Brenda Blethyn (Pride & Prejudice) & Robert Daws (Jeeves & Wooster) star as the prim & precise Miriam & Roger Dervish with Josie Lawrence (Marple) & Timothy Spall (Auf Wiedersehen Pet) as their bright & bohemian friends Maggie & Kevin Costello. This ratings-winning complete collection of all three series unites the Costellos & Dervishes
- as different as chalk & cheese but thrust together through the mens love of cricket
- in the idyllic world of a middle-England village cricket team which is the very thin veneer atop a seething hotbed of emotion laughter & one-upmanship. An immense ratings success & highly popular with the public Outside Edge regularly attracted an average of ten million viewers winning Best Comedy Drama at the 1994 British Comedy Awards which also saw Brenda Blethyn winning Best Comedy Actress. Richard Harris won the Writers Guild Award for Best Situation Comedy. This complete series box set contains all three series the Christmas Special & the original Outside Edge play from 1982 starring Prunella Scales (Fawlty Towers) & Paul Eddington (Yes Minister).