Last Of The Summer Continuity

July 31, 2019

Last Of The Summer Continuity

This promo for Nashville Public Television’s Last Of The Summer Wine binge season isn’t great. The accent is off, and why not use a Yorkshire voice anyway? Why no clips from the show?

That said, it’s not nearly as bad as this, which is just bloody awful.

Weirdly, I watched the very episode that this next one is promoting last night, and now I know it aired in the lead up to the 1997 election that saw Labour stride into Government.

https://youtu.be/dALy4du2bSc

I wish I knew what that Harry Enfield/Paxman sketch was from. Here’s the election night coverage if you have a spare 8 hours.

Nine years earlier we got a glimpse of Sid’s Cafe in this trail.

British, Continuity, Last Of The Summer Wine, Sitcoms, US

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