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Whilst watching Pate and Chips this morning. I thought how Roy missed a chance to bring Chips kids into the show as they got older. A new generation of Simmonites . Just a thought

I have often thought this - Chip and Connie could have visited at anytime. In those days I don't think they surveyed audiences like they do now to gauge reactions and if a character is worth keeping in a show - so there wasn't anything...

Its not the chuffing Pole Compo's wife ran off with is it :tw::fp:

I thought of that - The pole is on opposite corner of the road junction, so I think its too far away for the wire to keep above a safe height, for the house(s) opposite the shop, so it's 'daisy-chained' from the pole via via the shop...

I think it's simply a phone drop wire... lighting conditions, lens and focus will affect how noticeable it is.

The first one I had was a proper fixed Carphone, then the transportable arrived which came with the option to remove the transceiver from the car and slot it into the portable device, then the Motorola 8000 came out making it easier to...

That'll never work! ;) You'll be telling me next they'll use Granville as the market trader! :D

Luckily the BBC had a gap in their schedule & asked Sullivan if he could dig out a previously rejected idea about a market trader & his younger brother...

David Jason is to front a U&Gold retrospective of Open All Hours. The 90 minute special will include a short new scene written by Roy Clarke in which Jason returns as Granville for a final time. According to UKTV "2026 marks the 50th...

I worked for BT from 1989 for 25 years. We all had pagers, but our job meant were were often on sites with no phone line. We had one mobile between six in the office. Similar to this Motorola - but bigger! When BT was promoting more...

Roy Clarke wrote an unmade pilot episode for a Basildon Bond series, called “008 – The Real James Bond”.

Sadly this isn't uncommon, nor a new issue. After 'Citizen Smith' ended in 1980 writer by John Sullivan had an idea for a football based sitcom. A pilot episode was filmed, and was commissioned for a series. But BBC1 controller Bill...

That hill is one of my favourite viewing spots Leigh

Half way up the hill in the distance is a regularly used road in the series - it's an easy road to have closed and not disrupt local traffic. That's where Foggy practiced camouflage and got run over by the cyclists; Clegg and Compo...

quack, quack!