If there was ever a biting, despair-filled, satirical dismantling of everything that's wrong and unfair about the middle classes..... it's Richard Briers.

Still, he did alert the public about GEFAFWISP and heavy electricity. That was good.

EDC is the finest example of shitting-where-you-eat in history. Esmonde and Larbey destroy the suburban sitcom from inside.
Astonishing. Loved it.

Are these comments sarcastic? EDC is absolutely superb. Its spine-tingling in the way The King of Comedy is, but much funnier.Consider if you will the final scene of the final episode (note: this episode, a feature length special, is something of a travesty, directed as it is by Harold Snoad, who insists on shooting sitcoms entirely on videotape, thus depriving them of all visual lustre. The exteriors of the early Sydney Lotterby-directed episodes were shot on film, giving them a haunting, dreamlike quality that adds to the shows oddly enervating atosphere. Lotterby also seperated each science with a slow dissolve - evocative of the films of Bergman and Terence Davies in the way they preserve certain moments of time and capture the static quality of that sort of suburban life. This sounds pretentious, I know, but watch it again and you'll see). Anyway, in that final episode Esmonde and Larbey reverse everything that we'd previouly thought the series was about, as Paul confesses to Anne that he'd get married only if 'he could meet someone like her. What we see here is that while we thought the central dynamic of this programme was Martin's envy for Paul, in fact Paul was far more envious of Martin and simply aching with desire for his wife. Anne does not take this confession of love well, and her departure from Paul is not good. IN the next line Paul tells Martin that he and Anne are his mates - Martin is surprised by this, and after the exchange between Paul and his wife, we know he's right. All that and I haven't mentioned the terrifying Howard and Hilda scene where their apparent friendhip for Martin (which he clings to as one the most important things in his life) is exposed as a sham. And all this while being full of great lines, sight gags and situations. Given all of this, why isn't it more acclaimed?

I don't think any of the comments were sarcastic. Mine certainly wasn't.

I genuinely love that series, and would vote for the scene in which Martin and Howard get stuck in the loft as one of the funniest sequences ever committed to VT. ("Hello, Anne. I'm in here now.")

However, since it hasn't been repeated to buggery on clip shows, no-one seems to remember it. Now, if only Martin had beaten his car with a branch or fallen through some kind of public hatch...

And me. EDC is brilliant. And why hasn't that feature-length finale ever been repeated on terrestrial?