Last Of The Summer Wine – Page 7 – Simon Dunn

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A Snippet Of Holmfirth

Here’s Juliette Kaplan returning to Holmfirth, where all of Last Of The Summer Wine was shot. Weirdly, most of the clips from this show are episodes I watched in the past day or two. Also, followers of this thread on Twitter … … will realise the shortcomings of the ‘real’ Sid’s Cafe.

July 30, 2019
Hunt The Old Woman

I just tweeted about this, but I’m going to put it here too. On my long, oh so long, re-watch of Last Of The Summer Wine, in the 1995, series 17 episode Desperate For A Duffield, this happened. I did a double take. I rewound. I let the scene play out. That’s … that’s the…

July 29, 2019
1984

I’ve been trying to find footage of Bill Owen, Peter Sallis, and Brian Wilde at the 1984 Royal Variety Performance. I assume they were in character as Compo, Clegg, and Foggy. Alas, I cannot find any. Here’s the first 45 minutes of the show though, and it cuts off before we find out who Dustin…

July 27, 2019
Cooper & Walsh

Yesterday I asked if anyone could direct me to the test footage for the Last Of The Summer Wine spin-off Cooper & Walsh. And thanks to The Summer Winos, here it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85HMV3BZCvI It won’t let me embed it here, but it was posted by Mike Walker, who shot and edited it, and as you…

July 26, 2019
Roy Clarke On Characters

There’s not much of Roy Clarke, the writer of Last Of The Summer Wine, Keeping Up Appearances, and Open All Hours to be found on YouTube. Here he is talking about his approach to developing sitcoms around characters. I had a thought the other day, that if Edie in LOTSW is the prototype for Hyacinth…

July 25, 2019

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Nineteen 90s Shows

I wrote another book about television. I like television. I like television so much that the first thing I modelled and printed on my new 3d printer was this … I made some more after that too. There’s a few more, including TVS, ATV, and HTV, but I bought you here to talk about my…

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Re-Casting Keanu

Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…