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Admittedly not a 'similar' game, but at my junior school, out of nowhere as far as I can tell a 'game' developed at lunch break, involving just one of the teaching staff. Miss Webb (or Webber) used to leave school during lunch break and on her return, she would walk from the car park the entire...

Catching Digby's Donkey

... and the gas street light with no gas pipe!

Getting Sam Home

Cheering Up Ludovic

And a Dewhirst Up A Fir Tree

Mending Stuart's Leg

That would have been great, Abbot could have done that. He was offered the part of Barry's neighbour Boothroyd in 'Enter The Finger' (who could have become a recurring character) - but he declined. Basically he wasn't interested unless he got a permanent 'big' role.

Springing Smiler

OK ... The First Human Being to Ride a Hill

'once' is a number now, is it? OK... Errol Flynn Used to Have a Pair Like That

Destiny And Six Bananas

I see what you did there.

The Three Astaires

Inventor of the Forty Foot Ferret

The first tv set I remember at home (mid-1960s) had two big knobs at the side just above the speaker grille. You manually tuned the channel to change programmes. '4' on the dial was BBC1, '8' was ITV (Midlands). That was easy to remember, BBC1 has '4' characters, Midlands has '8' characters -...

There is a photo of Seymour on Barry and Glenda’s mantlepiece from series 19. There was often a photo of Edie on Barry and Glenda’s mantelpiece. After Thora Hird passed away there is a new photo of Edie, taken from the series 24 episode “The Secret Birthday of Norman Clegg”. Twice in series 28...

After Stephen Lewis left the show, Howard was looking for something at Aunties to make himself 'almost disappear', Tom said, 'We did it for Smiler, and you don’t disappear much further than him'. When Tony Capstick (PC2) had died his absence was explained that he had transferred to Huddersfield...

Sadly there seem to be two main camps: One remembers the show and the part the area played in fond terms, I have met some of those people. The others - who I managed to avoid - consider the existence of the show a inconvenience on a scale of Armageddon. There seems to be no pleasing some people.

I have often thought this - Chip and Connie could have visited at anytime. In those days I don't think they surveyed audiences like they do now to gauge reactions and if a character is worth keeping in a show - so there wasn't anything to stop them returning. Don't forget in Coronation Street...