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David Jason is to front a U&Gold retrospective of Open All Hours. The 90 minute special will include a short new scene written by Roy Clarke in which Jason returns as Granville for a final time. According to UKTV "2026 marks the 50th...

The first one I had was a proper fixed Carphone, then the transportable arrived which came with the option to remove the transceiver from the car and slot it into the portable device, then the Motorola 8000 came out making it easier to...

Thank you to everyone who took the time to reply, I have always looked at Summer Wine as a distraction from "edgy" comedy shows, I am not a prude, but, I enjoyed the gentle and silly humour, I realise no actor should ever be bigger than...

Has said, you've made it this far so you might as well carry on. Form your own opinion and let us know what you think, Hobbo is a marmite character so you won't really get a consistent answer but I know I'd be very interested in your...

Roy Clarke wrote an unmade pilot episode for a Basildon Bond series, called “008 – The Real James Bond”.

I worked for four or five years as process control programmer (but mostly computer hardware specialist) in a factory making glass tubing. Because the PDP-8 computers were old and prone to failure, I was on call 24/7/365. Back then phone...

I worked for BT from 1989 for 25 years. We all had pagers, but our job meant were were often on sites with no phone line. We had one mobile between six in the office. Similar to this Motorola - but bigger! When BT was promoting more...

I was in the telecoms business when mobiles first came out, they cost a fortune back then not just for the phone but the airtime rental and call cost, if my memory serves me correctly £25 a month for airtime and up to 50p a minute for...

Some of you know I had custom figures made in time for the 50th celebrations a couple of years ago, however despite positive response to them I was never quite happy with the likenesses I had, as seen as attached They are for...

Sadly this isn't uncommon, nor a new issue. After 'Citizen Smith' ended in 1980 writer by John Sullivan had an idea for a football based sitcom. A pilot episode was filmed, and was commissioned for a series. But BBC1 controller Bill...

Another rib sticker. Give ‘em some stodge as Nora said.

Suet is also used to make Howard's favourite dessert, jam roly-poly.

Suet instead of pastry. Sticks to yer ribs.

The kidney can effectively come from cattle , pigs or sheep, lamb's kidney is considered the finest of all three and is noticeably more expensive though calves liver is perhaps the most expensive . All are prepared by the butcher ready...

Kidneys from which animal? What pre-prep are they given before adding them to the dish?