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Hmm.. not sure why. Try this link, it’s an epub file which should work in most ebook readers https://www.mediafire.com/file/u4mvvc99gi6p4ip/Last+of+the+Summer+Wine+-+From+the+Director's+Chair+--+Alan+JW+Bell.epub/file

The Alan Bell book is available online for free as an ebook from here…it’s not 100% legal, but as the book is out of print it’s a way to read it until you can find a copy for a reasonable price. Just click the “GET” link at the top https://libgen.li/ads.php?md5=0b67686dcff9c92cd9b6147e734ccc17

The other actor Alan Bell was considering was Gordon Rollings. He died in 1985, so the series would have been very different if he’d been cast. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0712606/ Here’s the pages from Alan Bells book about the casting of Wesley.

I was looking through some old dvds and found this half hour tribute documentary that was shown on 2nd January 2000. You can download a copy here if you haven’t seen it, it’s a very lovely tribute https://www.mediafire.com/file/k34nvos2jr49np7/Bill_Owen_A_Tribute_-_02-01-2000.avi/file

And I’m not sure if it counts, because although the director collects the award, it’s the programme that’s nominated, but Alan Bell collected the best light entertainment award for Ripping Yarns, and Sydney Lotterby collected the best comedy award for Yes Minister and 3 Scripted Comedy awards...

It really is, in fact all the Talking Heads are superb but both Thora and Patricia Routledge give the outstanding performances across each series.

Aw thanks…been lurking but not posted much recently. Must get back into the habit :)

Actually she has 3 TV BAFTAs, two for the Talking Heads (Cream Cracker under the settee in 1989 and Waiting for the Telegram in 1999), and another for Lost for Words in 2000 (that one directed by Alan Bell)

If it’s including BAFTA tv awards as well as the film one, then Warren Mitchell (Potts in Pole Position) won for Till Death us do Part in 1967

And Liz Smith (from Spring Fever) won best supporting BAFTA for A Private Function

John Cleese won 2 BAFTAs for Fawlty Towers and A Fish Called Wanda

There are pirated copies of the ebook floating around the web. If you’ve heard of Z-Library, you can download it there….not that I’m suggesting anyone should break copyright law…..but as it’s out of print and unavailable, I wouldn’t feel too guilty lol

Looks like BBC4 are showing Getting Sam Home on Xmas eve at 7pm. https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl6b/2023/12/24 There’s a post on twitter suggesting that it might also have been restored and being shown in HD, but I haven’t seen confirmation (One foot in the Algarve has definitely been...

I don’t know of any footage online from it but here’s the radio times listing, from 19th December 1988 https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/a8d3605108ad488392316d328e1f1591 Blue Peter Mon 19th Dec 1988, 17:05 on BBC One London with Mark Curry, Caron Keating and Yvette Fielding Last of the Summer Wine...

that twitter account has posted another of the series of John Smiths ads with Jonathan Linsley