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Like most folk around us members born in the 50's I do recall the same sets as mentioned as technology progressed, I believe most of the sets were rented, I do recall passing a shop in Bedford where they displayed some of the first...

Our first TV, ~1951, was a big square box with just a few knobs. Connected to an antenna on the roof. We lived in a rather narrow valley so picked up only one channel, WSYR out of Syracuse NY. The program selection was quite tame...

The first tv set I remember at home (mid-1960s) had two big knobs at the side just above the speaker grille. You manually tuned the channel to change programmes. '4' on the dial was BBC1, '8' was ITV (Midlands). That was easy to...

You can see it especially on Peter's face how difficult it was but I think adding humor was the right thing to do, I know especially " up North " humor is a big part of funerals, it's how the grief is dealt with.

IF you search the threads , there are still members on here who cannot bring themselves to watch those episodes because they are so emotional which is testimony to the compassionate way Roy Clarke handled Bill's passing, the episodes...

Thank you to everyone who took the time to reply, I have always looked at Summer Wine as a distraction from "edgy" comedy shows, I am not a prude, but, I enjoyed the gentle and silly humour, I realise no actor should ever be bigger than...

The Kink in Foggy's Niblick

This is what I think. First of all, Hobbo was not the first character to be shoehorned in. It was Smiler. He was introduced as a one-off character who was then made permanent due to the fact that his character fit in. He would pop in...

Well, I don't miss the fact that faces were always green.

You could say he got around a bit! :P

In the early episodes the man with the little red sportscar also played the milk round supervisor in a later episode

Why does Norman Clegg buy ladies' elastic stockings?

The early ones with valves probably were the worst! I heard about someone's family getting one as a hand me down from a richer relative, but their Dad didn't like the smell of dust burning on the valves so as soon as they could afford...

In the early episodes the man with the little red sportscar also played the milk round supervisor in a later episode

The old Colour TV sets would burn through the electric, then even worse the Plasma TV, you could stand in front of those with bread on a toasting fork