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I never saw this first time round, and don't think I ever remembered that it existed until recently.... I saw the first episode a few weeks back and I only did so to remind myself if I had seen it before..... I hadn't, but I am glad I did....!

I never really enjoyed the typical U. K. sit-com especially at the time of its height in the 70s and 80s...... I found them to be unfunny and ham acted....

But this show was different to the typical sit-coms of the day.... it was very well written, in terms of the clever way those acts of chance that Tom Chance suffered were set up and paid off.... and the two main characters were very well played....

I found of the episodes I have watched so far that although this show has a typical sit-com feel.... but the characters and situations are just very surreal and sometimes very dark......

I enjoyed this in the same way I enjoyed Get Some In, for example, although it might appear to be a typical 80s sit-com it is worth watching to find out for yourself just how different it is from the shows of the time...

I can't think of any one else who could play the main role as well as Simon Callow... either at the time or indeed if there was a remake today..... The lazier programme makers today would likely pick a comedian of some type, whereas this show works better with a good dramatic actor rather than a comedian....

It's a testament to the talent of Callow & Blethyn that this is not unwatchable but in fact still bloody funny and charming.

All the clichés of early 80's sitcoms in abundance - awful lighting, wooden sets, even more wooden acting from the other characters and extras, past-it's-sell-by-date canned laughter.

I only have memories of this as a child when it was originally aired. I can see why C4 haven't showed it again as it's just too dated.

But if you do have a spare few quid get the DVD set and marvel at Blethyn's hilarious, sweet and barely repressed sexual librarian and Callow's bumptious but likable bad luck lightning-rod.

Mention must go to the writers - incredibly convoluted and humorous plots. Maintains the great Brtitish tradition of the farce.

Currently watching this again, on Forces TV, it is brilliant, 'coincidentally', it's hilarious. Simon Callow and Brenda Blethyn are fantastic together, the scripts are totally mad. Pull up a chair and watch this 80's extravaganza of misunderstanding and coincidence.

I was first introduced to this superb little TV sitcom in 1985 when a friend recommended it (cheers Mike). Chance in a Million is not your run of the mill TV sitcom, it is very cleverly written, well acted and a little surreal. I am only surprised that Channel Four in the U.K. haven't seen fit to repeat it. It is far superior to a lot of so called TV comedy produced today. The show's actors, Simon Callow and Brenda Blethyn have moved on to make other TV shows and movies but for me they will both always be remembered for their roles as Tom and Alison. The early episodes were the best and these are the ones I have watched the most. A new series would be very welcome indeed.

One of the finest British TV comedies. Superb performances from both Callow and the very versatile Brenda Blethyn. Each episode managed to combine the most far-fetched coincidences with beautifully crafted dialogue, resulting in mini masterpieces. Blethyn's portrayal of librarian Alison Little should have dispelled all ideas of them as stuffy old maids! The Library Association really should have signed her up as a recruiter. It just baffles me why this hasn't been released on DVD yet. There are enough examples of the typical weak sort of stuff that passes for sitcoms being produced on DVD - time for some real quality. If there are no recordings in the archives the culprit should be hunted down and forced to watch endless episodes of Sorry.

Just received all 18 episodes on DVD which I ordered, I've watched three of them so far.

You know how for years you tell younger people how great an old series was and then it comes on and you don't even crack a smile when watching it? Well I'm glad to say that this isn't one of those. It had me in stitches and was even better than I remembered! The combination of the superb acting skills of the two (now very famous) main actors as well as the ridiculous coincidences and the wistful love story is irresistible.

Buy it. Now.

When considering the junk that does make it to DVD, why, oh why, has this been overlooked for so long? It is superb and certainly not another twee safe little 'middle-england' sitcom where it is compulsory for EVERY actor's line to be funny then followed by canned laughter. I'm sorry but true comedy isn't like that - genuine workable comedy is best with stooges to bounce things off. Come on - there are 18 true gems lying in a vault being ignored. No wonder people pirate things from home-made video copies - I cherish the 6 episodes I taped direct from the TV but would love a DVD boxed set of all 18 in higher definition. Put my name top of your list for a copy and please, please, hurry - 'before one of us dies' to quote a well known comedian - more than 20 years has elapsed now! Brenda Blethyn and Simon Callow went on to star in much bigger productions but the magic blend of their comedic skills married to a surreal script with it's manic obsession for co-incidence is simply genius - I would urge people to seek out surviving tapes - you won't be disappointed.

One of the quirkiest and funniest sitcoms of the 1980s, this series captivates me. The very English middle class awkwardness of the relationship between the two central characters, the array of coincidences which dog poor Tom's life, Tom's bizarre way of speaking,the acting, the music - it's absolute perfection. How I wish they made TV like this nowadays! Captivating telly programmes - including the Beiderbecke Trilogy, Edge Of Darkness, Spitting Image and, of course, Chance In A Million - seemed far more prevalent back in the decade of shoulder pads and brick phones. So glad this is now on DVD, I waited for years!

Watching Chance in a Million again makes me think of Fleabag, because of the quirkiness of the writing, the gloriously rich characterisation and the sheer intelligence behind it all. Rare in a TV comedy of any decade.

There are probably some high mathematical theories, as well as, to be sure, religious and philosophical ones, which play with the question as to whether there is coincidence and what is its essential nature, but the writers of this series, Andrew Norriss and Richard Fegen, my compliments to them, provided us with witty and pure comic mirth based on the possibility of such premises.

Simon Callow, classically trained actor that he is, completely inhabited the part of the happy-go-lucky, well-intentioned but you-dare-not-cross him Tom Chance, and as to Brenda Blethyn in her prime, well, I don't know of any man, young or old, who watched the series, and that certainly includes me, who wouldn't have ardently desired her to be the Lady Librarian Love of his Life!

Quirky isn't really the word for this excellent, if dated, sitcom (I say dated because I'd forgotten how often Brenda Blethyn gets her it off, it was the 80's after all). Brilliant performances from the two leads, Simon Callow & Brenda Blethyn. You can really see the roots of other programmes like One Foot In The Grave etc in this. Currently (May 2022) being shown on BritBox, worth the price alone for this masterpiece.

I am remembering as a thirteen year old how this programme used to wind me up and how much my sisters and brother loved it. I hated the main character Tom Chance - he would always down a pint in one gulp and would always beat people up with one punch to the gut whereas my 13 year old self reckoned I could have took him.

Brenda Blethyn who is now a recognised 'natural treasure' it was just her voice and I was like 'aaaaaargh stop it, can we not turn it over for University Challenge?' but no, I had to sit through it all week after week with no respite because we had three and a half channels in those days with similar dirge. Reading the other comments, maybe I was too young, maybe now as an adult if you forced me to sit down and watch it I might appreciate it more and like it - but I doubt it.

"Chance in a Million" was a gem and it is sad that it has never been repeated.Tom Chance (Simon Callow) accepted the twists fate threw at him with unflinching cheerfulness and it was a pleasure trying to anticipate what could go wrong next.

His long suffering fiancé Alison (Brenda Blethyn) always meekly hoped for the best, enduring the most ludicrous of mishaps.

I often wondered if it wasn't rerun because its principal actors went on to greater things and having joined the ranks of "luvvies" they didn't want reminders of where they started from.

If true, this would be a shame because it was an excellent series.

Somewhat obscure, I know, but I finally got to see all three seasons of this for the first time and loved every episode. Easily as good as - I would say considerably better than - more well-known British comedies of that era, such as Fawlty Towers, Only Fools and Horses, 'Allo 'Allo, etc., I would actually rank this something like the fourth best written and executed UK sit-com of the 1980s, after Blackadder, Red Dwarf and The Young Ones.

Tom Chance is a happy-go-lucky, job-free, cricket-loving Englishman who just happens to attract freakishly-unlikely coincidences and acts of God wherever he goes, and Brenda Blethyn is his shy but over-eager librarian girlfriend.

Simon Callow, in the lead role, is iconic, with his breezy, good-natured obliviousness and uniquely clipped, staccato way of speaking. Like Richard E. Grant and Withnail, it's a career-best performance that he's only ever really lightly approached in the following years, and never surpassed.

Chance doesn't feel far off a Douglas Adams creation like Dirk Gently, or the rain-god truck driver from the Hitchhikers books, yet the strange concept is put over with such a common touch the show seems as universal as Mr. Bean and never wears its cleverness on its sleeve.

I could try describe some representative scene, but the whole premise and structure of the show - that massively improbable coincidences keep building up around him and that every small detail and loose end will wind up hilariously coming together in the end - works against taking any scene in isolation. But watch any whole episode (they're all equally good) and you will be able to tell by the end whether it's for you or not.

(Awful music though.)

Brilliant and currently being shown in forces tv on the sky Freeview platform in the uk.