Customer Reviews

A Rather Entertaining Compilation, But Not Impressive Editing! - By: Mr. E. R. Thomson, 03 May 2008
Some of you may not know this, but "Goodbye Again" was never actually a series, it was infact four one-hour specials madein 1968 & 1969. As much as this DVD compilation being entertaining, I feel they could made a better job as the four shows all excistin the archives complete &in impressive condition. It just shows how ignorant many companies such as the BBC & ITV can be to classic sixties shows. Whilst the BBC are out there looking for old shows from the VT they wipedin the seventies, they never let the public see the footage they've recently found!
For example, say I found an original episode of "Z-Cars" which was missing & I contacted & handed it to the BBC, I'll proberly never see it again, the public will never see it again, & the writers will never see it again!
This is why I think that ITV should be proud that they have all four shows, & not take advantage & make a compilation instead they should realese all the shows.
Another thing I was not impressed about was the editing, I'm going to admit that I've been to a few institutes & have seen all four shows complete, & many of you many not know, but some sketches are cut.

But I guess the disc is better than nothing, so it recieves 5 out of 5 for the footage, & 2 out of 5 for the disc (interviews are rather irritating & would prefer as an extra, but the condition is outstanding on a couple of sketches so that's why it goes up one mark).

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....But wonderful anyway - By: John Ellis, 08 Mar 2006
This collection is edited like a collage (slamming from black & white to color sequences, giving the endings no room to breathe) & the little snippet interviews are pointless & inane. There is nothing here that reaches the heights of half of "Not Only", almost nothing you'd hold up as their best work (maybe the Swedish interviewer, & Pete & Dud are always on game). A rudimentary Sherlock Holmes sketch was stretched into the rudimentary feature film. And yet, it's still mostly wonderful, with the usual high level of visuals on what was a television budget, & very sharp writing & characterizations. If this was the only Cook/Dudley material to be had, they'd be discussed as the equals of Monty Python, at least. So buy "Bedazzled" & "Not Only" first, but this is essential too. Hope there is more (how about a collection of the rest of the existing "Not Only" shown on the BBC as specials years ago & whatever was left off this - hell, or anything else they did).

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A Quick Goodbye - By: Gary W. McClintock, 21 Nov 2005
Urg. So finally Goodbye Againin a format I can watchin the U.S. only to get a very expensive 90 minutes of sketches frequently cropped at beginning & end (I'm reasonably certain some portion of the cropped sketches must exist complete since the intro to one appears on the audio CD of Cook In His Own Words but doesn't appear on this DVD.) Worse still is the sketches are interspersed with pointless little snippets of interviews with Shaun O'Riordan, Bob Brydon, & Richard Ingrams that first appear seemingly out of nowhere since there is no introduction before the sketches begin. These snippets apparently are meant to provide some kind of introduction or insight into the following sketch but they are just a huge annoyance. Otherwise the full interviews with O'Riordan & Ingrams also included on the DVD are quite good to have. I'm not certain I see much pointin the interview with Brydon. Do I really need to say much about how brilliant many of these sketches are? So, five stars are for Pete & Dud. DVD is only about three stars.