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Actually. I think the 'Get out and get under' bit was used in the music during Northern Flying Circus. Well done for spotting that.

I'll be honest, the two LOTSW episodes are a better advert for Scarborough, than the this video - but I'd still go, even now, if someone else wanted to go.

When people were happier.

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...