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At no stage do I say that anyone is bullying or making fun. my post does say "we are encouraged to have a go at her", maybe I should have been more specific as to where that encouragement comes from, certain media, press, etc. I was being critical of the link being made between a young woman's...

Sorry. I wasn't having a go at you, more the fact that her gaffe was in some way linked to the notion that as she seemed to be reasonably well educated her somewhat silly tweet hinted at what a waste of education, or that her education hadn't helped her much. I suppose what I'm suggesting is...

I would have thought that had Blamire continued in the series then the chances are there would have been no Foggy. I agree though, it would have been interesting to see Blamire and Foggy together to see how they might have got on. I think the chances are that Foggy would have shown some...

Makes you wonder about what? That here's a young women who doesn't care much about politics that she would make a silly mistake? That she might have been having a bit of a joke? Just because she has some decent qualifications doesn't mean she would necessarily know much about President Obama or...

I think we would probably need to ask Roy Clarke! The early series were shown at a later after the "watershed" time here in the UK which was from 9.00pm in the evening, when it was deemed to be adult viewing. Of course, in reality it wasn't, I was at school at the time and can vaguely remember...

The swearing stopped, but interestingly for years after Compo would occasionally stick two fingers up to anyone that he might be annoyed with, quite often Foggy. Again this is the unknown. Bates leaving early gave the opportunity to Wilde as at that stage the series was still in its infancy...

I'm not so sure. Michael Bates was fairly well known back then and was in It Ain't Half Hot Mum at the same time as LOTSW. He did a couple of years of IAHHM after leaving LOTSW and it was very popular at the time, so he was a recognised face on tv. The question is if Bates had continued, had...

There must be some way that Last Post can be made the default option for the forum at an admin level rather than users having to click on a Last Post link? Don't think I've ever seen a forum where the order was not latest post date order descending by default. I'm sure the current order of posts...

The third man has always been an authoritarian, bossy figure, although some more than others. They brought a degree of discipline and at times entrepreneurial get up and go spirit to the trio. Blamire had been in the army and then held a management positon, either with the Water or Gas Board...

LOTSW got lucky in that the first four, Blamire, Foggy, Seymour, Foggy again and then Truly, all seemed to fit seamlessly into the role. We will never know what direction things might have gone had Michael Bates lived or Michael Aldridge not decided to leave after 3 series. I recently watched...

I like Kenneth Williams, but I couldn't see him in that role. For a start he was only 5'8", so he didn't really fit the ideal of the third man who was tall. Williams was very good at playing roles that were contemptuous and dismissive of others, so in that sense he might fit, but his voice was...

Well, he did, briefly, appear in one. What would Glenda say?! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rMaVLMI6kQ

The main attempt to break into the US market came with Carry On Follow That Camel with Phil Silvers in a role that was similar to his Sergeant Bilko type character. The Carry On's represented a very particular saucy postcard type of British humour that was quite popular and maybe still is with...

They did have one of the early Carry On regulars appear in LOTSW by the name of Bill Owen, that seemed to work out ok. I think a lot of them could have appeared because they are good comedy actors and it would depend on the role. Joan Sims and Patsy Rowland could quite easily have joined the...

Is this thread in the right place? I only ask because it is in the "About the series" section, which if so implies that in LOTSW there are odd women. If anything, I would suggest that it is the men in the series that are more of the "odd" type, while the women tend to be more down to earth...

Does anyone know where that picture of Compo and Clegg at the bottom is from? Compo in blue(ish) trousers? Black wooly hat? The colour of Clegg's shoes?

As FOTSW ran from 1988-89, I would assume that this Sherbets character was a later creation by the writer that he hadn't thought of for the first 10 years of LOTSW? The thing is LOTSW was set by the time First appeared so introducing a new major character to the that series was never likely to...

Captain Clutterbuck's Treasure with Ron Moody as guest would have been a good feature length one.

That's true, but there has to be a degree of consistency about characters and their history for them to be believable. In most series that may only go on for several years this is not usually a problem, LOTSW however did go on for over 30 years so it is perhaps inevitable that some artistic...

That would be an interesting one. I have read that there was some talk that Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson might do a new series of Bottom, but that Ade has a few problems working with Rik. Mayall is up for it, but not Ade apparently. “I’m desperate to do it. I thought it would be lovely to...