Yes, there are still weekly Sunday videos.
I'm all behind since that "Least Funny Sitcoms" video had 37,000 views in one week - when I normally get about 3,000! After nearly three weeks it has 54,000 views. A couple of my other recent videos have also had significantly more views than normal. So...
As someone else has posted on this thread I noticed it on the 'new posts' list.
The bus was a vehicle from a local bus operator, as seen on the bus "C&G" (Connor & Graham) from Easington, Hull - just 3 miles from the "holiday cottage" location. The destination blind on the bus has probably been...
I can confidently say it's not been in the show. Peter and I have visited almost all of the real and 'fake' pubs in the show. Even counting the few we didn't visit, this does not resemble any of them.
Terry and I are not 'typical' folk in this respect as we both worked in telecoms, so we're more likely to have been exposed to the technology. I remember phonecards, but never need one as, being a BT engineer (1980s - 2000s) I could pop in any phone exchange or many other BT premises to phone...
My suspicion would be that at some time Jason had told someone in conversation that he didn't want something repeated - whether for a cogent or random reason, if any - and that was fodder for some unscrupulous individual to spread as a "fact".
I'm not sure any performer really has the power to prevent repeats, unless they are a creator, author, producer, (etc.) of the work. Repeats might be withheld as a courtesy to a 'profitable' performer who makes a fuss. Repeats are a cheap way to fill a schedule!
However, the real answer is...
There were four series - 22 episodes (including a pilot broadcast 28 July 1977) - broadcast on ITV, from 20 February 1978 to 15 February 1981. Season 3 in 1980 only had 3 episodes, they were repeated in August 1981. No other repeats appear to have been broadcast. (Series 3 was abandoned after...
Time for a change of mood after all the controversy, but will you be laughing?
Sunday 18 May 2025 at 7:00pm (UK/BST) on my YouTube channel
The UK’s Least Funny Sitcoms
BBC One - Christmas 1988 - Christmas Eve Promo
BBC 1979 trailer Christmas family entertainment
These cropped up in research for my Summer Wine Decanted Christmas Episodes video
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