I felt the same about Monty Python's Flying Circus, many years ago...

So, unwilling to wait for hologram technology to be developed, I went and bought the American edition...

The downside is, I also went and bought the European edition, much better in quality and less censored, as soon as it came out around last year, so I wasted quite a bit of money, also considering the only way of getting rid of the old, American edition now would be through a charity shop, probably...

Still, I've no regrets, I just couldn't go on living without having ever seen more than a few chunks of MPFC, and I think that money was well wasted

You forgot to mention said box-set would cost about a half of the original instalments

Yes, they do that, and we know they do, what we don't know is WHEN they're going to do it... it might be, and in the MPFC case was, some 3 years, if not more...

Bottom line to me is, how bad do I want this NOW? If it's bad enough, as I said, I won't regret having wasted some money, after all time IS money, innit?

BTW, only a few weeks after I bought that European edition of MPFC, THIS popped out...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Monty-Python-Definitive-Outrageously-Collection/dp/B000W8AB22/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1220539778&sr=8-4

But for once, I actually had a better deal, also thanks to x'mas seizeable discounts, in fact I got not only the same stuff included in this pack, but also the Fawlty Towers and Ripping Yarns box sets for just about the same money, and I certainly value these latter two better than a t-shirt stating that I'm wearing suspenders and a bra and an inflatable dead parrot...

Still, though... an inflatable dead parrot... that'd be nice to have...

A bit difficult to give a fair answer for someone who's got a bit of a religious attitude toward Pythons, both as group and as individuals...

But yes, Ripping Yarns is good, most episodes, IF you don't expect either Pythons or Fawlty Towers.

This is... "situation parody", a comparison could be made, perhaps, with the later Comic Strip Presents episodes with the "Famous Five" parodies, early ones.

And then there's Michael Palin...

He's got that same endearing type of charisma, I could call that just "niceness", that was typical of poor Richard Beckinsale as well as his daughter Kate, you know...

I'm in a nice mood today...