Cast Of The Summer Wine – Simon Dunn

July 24, 2019

Cast Of The Summer Wine

Ok, this one’s niche, even for me. This is how the end credits of Last Of The Summer Wine usually look in the 1990s.

All nicely centred over a gorgeous background.

But here’s how they look at the end of the 1993 episode, Concerto For A Solo Bicycle (bonus fact, there’s an episode of Open All Hours called Duet For A Solo Bicycle).

Isn’t that a nice little touch? Framing the credits to compliment the shot? And as the shot pans screen right, so the credits realign.

What’s more, this 1993 series was the last time the show used video titles.

Those look like this.

With the Christmas special at the end of that year, they started using film titles. Which look like this.

The more you know.

British, e.phemera, Last Of The Summer Wine, Sitcoms

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