Recent content by Lino

I love the old reruns of the Benny Hill show, and I just saw a sketch that he reworked from an older season. It includes an appearance from a prominent Summer Wine cast member towards the end. I'm sure most of you Brits are aware of this but it was a nice surprise to me. Here's the youtube...

I liked the fellow that was trying to sell magazine subscriptions to Nora Batty at Norm and Compo's urging. I remember looking him up and nicely surprised to find he was a standup comic.

For clueless folks like me, where is this from?

Being one of many American anglophiles, I enjoy checking out British tv, movies, and literature. I was looking for any movie with Alastair Sim in it on youtube (I've only seen a few), and, not finding much, I noticed a movie with Janet Munro (who I know from Disney's Darby O'Gill and the Little...

I love the show, and I know if you're going to enjoy it you must exercise your "suspension of disbelief" and just enjoy what transpires. But there are times, as when the trio are always trying to sneak past Pearl in front of her house, it appears they could just as easily walk around behind...

Many time it seems, Barry would comment on one of Glenda's bizarre relatives, but was there ever any mention of anyone from Barry"s family?

I jump around quite a bit, but I was into the Michael Aldridge years lately. It seems earlier years they only listed a very few up front, but in later years there would be two screens of names in the beginning.

I haven't seen every episode but I started noticing an odd thing quite a while back (because she's a favorite) - it seems Juliette Kaplan's name almost never appears at the beginning credits, even when she has a significant part to play. Did it have something to do with star ranking, personal...

Northwest of the city in a small burg called Oviedo, which has grown a lot in the last 20 years.

Long time fan of Britcoms, but only recently discovered Last Of the Summer Wine. Married, 4 grown daughters, Electrician (no relation to Entwhistle). I have lots of questions and observations about the series I expect to post soon - but I'll try not to deluge the site. Hope to learn a lot...