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My dad, from his early 40s he spent most the time in a lot of pain, has a little girl I'd seen him cry with pain and it was traumatising to see but every Sunday he'd watch Summer Wine and laugh so I used to sit next to him and watch it...

Pate and Chips. What was the other one?

James Bolam played Andy Capp in the tv series - Bolam had worked with Bill Owen a number of times.

I think Wally Batty had a lot in common with Andy Capp. I also think the John Smith's adverts had something in common with Andy Capp, Last of the Summer Wine, and anything made in the 70s with drunken old men.

One of Wallys final scenes I believe

Angela Lansbury could have played ANY female part in US LOTSW.

Judd Hirsch as Clegg. John Mahoney as Compo. Christopher Lloyd as Seymour. John Candy as Sid.

Kathy Bates as Nora

While we're talking about it, George Chakiris was mentioned earlier. Anyone notice how young he looked for his age back then in 1996? He's now 92. And, although he does look older than he did, he still looks a lot younger than 92.

I'm sorry (BUT SINCE YOU ASKED) I thought they were excellent in Welcome to Earth. The pub scene was brilliant, where everyone is taking the michael out of Paul Bown, and Casey and Woods perfected the 'always-in-the-pub' duo.

Sorry to switch Roy Clarke comedies but your post reminded me of one of my favorite calls from Sheridan to Hyacinth where she says "What's that Dear, you and Tarquin want to visit Iceland to explore the Geysers?" :D :D :D

Geyser, I think they call them.

To be fair Russ Abbot played Hobbo as Russ Abbot characters from Madhouse and Stephen Lewis played Smiler as Blakey and every other character he played they only play the role based on what Roy Clarke writes and Alan J W Bell directs...

Norman Wisdom. No disrespect meant to Norman, but he was too famous and behaved too much like Norman Wisdom, and took over. Which was a shame, because Norman could actually do a bit of a straight acting.

Hang on. This is the pilot episode, isn't it? If so, the location filming would have been done first, and the interior studio scenes done later. So, I think either 1) The casting of Mrs Partridge hadn't fully been decided yet for...