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that show embodies everything that is great about thiscountry!!

― duane, Wednesday, 24 September 2003 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Noooooooooooooooooooooo!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Britain in a microcosm: three old men rolling down a Yorkshire hillside in an old bathtub whose brakes have failed.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 12:56 (twenty-two years ago)

i can't stand anything by Roy Clarke, the only good thing about Last Of The Summer Wine is the fact that Keeping Up Appearances is even worse (oh and the scenery is often quite nice)

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

bathtubs have brakes????

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

i can't stand anything by Roy Clarke

Open All Hours is alright!

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 12:58 (twenty-two years ago)

three old men rolling down a Yorkshire hillside in an old bathtub

its funny how i keep seeing this same description/premise for the show here and there...did it really actually happen? (i think it probably did and i saw it but how did it become the most memorable scene, Delboy bar slump style?)

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 12:58 (twenty-two years ago)

i didn't actually know Open All Hours by him, that's an onion in the ointment

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 12:59 (twenty-two years ago)

it happened every single episode steve

i mean so someone told me

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 12:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Is this still going?? Aren't half the cast dead now?

― robster (robster), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I have always liked LOSW. I like its gentle humour. When I'm an Old Age Pensioner I want to go and live in a Yorkshire village with all my best mates and spend my days designing Heath Robinson-esque contraptions and firing my friends out of home made cannons.

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah. I'd forgotten that baths don't have brakes. *That's* why they can't stop it rolling down the hill, natch.

(I definitely remember things *like* that happening - building a submarine out of old oil drums was one episode that definitely did happen. But they all blur into one, so I can't remember the definitive bathtub-down-hill moment)

(I also remember seeing a very early episode, shot on film, which was actually quite good - more like Alan Bennett than Roy Clarke really)

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the bathtub scene is the only scene from this show that i've ever scene, and it was horrifyingly naff, ergo it was so gripping I watched the whole thing. Until the bathtub reached the bottom, at the very least.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 13:02 (twenty-two years ago)

i was discussing awful sitcoms with Chriddof last week - how many of these abominations do you remember?

Home James
Up The Garden Path
Executive Stress
Dunrulin'
So Haunt Me
Divided We Stand
Sitting Pretty
that thing with the talking dog and Norman Lovett as the inventor
Captain Butler
Chelmsford 1-2-3 (this may not have been too bad actually)
Us Girls (possibly the first sitcome i absolutely despised)
Grace And Favour
Goodnight Sweetheart
The Piglet Files
Old Boy Network
Under The Rainbow (think that was the title)
The River (David Essex!)
Brush Strokes
Three Up Two Down

any more?

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 13:04 (twenty-two years ago)

how did i forget Waiting For God?

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

it never reaches the bottom, that is the purity of this concept: a single bathtub rolling down a single hillside forever — the three old men may change now and then, but nothing else does

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 13:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Aren't half the cast dead now?

Yes; but they just bring more people in. It has Burt Kwok in it now. There are a lot of jokes about his character coming from the mysterious East - ie, Hull.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 13:06 (twenty-two years ago)

is Nora Batty still in it?

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Home James - Jim Davidson, yes?
Up The Garden Path - no
Executive Stress - yes. Bowles and Keith (again!)
Dunrulin' - no
So Haunt Me - yes wirtten by Bob Block who did Rentaghost too!
Divided We Stand - no
Sitting Pretty -yes, John Sullivan messes up
that thing with the talking dog and Norman Lovett as the inventor - no
Captain Butler - no
Chelmsford 1-2-3 (this may not have been too bad actually) - yes
Us Girls (possibly the first sitcome i absolutely despised) - no
Grace And Favour - yes, totally unnecessary spin-off
Goodnight Sweetheart - yes
The Piglet Files - no
Old Boy Network - no
Under The Rainbow (think that was the title) - no
The River (David Essex!) - yes
Brush Strokes - has that guy been in anything else apart from the Flash advert???
Three Up Two Down - yes.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

has that guy been in anything else apart from the Flash advert???

He was in a not-too-bad comedy-drama series about Glasgow gangsters a few years back.

Nora Batty is played by someone who is not dead. Therefore, she is still in Last Of The Summer Wine.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 13:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I must say I hate 'Last of the summer wine' with a passion. It is so unfunny & I just have memories of it being on tv on a sunday evening when there really was nothing else on & being forced to watch it. yuk!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)

b-but Brush Strokes was great! And it had a theme tune by Dexy's.

― robster (robster), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Its has burt kwok in it now? WTF???????

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 13:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Karl Howman (Brush Strokes) also appeared in Babes In The Wood with Samantha Janus and two other comely bints i forget the names of...this was on ITV a few years back. it was fantastic*

i've also just remembered Brighton Belles and Second Thoughts

*this is a lie

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

It's not always bathtub Mark... occasionally they use a barrell instead.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

what was that awful Carla Lane one about the four spinsters all after the same bloke? it had Gwen somethingorother in it, who was also in that terrible sitcom that was the last thing Gary Olsen did before his untimely passing

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Karl Howman was also in that sitcom where he was the Grim Reaper and he called round to tell some curmudgeonly old lady that she was going to die but ended up not having the heart to do it and he became her butler/handyman instead. Mulberry, it was called. Or something.

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

How on earth have we managed to get this far without a mention of THE VICAR OF DIBLEY?!

Anyone seen The Crouches yet? That looks pretty lame.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

On The Up - Dennis Waterman plays a loaded somethingorother coming to terms with his divorce and struggling to relate to his teenage daughter...hilarity ensues

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

it's now only a matter of time before I revert to Lee & Herring style bogus sitcom ideas based purely on a witty title e.g. Bent Coppers

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

You forgot Oh Crikey! on that list.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 13:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Karl Howman was also briefly in the Bill, playing a nasty football hooligan type person (IIRC). He was quite good at it.

it's now only a matter of time before I revert to Lee & Herring style bogus sitcom ideas based purely on a witty title e.g. Bent Coppers

I loved that. "These policemen live together, one's gay, one's corrupt, they both suffer from curvature of the spine, and they're both made out of copper."

The Piglet Files

I remember really enjoying this at the time. Nicholas Lyndhurst played a man who accidentally got the job of being a major spy in the MI5. LWT made two series of it before the first episode had been transmitted. (I remember being off school ill and watching TV Weekly, and Barry Took was on it with his new programme roundup, and he said that this had happened because it was "just so good, LWT have ordered another series to be made." However the public didn't think it was "so good" and it bombed fairly badly, IIRC.)

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh Crikey! - don't remember that but the title reminds me of Oh No! It's Selywn Froggitt!.

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)

what abt Sink or Swim? early eighties, The Ubiquitous Peter Davison and someotherbloke.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Episode 122 of Last of the Summer Wine (series 15 - first shown in 1993)

"Stop That Bath
The trio find they are involved in yet another of Howard's schemes to get a present to Marina - this time a cast iron bath!"

― gobemouche, Wednesday, 24 September 2003 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

series 15 was in 1993, good god.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

They went down a hill in a wardrobe too.

Duane LSOTW is too pally.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Does anyone remember Duty Free? I used to love that when I was younger.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

LOTSW fan site here!

I speshly like this bit:
A fantastic $2,000 donation from a USA fan has officially launched the fund raising appeal for a statue of Compo in the Summer Wine town of Holmfirth. Members of the Bill Owen Statue Memorial Trust paid tribute to Mr Brian E Kushner, of New Jersey, USA, for the donation. Mr Kushner - who got in touch after seeing details of the appeal on the Holmfirth-based Summer Wine website, said: "I love this show and with what joy Bill Owen has brought me over the years, its the least I can do."

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

This lot want to erect a statue of Bill Owen (Compo) in Holmfirth.

x-post

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Duty Free also starred Gwen thingy! argh!

Keith Barron tho - what a gangbanging playa 4 life

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Tom may be referring to the 1997 episode, "Nowhere Particular". The synopsis is "Compo finds himself with time on his hands and ends up helping Smiler deliver some furniture for Auntie Wainwright."

BTW who is "Smiler"?

― gobemouche, Wednesday, 24 September 2003 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Why is nobody discussing First of the Summer Wine, the failed late 80s spin-off featuring the cast, only younger?

Brian Wilde's a bit of a pimp, but the show is dud.

Also worthy of discussion: An Actor's Life For Me, Nelson's Column, A Prince Among Men.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Blakey from On The Busses

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I liked First Of The Summer Time. In my defence, I was only small at the time.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Can someone remind me what the name of that sitcom starring Craig Charles as a pirate was again?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Captain Butler

First Of The Summer Wine was only intended as a brief series i think, so bit harsh to deem it 'failed'

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

It's not exactly viewed as a classic, though, is it?

Anyway, can we talk about Dad?

"Hell-oh"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Waiting for God was great, though - until they moved in together and I lost track of what was going on.

Was 'Allo 'Allo a BBC series?

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, my pseudo aunt was in it, the edith's mother

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

ED YOU ARE RELATED TO EDITHS MOTHER????

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 20:15 (twenty-two years ago)

hang on, was that the senile grandma who never got out of bed?

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 23:46 (twenty-two years ago)

it never reaches the bottom, that is the purity of this concept: a single bathtub rolling down a single hillside forever — the three old men may change now and then, but nothing else does

Bathing for Godot by Roy Clarke.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 25 September 2003 02:05 (twenty-two years ago)

never got out of bed?

this is not actually true. I saw a repeat of one of the later episodes recently in which René is pretending to be his twin brother as René himself is supposed to be dead. René's "brother" goes to the town hall to marry René's "widow" and the grandmother (played by Rose Hill) accompanies them (along with Leclerc, Crabtree ect ect).

Incidentally, there is an Oxford suburb called Rose Hill....wouldn't it be kewl if Rose Hill lived there?

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 25 September 2003 06:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Grace and Favour

Reuniting the cast of a fondly-remembered series is generally a bad idea. Remember that terrible Reggie Perrin sequel sometime during the 90s? It seemed to be written entirely round everyone's catchphrases.

― robster (robster), Thursday, 25 September 2003 07:22 (twenty-two years ago)

"The Legacy of Reginald Perrin". 1996, 7 episodes. Shocking.

― gobemouche, Thursday, 25 September 2003 08:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm sure at least once every series the scriptwriters were contractually required to include an episode in which she was wheeled into a hot air balloon/German biplane/other hilarious flying contraption while muttering curmudgeonly and holding her ear trumpet aloft.

Still... ED YOU ARE RELATED TO EDITHS MOTHER????

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 25 September 2003 08:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I didn't get where I am today by repeating catchphrases endlessly.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 25 September 2003 08:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Gruber's little tank. Nuff said.

― gobemouche, Thursday, 25 September 2003 08:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Listen very carefully, I will post this only once...

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 25 September 2003 08:29 (twenty-two years ago)

i think CJ's catchphrase may be one of the better ones in any sitcom incidentally (it's funny cos it's true)

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 25 September 2003 08:32 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Surprised at no mention yet of "Sorry" which (bearing in mind my dreadfully foul mouth as a child) caused me no end of pain.

2. ED ARE YOU RELATED TO EDITH'S MOTHER? etc.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 25 September 2003 08:34 (twenty-two years ago)

No but she was one of my maternal grandmother's oldest friends and consequently became a kind of aunt, she was always auntie Rose to me.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 25 September 2003 08:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Bah truth once again proves less strange than fiction after all.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 25 September 2003 08:54 (twenty-two years ago)

*wonders whether CJ the Unruly ever says "I didn't get where I am today..."*

― robster (robster), Thursday, 25 September 2003 08:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I am going to write a sitcom about a comically mismatched yet loving couple living above a pub in Clerkenwell while assorted flatmates, visitors of varying nationalities and motorbike couriers come and go... features a "hilarious" climactic scene involving a naked Momus careening down a hill on a pushbike.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 25 September 2003 09:00 (twenty-two years ago)

in a bath

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 25 September 2003 09:02 (twenty-two years ago)

If Last of the Summer wine is Waiting for Godot then Sorry must be his Eleutheria.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 25 September 2003 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

On The Up was an unfortunate blip in Waterman's otherwise superlative career in British television acting

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 25 September 2003 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Last Of The Summer Wine is not as bad as people make it out to be...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 25 September 2003 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

What was the one with Dennis Waterman and an alcoholic house keeper?

"Just the one Mrs Wembly?"
"Yes, just the one."

Was that On The Up?

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 25 September 2003 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

that was indeed on the up - also check yr email anna

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 25 September 2003 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I was once introduced to someone at a party who completly misheard everything I said and went off under the impression I'd written Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps. He told everyone at the party and people kept asking me about it, finishing with one bloke telling me, "your sitcom's crap, and why has it got Carol from Hollyoaks in it?" I was too drunk to explain I had absolutley nothing to do with it by then.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 25 September 2003 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

it is absolutely dreadful though!

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 25 September 2003 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Anna you should write a sitcom for Daft Punk

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 25 September 2003 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I like TPoC&aPoL! It's funny and has Carol & Jambo out of Hollyoaks in it. It could be better though. : (

― David. (Cozen), Thursday, 25 September 2003 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I was once introduced to someone at a party who completly misheard everything I said and went off under the impression I'd written Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps. He told everyone at the party and people kept asking me about it, finishing with one bloke telling me, "your sitcom's crap, and why has it got Carol from Hollyoaks in it?" I was too drunk to explain I had absolutley nothing to do with it by then.

Why explain, Anna? Should have just smiled and nodded a lot til the straitjackets came to shove 'em into their own pretty padded condo, courtesy of Channel 4. (I love "Two Pints...": the one show where the blokes have a match for their neanderthal tendencies.

(Is that still on, BTW?)

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 25 September 2003 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)

latest series of TPOLAAPOC just finished recently i think. probably another being filmed now...but let's hope not (even if it means Beverley Callard does another callanetics video, shudder)

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 25 September 2003 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I totally forgot she did one! It actually sold more than 10 copies?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 25 September 2003 18:42 (twenty-two years ago)

it sold at least one copy, hem hem...

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 25 September 2003 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

as in i think my mum received it as a Christmas present once, but not from me i assure you

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 25 September 2003 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

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