miracle of Peckham" raises the church roof. "The Longest Night" has our trio as prisoners of the world's most useless criminal, while Rodney has an unhappy encounter with a sunbed in "Tea For Three". The gormless one turns unlikely film-maker, resulting in a "Video Nasty", before the series ends with "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?", testing family loyalties when Del is offered the chance of a lifetime. Essentially British and very re-watchable, Only Fools and Horses deserves the description classic comedy. --Gary S. Dalkin

I would first like to add WHY? this isn't on DVD yet after 20 years! I'll never know. The story is very well written & I still enjoy watching it. It is really honest and heart felt with laughs & dramatic moments, With famous faces such as David Wenham (Faramir LotR), Jason Donovan (Pop Star), Bill Kerr (The Pirate Movie). What more could you ask for? I thoroughly recommend this to anyone who enjoys a good story about human strength of mind to carry on in spite of danger.