Category: Last Of The Summer Wine
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Proto Hyacinth
During my re-watch of Last Of The Summer Wine (I’m up to 1989 now), a few days ago, when he first appeared on screen, I tweeted this. And then his sister Edie came on screen, and I added this tweet. While this was true of Seymour initially, at least for a couple of episodes, he…
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Summer Threads
I’d like to draw your attention to two ongoing threads on my Twitter feed. The first one is charting the evolution of the Cafe set on Last Of The Summer Wine. Since this set is used for the entire run of the show, it struck me as an interesting thing to watch develop, especially as…
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The Curious Case Of The Last Of The Summer Wine Titles
This is usually how the episodes are titled on screen for Last Of The Summer Wine. But every now and again, they look like this. It’s quite rare not to open on a vista of the hills, but that’s not what I’m talking about. Try another. Do you see it? Most of the time it’s…
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First Of The Summer Trails
Here’s a nice little promo trailer for First Of The Summer Wine. We need to talk about that BBC1 identity. What’s with the sensuous music? Did Auntie go all soft porn at the end of the 80s? Here’s a scene released by Acorn to sell the series 2 DVD. He clearly talks to her. I…
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Last Of The Blobby Wine
It’s my birthday today, and as punishment, I made myself watch this. I’m not entirely sure what we just watched. It was part of a VHS release called The All New Adventures Of Mr Blobby, which aired on an episode of Noel’s House Party too.
