Re-runs, DVD, and Scripts
As of 2010 the series is still repeated on UK digital channel ITV3 The complete series has been released on Region 2 DVD and Acorn Media is releasing it on region 1 DVD in North America as well (see below). The series was repeated on Channel 4 between 1998 and 2004 until ITV3 was launched.
On screen episode titles have been added to the DVD versions of series 1 & 2, the episode titles on series 3 & 4 are however original.
The complete scripts for the series have been published as Rising Damp: The Complete Scripts by Eric Chappell; edited by Richard Webber. London: Granada Media, 2002. This collection does not include the feature film version. In his introduction, Eric Chappell writes: “When I decided to publish the scripts of Rising Damp my first thought was, did I have them all? What followed was a desperate search in the loft amongst piles of mildewed papers until I found them.… The scripts were written in feverish haste by someone who didn’t really know what he was doing, and who was finding things out as he went along. I didn’t admit this at the time, even to myself. I took the view that sitcom writers fell into two categories: the quick and the dead, and I didn’t intend to be one of the latter!”
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