Update 03/11/09
This will now be a Summer Wine blog. I’ll leave previous enteries up, but henceforth I will post only of LOTSW.
So here’s a wee bit about how I came to love this show…
I’ve always been a BBC fan, comedies mostly, ever since I was little. I started watching “Last of The Summer Wine in 2005. One thing stands out to me more then anything, more then what I thought of the show as I watched, and it was after… it was like nothing I ever felt after a simple little sitcom. I just couldn’t get over the beauty, the innocence and sheer charm of every sqaure inch! Then, after a few years of sort of losing touch with the show, I saw it again and it was like the first time all over! Summer Wine has so many wonderful qualities, such that I know are all too rare or just gone forever.
So I created this blog, as a expression of love and respect for Roy Clarke, the cast, the crew and the fans. I hope very much to add a bit to the cyberspace about LOTSW and in a modest way, be another person to spread the love!
And my basics:
Favorite trio: Compo, Foggy and Clegg
Favorite Episode(s): Welcome to Earth, All A Florrie, The Secret Birthday of Norman Clegg, Brushes At Dawn, Beware of The Elbow, Give Us A Lift, Under The Rug, How Errol Flynn Discovered Nora Batty’s Scar, Full Steam Behind, so many more.
Favorite Period: I’d say the late ’80s up to the mid ’90s.
Favortie Character: Norman Clegg
Favorite Actor and Actress: Peter Sallis and (the late) Dame Thora Hird
Favorite Special Guests: John Cleese, Trevor Bannister.
Enjoy the summer…
Cheers!
Virgo
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2009/06/05 at 4:22 pm
George Leggett
I have been watching LOTSW since 1973 and was very angry when I heard it was to be scrapped.I have written to Roy Clarke,Alan JW Bell and I’ve complained to the relevant people at the BBC.The Beeb said that all letters and emails would be looked at to gauge the popularity of the show.So it ight help if people get in touch at mark.thompson@bbc.co.uk. and state your case for the show to be continued.
2009/06/07 at 7:11 am
Virgo
Very good, George! Something to remind us that, if we haven’t yet, we must show our support!
2009/06/20 at 12:25 pm
Bill
Great blog, just stumbled upon by accident. Last of the Summer Wine is my favourite TV show and I do hope it keeps going even though Kathy Staff passed away and Peter and Frank are getting on a bit.
Cheers, from Australia
2009/06/23 at 2:59 am
Virgo
Thank you very much, Bill, and thank you so much for stopping by!
2009/07/22 at 4:31 am
Lemastre
LOTSW is an almost eery show when its overwhelming image is considered — a trio or so of old men wandering aimlessly and pausing now and then among always green meadows. Eery because it never rains, nor does the sun set or even move much on these pastoral scenes. And almost no other person is seen. Is it a vision of what heaven might be for these old duffers — just you and your best friends at ease forever? There’s certainly nothing like it on U.S. TV.
Although the very first episodes of LOTSW, which I’ve found on YouTube, seem more satisfying than the later ones, I still watch the ones we’re currently getting here in the U.S. I think the episodes are from 2005 or so.
Concentrating on Compo, Clegg, and Foggy afforded a better chance of developing a situation with a beginning, middle, and end than does a show bringing in all the various characters that populate the later episodes. They simply don’t make up for Compo’s absence. Especially can I not take to what Tom Owen and Stephen Lewis are called on to do. Most of it just ain’t funny or profound.
I wonder how the show can weather losing more of the original cast. Kathy Staff’s passing is a heavy blow, and of course when Peter Sallis and Frank Thornton are no longer insurable for even indoor scenes, there will be only Ivy left, if I recollect right.