Last Post and Pigeon

[cciaffone]

Watched last Post and Pigeon last night. Really love
that, but I believe that is the last "live" Compo episode.
Any further are made with old Compo screen shots
dubbed in.

Izzat true??

 

[Sarkus]

Not really. Generally speaking, episodes are not filmed in order. Rather, different scenes are filmed at different times. Last Post was the first episode they started working on that year, with the Dover and other stuff done on location. But then they went back to Holmfirth and filmed various scenes there that included Last Post as well as the first three episodes of that series. Last Post was mostly completed when Bill Owen died, but those other episodes were not and had to be salvaged later. That was when they used some old unused footage, body doubles, and a few voice dubs to try and complete them. How much varies on the episode, but the first two were largely complete. The third is where they really had to stretch things. If I recall correctly, Bill Owen's actual last filmed scene was from one of those episodes, not from Last Post.

That, at least, is what Alan Bell says in his book.

 

[Marianna]

Alan Bell says in his book that his last-filmed scene was one behind the Co-op. I can visualize the scene, but not the episode title.

 

[Sarkus]

I checked and that scene was in "Lipstick and other Problems."

 

[wstol]

It's worth noting the last transmitted episode with Compo in it was Magic and the Morris Minor - not Last Post and Pigeon as the Universal Playback DVD suggests.

 

[chris]

I found this an upsetting episode Bill looked so ill and the other two seemed resigned to his loss but still very funny but cannot watch it to often.