Category: Last Of The Summer Wine
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Another Post About Sitcom Set Re-Use
I didn’t realise this was still naggin at me, over two years and one global pandemic later. Here’s a tweet I posted after watching an episode of Last Of The Summer Wine (Go With The Flow I think). It’s that staircase, you see. It was always so familiar. And then I came to the end…
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Ever Decreasing Trailers
Here’s a trail for the Christmas edition of Ever Decreasing Circles. You can see the final credits of Last Of The Summer Wine first, and then, I assume it’s a goof, where the audio fades out too soon, and the trail itself is strangely music-less.
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Roy Clarke’s Fantasy Sci Fi Epic
Keeping Up Appearances was on at the end of every year for its first four series, then it took a whole year off before Hyacinth returned for the final series. Also strangely absent from BBC screens in 1994 was the perenniel presence of Last Of The Summer Wine. Why the gap? Did Roy take some…
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Re-Casting Keanu
Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…
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Positively Enriching Situation Comedies
Here’s the overview of the BBC’s comedy output during 1977, as recorded in their annual report. Comedies including The Good Life and serials including I, Claudius shared pride of place during the year. Situation comedies, some of which were not only funny but positively enriching, again flourished on BBC Television. As usual much depended on…
