This edition has since been re-packaged by Umbrella, with the same extras, and the film remains freely available.
In an interview , Burstall recalls how Alvin came about: Now, I'd never seen a sex comedy in my life, literally, and Graham Bourke, in charge at Roadshow, said have a look at it.
Writers approached included Frank Hardy and Barry Oakley, and Burstall assembled some 26 stories in all.
That said, the film has aged badly, especially as in the internet age, the nudity is now quaint rather than novel or shocking.
A psychiatrist walking with him in Hyde Park tipped Hopgood off to sexual surrogacy as a wrinkle for the story.
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