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I tend to forget that the show needed to get its viewing numbers to carry on being broadcast since now of course we know how long it would keep going. The show had had no issues, I don't believe, switching third men the first time but I wonder if they were worried about doing it again? I sense...

I tend to agree from what little I've seen of them and my faulty memory. The show expanding generally helped add some content and gave a change of pace.

As I wander through I've just bumped into the first episodes with this new trio of characters. I know they came from a play, but why were they added to the TV series? Was the texture of the show changing? Maybe they knew Foggy was leaving and of course Sid was already gone and wanted to add...

I'm in the last season of the first go round of Foggy I believe, so it will be interesting to see what I think going forward. I vaguely remember enjoying the years with Seymour after I adjusted rather like enjoying the shift from the Third to the Fourth Doctor Who who were our Doctors over here...

I have good friends where the wife is Canadian. Rather confusingly her brother married the sister of my friends brother. So brother and sister from Canada. She thinks Marmite is ok in stews and such. The brother loves it on everything including pancakes! My friends basically mostly thought the...

Thanks wstol. I've never been 'privileged' to taste that!

What is a Marmite program?

Ah thank you. I wasn't quite sure if it was an episode I missed or an entirely different movie type entertainment.

What film is that Onslow?

I'm not huge on dark comedies which does limit my enjoyment, though there were definitely some funny bits.

HD always helps! I'm sort of neutral on the movie oddly. It feels interesting but out of continuity somehow like one of those sidebooks series authors sometimes write.

As I'm rolling along in my viewing, I suddenly got to this film and was in for a surprise. I had mostly forgotten it and how different everyone acted in it. It's not that it is a bad film, it is just rather like driving along on your six wheeled bicycle and suddenly coming to a big curve in the...

Thank you for all your thoughts and suggestions. It does confirm that this part of the world has a certain magic too it and it isn't just my imagination or that I'm at a remove from it.

I'm on the other side of the pond and I enjoy any historical British setting. From Sherlock's London to Wodehouse's Castles, they add to the enjoyment. I get the same basic feeling with the setting of Last of the Summer Wine since all these settings are unfamiliar to me. For folks on the right...

Thanks codfangles. The characters are certainly enjoyable and drive the show and the setting is lovely. I still must admit to needing something to keep my attention like a bit of adventure. Maybe it is a character flaw? I do find that the Foggy and Compo fussying holds me better than the first...

Great points, mashibinbin. The characters are strongly delineated and memorable. This extends to the secondary characters as well. The conflicts between Compo and the third man seem to flow organically from their characters and little seems forced in either these clashes or the character driven...

Interesting codfanglers and Barrychuckle. Thanks for your insights. So the characters and maybe the setting are more important than plots in both your viewing enjoyment? I wonder if this is a key to the appeal of Last of the Summer Wine?

I think I prefer a mix as well. I did notice that some of the early episodes seemed a bit plotless and while I enjoy the characters, I do need something going on to drive the story which the action tends to do to some extent.

Last of the Summer Wine is sometimes thought of as having fairly physical comedy often involving flying wildly downhill. I haven't seen a lot of this in the first five seasons. The two parter 'Here We Go into The Wild Blue Yonder' that ends season 5 seems to be the first where we see a fairly...

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