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The Quest (2002)

The Quest poster
Directed by
David Jason
Genre
tv movie, drama, comedy
Country
United Kingdom
Rated
15
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Three older men decide to relive their youth by going on a series of adventures. The series follows their comedic efforts to recapture the excitement of their younger days.

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What happens

The Quest is a series of three feature-length comedy dramas produced by Yorkshire Television and written for British television by Douglas Livingstone and directed by David Jason. The series revolves around three older men (played by Jason, Hywel Bennett and Roy Hudd) trying to relive their youth. Other members of the cast included Les Dennis, Anna Karen, Diane Langton and Georgia Tennant. The first episode in the series premiered on ITV in 2002. Two follow-up episodes were also created by Livingstone and Jason: The Second Quest and The Final Quest (both 2004). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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