# The Bed-Sitting Room **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 15, 2004, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bed-sitting-room/269357 "2004-10-15T12:15:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bed-sitting-room/269357/1 "2004-10-15T12:15:39Z")
Does anyone remember 1960s English film _The Bed-Sitting Room_? I’ve only seen it once, and that was yonks ago. Early-'80s. It was about life in England after a nuclear war. IIRC, people turn into mutants and inanimate objects. ---
**Author:** ![kellner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c2a13f/32.png) [@kellner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellner)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bed-sitting-room/269357/2 "2004-10-15T12:24:37Z")
Yes! And if anyone ever finds it on DVD/video, let me know. I saw it on TV late at night about two years ago in a Richard Lester/Rita Tushingham double feature together with “The Knack”. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bed-sitting-room/269357/3 "2004-10-15T12:27:45Z")
It is at the top of my list of films I’m dying to see. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bed-sitting-room/269357/4 "2004-10-15T12:39:30Z")
> [@](#): > > Yes! And if anyone ever finds it on DVD/video, let me know. There are three VHS tapes listed on eBay. One seller will only accept U.S. bids and will not ship overseas. I assume that it’s NTSC format. The other two specify that they are NTSC format. I thought about buying one, but I have a feeling it’s a bootleg. Not that I have a problem with bootlegs, if I can’t get it any other way; but I can’t really be spending money right now. If it’s a bootleg, then there will be others later. I checked Amazon, and “voted” for its release on DVD. (Hey, it worked for _Betty Blue_! 😉 ) ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bed-sitting-room/269357/5 "2004-10-15T20:56:59Z")
From [Entertainment Weekly](http://www.ew.com/ew/article/commentary/0,6115,649851_21%7C101462%7C%7C0_0_,00.html) > [@](#): > > At long last, a release (its first in any home format) is tentatively scheduled for 2005. The International Museum of Photography regularly shows films not available anywhere else, and \*The Bed-Sitting Room popped up earlier this year. It is a remarkable example of “opening up” a play, although you could see how surrealistic it would be on a bare stage. Spike Milligan of the Goons was a co-writer of the original. There’s really nothing like it, even among apocalypse films. It’s as nasty a commentary on society as you can find. Amazing film, but it kinda ruined the careers of everybody involved in it, at least for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bed-sitting-room/269357/6 "2004-10-16T15:05:19Z")
> [@](#): > > At long last, a release (its first in any home format) is tentatively scheduled for 2005. Excellent! 🙂 It’s funny, serendipity is. I read a remark in another thread (I don’t remember which one) that reminded me of something that reminded me of something. Like pachinko balls bouncing in the game, my thoughts landed upon _The Bed-Sitting Room_ – a film I hadn’t thought of in donkey’s years. I decided to post this thread, and found that people actually remember this obscure film _and_ that it’s scheduled for release in 2005. Groovy. 🙂