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Learning more. Links to several interesting cast interviews at the top of this page.

I think Wally was easy to pick out by his size and the way he spoke, I think it was the same for Compo. I do like First of the Summer Wine I thought it was done very well, they all knew war was coming but carried on with their...

Well done, now we just need a gas pipe leading to the gas lamp :D

For @Pearl

... and the gas street light with no gas pipe!

For me, the tone was a bit ominous because we were given the date at the start of each episode as a reminder that war was coming closer and closer. That added a sense of desperation to the normal adolescent social fumbling.

Given how prohibitively expensive that show was in terms of "aging" the background, I wouldn't have expected them to eliminate the cables just for a photo, although they could possibly have been edited out.

Seymour's car was a three-wheeler. In addition to his persistence, that was the stuck-up young woman's objection to him.

Well done, they should have given you the job of editing

Who is the man in the shades, partly visible at the back, third from the left? Looks like an attempt at a photobomb.

The early ones with valves probably were the worst! I heard about someone's family getting one as a hand me down from a richer relative, but their Dad didn't like the smell of dust burning on the valves so as soon as they could afford...

In the early episodes the man with the little red sportscar also played the milk round supervisor in a later episode

The old Colour TV sets would burn through the electric, then even worse the Plasma TV, you could stand in front of those with bread on a toasting fork

Go to your room :oops:

Would that be Seymour Skywalker?:21: