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Still Open All Hours is a real mixed bag for me. Arkwright is very much missed and whilst David Jason makes a decent impersonation of him for the majority of it's run it feels just like Granville is doing just that in order to honour...

It's not just the studio sets, all the location filming had to be closed sets and all the extras needed to be in period costume, cars and other vehicles needed to match the period. Things like modern street signs, tv aerials and...

Pull the other one! ;) Seriously tho, the sound when done right can be glorious. a-pealing even :D

Mention of church bells can't help but make me remember the Time on my Hands episode when the paratrooper is caught on the church clock and Mainwairing's , Jones and Fraser's hat are used to silence the bell to their detriment.

Amazing coordination. I would struggle to pay more attention to my bellmates (as opposed to listening to the delayed outcome) to get the timing right!

I did bell ringing many years ago, worked my way up to pulling the 1 ton bell

I love the sound of the bells. One of the many times that I stayed in Huddersfield, I was crossing a street just below the parish church when a bell rehearsal began. Fortunately, I had reached the pedestrian island, as the sound stopped...

Even though they could have kept the sets at the end of each series, and borrowed costumes from previous period dramas and other series that would have been somewhere? In the UK at least, it was policy to destroy most studio sets at the...

Yes - when Series 4 came out, the show was much gentler, and set the tone and basis for many years to come.

I think the Blamire episodes always had a bit of grunge to them which I liked, A touch of pessimism. I think Getting Sam home had the same type of feel too. Bleak humor was more abundant. In my opinion, once Brian Wilde came on board...

Howard always manages to run into trouble, Thanks to Alan JW Bell for the photo

It would have been interesting to see how Blamire developed, or under-developed, over the years - because I think both the smoking and the politics would have featured less.

Don't forget, Getting Sam Home was originally written with Blamire in mind, as a book.

There were plenty of episodes in the late 70s and early 80s that would have worked for Blamire. We know Series Three was written with Blamire in mind. In Series Four, Who Made a Bit of a Splash in Wales, we have Foggy pursuing a welsh...