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The first tv set I remember at home (mid-1960s) had two big knobs at the side just above the speaker grille. You manually tuned the channel to change programmes. '4' on the dial was BBC1, '8' was ITV (Midlands). That was easy to...

There is a photo of Seymour on Barry and Glenda’s mantlepiece from series 19. There was often a photo of Edie on Barry and Glenda’s mantelpiece. After Thora Hird passed away there is a new photo of Edie, taken from the series 24 episode...

After Stephen Lewis left the show, Howard was looking for something at Aunties to make himself 'almost disappear', Tom said, 'We did it for Smiler, and you don’t disappear much further than him'. When Tony Capstick (PC2) had died his...

Sadly there seem to be two main camps: One remembers the show and the part the area played in fond terms, I have met some of those people. The others - who I managed to avoid - consider the existence of the show a inconvenience on a...

Whilst watching Pate and Chips this morning. I thought how Roy missed a chance to bring Chips kids into the show as they got older. A new generation of Simmonites . Just a thought

I have often thought this - Chip and Connie could have visited at anytime. In those days I don't think they surveyed audiences like they do now to gauge reactions and if a character is worth keeping in a show - so there wasn't anything...

Its not the chuffing Pole Compo's wife ran off with is it :tw::fp:

I thought of that - The pole is on opposite corner of the road junction, so I think its too far away for the wire to keep above a safe height, for the house(s) opposite the shop, so it's 'daisy-chained' from the pole via via the shop...

I think it's simply a phone drop wire... lighting conditions, lens and focus will affect how noticeable it is.

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...

That'll never work! ;) You'll be telling me next they'll use Granville as the market trader! :D

Luckily the BBC had a gap in their schedule & asked Sullivan if he could dig out a previously rejected idea about a market trader & his younger brother...

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...

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...

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