Just an observation, if you watched a programme on TV in the 80's or 90's you always found someone at work/school who'd watched the same thing at the same time so you could chat about it. This is incredibly unlikely to happen in this...
I see shows like Strictly get around 5 million viewers and the BBC are over the moon about that, Eastenders averages 2.4 million and even during the 40th only reached around the 5 million, The last series of Death in Paradise 3.4...
As the UK’s biggest star, was it Russ who was eager to join Last of the Summer Wine, or was the show eager to have him — or maybe it was simply a match made in heaven?
Whenever I watch his episodes tearing around in that Enwhistle...
I've mentioned it before, but during audience filming, I recall just how excited Alan J Bell was to have Russ in the cast. He really felt it would propel the show to a new younger audience. Sadly it wasn't to be :(