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  1. David Piper

    Series Two (1975) Episode Reviews

    (S02 E07) Northern Flying Circus Original Airdate: April 16, 1975 Clegg decides that the trio should expand their travel horizons and buy a motorbike. “Haven’t you seen it? It’s not your ‘gleaming speed bird.’ It’s more your ‘ruptured duck.‘ “ ~Norman Clegg At the library reading room, a...
  2. David Piper

    Series Two (1975) Episode Reviews

    (S02 E07) Northern Flying Circus Original Airdate: April 16, 1975 Clegg decides that the trio should expand their travel horizons and buy a motorbike. “Haven’t you seen it? It’s not your ‘gleaming speed bird.’ It’s more your ‘ruptured duck.‘ “ ~Norman Clegg At the library reading room, a...
  3. David Piper

    Series One (1973) Episode Reviews

    I was going to start a "Yorkshire Beers" topic, such was my curiosity about what they drink there.
  4. David Piper

    Brian Murphy (Alvin Smedley) is 90 Today

    Great minds, captain clutterbuck, great minds! :16:
  5. David Piper

    Series One (1973) Episode Reviews

    I take it that it was a left-handed person who coined the phrase, "The best thing since sliced bread.":16:
  6. David Piper

    Series One (1973) Episode Reviews

    Of Funerals and Fish goes here (for completion's sake). I'll no doubt add a lot more detail on a rewatch! This review's practically blank! (S00 E00) Of Funerals and Fish Original Airdate: January 4, 1973 Compo, Clegg, and Blamire go around town, discussing life and death and watch their...
  7. David Piper

    Series One (1973) Episode Reviews

    Of Funerals and Fish goes here (for completion's sake). I'll no doubt add a lot more detail on a rewatch! This review's practically blank! (S00 E00) Of Funerals and Fish Original Airdate: January 4, 1973 Compo, Clegg, and Blamire go around town, discussing life and death and watch their...
  8. David Piper

    Series Two (1975) Episode Reviews

    (S02 E06) Ballad for Wind Instruments and Canoe Original Airdate: April 8, 1975 The trio purchase a canoe off of an eccentric, would-be explorer and have their own waterway journey. “The world’s going crackers on wheels, and here we are with the key to thousands of tranquil miles of British...
  9. David Piper

    Series Two (1975) Episode Reviews

    (S02 E06) Ballad for Wind Instruments and Canoe Original Airdate: April 8, 1975 The trio purchase a canoe off of an eccentric, would-be explorer and have their own waterway journey. “The world’s going crackers on wheels, and here we are with the key to thousands of tranquil miles of British...
  10. David Piper

    Series Two (1975) Episode Reviews

    Right. That's why Mouse got up from the table.
  11. David Piper

    Brian Murphy (Alvin Smedley) is 90 Today

    I wonder if the omnipresence of the well-known US versions (All in the Family, Sanford & Son, Three's Company) on primetime and syndication of those established British sitcoms--which even used the rehashed scripts* as their Brit predecessors--made it unlikely that US viewers would ever get to...
  12. David Piper

    Brian Murphy (Alvin Smedley) is 90 Today

    Thanks to this thread, I jumped at the chance to pick up Series 28 and 30. They arrived over the weekend, and I couldn't resist watching a couple of episodes. Of course it's now back to my "serious" LotSW Series 2 watching, but it is relaxing to just watch and not take notes...that will come...
  13. David Piper

    Brian Murphy (Alvin Smedley) is 90 Today

    I took an instant liking to his Alvin character. His playful, teasing interaction with Nora Batty (and later Stella) is part of what interested me in LotSW's later series. It will be some time before I get to the "Alvin Era", but I'll be rewatching the episodes I've already seen in which he...
  14. David Piper

    Brian Murphy (Alvin Smedley) is 90 Today

    Couldn't let September 25 pass by without mentiong this. I just happened to learn it while searching for Alvin Smedley Summer Wine photos. I'd love to get that badge!
  15. David Piper

    Series Two (1975) Episode Reviews

    (S02 E05) A Quiet Drink Original Airdate: April 2, 1975 At the Clothiers Arms pub, the trio scheme to get a notorious cheapskate to buy a round of drinks. “Happiness is the sum total of the small things.” ~Norman Clegg Sid, Ivy, and Nora Batty do not appear in this episode. The trio have...
  16. David Piper

    Series Two (1975) Episode Reviews

    (S02 E05) A Quiet Drink Original Airdate: April 2, 1975 At the Clothiers Arms pub, the trio scheme to get a notorious cheapskate to buy a round of drinks. “Happiness is the sum total of the small things.” ~Norman Clegg Sid, Ivy, and Nora Batty do not appear in this episode. The trio have...
  17. David Piper

    PBS Chicago LotSW Advert

    Spending every Saturday night with the characters from those programs was something my wife and I always looked forward to doing. I haven't watched The Vicar of Dibley in ages, but we regularly use David Horton's (Gary Waldhorn) "Moving on..." whenever we mockingly change the subject! Oh, and...
  18. David Piper

    Series Two (1975) Episode Reviews

    RE: Compo and Nora's behavior I don't see how Compo is any different here than in any of the countless subsequent episodes which open with him leering, grabbing, and otherwise drooling over the married Nora, something which the viewing public apparently found to be hilarious. Also, Nora Batty...
  19. David Piper

    Series Two (1975) Episode Reviews

    Whatever. I'm out of here.
  20. David Piper

    Series Two (1975) Episode Reviews

    "To each their own", indeed. We may as well be Cybermen if we're all going to have the same favorite episodes! I watch each episode 3 times before I write a review, and even then I change my opinions on things. I'm on the (five-bar) fence about bumping Rural Blamire to an 8, as my ratings and...
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