As there has been no official release of this programme after 30 years, and with no prospect of it happening because of some dispute, and my age, I decided to get an unofficial version. I put a phrase something like 'rare TV' or whatever it was into a search engine and was able to get a reasonable version with no problems. Obviously the quality cannot be anywhere near that of an official release but it is OK for me, but then I am not into Blue-Ray, HD, etc. So was it worth the money? Yes, for me, because I like ITV adventure series, even though I would say that the production/script writing/etc was not up to the standard of The Saint, The Avengers, etc. I also benefited from stopping fretting about whether I would ever get to see it. I don't agree with some other comments that I have seen. Rosalyn Landor was OK for me. Also, I enjoyed the second and third series just as much as the first. One qualification there, however. There is a significant change from the first series to the rest. The private eye aspect goes, and it is almost all security stories. The problem that I have with that is that they tend to be more unpleasant than private eye stories. However, a minor point.
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St. Trinian's
(2007)
Definitely one of my favourites
28 May 2012
I have seen this several times on the TV. I just love it. I recently put the St Trinians films in an almost pointless list of my favourites for a local newsletter. I like them all. Probably excluding the Wildcats, which I have seen only once in the cinema, and hated it, along with the rest of the audience, judging by the seat squirming. I think there is something missing in this that is present in the earlier films,of which I think I like the Train Robbery the most. I keep getting the feeling with the earlier ones, to various degrees, that they were made by people who were quite happy to make a living out of them but that they disapproved of 'the world of St Trinians'. But in this one, it seems to be made by people who love the idea of St T. I wish I had gone to it rather than the Colin Firth-approved school that I went to. Bit of a problem in the showers. And I think that the makers do too. Hence pots of unequivocal fun.
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