Mother and Son: Season 1

Logie Awards Winner: Most Outstanding Actress, Most Outstanding Actor, Most Popular Comedy Personality

Finalist, Situation Comedy, New York International Television Festival

Best Comedy Show, People’s Choice Awards

Best Overall Script, Writers Guild of America, West

She’s losing her wits and he’s at his wits’ end!

Starring Ruth Cracknell and Garry McDonald, Mother & Son is the hilarious, Australian, award winning classic comedy about the relationship between the newly divorced Arthur and his aging and very eccentric mother, Maggie.

Torn between a social conscience that dictates he should look after his mother in her old age and the need to live a normal life while he’s still in his prime, Arthur tries to accommodate his mother’s constant demands for affection and attention. With Maggie vague, but vicious and more arsenic than old lace, the daily chaotic events usually leave the contented Maggie unaware and the beleaguered Arthur in a dilemma and tied to Maggie’s apron strings, if she could just remember where she put the apron...

INCLUDES: Maggie Takes a Holiday / Maggie Gets the Milk / Maggie Alone / Arthur’s Holiday / Arthur’s Night Out / Maggie in Love / Maggie Makes a Will

Special Features: Cast Profiles

approx. 195 mins. col.

Great comedy

Great characters and story lines. If you are a fan of British comedies you will love this series from Australia. We especially loved the episode entitled "The Funeral". I can't wait to get the rest of the series. June 19, 2008

"I Say, Arthur!"

I fondly remember watching "Mother and Son" back in the 1980's and reveling at Maggie's latest antics and poor son Arthur's frustration especially when Maggie constantly interrupts his love life.
Ruth Cracknell as Maggie was one of the most respected Australian actresses of the stage and this was a courageous and brilliant change for her and she STEALS the show!

I do wish that the entire show will be released soon especially the one where Maggie stops the Funeral Cortege of her brother-in-law in order to buy some oranges along the road and ends up dropping them into the grave!! :)

HIGHLY recommended. January 19, 2008

Mother & Son

This is a funny show. It's a shame PBS doesn't show this one. Can't wait to buy season two. January 7, 2008

So glad it's on DVD

My mom and dad always loved this show. I was thrilled to find in on a DVD that plays on American machines. It's Australian, but very much in keeping with the style of brit coms. I will definately buy other seasons. November 15, 2007

I LOVED This Show

I'm in the US, and I started watching this show in 1986, when our public TV stations ran a lot of old episodes of "Britcoms" (though maybe this is an "Ozcom"). Ruth Cracknell is a mother in the Olivia Soprano school of Evil Parents, always criticizing her dutiful (if not always happy about it) son Arthur for "whinging" (I word I learned from Britcoms) and treating her other son, the negligent but smoothly glib Robert (who takes credit for Arthur's good deeds whenever he can), with overweening affection that's meant to be a barb for Arthur.
While I don't think it was as great a series as "All in the Family", it was reliably very, very funny. My then future hubby and I watched it faithfully, even when we had to get out of bed to do it :)And though the entire cast is good, you really should watch Ruth Cracknell as the Mother. She's a pistol.
And as some other have said, $27 for 7 episodes is just price gauging. I think I'm gonna have to wait to buy it. But if you have the money (I don't), you should check it out. October 14, 2007

More reviews at Amazon.com ...