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GET SOME IN - THE COMPLETE THIRD SEASON

Network DVD / Region / Released 6 April

Featuring Robert Lindsay, Tony Selby, David Janson, Brian Pettifer, Gerard Ryder

Hot on the heels of the first two series, Network bring us all six episodes of the third series. By now the premise is well established - the quartet of young men serving out their compulsory two years national service in the RAF during the late 1950's and doing their best to cope with the dread that is Corporal Marsh. Tony Selby has a dream role as the shouty Marsh, he quite literally detests the boys and takes great delight in doing his best to spoil their none too cushy lives. The boys themselves are nice Ken Richardson (Janson), teddy boy and super confidant Jakey Smith (Lindsay - who would later quit the show to take on a starring role in Citizen Smith), scots boy Bruce Leckie (Brian Pettifer - a great actor who has popped up in lots of character roles over the years but never quite hit the heights) and vicars son Matthew Lilley (Gerard Ryder, who didn't really do much other acting after GSI).

This third season keeps the laugh quotient high as the boys come to the end of their basic training and a move to the equally unsalubrious surroundings of new base RAF Midham. Most of the episodes involve either the boys trying to get one over on Marsh or Marsh trying to give the boys a hard time. Writers John Esmonde and Bob Larbey (who were also writing the hugely popular Good Life at the same time as this was on the air and had also created the brilliant Please Sir), do widen out the action sometimes and Marsh's put upon wife Alice is also quite often involved.

It's great to see this series getting a DVD release as it is one of those funny shows that is very well remembered but which for some reason has never really been repeated overly often. Great fun!!

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