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I recently watched Roman Holiday with Eddie Albert and was reminded that he was a pretty fair movie actor which skill he brought to his sitcom Green Acres. Then I remembered all the old genre actors who filled Hooterville in the American sitcoms Green Acres and Petticoat Junction. Mayberry on...

Matt Groening creator of The Simpsons once said that he believed in making his characters instantly identifiable and he thought that this helped the popularity of his show. Does Last of the Summer Wine in the Foggy years also benefit from this? Foggy is of course taller than the other two and...

My phone beeped and I thought cool someone actually wants to talk to me. It was just the weather alert. I said to my self, that is ok just turn on the TV and there will be people talking. Then I wondered for a moment what people did before TV when their phones beeped and there was no one...

Little things can make life better. I just got a butter dish and soft butter is way better than hard butter. Everyone should have a butter dish! What little things do you suggest?

I'm oft jealous of folks who grew up with all the British TV shows and can be delighted no end by the various and sundry guest stars on Last of the Summer Wine. With much less knowledge, I rarely recognize them for the cultural icons, one and all, that they are. Fortunately PBS over here on the...

What daft thing that Howard came up with to see Marina did you most enjoy? I liked it when he was a secret agent man. X=22 I think he was in a raincoat and dark glasses.

How many actors have ever starred in a series, left that series for years and then returned to star in the series again for many seasons?

Certainly not exclusive to Last of the Summer Wine, but I've noticed that many regular British series do fairly long and often rather different specials for the holidays. They stand out from the regular episodes. The TV makers on the other side of the pond part ways. We do have holiday...

Well just hit the last episode with Seymour. They seemed to fly along. I did enjoy them more than I remembered doing when I saw them years ago. Fascinating to see the change from the smaller cast in the first Foggy run to the expanded cast during the Seymour years. I wonder how Foggy will...

Why is season 9 so long? It has twelve episodes and in the US DVDs includes Uncle of the Bride as well. A rare 3 DVD set. Whither Howard, Pearl and Marina in the second half of the season? This trio is completely gone missing in the last six episodes after appearing regularly in the first six...

Has anyone tried Good Life? It is a series where Richard Briers and Felicity Kendal play a couple who try to become self-sufficient in their backyard in the suburbs. There is a good storyline as they struggle along trying to mostly make it without money as they raise a garden, chickens, and a...

I'm deep into the long season 9 and it is amazing how the cast has expanded. It is now almost as much about the friends and neighbors as about the trio. The cafe with Ivy and now Crusher has always been there as has Nora as Compo's neighbor and interest. Wally seems to be featured more now both...

As I wander through I've just bumped into the first episodes with this new trio of characters. I know they came from a play, but why were they added to the TV series? Was the texture of the show changing? Maybe they knew Foggy was leaving and of course Sid was already gone and wanted to add...

As I'm rolling along in my viewing, I suddenly got to this film and was in for a surprise. I had mostly forgotten it and how different everyone acted in it. It's not that it is a bad film, it is just rather like driving along on your six wheeled bicycle and suddenly coming to a big curve in the...

I'm on the other side of the pond and I enjoy any historical British setting. From Sherlock's London to Wodehouse's Castles, they add to the enjoyment. I get the same basic feeling with the setting of Last of the Summer Wine since all these settings are unfamiliar to me. For folks on the right...

Last of the Summer Wine is sometimes thought of as having fairly physical comedy often involving flying wildly downhill. I haven't seen a lot of this in the first five seasons. The two parter 'Here We Go into The Wild Blue Yonder' that ends season 5 seems to be the first where we see a fairly...

From out of nowhere our trio goes on holiday with Gordon and he meets a girl. A bit later he marries her as we meet his mother, her parents and others. Then they all vanish from the face of the earth. A three odd episodes in a very quirky season. Was it intended to set up a younger man and...

As an American I'm struggling through seasons one and two of a rewatch of Last of the Summer Wine. It is nice from the perspective of getting more of Clegg and Compo's background but I don't get the Blamire character at all and struggle to understand his words. The shows themselves don't seem as...