Category: Last Of The Summer Wine

  • Cohorts Of The Summer Wine
    Cohorts Of The Summer Wine

    Shall we have a quick look at what else was on the night of the last ever episode of Last Of The Summer Wine? It was called How Not To Cry At Weddings, and aired on BBC One, at 8.00pm on the 29th August 2010. Earlier on in the evening, at 5.05pm, there was a…

  • Peers Of The Summer Wine
    Peers Of The Summer Wine

    Following on from yesterday, where we looked at what else was on the BBC the night the pilot of Last Of The Summer Wine aired, I thought it might be fun to look at what was on the night the first full series began – Monday 12th November 1973. Short Back And Palais Glide was…

  • Contemporaries Of The Summer Wine
    Contemporaries Of The Summer Wine

    Let’s have a quick look at what else was on the BBC channels the same night that the pilot for Last Of The Summer Wine aired – 4th January 1973. At 8 o’clock on BBC One, as part of the Comedy Playhouse, Roy Clarke introduced us to Compo, Clegg, and Blamire in The Last Of…

  • Clothes Of The Summer Wine
    Clothes Of The Summer Wine

    Take a moment to look at this frame from a 2006 episode of Last Of The Summer Wine. Even if your only experience of the show is from the 80s or 90s, you can still immediately see Norman Clegg. You might also then straight away wonder where Compo and Foggy might be. That’s the work…

  • What’s The Opposite Of A Doughnut?
    What’s The Opposite Of A Doughnut?

    It’s not the most important question ever, but it’s one we felt worth exploring in the latest episode of setisoppO, the podcast where we work out the opposite of things that don’t have a natural opposite. There may be some discussion of Last Of The Summer Wine too.

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  • Proctology: A Bottom Examination
    Proctology: A Bottom Examination

    For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…

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  • Re-Casting Keanu
    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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