When you say ONE DVD... are box-sets allowed?

In that case, mine will be Monty Python's Flying Circus, but I might try to smuggle Fawlty Towers in as well, maybe they won't have too strict custom checks, on a remote desert island...

P.S. Cunning as I am, while trying to smuggle it, I would in fact replace the third disc in the Fawlty Towers set, the docs and interviews, with a copy of A Fish Called Wanda... but at that point I might just invite John Cleese to join me

Well, hmmm. OK, I'll allow box sets just this once 

Mine would be a box set of Dad's Army too.

Yes, John Cleese is great isn't he? So talented. (I really like Michael Palin too) Does John Cleese still do any acting?

Unfortunately, Molly, John Cleese has been semi-retired for a while, just a few cameo roles in the odd movie, some chat-show appearances and a bit of hosting or compering one-off shows, don't think it would be really offensive if I quoted one of Pythons' own lines, where Eric Idle says "Oh, you're no fun anymore!"

Still, he's done his "tour of duty", hasn't he? And I still regard him as one of the funniest men that ever lived

P.S. I envy your decisiveness, Phil... if it was ONE and only ONE disc allowed, I'd probably just drown trying to choose between series 2 and 3 of Pythons...

You're right there, Phil, it's very much the same with Pythons, 2 discs per series... but that wouldn't be a big problem, I wouldn't reach the stage of choosing discs, as I was saying I'd have already drowned trying to pick the series

I'm just lousy at this game, I guess... the logical side of my mind keeps taking over and suggesting it would be a lot more reasonable to carry with you on a desert island a nice laptop with a huge hard-disk filled to the brim with AVI, MP3 and eBook files, and then actually enjoy very much a prolonged stay on said island, which we obviously assume being of the tropical persuasion...

Which episode is that then?

Blackadder Goes Forth. Or Blackadder the Third? No, Forth, the final episode is unforgettable. But, wait a minute, Ink and Inkapability is a masterpiece, too... Forth! Third! No, Forth!

(drowns)

Oh, alright, I'll stop blithering and try to play straight, just allow me a minute to wear an inflatable life-jacket first, to give me some time...

Trying to cover all possible variations of the rules, one series, one disc, one episode, I feel forced, much as it hurts, to drop the Pythons altogether.

You can't really pick series and episodes from sketch-shows, they are thought from the start with having "stronger" and "weaker" spots in each episode, a compilation would be in order, and a few are in fact available of Pythons' stuff, but you'd rather make your own... and drown 3 times in the process

No, I'll have to go for second best, and I'm lucky there, choosing between series 1 and 2 of Fawlty Towers is a no-brainer, although we're talking better than best, there , but series 2 it obviously is, AND it fits in a single disc, too...

Episode, now... er... oh dear... here we go again...

There's "Communication Problem" (the deaf lady), and "The Kipper and the Corpse", and... no, no... wait... shush... oo'er, missus... let poor Francis think about it...

No, I'll stick to those two, but I need ONE... moan... groan...

No, it's no use, I can't make it all the way through, my life-jacket is punctured and I'm going down for the third time... HELP!


P.S. Everyone's commenting on Blackadder... which is only reasonable, it's also my second-favourite sitcom, although the more I watch "One Foot in the Grave" the more it looks as a serious contender for the place... anyway, I'd have no problem in choosing series 2 there, not because I find it exceptionally better than either 3 or 4 on the whole, but because I simply adore Miranda Richardson in there, she's absolutely sparkling, and Stephen Fry's Lord Melchett contains the seeds of his Jeeves, possibly his best acting performance to date (although Kingdom is no slouch, either).