Simon Dunn

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Last Of The Summer Continuity

This promo for Nashville Public Television’s Last Of The Summer Wine binge season isn’t great. The accent is off, and why not use a Yorkshire voice anyway? Why no clips from the show?

That said, it’s not nearly as bad as this, which is just bloody awful.

Weirdly, I watched the very episode that this next one is promoting last night, and now I know it aired in the lead up to the 1997 election that saw Labour stride into Government.

https://youtu.be/dALy4du2bSc

I wish I knew what that Harry Enfield/Paxman sketch was from. Here’s the election night coverage if you have a spare 8 hours.

Nine years earlier we got a glimpse of Sid’s Cafe in this trail.

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