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An Actor's Life For Me, Hugh and I and Get Well Soon
To celebrate the release of An Actor's Life For Me, Hugh and I and Get Well Soon on DVD, we are giving 2 lucky WhatCulture readers the chance to win a bundle containing all three! An Actors Life for Me is a British sitcom starring a stand out cast including John Gordon Sinclair (Gregorys Girl), Victor Spinetti (A Hard Days Night and Gina McKee (Notting Hill). Written by The Vicar of Dibleys co-writer Paul Mayhew Archer, and based on a hit Radio 4 series, it originally aired in 1991. Robert Neilson (Sinclair) is a struggling actor, desperate to hit the big time, however unrealistic his ambitions are and never quite achieves the dizzy heights he aspires to. With the help of his incompetent agent Desmond Shaw (Spinetti), he tries to secure the romantic lead opposite Kim Basinger, attempts to play a corpse while suffering from a cold and when starring as a transvestite in a sex farce, he tries to convince his long suffering fiancée Sue Bishops (McKee) parents that hes in The Importance of Being Ernest, with hilarious results. Available now on DVD. Hugh and I is an entertaining long running classic black and white British sitcom, written by John Chapman (Happy Ever After) that aired from 1962 and ran for 69 episodes. Terry Scott (Terry and June) and Hugh Lloyd (In Sickness and In Health), play two friends who want to be successful without the hard work. Living with his mother in Tooting, Terry, a young bachelor, and his dim-witted lodger Hugh attempt to make money out of Scotts hair-brained schemes. Are You Being Serveds Mollie Sugden also features. Available now on DVD. Get Well Soon is a fantastic six-part sitcom, based on how the powerhouse writing team, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, the men behind Steptoe & Son and Hancocks Half Hour, first met in a Tuberculosis Sanatorium in 1947. It features an all-star cast including Eddie Marsan (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell), Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey), Anita Dobson (Eastenders) and Robert Bathurst (Cold Feet). Roy Osborne (Matthew Cottle Game On) is admitted to hospital for tuberculosis, for what he thinks will be a short stay, but ends up acing a much longer stay and befriends roommate Brian Clapton (Marsan). The pair must contend with a meddling matchmaking mother, an international espionage investigation, attempts to woo the female patients and a murder plot. Available on DVD from 21st September 2015.