Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll (1999– ) User Reviews

Television at it's best!

[Sunburst · 10/10 · 15 October 1999]

Wow - this series was brilliant! It was so well written and acted that it is definitely the best thing I have seen on TV in ages.

The story, centering on struggling band, "The Ice Cubes" in 1960's Eccles, was so well crafted that I eagerly awaited each installment as the weeks passed by. The last episode in particular was especially nail biting - I couldn't guess how it would all come out in the end. And what truly excellent acting! Each and every actor was just perfect for their role. "The Ice Cubes" music was also great - better than great! I'll be buying the soundtrack first chance I get.

This series would suit any sort of romantic out there. The inclusion of the W.B Yeats poem "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heavan" was a really nice touch.

This is quality television. I cannot recommend it enough.

I am The Wolf !

[cak-3 · 13 October 1999]

This is a fantastic series which keeps you on the edge of your seat and builds to a great climax at the end of the last episode and just when you think things will never sort themselves out .......................

The music is excellent - lets hear it for "The Ice Cubes" man ! (the soundtrack is worth getting for "I want doesn't get" alone)

My favourite character is "The Wolf", what a cool dude and nice guy (darling !)

Obviously appeals to people in Kent but deserves Universal acclaim !!

Excellent Series

[trudy.keenan · 10/10 · 9 August 2000]

This recently played on TV and my friend and I were totally hooked every Friday night watching it. Of course when the series ended we both HAD to get the video!

The story is set in England in 1965 and two twin sisters (who not only look nothing alike are totally different people) are finishing school. Living with their father and Grandmother who raised them, their life has been planned out for them by the domineering Grandmother "Mother Brooks", a bitter woman disappointed at life (you have to wait until the end to find the true reason). However, when a trio of musicians come to town, life as mapped out for the girls takes a different turn ....

I cannot really praise the acting enough in this series. Having seen Sue Johnston, who played Mother Brooks, in other productions, she was marvellous as an older woman. The casting of Gillian Kearney as Eloise was also inspiring. David Thelfall as Norman, truly gave me the creeps, in so far as when I recently saw him in another movie my skin crawled.

This is a really good miniseries (as only the BBC can do!) that certainly kept me hooked and I hope they do a follow up.

If you are a fan of sixties music there is the added bonus of the music.

Love 60's?,love dramas? - well you'll love this!!

[dana-49 · 10/10 · 28 November 1999]

I've never known T.V dramas to be all that good - up untill i saw Sex, Chips & Rock 'n' Roll anyway. I have bought the video and the great soundtrack!. I think this is a truly amazing series, I have never seen anything better!. The story line is so impressive and i'd advice everyone to see it. The charactors are so well thought out and understood, the love story between Ellie and Dallas is great. I,myself, have always loved 60's music, dramas and love stories and here comes along S,C&R'n'Roll - surpassing my highest expectations. This six part BBC series was brilliantly cast, especially Gillian Kearney as Ellie and Joeseph McFadden as Dallas (i dont have time to mention the rest). I hope everone who has seen it (or bought the video) has enjoyed it as much as me!

See it over and over again - you'll never get bored

[RosieT20 · 10/10 · 22 April 2006]

This is absolutely the best mini series I have ever seen. I don't know how many times I've seen it, but it's not as many times as I'll see it in the future.

The story is brilliant, the casting perfect, and the soundtrack is excellent.

Sue Johnstone gives an inspired performance, and surely any woman with a pulse would fall in love with Dallas.

The storyline never flags - it's 300 minutes of blissful entertainment, the 60s era captured perfectly. From Episode 1 it just gets better and better.

If you love romance and rock'n'roll then watch this.

[megz-2 · 17 September 1999]

This mini series is brilliant. The actors, especially Joe McFadden portray well the aspect of struggling musicians. This may be a spoiler but I enjoy the romantic twist of Dallas liking the other twin more. I won't reveal too much! If any other British liked Hello Girls then this would be the series for you.

Sex, Chips and Rock n Roll

[culedood66 · 19 January 2006]

This BBC drama is a must see, and I feel sorry for anybody who hasn't seen it! Ellie and Arden are twins, but are completely different. Obsessed with boys and gorgeous, Arden is desperate to have a man. Ellie on the other hand, is an intellectual. She's desperate to go to university, but this is 1965, not exactly the era of women's rights. However, at her 18th birthday party, she finds herself engaged to Norman, her (much older) cousin.

Ellie and Arden work in Norman's chip shop, where all the riff raff go. As nicely brought up girls, their grandmother tells them, "serve them if you must but don't bring them back here. We don't want any deadbeats in this family." Enter the Ice Cubes.... three lively young musicians, stuck playing at talent contests, but with dreams of landing a record deal one day.

These three musicians soon show the twins there's more to life than doing what their grandmother tells them...

Sex Chips and Rock n Roll is a lively drama about living your dreams. Gillian Kearney is marvellous Ellie, and Sue Johnson strikes again with her performance as Irma, the girls' prim and proper, and yet sad, grandmother.

And then of course, there's Joe McFadden, who plays the gorgeous, Irish Dallas, who has the problem of both twins after him at once. But which will he choose? maybe he should flip a coin. "Heads the clever one, tails the pretty one....."