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I was out with ex work colleagues and long term friends yesterday 50% are Mackems and 50% Toon fans including me , everything was good nobody really mentioned the game but it was really funny to see the Sunderland lads trying to drink...

One of my earlier great heroes, Chris of the 'Road to Hell' has passed away today. Please, God Rest His Soul https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8r3ne23e4go

This is a good video about the writing of sitcoms: There's lots of other good videos on that channel.

With Nora's commanding voice she must have blew it over! :P

A great find, Bill from all quarters sadly has been coming across as a rather solitary figure but one that fought fierecely for the working classes. An excellent all round actor that made a unique character in Thelmas' dad Compo.

What a wonderful interview, thanks for sharing Tommy! What I found really interesting, is he said he didn't really have any actor friends. He mentioned that he had a drink once a year at the Garrick Club with Peter but he certainly...

Bill Owens interview - The PJRchive

Selwyn was a good slice of Yorkshire fun and the cast clearly have a ball making it. It's predictable sure but it warms the heart as it goes along despite a very thin premise. Clarence is ahow that was intentially low key and more akin...

Edie clearly regretted going for a spin on yet another of the boy's infamous stag nights...

What a wonderful interview, thanks for sharing Tommy! What I found really interesting, is he said he didn't really have any actor friends. He mentioned that he had a drink once a year at the Garrick Club with Peter but he certainly...

Talking of Insurance in the tradition of the "4U" firms for all sorts of things then I think we need a new one BAGS4U . "I was sitting on the bus when a backpack hit me in the face making my nose bleed, I lodged a claim with BAGS4U and...

I so wanted this to work but on the whole it didn't its very gentle comedy but after seeing Ronnie B in big hitters Porridge and Open All Hours this never hit the heights sadly.

I have them on dvd, I'm a fan of Ronnie Barker but not sure this was his best work, I did enjoy it however.

Speaking of LotSW cast, while browsing IA I also found Clarence, a 6 episode series with Josephine Tewson, starring Ronnie Barker. The playlist at that link starts with those episodes and has several other series including the anthology...

Enter The Phantom? Foggy was using a pipe wrench when building Compo's off road bike and he painted it black.