I'm so happy I found this Website in the past couple days. I've enjoyed "Last of the Summer Wine" on Nashville's PBS channel since circa 2010. I channel-surfed into the show following a late newscast (10-10:30pm) -- and got hooked at once by the humor!
My first viewing of LotSW came while Truly (Frank Thornton) was the third guy in the main trio. Honestly I didn't find the show quite as enjoyable after Compo's death and the relegation of Truly and Clegg to secondary roles in the face of a whole new trio. Once the Nashville PBS station arrived at the concluding episode they started all over again with the very first episode. Eventually PBS got to the time when the third man of the main trio was Foggy Dewhurst. What fun he was, getting the trio into trouble!
My favorite of all the characters is Norman Clegg (Peter Sallis). He reminds me so much of myself -- altho I lack his fear of interaction with women and lack his overabundant layers of apparel! I appreciate how Sallis is the one actor who was in every episode of the show, and how Clegg with his philosophical and steady nature was a counter to scruffy Compo and the third man.
My favorite secondary character (non-trio) was Sid of the café (John Comer). His fierce arguments with wife Ivy didn't disguise for me that the couple loved each other, and I greatly enjoyed how he was the only villager who seemed to like getting tangled in the main trio's scheming! It's a great loss that Comer succumbed to cancer after only a few seasons on the show.
~ GlenAlan
Nashville, Tennessee USA
My first viewing of LotSW came while Truly (Frank Thornton) was the third guy in the main trio. Honestly I didn't find the show quite as enjoyable after Compo's death and the relegation of Truly and Clegg to secondary roles in the face of a whole new trio. Once the Nashville PBS station arrived at the concluding episode they started all over again with the very first episode. Eventually PBS got to the time when the third man of the main trio was Foggy Dewhurst. What fun he was, getting the trio into trouble!
My favorite of all the characters is Norman Clegg (Peter Sallis). He reminds me so much of myself -- altho I lack his fear of interaction with women and lack his overabundant layers of apparel! I appreciate how Sallis is the one actor who was in every episode of the show, and how Clegg with his philosophical and steady nature was a counter to scruffy Compo and the third man.
My favorite secondary character (non-trio) was Sid of the café (John Comer). His fierce arguments with wife Ivy didn't disguise for me that the couple loved each other, and I greatly enjoyed how he was the only villager who seemed to like getting tangled in the main trio's scheming! It's a great loss that Comer succumbed to cancer after only a few seasons on the show.
~ GlenAlan
Nashville, Tennessee USA