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Last Of The Summer Wine: The Complete Collection [DVD]

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Its popularity made this decision hard to justify, however, since even repeats sometimes received ratings of as many as five million viewers per episode. The show changed from passive to active, and with that change the inner dynamics also had to change, permanntly. One such incident, regarding compensation to local residents, prompted producer Bell to consider not filming in Holmfirth any more. For items that are dispatched using our standard service, we ask that you wait 14 days from the date of dispatch before reporting any items as undelivered. The series, being staffed by older actors, had suffered losses before, most notably John Comer and Joe Gladwyn.

The final episode of the show, "How Not to Cry at Weddings", was subsequently broadcast on 29 August 2010. And Bill Owen as Compo Simmonite is a scruffy, idle, working class herbert resenting authority, whose wife has run off and left him. Similarly, the second episode was supposedly pegged to the idea of throwing a farewell party for Compo’s neighbour, Gloria, who’s emigrating to Australia, which gives Compo the chance to get his hands on Norah Batty by dancing with her, and requires the trio to borrow and transport a piano. Perhaps there was also the fact, which we overlook at our peril, that with the exception of the execrable but even more popular Mrs Brown’s Boys, there’s nothing else like it on TV, and that there is a substantial chunk of the audience out there that no longer has anyone making programmes for them.Peter Sallis is Norman Clegg, a redundant Co-op linoleum salesman, recently widowed, comfortably established, but no particular leanings. which it will go on to be forever that summer, or for seven weeks, whichever is sooner, and that free and Mr Bloe have swapped places. But with figures like that, the odds are that a very high majority did enjoy it, and the chances of this being revived as a series are correspondingly increased.

The trio hang around the Library, reading the papers, observing the would-be passionate romance between the Marxist Librarian ‘Bloody’ Wainwright (Blake Butler), and his assistant, Mrs Partridge (Rosemary Martin), whose eagerness to conduct an illicit affair is very much tempered by her fear of her neglectful husband no longer being the only person in Holmfirth who doesn’t know about it, oh, and whether her back would let her do that. He identified it instantly as a harmonica, which I should have recognised for myself, but had failed to do so because I simply did not associate harmonicas with pop (I had heard no blues up to this point). Brian Wilde left again, to be replaced by Frank Thornton, as Retired Detective Inspector Herbert Truelove, aka Truly of the Yard. Though I’d been listening to Radio 1 daily since just before Xmas Day 1969, I never really started to take things in until, being a tidy-minded person and something of an anal-retentive in psychological terms, I started writing down the Top 30 every week. Last of the Summer Wine: The Complete Collection [12] DVD Box Set Welcome to Holmfirth, a breathtakingly beautiful village in the heart of the Holme Valley, home to our favourite idiosyncratic retired gentlemen.

Truly tries to help Barry become more confident, but things turn nasty leading to some damage to Barry's nose. Since its original release, all 295 episodes, comprising thirty-one series—including the pilot and all films and specials—have been released on DVD. The 25th Year Anniversary special, this got updated with new content and replaced as the 30th Year Anniversary special.

None are left now of that immortal trio of Foggy, Cleggy and Compo (with respect to the late gone Michael Bates as unforgotten Cyril Blamire). The BBC confirmed on 2 June 2010 that Last of the Summer Wine would no longer be produced and the 31st series would be its last. Though the trio were all working class, they represented the classic Upper/Middle/Lower stratas within their ranks. Composer and conductor Ronnie Hazlehurst, who also produced themes for such series as Are You Being Served? Rumours circulated as early as the 1980s that the BBC wanted to end the show and replace it with a new programme aimed at a younger audience.I had very fond memories of the first two series of Last of the Summer Wine, the ones with Michael Bates but these final three episodes, despite the odd funny line here and there, were the final disabusement of nostalgia. Michael Bates was wonderful in the part, and it’s a genuine shame that his (ultimately fatal) illness kept him from continuing after series 2.

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