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David Swift and Richard Beckinsale worked together on Rising Damp, Bloomers and Going Straight - all around the same time period too.

The exterior of the shop used in the pilot in Ealing was also used in Carry On Constable.

Brian, have you tried something you've never seen before? There's now a list of some of the greatest comedies towards the end of the 'Gentle comedies' thread.

I think The Gaffer would be suited on the list, that's a good gentle comedy. And so is The Growing Pains of PC Penrose/Rosie.

The episode in question is the pilot episode, so it's a transitional thing, as to make it look like nothing has really changed over the years.

Compo looked his absolute best in Some Enchanted Evening, I'd say.

The Kink in Foggy's Niblick starts off with a football theme.

Complete with the NR Beall sign we see in early episodes.

Six bottles.

Probably the best line written in any programme in the history of television - 'You don't get a lot of time given for being nineteen'.

In the very suit he was buried.

For me, Series 12, and to some extent Series 13, does still feel like the Seymour Years in the way the show was made. Series 12 still used videotape for internal scenes. (Series 13 was entirely videotape I think). Series 14, for me, had a very different feel to it, and was made in a style that...

I take it you mean Series 12? I didn't really notice much written with Seymour in mind myself. I think they knew the year before that Foggy was coming back (1989 Xmas Special). Which episodes or scenes make you think of Seymour?

John Cleese in Welcome to Earth.

Do fish ever drown?

Is that gold? That eagle. Is it made of gold?

And George Cole was The Minder, I take it.

Whoops, didn't notice we had the solution.

And who was the James Bond?

I took it that the boxset was released in the 90s, not when the series was actually made - but looking at other comments I could be totally wrong.