It was funny, it was original, it was memorable.
As Bob Geldof would say, "Give me your fookin highlights, NOW."

Zekester
Fife, UK.
04/01/2006

Denzil....im in the hoover!

need we say more!
get it on dvd
the lot
not the best of
do it now!
or we'll make things of wvood!

Matt and Mark
Bristol..nr Stoneybridge
04/01/2006

There is only one reason that anyone controlling the release of this comedy gem on DVD needs to know:

A willing audience of moneyed late-twenty & thirty-somethings has cash ready, and a desire to buy!

Aside from this, he list of reasons pertaining to Absolutely's merit as a comedy is well-documented in the comments of others here. The big reason is that MONEY CAN BE MADE however 'niche' the product we cultists are ready for it.
I've recently introduced people to the show who weren't even born when it was aired and they love it!

Simon Coulstock
Tonbridge, Kent
04/01/2006

These were grown men (and what appears to be a woman I believe) made a highly jollity-filled half hour of entertainment, which cheered up my winter evenings, I can tell you.

Wandering into my local humva store (you know the one with the dog), I oftimes browse the vido section to find if the televisual feast is available for consumption for my family.....I leave disappointed and dispondant...... Many times I have been tempted to take home a copy of The Golden Girls or Upstairs Downstairs instead, but have baulked at the idea as I approach the counter, and then have had to return the vido to the correct section, which I can never find again, so drop them near the  "Strange International Films" section instead, and leave red-faced.

Nevertheless I have my own vido recordings which brings comfort to my family on evenings such as these (it's raining now). The humour is often sarcastic and what some may call, ooorrd, which is fine, for I have often been described as ooorrrd, and as such appeals to a person such as myself. I know it will appeal to persons like myself and my family, and if the great British Public stands for anything at all, (which judging by the X factor it does), the people responsible for showing this show should jolly well get on with the job of getting on with the job...pretty damn soon.

There. I think I have given a pretty good detailed reason, am I not right eldest twin?
He agrees.

Now excuse me I have a paper to read.

Lynton Brown
Somewhere Sensible (with family)
04/01/2006

Please please release on DVD in 2006.

Kevin Gallagher
Airdrie, Scotland
04/01/2006

Please release Absolutely on DVD. This is classic comedy with a big following that would sell well

Paul Brooks
Bristol UK
03/01/2006

I adored Absolutely, it was my favourite comedy programme for a long time, I still miss it! All my family loved it and it still comes up in conversation as both my brother and I would love to have the full set of programmes on DVD...PLEASE PLEASE CHANNEL 4 BRING OUT AN ABSOLUTELY BOXSET!!

Alexandra Brown
Shropshire, UK
03/01/2006

Ok. Here's the score:

1. Anything with John Sparks in is automatically brilliant.
2. People in Wales still get to see D.I.Y. Denzil on telly.
3. Stoneybridge.

Get your corporate thumbs out of your corporate arses and give the people something which is actually memorable.
We're sick of being force-fed mediocrity like Big Brother and Little Britain, and if
this bilge can be deemed to be "Commercially Viable" then we definately have the right
to demand a total classic like Absolutely on DVD.

It's fkin legendary ffs. Enuff bllsht.
SORT IT OUT.

Dave, The North. UK.
29/12/2005

Two main reasons for a DVD release

1. Cash. Whoever owns the rights is sitting on a goldmine. There are lots of people aged 30-45- ie people with money to spend who would snap up a box set DVD of the show- just look at the number of people on this list.

2. Justice. It was a fantastic, inventive, original and influential show which can't be allowed to disappear into the ether. Given the amount of garbage which is currently being given the full-works DVD treatment these days, there must be room for a show of this quality. "Little Britain" has become a cultural phenom with about a tenth of Absolutely's wit, verve and weirdness (and I'm being generous to LB here)

3. "G for Gnome" "E for Eye", Callum Gilhooley, we need you

Andrew Daley
Wigan, UK
29/12/2005

Some absolutely cracking comedy moments and characters which seemed to have been completely forgotten due to poor timeslots and the fact that it was seldom (if ever) repeated.  It wasn't even completely released on video except for the single 'best of' (or worst of) compilation.

We don't need fancy menus, extras or uneccessary padding.  Just the episodes on DVD - simple.

Paulie
Bradford
29/12/2005

It was, quite simply, one of THE best shows ever to grace Channel 4.  I used to pass out from lack of oxygen because I was laughing so much at some of the sketches.

Please release it on DVD; I don't have ANY of the Vidos - I did ask someone to buy me one for Christmas when they first came out but they didn't, which I've lived to regret ever since.

Go on - put me out of my misery and bring the laughter back into this dreary world...

Grant Mason
Leith, Edinburgh
29/12/2005

It is the funniest series I have ever seen.
the only programme ever to have me come home early from the pub to watch. thinking back wish i'd learned how to use a vcr to record.
if I had the dvd i'd file it as "the best comedy show" so long as i could find room next to all the others that begin with "the". still havn't figured out where to put ""the" the".

Colin Kinnear
Liverpool u.k.
27/12/2005

Please release it because I want to pay you money to own it!

John swindail Bristol, UK
26/12/2005

"Absolutely" was head and shoulders over most other programs on TV - how many other shows can still produce such a range of pictures and laughs in one's head 15 years after watching them?  I'm sure it would appear fresh in amongst the reeking dung that is stultifying current television - and a DVD release of every program (not some dreaded highlights package which misses out the best bits) wouldn't go amiss either - I want to be able to show my friends what I've been going on about all these years.

Andrew Tatham
Norfolk, UK
26/12/2005

It's a crime that this hasn't been released.  There's an entire DVD-buying generation that grew up with Absolutely and would love to re-live it restored to its original state.  It was on during the time I was at university, and inevitably the next morning the sketches would be re-enacted and catchphrases repeated.  To this day I still sing the bank holiday song...

Colin Henderson
Glasgow, Scotland
24/12/2005

Oh Powers That Be, please see fit in thine infinite wisdom to repeat/release on DVD this fine specimen of sketch comedy.

As an 18-year-old mere slip of a boy, I came across Absolutely quite by chance - on an old video of Vic Reeves' Big Night out episodes (which also featured that terrifying Guinness ad with Rutger Hauer and the psychic woman (the version where you hear what he's thinking. Chilling))

It's criminal that young comedy fans such as my good self must endure pant-wettingly horrifical alcohol promotions in order to view this under-rated work of humorous programming.

SORT IT OUT! Please.
Many hundreds of thanks,

Adam O'Brien,
Wannabe Absolutely Fan
Gourock, Inverclyde, Scotland.
23/12/2005

I'd like it, I'd prefer it, even if it doesn't come with lots of pockets.
Please release absolutely on DVD as my friends just won't believe how good it was.

Brett Stacey
Hounslow
23/12/2005

PLEASE repeat Absolutely and release it on DVD as I can't afford to buy the vidos at £70 each and I'm fed up trying to describe how brilliant it was to friends too young to remember it.  I saw Pete Baikie & John Sparkes in Edinburgh this summer and it's made me even more determined to relive the Absolutely experience.

Catherine Bolt
Falkirk, Scotland
22/12/2005

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE repeat all 28 episodes and/or release a box-set DVD of the funniest comedy programme ever!!!

I've almost worn out my copies of The Vido and Number 2 videos (which, thanks to the advent of DVD, I soon won't be able to play any more!), and I'm sick of just reminiscing about our favourite sketches with all my mates when we could all be watching them again if anyone had the sense to repeat/release them.

Absolutely is a shining example of timeless comedy genius, and obviously a million times better than the dross that is continually pumped out by Channel 4 nowadays - anyone else sick of flicking through channels on freeview looking for something funny to watch and finding only seemingly endless repeats of Friends?  Friends wasn't even funny the first time around, for crying out loud!!!

It's been over 12 years and we all still miss it - surely this website gives those making the decision an idea of just how big the audience would be for repeats and/or DVDs.  That, and the fact that the videos are selling for up to £50 each on ebay.

Please give us the chance to see this comedy classic in full again after a far too lengthy absence from our screens, while also giving a whole new generation the chance to appreciate it.

P.S. I'd pay £50 just to see Macglashan reading the news again!

Claire Reid
Brechin, Scotland
21/12/2005

Absolutely was a classic, surreal, intelligent comedy sketch show, featuring talented performers, and unforgettable characters.  It should be re-issued without question when you look at some of the tat currently available.  The Scottish Tourist Board should re-issue it to improve anglo-scots relations and encourage more visitors up north.

Jo Scott
Suffolk, Uk
21/12/2005

It's been said so many times, but I should say more than that this show was by many years the forerunner of The Fast Show, League of Gentlemen, Black Books and all other fast paced, short sketch, dark humoured, slightly surreal, brilliantly written sketch shows while also being at least as good as any of them; but I can't think of anything more to write other than that Absolutely absolutely must be available to buy Now.

Oliver Skertchly
london, U,K.
21/12/2005

Can't believe no-one has had the smarts to get the series (the whole series, not a "best of" out on DVD.

Get it sorted, C4.

Alex McLaughlan
Glasgow
20/12/2005