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wow..i didn't realise that this wonderful show attracted so many unpleasant arrogant people. It's no wonder Eli wants to leave with comments like "labels the writer as a bit of a d*ckhead" and "That's moronic". It seems respect isn't high on peoples thoughts here. Language evolves all the...

that sounds so unwelcoming and not very pleasant..."a forum for grown ups" "wasn't expecting teen boppers to come on it and talk weird". Why does there have to be "we" and "them"? it's a free world and anyone can speak and use whatever grammer or type of speak they like. If you don't understand...

How about if you just ignore posts you don't understand...or you could just accept that language moves on and that abbreviations online are s common part of our culture now and stop trying to control what others post. You could always just take a bit of time to learn what the abbreviations...

Unfortunatly it's a recurring thing in this site that there are a lot of "grumpy sods" who don't understand that you can't have life the way that just they want it. Your posts are always understandable (altho I say it as someone who uses txt speak themselves a lot), and if people have problems...

There's a website here http://www.ukpressonline.co.uk/ukpressonline/open/index.jsp where you can subscribe, then search for phrases, or for specific editions of papers. I was researching something so just subscribed for a short time to the Daily Mirror archive and these were the ones i found...

And here's an interesting one (the last i have) from July 3rd 1980, in which Bill Owen tells the readers that the series has ended. There was a repeat of "Full Steam Ahead" showing that night. In fact it would return, but not for another 18 months.

Here's a good long article about Bill Owen, with them taking "Compo" to the Dorchester Hotel in London :)

Small preview of "Flower Power Cut" from 30th November 1977...the reviewer found the first half of Series 4 a bit lacking in laughs it seems

Big article on Bill Owen from 3rd December 1977, halfway through the series

Preview of the first episode of Series 4, from 9th November 1977. Ferret Come Home was broadcast at 9:35 that night

article about Michael Bates, with quotes about him leaving the show. From 7th December 1976 this was to promote the 4th series of It Aint Half Hot Mum, whcih started that evening (the final episode of S3 of LotSW, Isometrics and After was broadcast the following day)

Short article about Bill Owen to promote the episode "Going to Gordon's Wedding" on December 1st 1976

Enter Foggy, the preview for Series 3, on Wednesday 27th October 1976, still being shown post watershed at 9:30pm

Preview of series 2, plus quotes from Peter Sallis, from Wednesday March 5th 1975, the day S2 began

Another article about Michael Bates, talking about 2 close shaves he had, one in each of his comedy series

Here's a small note in the book section "paperback parade" about the publication of the LotSW novel (the one later adapted into the film "Getting Sam Home"). this article is from 4th October 1974.

Here's an article about Bill Owen from January 17th 1974, a month after the broadcast of Series 1

The next is a preview of the series from Monday 5th November 1973. The Pilot was repeated that evening at 9:25, with the first new episode shown the week later on the 12th

I posted some of these in the old forum that disappeared, but i thought i'd repost them here. A while back, i subscribed to the Daily Mirror archive for a short time and so was able to search through almost all the editions. These are the articles which came up for LotSW in the 1970's. The...

This, along with Whoops and What's Santa Brought for Nora then? Are my top 3 Xmas episode...I really love the whole Xmas atmosphere.