Commercial Releases
In 1991, a compilation of footage from Series 5 and 6 was compiled for a VHS release - simply titled "Smith & Jones".
The second video released in 1993 featured footage from Series 1–4 of the series, particularly from the second series.
A compilation DVD release The Best Of Smith And Jones was scheduled for 8 August 2005 by the BBC, but has been delayed many times and is unlikely to be released.
However, in October 2009, Fremantle Media released a two disc set titled "At Last Smith & Jones: Volume 1". This contained compilations of the first four series, as well as the two Christmas specials, "The Home Made Xmas Video" and "Alas Sage & Onion". The first of these has a scene cut, presumably for music clearance reasons, but the latter has an additional scene removed from the initial broadcast. The scene involves a plane crash, and the special was first broadcast on the same evening as the Lockerbie bombing. The set also includes 3 episodes from the 1989 series "Smith & Jones In Small Doses".
Tie-in books included The Smith and Jones World Atlas (a humorous gazetteer of the world's countries), Janet Lives With Mel and Griff, and The Lavishly Tooled Smith and Jones Instant Coffee Table Book (co-written with Clive Anderson), which was designed to look as if it could be made into a coffee table.
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