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I think they probably would have been classed the same by some (Daily Mail Readers spring to mind!)at any time in the last 40 years or so. LOTSW was very good at hiding the simple reality that for most of its history it has been a comedy about the middle aged unemployed heading to retirement...

But they weren't of retirement age when they first appeared. They were in their low to mid fifties or thereabouts. I doubt whether a Co-op pension for a redundant lino salesman would have been much anyway. They wouldn't get any state pension until 65.

I assume he would have been on standard Unemployment Benefit, which I believe lasted for a year. After that I think you want on Social Security. Housing benefit remained the same regardless of which unemployment benefit category you came under. Age didn't come into the question of which benefit...

So, are you saying there is a pilot already that was shown and turned down? Or just that the idea was floated to the TV companies? Pilots are often produced independently and then shown, most are rejected regardless of age of audience that they may be aimed at. If TV companies were only...

I felt Hobbo as a character wasn't as well written as those that had gone before. I've mentioned before that it would have made more sense to write him as a retiring civil servant who perhaps worked for the MOD, Foreign Office or even one of the security services, after all, they all need pen...

If they are confident that there is an audience for this why not just produce a pilot in the normal way and pitch it to the TV companies? Far cheaper to do I would assume and if it had a lot of names behind it and was actually funny someone would commission it.

Quite impressive viewing figures. "The 50th anniversary Doctor Who special has set a new iPlayer record for getting the most requests in 24 hours, 1.27m - beating the Olympic opening ceremony's previous high. New consolidated figures show 12.8m people saw The Day of the Doctor on BBC One...

Final episode.

There was the episode where Glenda and Marina had an exchange of ideas on how to dress. Barry got a surprise when he got home.

I think the main problem with Hobbo was that he wasn't believable at all. The other fantasist tall men could at least fall back on the fact that their history gave a degree of credibility to what they were claiming, although the likes of Foggy, Blamire and Seymour exaggerated it. Hobbo wasn't a...

Thanks for that, I will look out for it. Series 10,episode 7, the Aldridge years and early on in the Howard and Marina "affair". Not one that I think gets regularly repeated and I don't have it in my collection yet. I think others are probably right in that the early intent may have been to...

Can you name an episode when they kissed? I'm working my way through many of the older ones again and I don't ever recall it happening. I can only recall them getting close, but not quite. That may be because in the later stories the running joke of them forever being interrupted and not quite...

Depends what you mean by close. Howard and Marina were never close, they didn't even kiss in 25 years. Marina got closer to Compo and Clegg then she ever did with Howard.

I've had a further thought on this topic. The subject title is Mistress Marina, yet it is difficult to see Marina as a Mistress in the true sense of the word. Howard and Marina were not engaged in an affair as such. Their relationship was one of fantasy and what might be. Howard behaves like a...

These are very good. All of them capture the old characters quite well.

At one stage he was tipped to be James Bond. Apparently he did try out for it but was seen as too aggressive. The job went to Roger Moore. After the Professionals he was probably a victim of being typecast, most of his roles being hard man b-movie type. Too young to pass on at 67.

Surely the Howard and Marina relationship was just a long running joke? We are supposed to believe that despite all of Howard's getaways and time spent with Marina, they never get up to anything. One of their long running jokes was every time they attempted to kiss, something would intervene to...

Does anyone have the LOTSW plates? Wondering if they were any good. At around £30 they don't come cheap. https://www.danburymint.co.uk/plates/people/last-of-the-summer-wine-c202.html#

This was from 2009, some of Foggy's clothes were sold on Ebay for charity at the request of his wife. "The trademark outfit worn by character Foggy from Last of The Summer Wine is being put up for auction on eBay to raise charity cash." "After Brian's death, Eva asked the BBC for his Last Of...

Does this mean you can watch 3 LOTSW episodes at once?