When this series was first show, I was either too young to watch it, in the 70's or thought the subject matter too boring in the 1980's and I was out the country in the 1990's. I first saw a full episode of this charming programme on ITV 3 in 2008. The episode was from series 4 and I automatically fell in love with the characters from that episode. When the price of this DVD set came down I bought it and have not regretted the purchase.