Category: Ovens
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Another Fascinating Post About Sitcom Ovens
You might think my obsession with sitcom ovens is a bit odd, what with this, this, and this – but unlike Roy Clarke, I’ve never written a whole episode about an oven. In Watching The Clock, the 20th March 2005 installment of Last Of The Summer Wine, there’s a concerted effort to convince Auntie Wainwright…
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Compo’s Bed And Clegg’s Stead
I watched the second half of the first series of Last Of The Summer Wine last night. I can’t find the pilot amongst the 59 discs, but I expect it’s there somewhere. Look how bleak Compo’s house is. And yes, we get a glimpse of his oven. It’s a rather compact table top affair, that…
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The Young Ovens
I’ve become a bit obsessed with ovens in sitcoms this past week. It all started when I noticed how many ovens Arkwright got through in Open All Hours, before I began to wonder if any of those same ovens were used in other BBC shows. Logic would suggest they would have to have been. I…
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Oven All Hours
I know the internet is full of articles about the ovens in Open All Hours, and that adding anything to the discourse is almost, if not completely impossible. Nonetheless, let’s have a look at the ovens in the backroom of Arkwright’s. We first get a glimpse into the inner workings of the shop in the…
