who watches last of the summer wine?

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is it YOU? bcz DON'T!!

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:07 (twenty-three years ago)

evazev (8:54:34 pm): all bad things come to an end
evazev (8:54:42 pm): except last of the summer wine!
Buglebear2002 (8:54:55 pm): it's an institution!
Buglebear2002 (8:55:16 pm): not that I watch it or anything
evazev (8:56:05 pm): it's impossible to watch it
Buglebear2002 (8:56:26 pm): there are no young people in that town, it's where the aliens took the old peeps in Cacoon.
evazev (8:56:48 pm): haha cacoon wd be a gd name for it!
Buglebear2002 (8:57:27 pm): "we thought you were taking us somewhere good, i hate the bloody countryside"

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Just when you think the cast's about dying off, they exhume yet another hasbeen you've not seen for 25 years...

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:11 (twenty-three years ago)

though having said that, I wouldn't mind being in LOToSW 2060! It could be set on the moon.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I think it'll be set in a cemetary. Or is it already?

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:15 (twenty-three years ago)

i still wish they'd change the name to Cacoon, it's hilarious

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Last of the Zimmer Frame, maybe.

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:17 (twenty-three years ago)

anyone remember First Of The Summer Wine? short lived spin off featuring the characters as they were in as teenagers in the 1930s

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, I know, too obvious. I actually wanted something with colostomy bag in it, but I was stumped...

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh.

This is a TV show, I guess. I though the thread title was something all poetic and stuff, like "where are the snows of yesteryear?" or something, and was sitting here nodding my head, thinking: so true, so very true--who does watch the last of the summer wine?

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:19 (twenty-three years ago)

i don't do poetic, i'm all abt poor TV mainly

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:21 (twenty-three years ago)

speaking of which, CSI just started i think

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:21 (twenty-three years ago)

LotSW, poetic? It's a show about a bunch of old farts who roam around doing nothing of any importance and making really cliched 'jokes.' And it's been running since 1972, so it's getting quite painful now...

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:22 (twenty-three years ago)

My parents once sent me a postcard from 'Last of the Summer Wine Country'. It includes a pic of a TV mast ('Moors and TV mast', it says)!

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Shame about Dame Thora, tho'. Looked marvellous for her age. 91, you know, didn't look a day over 90...

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:36 (twenty-three years ago)

But was Bill Owen a comedy genius? Sorry, thinking aloud.

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:44 (twenty-three years ago)

My mum watches Last Of The Summer Wine. And laughs a lot.

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:15 (twenty-three years ago)

mums eh? bless 'em

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, my mom also reads the Sun... what can you do?

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:17 (twenty-three years ago)

My gran read the Sun, and the News Of The World too. She would save the week's copies up, then every Saturday we would go to her house for lunch and my dad would read them all.

My mum used to be a Daily Mail reader, which is even worse. She stopped when they put the price up a penny once; she thought it was disgusting that it had gone up.

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:22 (twenty-three years ago)

haha, it's about a bunch of old guys and there's one really dumb old guy who wears a stiggy hat and he ends up rolling down a hill in a barrel and shouting.

― Ian SPACK (Ian SPACK), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 23:56 (twenty-three years ago)

He's been dead about three years, which means it's even less funny.

However, there is Burt Kwouk and a really painful attempt at a Yorkshire accent to be seen lately. (No, I DON'T WATCH IT! But mom does. So I don't always entirely avoid it.)

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 00:48 (twenty-three years ago)

My parents once sent me a postcard from 'Last of the Summer Wine Country'. It includes a pic of a TV mast ('Moors and TV mast', it says)!

that "tv mast" is the emley moor transmitter, britain's tallest free-standing structure and mentioned by me as one of my favourite buildings on some other thread somewhere.

― michael wells (michael w.), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 00:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Can any show beat Last of the Summer Wine for soldiering on in spite of the cast dying or leaving? I often wonder whether the Seymour Utterthwaite character was unpopular amongst all viewers of the show, or only in my house. He certainly disappeared pretty sharpish and Brian Wilde reprised Foggy Dewhurst. I was never a fan, btw, it was just on. My parents like it and it affirms the suspicion that I've had for a while that once we get old, we *like* things to be repetitive....

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 09:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I enjoy ‘Last of The Summer Wine’, sort of. It’s filmed in and around my native West Yorkshire. When a little homesick, and the tiresome Dutch landscape makes pine for some greenery and valleys, I find the oft-used background shots of the moors, hills and low mountains around Holmfirth genuinely soothing

It does help if you switch the sound off, try to pay no attention to the ‘characters’ or storylines, and occasionally glance up from whatever you’re reading to admire the views.

― stevo (stevo), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 09:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, Dude!! I think I saw this one on PBS once. I seem to recall an old guy climbing a ladder, and, um, working in his flower-bed.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 09:40 (twenty-three years ago)

storylines

HAHA!

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 10:35 (twenty-three years ago)

But Frank Thornton, though. How long is it before they dig Mollie up so she can assail him with requests to look after her pussy? (Or would that just be *too* funny...)

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 13:21 (twenty-three years ago)

i curse the day Roy Clarke first yielded his big stupid sitcom-writing pen

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 13:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Is the guy who played Blakey in On the Buses still in it?

I've ever seen one of the really early episodes with Blamire. Has anybody? The earliest one i've seen is the one which introduces Foggy.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 13:26 (twenty-three years ago)

that should read "I've never", of course.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 13:28 (twenty-three years ago)

the earlist i saw is where uggsy nearly invented the wheel and fire, with hilarious unintended consequences

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 13:28 (twenty-three years ago)

It is a graveyard for old sitcom characters. Blakey, Captain Peacock, bloke out of Citizen Smith, Bert Kwouk, George out of George and Mildred - there was even a Chuckel Brother in it.

And Bill Owens son playing Foggy's son. The mind boggles (and then rides down the hill on a bathtub on wheeels).

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 13:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Bill Owen's son really is the *worst* of the bunch, too.

Oh, did anyone spot the v. bloated Hywell Bennett (sp?) playing some kind of nutter, last year I think? (Also seen as serial killer suspect in The Bill a while later.)

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 13:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, yes, yes, we all *know* it's crap, but, well, hands up those of you that pretended to like it when little just to fend off the inevitable sunday night going-to-bed time for another hour (or whatever). Ditto with All Creatures Great and Small, about which I have actually muttered very drunkenly *to* *Christoper* *Timothy* that it was "the fucking dogs bollocks". Whilst dressed as a schoolgirl. With "SLUT" written on my head in lipstick. Ahem.

― SittingPretty (sittingpretty), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 13:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Also: search the Reeves and Mortimer advert for the BBC (I think): "Up Hill and Down Dale with Three Men in a Bath"....

― SittingPretty (sittingpretty), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 13:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Er, right.

I think I *did* sort of like it when I was a kid, anyway. But kids are stupid and have no taste.

Christopher Timothy's all right in Doctors. I quite like him.

(Yes, I'm still stupid and have no taste. Some people get over it.)

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 13:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Also: search the Reeves and Mortimer advert for the BBC (I think): "Up Hill and Down Dale with Three Men in a Bath"....

haha, that also reminds me of Poldark On Mopeds

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 13:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Timothy's all right in Doctors

I'm still waiting for the episode when he's rumbled and they find out he's a vet. Cue line: "Are you *sure* it's distemper, Doctor?"

And Bill Owens son playing Foggy's son?

yes, I heard abt that, but I've never seen an episode since Owen died. Does the son have the matchbox/habit of drinking tea out of saucer ect ect?

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 13:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I also had no taste as a child, and thought it was not bad. That was during the Seymour period, which can't have been *that* short-lived for me to remember it.

ISTR seeing a repeat of a very early one, which was actually much better - it was more Alan Bennett in style, and didn't have any of the slapstick or catchphrases.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 13:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm talking about late '70s rather than mid-'80s. I think it *was* better in the earlier years, but frankly, it's such a limited concept (I'm being serious now) that it's virtually impossible to flog it for 31 years without it growing terribly weary and formulaic. It's become some kind of weird institution, where no one dares suggest it ought to be put to rest...

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 13:59 (twenty-three years ago)

haha, that also reminds me of Poldark On Mopeds

....and of course International Pan Fighting from Cleethorpes.

― SittingPretty (sittingpretty), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 15:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Emley Moor Mast! It's a grand sight.
When I see it from the M1 it means I'm 10mins from a proper cup of tea.

― Simeon (Simeon), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 16:50 (twenty-three years ago)

people w/ pacemakers

― Clare (not entirely unhappy), Thursday, 27 March 2003 08:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I think Last of the Summer Wine is brilliant. It's exactly how I want to be when I'm 80 years old - living on the Yorkshire moors with my bestest friends, and getting into madcap scrapes every day. That's exactly how pensioners should behave, imo.

I liked the one where Compo was a human canonball.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 27 March 2003 09:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Last of the Summer Wine, Menudos for the over 70's.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 27 March 2003 10:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I liked the one where Compo was a human canonball.

ins't that like how EVERY episode goes?

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 27 March 2003 10:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Not now Compo's dead.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 27 March 2003 10:34 (twenty-three years ago)

emley moor transmitter is a thing of wonder

and, also i got this from L in mcr the other week

http://www.norfolkwindmills.com/postcards/holmfirth.jpg

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 27 March 2003 10:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Blakey catches some of the 'physical' antics lately, as perhaps one of the least arthritic cast members or something.

No, sorry, it's just not funny. Nice views or not.

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Thursday, 27 March 2003 13:27 (twenty-three years ago)

four years pass...

recently it has gone from bad to excruciating. and almost every episode has the two policemen sitting in their car.

The BBC will never let it die will they? Even if the entire current cast died they would just get some different elderly actors in.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 4 October 2007 09:52 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x118/caribbean-queen/kathystaff.jpg

RIP big man

― Go Go Padgett Binoculars (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Sunday, 14 December 2008 13:36 (seventeen years ago)

Aw bollocks. She's henpecking in heaven right now.

― Tony Woodcockfarmer (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 14 December 2008 17:25 (seventeen years ago)

wally's peace is over.
RIP Kathy Staff :(

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 14 December 2008 17:29 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/images/celebs/s/staffk.jpg

― Kramer vs Balearic (blueski), Sunday, 14 December 2008 17:33 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

Rolling down its last hill

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 2 June 2010 16:11 (sixteen years ago)

oh shit it's as old as i am

― sent from my neural lace (ledge), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 16:14 (sixteen years ago)

The main cast of the 30th series consists of Russ Abbot as a former milkman who fancies himself a secret agent, Hobbo, Burt Kwouk as the electrical repairman, Entwistle, and Brian Murphy as the childish Alvin.

Abbot and Kwouk! Who knew?

― sent from my neural lace (ledge), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 16:16 (sixteen years ago)

I had literally no idea it was still being made.

― rhythm fixated member (chap), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 16:20 (sixteen years ago)

With reinventions like that it's a wonder they're ending it.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 2 June 2010 16:21 (sixteen years ago)

L O S T Of The Summer Wine

― mdskltr (blueski), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 16:23 (sixteen years ago)

whoa had to Google who Brian Murphy was. Surprised George is still alive.

― woof, Wednesday, 2 June 2010 16:24 (sixteen years ago)

The final episode will reveal an alternative Yorkshire where their bathtub had never crashed

― mdskltr (blueski), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 16:25 (sixteen years ago)

Compo and Norah Batty get to be together forever in heaven.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 2 June 2010 16:27 (sixteen years ago)

Actually spent an afternoon in Holmfirth (where this is based) a few weeks ago, on the way back from a birthday do with the in-laws. Hit some pretty strong clichés with tea and cake in the Wrinkled Stocking Café and obv the place plays to its fame, but not at all unpleasant and (weirdly) managed to buy a great rug and find an old-school department store which stocked tweed, granny clothes etc but also a big whisky range and impressive Hornby trains selection. As Stewart Lee might put it, "very nostalgic feelings".

― Bill A, Wednesday, 2 June 2010 22:16 (sixteen years ago)

NB - no nostalgia for the tv show, which has always been unconscionable garbage.

― Bill A, Wednesday, 2 June 2010 22:18 (sixteen years ago)

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