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Mending Stuart's Leg

That would have been great, Abbot could have done that. He was offered the part of Barry's neighbour Boothroyd in 'Enter The Finger' (who could have become a recurring character) - but he declined. Basically he wasn't interested unless he got a permanent 'big' role.

Springing Smiler

OK ... The First Human Being to Ride a Hill

'once' is a number now, is it? OK... Errol Flynn Used to Have a Pair Like That

Destiny And Six Bananas

I see what you did there.

The Three Astaires

Inventor of the Forty Foot Ferret

The first tv set I remember at home (mid-1960s) had two big knobs at the side just above the speaker grille. You manually tuned the channel to change programmes. '4' on the dial was BBC1, '8' was ITV (Midlands). That was easy to remember, BBC1 has '4' characters, Midlands has '8' characters -...

There is a photo of Seymour on Barry and Glenda’s mantlepiece from series 19. There was often a photo of Edie on Barry and Glenda’s mantelpiece. After Thora Hird passed away there is a new photo of Edie, taken from the series 24 episode “The Secret Birthday of Norman Clegg”. Twice in series 28...

After Stephen Lewis left the show, Howard was looking for something at Aunties to make himself 'almost disappear', Tom said, 'We did it for Smiler, and you don’t disappear much further than him'. When Tony Capstick (PC2) had died his absence was explained that he had transferred to Huddersfield...

Sadly there seem to be two main camps: One remembers the show and the part the area played in fond terms, I have met some of those people. The others - who I managed to avoid - consider the existence of the show a inconvenience on a scale of Armageddon. There seems to be no pleasing some people.

I have often thought this - Chip and Connie could have visited at anytime. In those days I don't think they surveyed audiences like they do now to gauge reactions and if a character is worth keeping in a show - so there wasn't anything to stop them returning. Don't forget in Coronation Street...

I thought of that - The pole is on opposite corner of the road junction, so I think its too far away for the wire to keep above a safe height, for the house(s) opposite the shop, so it's 'daisy-chained' from the pole via via the shop building.

I think it's simply a phone drop wire... lighting conditions, lens and focus will affect how noticeable it is.

David Jason is to front a U&Gold retrospective of Open All Hours. The 90 minute special will include a short new scene written by Roy Clarke in which Jason returns as Granville for a final time. According to UKTV "2026 marks the 50th anniversary of the classic comedy, with Sir David Jason being...

I worked for BT from 1989 for 25 years. We all had pagers, but our job meant were were often on sites with no phone line. We had one mobile between six in the office. Similar to this Motorola - but bigger! When BT was promoting more private use of mobiles they offered a free phone to all staff...

Roy Clarke wrote an unmade pilot episode for a Basildon Bond series, called “008 – The Real James Bond”.

Sadly this isn't uncommon, nor a new issue. After 'Citizen Smith' ended in 1980 writer by John Sullivan had an idea for a football based sitcom. A pilot episode was filmed, and was commissioned for a series. But BBC1 controller Bill Cotton had not seen the pilot - when he did he cancelled the...