Daily Mirror articles from the 1970's

[jakob1978]

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 first mention from August 18th 1973 is a piece about Michael Bates

 

[jakob1978]

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

 

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

 

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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.

 

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

 

[jakob1978]

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

 

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

 

[jakob1978]

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

 

[jakob1978]

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)

 

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

 

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

 

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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

 

[jakob1978]

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

 

[jakob1978]

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.

 

[amos hames]

These are great i am going to read them all properly later.Thanks for sharing

 

[George]

Abso-bloody-lutely brilliant.

 

[barmpot]

Brilliant - many of the photographs have appeared in books as well.

 

[Sheree]

Thanks for sharing! I enjoyed reading each article.....nore than once!

 

[maltrab]

Thanks so much for sharing these,great stuff

 

[toodlepip]

Great, where did you dig these up??