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Probably better known for being the doc in The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin. Had some funny moments as Doc Morrissey.

The number of pages have been mentioned before, but doing a quick check on Amazon. Summer Wine and Other Stories - My Autobiography [Paperback] - 288 pages. Fading into the Limelight: The Autobiography [Hardcover] - 246 pages. Fading Into The Limelight: The Autobiography [Kindle Edition] -...

If so that is poor. All that seems to have changed then is the title to take advantage of the Summer Wine connection, when the original book had very little about the series in it (If memory serves you have to read about 200 pages to get to to it). I doubt that Peter Sallis himself would have...

There are some very funny moments in The Black Widow when Clegg is being driven around by the "Black Widow" as he looks on out of the passenger window desperate for help from Compo and Foggy to escape her clutches as she takes him shopping.

That's sad news. RIP My name is Rodney. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylgV8OyTIFg

I think a lot of the comedy back then was in the saucy postcard tradition and was essentially harmless, but it still reflected a very different time in a cultural sense for Britain as a country. Showing a few pin ups in an episode of LOTSW would have simply reflected reality, just as in Porridge...

I think this was more in keeping with the gritty early years of LOTSW and it was shown in the UK at a later time. However, it did reflect the more openly sexist nature of British society back then. Lots of places of work, especially those male dominated, would have pin up pictures of women in...

How many businesses did Auntie have? Just watched Who's got Rhythm and the trio come across Smiler in a stock in the window of a loan business owned by Uncle Henry, who just happens to be Auntie Wainwright. She also owned the car scrapyard and according to Compo in this episode she owned half of...

It's still up for sale on Rightmove and the agent's website. Obviously no one wants to live next door to Howard and Hobbo.

The Gas Board was a name used to desribe the then UK nationalised energy company that provided the whole country's gas supply. Each designated area of the country had its own Gas Board, but there was only one national supplier. From just after the war up to the 1980's, all of the UK's energy...

The answer is to stop reading the Sun (add in Mirror, Express, Mail, etc)! This is standard red top tabloid stuff.

Not a TV show, but on the radio, The Secret World is an impressions show and occasionally Peter Sallis appears. Well, someone doing his voice. I think it's done in good spirit and it always presents Sallis as down to earth getting involved in unlikely, confusing situations. This episode he does...

But in what way would it change everything? It's clear that classic summer wine is still very popular and I suspect that in the US it is mostly the series from that era which are shown. Here in the UK, Gold TV show a lot of the classic repeats and LOTSW heads the audience viewing figures, but...

"Dodgy dealers Del Boy and Rodney Trotter are to return to British TV screens for the first time in more than 10 years, the BBC has confirmed. The much-loved south Londoners, played by David Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst, will feature in "a short Only Fools and Horses sketch" for this year's...

Worth noting that the BBC own Gold or a substantial share in it. So they know their audience likes classic comedy and the golden years of LOTSW are shown there because it's owned by the Beeb!

Well, at the moment it seems to be a one off idea and that's assuming it gets off the ground. I would have thought Christmas next year if it happens and then like Still Open All Hours there may be talk of a series. It would probably need Nicholas Lyndhurst to be interested as well as I couldn't...

Well, this could be a surprise. "Only Fools And Horses, one of Britain's most loved comedy shows, may return. Sir David Jason, who played Del Boy in the hit sitcom, has revealed in an interview with The Times that he has been given a new script to read." It goes on. According to today's...

Look forward to your review, I really do hope that it has more Summer Wine in it than Fading.

I suspect the LOTSW that people are still watching are the years of Compo, Foggy, Clegg, Blamire, Seymour and Truly. Until the technology is there to recreate all of these as virtual actors, and then LOTSW could be recreated and run forever assuming someone could write for it, the great days can...

18 actors appeared in the 30 minutes of Still Open All Hours, but if it gets a series I doubt whether there will be the budget to have as many in little cameos each episode with Jason, so perhaps we will get more of a story. The shop set is the main backdrop for the show, even more so now there...