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    When did you prefer the theme tune?

    I love the versions with lyrics from Getting Sam Home and Whoops. I also like the ones used on the opening of Uncle of the Bride, and the closing of Elegy for Fallen Wellies and Just a Small Funeral where you can hear a choir humming along to the themes.
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    Foggy's first run or second - which was best?

    Fulton Mackay was an option when Brian Wilde was dithering over contracts in the early 80s, but in 1990 when Michael Aldridge had to leave, Fulton had been dead for 3 years (he passed on in June 1987)
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    Foggy's first run or second - which was best?

    His first run was better by far. Plenty of classics in that period. His second run had a couple of good years at the start, but the mid 90s was for my money the worst period of LotSW, the show became formulaic (open with Compo irritating Nora, Foggy boring a stranger with war stories, Howard...
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    Getting Sam Home - Sams house location?

    Alan Bell, in his recent book, gives this description "Following the map, we drove up a hill at Almondbury on the outskirts of Huddersfield. We drove right, and there, quite astonishingly, was the exact bungalow as described by Roy Clarkes script. The name on the white painted gate identified...
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    Frank Thornton RIP

    Sad news that Frank has passed away http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21828965
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    Photos used on US Christmas DVD

    Looking at amazon, I noticed the Xmas DVD from the US. Any1 know where the photos come from? They look like a set up for a photoshoot for a paper or magazine
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