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I just wouldn't want the thread to look like tangled bootlaces.:16: Speaking of The Man from Oswestry, I neglected to mention that Cyril and Foggy were stationed together for 3 months in 1947. Clegg has a great line, "You ever get the feeling that living in the second half of the 20th century...

It looks as though the Series 3 posts were accidentally moved to the networking/telecommunications thread! Hope the mods can fix this. :16:

Power cuts are practically a trope of British sitcoms, especially those from the 1970s. LotSW, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, To the Manor Born, and much later, Still Game. There must have been many more. New York City had a major blackout in July 1977, yet it, to my knowledge, was...

^ I miss Joe Strummer. As I often tell anyone who'll listen, Joe and The Clash never let me down. "Blues of the Vagabond"- Duke Ellington Considering Ellington's vast and often brilliant output, this one remains my favorite.

Oswestry as it relates to its location and distance from Yorkshire.

Porridge is on my list of "Must See" programs; so many favorite actors of mine appear in it. British comedy--at its best--is a vast and fascinating universe, but it's overwhelming because there's so much that didn't air in the US and later, was unavailable on R1 DVD. I'm doing a lot of catching...

"California Dreamin' "- The Mamas and the Papas This song is definitively, screamingly 1960s, yet it does so without mentioning anything associated with that decade, but still captures what I imagine must be the feeling of the time.

Added a Michael Bates interview quote to the review which confirms the above.

When watching a British program, I often consult the IMDb to scroll through an actor's filmography. Many times there will be a TV series that lasted one or two years with next to no information about it. This very well could have been LotSW's fate.

(S03 E01) The Man From Oswestry Original Airdate: October 27, 1976 Cyril has left and taken up with a Welsh widow woman. He writes to Clegg and Compo, requesting they welcome their returning schoolmate, Foggy Dewhurst. “You get depressed sometimes and begin to believe there aren’t any real...

(S03 E01) The Man From Oswestry Original Airdate: October 27, 1976 Cyril has left and taken up with a Welsh widow woman. He writes to Clegg and Compo, requesting they welcome their returning schoolmate, Foggy Dewhurst. “You get depressed sometimes and begin to believe there aren’t any real...

In August 2010 my wife and I were in London for what has been (to date) our one visit to the UK (our "triumphant return" will hopefully be next year for our 25th wedding anniversary). On August 8 2010, the Series 31 episode The Rights of Man (Except for Howard) was first broadcast. I remember...

True, indeed. The fact that we don't know and must speculate in regard to continuity is what makes LotSW so appealing to me. Contemporary programs are continuity obsessed and many viewers love that, though I prefer the fill-in-(some-of)-the-blanks approach. Speaking of speculation, Had LotSW...

Saw Bill's Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? debut last night; my wife didn't recognize him! Then, I stumbled upon Bill and Rodney Bewes playing father and son in The Bridge, an episode of the 1967-68 ITC adventure series, Man in a Suitcase. This would have been 5 or 6 years before Bill was...

Eva sure gave the town--and probably some of the viewers-- a real jolt! Her line about how she hangs up lingerie is the best line in the episode! Field reminds me of another British actress, the tragic Belinda Lee. I saw Lee in the film A Secret Place (1956). What a shame Belinda left us far...

In Ballad for Wind Instruments and Canoe (S02 E06), Cyril says to Arnpepper: "I can sympathize. I can understand the feeling of talent unrecognized, superiority unrewarded." Blamire, despite his military experience and his artistic interests and ambitions, is back in Yorkshire, used up...

My top three episodes of Series 2: ("Gold", "Silver", "Bronze"): Gold: Who's That Dancing with Nora Batty Then? Silver: Ballad for Wind Instruments and Canoe Bronze: Some Enchanted Evening

In the Alvin episodes I've seen, the story bounces away to the other numerous characters' story just as I'm settling in to Alvin's adventure. I maintain interest in all of the stories, but I wouldn't mind one which concentrates solely on Alvin or his trio in the later era. A minor complaint, I...

Which Alvin episodes do my fellow posters recommend? (No major spoilers, please) Eventually, I'll get to all of them, but in between my chronological viewing (I'll start Series 3 after Hurricane Ian moves on), I like to watch a random episode from the Alvin Era as a change of pace. Lot No. 8...

Poll added: What's your favorite series 2 episode?