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I found 'Oh Doctor Beeching' on Dailymotion. I've seen S1E1 and S1E4 so far, I've enjoyed them and look forward to viewing more. It has everything, poofer trains, incompetence, trickey situations, thunder mugs, British bicycles (with full chaincases) and our very own Smiler! It is all there!

My favorite Foggy was the First of the summerwine Foggy. I was about his age when the Vietnam war was getting underway (a generation later). I felt the series portrayed the pre-war level of angst very well that young Foggy and his peers were experiencing back then, which was much the same as...

Barrychuckle, The RV market here went crazy during Covid also. Pre-owned RV prices are coming back down. The problem is that RV friendly camp sites, with the necessary hookups, also skyrocketed, but haven't budged in the downward direction yet. The question is if you want to buy a lot of...

A friend of mine in Germany has an older T-5. It has a history and has crossed borders. Although currently legit, it was a hot box for awhile. Because of that, the door latches don't work so well. He is a wheelchair driver and has done it up nice. He has an electric lift, but it was...

I crawled around in a VW California at the Autostadt in Wolfsburg Deutschland. It was delightful and seducing, but when I heard the price, like Auntie Wainwright, I wanted to know if it included 40 acres and a lake.

My earlier rant was focused on women from the show who rode bike. Submabicycle was really special because it combined both the bicycle element, but also one of the best pieces of Wesley's creative claptrap in the entire show. I don't know who had the creative gift to engineer all of the...

I forgot Nora who was cycling in 'Mending Stuart's Leg' I've watched it a couple of times and think she actually took the tumble herself.

Pearl on a bicycle makes the episode one of my all time favorites. She was a bit shaky, maybe a bit out of practice. If my memory serves me, Miss Davenport was on a bike once with Marina, when PCs Cooper and Walsh skated into them . Ivy was sighted on a bike twice, in 'Forty Foot Ferret' and...

Perfect. What struck me most about it was that the writer carried the simple expression in his mind for so long, that when Jeanne Mockford was cast back into the series, he thought of it and used it again. The difference being Mrs. Cheever delivered the line to the guests at the boarding...

You are right, there are countless great lines in Summerwine. But lets look at it another way. There was one simple line "She's a treasure" used in two different episodes, filmed about 30 years apart. The only regular cast members that were in both episodes were Clegg, Nora and Ivy. Sadly a...

Hi Chuffer, my other favorite line occurred in 'Howard Gets Double Booked' when Pearl says to Howard "You spend all this time in the toilet and come out with whiplash?!?!". Honorable mention goes to Compo who asks at the end of 'Whose Made a Big Splash in Wales' "how do they get these fish just...

Smiler and Tom's car may have been a Caprice Classic, which would have been Chevy's top of the line. I say this because something in the memory banks suggests that all of the Caprice convertibles were Classics. The emblems were all knocked off of Smiler's car so I have no way to visually...

I betcha wish you still had the mustang!

Ooooohhh, if you remember 8 Tracks, don't sit still for very long or they will send you out for carbon dating! Smiler's early 70's Chevrolet Caprice convertible (the football stadium) would have had a factory installed AM FM cassette radio in the dash, the leading edge of technology back then...

The closest thing we've had in the US to Woolworths is/was a chain called 'Bed Bath and Beyond'. Like Woolworths, you could start with a shopping cart at one end and leave with pots, pans, flatware, dishes, table cloth , curtains, towels, bedding, coffeemaker, microwave, air fryer, toaster...

I remember Woolworths from my childhood in Worcester, Massachusetts. F.W. Woolworth was credited with being a marketing genius (sorry Aunty Wainwright). He carried a good selection of just about everything you would need to set up housekeeping. He didn't cater to the Cuisinart crowd, nor to...

My nom-de-plume says it all! Before I ever saw Seymour in LOTSW, I had seen Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. In Seymour's second episode when he delivered the tirade to Wesley about "all the moles in Whitehall" and "Bull! its the milkman", the creative genius of the writer for inserting that in the...

I believe Christine Monk-Slocombe passed away last year. https://christineslocombe.muchloved.com RIP. I was looking for the above picture of Marina and Chrissy on line earlier and stumbled on the tribute.

The episode the "calm down Foggy picture" was taken from was Getting on Sidney's Wire. It was right before Foggy went storming off to take some invaluable notes for the local River Board, then fell sploosh into the river in full combat rig. You still have to be aware of time in retirement...

Retirement is a 7 day weekend.