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Thanks gothic. Hopefully I don't overdue it as I've been known too. Thanks to all you admins for a lovely message board. Thanks RickAns. I watched that video and very much enjoyed it. I've subscribed to the channel as well. Thank you theatrically_inclined for your lovely videos! They are...

I doubt I ever will in person, but now that you mention it I might be able to in VR. I'll have to see if Google earth and/or street view can take me there virtually.

We would have been distracted from watching Nora Batty! :)

That makes sense. I had a book like that that I couldn't put down. Never eat molasses while reading a book! Seriously I just looked and I have that book. I just pulled it out to start reading it. Thanks for mentioning it. I also seem to have a country companion and something cheap on ebook from...

Thanks for that. I'm happy to be in season four for that reason. I wonder if when Foggy leaves and returns we see a similar issue? Will be interesting to keep an eye out for that.

I hadn't thought of the that. We would see more multi-part episodes or longer specials in the future. So we do get a preview of coming attractions here. Also the wedding was something of a special event that we would bump into from time to time. I'm into season four now and it does seem like...

Thanks for that. I never thought of looking at IMDB. There are many guest stars through all his series. More than most other sitcoms I can think of. I wonder if most were intended to be one off characters, I assume so, and how did he choose certain actors to stay on as fixtures in the show? It...

You make good points. The Doctor Who fan in me wonders if there are different realities to our own which are defined by which of the directions Last of the Summer Wine went. There are children and family in one dimension and specific guest stars that stayed on in other dimensions! Certainly no...

Looking back now it is interesting to think that no one had any idea the show would run for decades and become an institution. It does have the feeling of finding its way in the early years especially with the major cast change doesn't it. Actually just watched the Wales episode and it did feel...

If anyone knows I reckon it would be here. You are right that many folks just popped in for a single appearance which could be quite memorable and then were never heard from again. I need to watch more of Roy Clarke's shows to see if that was a general pattern in his writing or exclusive to this...

From out of nowhere our trio goes on holiday with Gordon and he meets a girl. A bit later he marries her as we meet his mother, her parents and others. Then they all vanish from the face of the earth. A three odd episodes in a very quirky season. Was it intended to set up a younger man and...

Thank you mashibinbin. You make some very interesting observations. I wrote something of a book on 1950s US sitcoms and I'm moving toward another on the 1960s, currently watching a lot of Andy Griffith. Over here I can see the times changing notably escapism followed by then reality as the...

Thanks for all the responses. In a sense enjoying the third man that was there when one first watched the series reminds me of another classic though very different British series Classic Doctor Who. For many of us in America, me included, it was the third and fourth Doctors we knew and felt at...

Thank you for your welcome Barrychuckle and meow! The three comedies idea makes sense. I'm mostly familiar with the middle years which is likely no great surprise. I will give the later years a go to see if they appeal to me as well. I'm glad you mentioned them. I don't always do well with...

Hello Brain Johns. Thanks for your thoughts. It certainly makes sense that TV shows would reflect the times they were made in. Somewhat oddly that darkness may have wrapped around as many sitcoms made in more recent years seem very dark and cruel to me. Maybe there is a sweet spot of a lighter...

Thank for the reply Bora Natty. Glad to meet a fellow colonist! I don't always deal well with change in my sitcoms, so it is more enjoyable for me just to watch the original two I suppose with the variety of third men and then start over. After this I will likely just jump to season three to...

Thanks for the welcome Onslow! I tend to agree that even Season three takes a while to get off the ground. I read somewhere that it was still written with Blamire in mind generally and Foggy wasn't really established until season 4. Waiting for the later seasons gives me something to look...

Thanks for that perspective Pearl and for letting me know about the Emerald Island. That is good information about redundancy. I'm not sure we have quite that concept over here? I also tend to think of Clegg as the redundant lino salesman and forget that Blamire also fit that role. By the early...

Thanks for your thoughts gothic. It might well be that I'm over thinking it and like you I just find the later trio more to my liking and funnier. Thank you for your warm welcome as well. Out beside the Rockies we are a bit chilly so a warm welcome helps!

As an American I'm struggling through seasons one and two of a rewatch of Last of the Summer Wine. It is nice from the perspective of getting more of Clegg and Compo's background but I don't get the Blamire character at all and struggle to understand his words. The shows themselves don't seem as...