The best of Trully

codfanglers

codfanglers

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Hello Folks,

I have been absent for a while due to the demands of family life, professional life, and less access to Summer Wine with the breaking down of my old VCR. As a father, I have discovered that once your kids get into activities, any concept of free time becomes obsolete! I currently won't be able to participate here regularly like I used to but I hope to make an appearance now and then.

I now catch Summer Wine randomly, on different channels, and showing different eras. A recent school break (I am a teacher) allowed me to catched some of Trully's first season. One should always appreciate the few seasons with Trully and Compo together.

Anyway, I noticed Trully's character was quite different in these episodes than it was in the post Compo era. Trully was a bit of a curmudgeon in the early years. After the passing of Compo he became more easy-going, calm, affable, but authoritative. I believe the change started with the triology of Compo's passing.

So, who do you prefer? The early Trully or latter Trully? For me it is the latter Trully. He had this cool persona as the laid back but in charge personality with his trench coat, gloves, and derby.
He had an aura of confidence but still at many times showed incompetence.
 
dick said:
The later Truly has the edge( boxer shorts "They were in the sale!!" ;) ;D )
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Dick - we got into enough trouble with mentioning skirts - should we mention undergarments at all? ??? ??? ??? :-\ :-\ :-\ :me: :me: :me:
 
Nooooooooooooooooooooo, don't start him off again it took Beth and I ages to settle him down last week. :-X

Nice to see you back Cod. :dance: :respect:

I like the early years too, not sure why but I do. :-\
 
Weren't the first scripts with Truly actually rewritten Foggy scripts as they were unsure if Brian Wilde was going to return? And then again maybe they wanted to be sure that no Capt. Peacock leaked through. But I agree there was some sort of catharsis that took place during those three shows about the passing of Compo.
 
Adanor said:
Weren't the first scripts with Truly actually rewritten Foggy scripts as they were unsure if Brian Wilde was going to return? And then again maybe they wanted to be sure that no Capt. Peacock leaked through. But I agree there was some sort of catharsis that took place during those three shows about the passing of Compo.
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The first half of that series was written with Truly but the expectation was that Foggy would replace him in the second half of the series. When that didn't happen they had to quickly re-write some scripts, and I've noticed a few of the second half episodes have Truly using some Foggy-esque dialog. So it does make that series pretty uneven.
 
I didn't notice much of a change in Truly myself, I'll have to watch some episodes again.

Though he was probably at his best when he had Compo and Clegg with him.

He was also good in the funeral episodes.
 
I was not to sure about Truly at the start but I warmed to him as the series progressed he had some good story lines and of course Frank Thornton was a brilliant actor.
 
And his story was different - a policeman who probably tried to give the impression that he was better than he really was, which Foggy had done but more so. I may have stated this before but I always feel that Blamire did not have such flights of fancy but rather he was concerned that he had never really lifted himself high enough socially to escape his relatively poor background. Seymour had tried to do the same but I think he knew his dreams were - just dreams.
 
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