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The wedding episode was on today filled with absolute gems . Granville is ironing Arkwright's suit for the wedding and says its much easier than his old suit which was so shiny the iron kept slipping then asks what happened to that old...

In the same episode as Suki , Mrs Blewett our very own Nora is being asked Arkwright what her husband does and she replies " He smokes Endless cigarettes " to which Arkwright replies "Oh we don's stack that brand they were too long to...

When the lady comes in with the dog "Would Suki like some steak?? She can almost talk Mr Arkwright" Arkwright replies " there another one can do that well at least I think he can he keeps leaving little messages on the doorstep"

I can't cut it in half Mavis. It all f--flops out. I Tell you what. I'll sell you a large tin but only charge you for two small tins.

B-B-B-B-BullD-D-D-Dog B-B-B-B-Bra-a-a-a-and B-B-B-B-Black L-L-L-Lead Its taking me longer to say it than sell it.

U & Gold are getting to be more adventurous , not personally for the best always . Months ago I booked two tickets to see the Fawlty Towers play at the Theatre Royal Newcastle at the cost of £80 only to now find U & Gold have secured...

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...