I watch it every night still on drama at 7.20 i love it and look forward to it every weekday its just good oldfashioned fun i love it above all the rubish on today. Well done to all the fabulous actors! We'l not see your like again xx
I have watched this show since it's 1st broadcast when I was young. And I saw the last episode in 2010 felt like a part of my life died that day. I still watch on RU-vid, y'all should find those missing episodes.
Jane Freeman, who was Ivy, could not appear in the last episode because she was seriously ill and confined to bed! Alan JW Bell and Roy Clarke visited her a few days before filming. It was decided that it was impossible to include the Cafe without Ivy - it would have been just plain insulting! During her illness she was visited by many of the cast frequently. I was privileged to meet Jane briefly, on location in 2004 - she was a lovely lady - with a wicked sense of humour! Incidentally the character of Ivy was based, by Roy Clarke, on a very real person - his beloved wife Enid!
Last of the summer wine was being produced for so long (37 years from the first episode to the final episode). That the episode marking the midway point of all the episodes of the show was the final regular episode of series 17, and the 148th episode titled "Brushes at dawn". Which was first broadcast on sunday 1995/11/05.
I love this show!! I watch it over and over an YT. I know there are many shows I have not seen and I would love to. I have some on tape. Today I was thinking about them and laughing as I was driving along, recalling when Foggy told Compo he could hear him wheezing over there. Compo said how could I be wheezing over there when I'm over here? Then the turned and asked Norm if he had been wheezing. Norman said, "well, only from one end!!" So funny!! LOVE that show!!!
I remember "discovering" this show one night on my local PBS. I tried to get other fans of Britcoms to watch it but they just didn't "get it". I really enjoyed the gentle humor and it made me think of my father and his weekly card games with his buddies. (Their wives played the same night, but elsewhere.) This series made me have a new appreciation for senior citizens. Perhaps the best episodes were the story arc that detailed the passing of one of the main actors who's name escapes me at the moment. Those episodes managed to be both a humorous and touching tribute to the character. Perhaps the one bit of trivia I was surprised to NOT read here: Last Of The Summer Wine was in production without repeats for over 30 years, THE LONGEST RUNNING, ENGLISH LANGUAGE, SITUATION COMEDY I believe?
it's still sad to think that none of the original characters are alive. incidentally, I would strongly urge anyone that's not been to Holmfirth to pay it a visit. Beautiful village, and full of LOTSW nostalgia.
Surely the actors who played Barry & Glenda are still alive? I've been to Holmfirth & loved it. I shall visit again one day. All fans of the show should go and have a cup of tea in the cafe!
@@tinamalenczak3897 yes they are. The first cast members like Compo, Clegg, Blamire, Sid, Ivy etc are no longer with us, sadly. Can't wait to go back to Holmfirth. Didn't get a chance to see Nora Barry's wrinkley stockings previously.
@@southendparaquest Nora Batty looked quite a bit like my maternal grandmother, and with 9 children she was as tolerant of tomfoolery as Mrs Batty was.
I remember thinking when this last episode was shown that it was a shame that Jane Freeman (Ivy) was missing, I loved the show and still watch it whenever it is on, my thanks to all the cast.
@@MsBrickman1 I read somewhere else on this site that Jane Freeman was very ill when the last episode was filmed. It also said that many of the other actors visited her before/after the final episode was filmed.
Not only my favorite sitcom, but my favorite TV show of all time. A shame a lot of episodes got pulled from youtube, especially certain ones from the Cyril Blamire years, because they're not on DVD, and I have no other way of seeing them.
@@scottishwildcat : I have a feeling he started out in "Hawaii Five-0". All of the 'actors of age' had been big stars in their early days - look them up on imd.com and be amazed.
my mum has got most of LOTSW episodes on her Sky HD box and spends hours watching them, some of them were very funny, i wasn't a big fan of the show but i do watch some, Bill Owen was awesome with his character, I also liked Sarah Thomas, she was such a sweetheart, and was very nice, i hope to meet her one day,
While I am a fan of this show, and tried to get friends and co-workers to watch it when it was broadcast on our local PBS, I have to say that I sort of agree with you...and yet, I was disappointed that later episodes just seemed to trod the same old path, as it were. I don't know when I would say the show reached a plateau, but at a point I began to feel that many of the characters had never and would never grow. I think my own life is boring, but the lives of many of the folks in this town took boring to new heights (or is it low points?).
@@kjrumney4940 What a perfect response! I do believe you are right! Especially the car that Wesley took the engine from when Foggy was restoring the cabin cruiser in Das Welly Boat!
@Lord Belial I'll be the Bad Guy here and say that I never liked Compo. He struck me as a grifter who stole food from his comrades and was generally useless . Clegg was a gutless wonder and I got tired of him folding like a cheap card table under any situation. Brian Wilde was thoroughly enjoyable with his made-up war anecdotes, which was ably expanded upon when Russ Abbot joined. IMO, the show picked up when Compo was gone. I always thought a lot of Sarah Thomas and Juliette Kaplan, who were good-looking/sexy in their own right but willingly buried it in their frumpy clothing and hairdos. It always pist me off when many of the new actresses crowded them out in the opening credits.
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
@@Teffi_Club Don’t forget “First of the Summer Wine” which had Peter Sallis in it playing Norman Cleggs father.. I thought it was very good , but it was pulled after 2 series.
Don't blame the BBC, it was from what I believe Roy Clarkes decision to end the show. And no point them repeating it, as plenty of other channels already do. Drama plays it on a loop, as soon as it finishes they start back at the beginning. They have done so as long as I can remember lol. I guess it shows the shows popularity even now.
I stopped watching it when Bill Owen aka Compo died. I watch the re- runs but only up to that point. I think Brian Wilde as Foggy left the show before that. He has passed away now also.
I love LOSW but the last episode[in my opinion] was disappointing and I feel should and could have been made into more of a tribute to all the great actors that had appeared in the show.
@Mike Allen i still don't see what the characters of billy n his wife got to do with the show.. they don't connect or interract with the 3 main characters.. i prefer to watch untie wainright more than these two. Untie is hillarious. She can sell anything..
British t.v. did not make 26 episodes a season like American t.v. Most British shows made a maximum of 10 episodes a season. It is still like that now. Mostly 4-8 episodes for a season. That's why there were only 200 something episodes in 37 years.
Oh so did I Brian Wilde was always my favorite too the three were the perfect trio Bill Peter & Brian (although Frank Thornton wasn’t all that bad a character)
even michael aldridge was like fish out of water he was crap so was russ abbot even frank thornton did not work for me compo foggy and cleggy were the best when bill died the should have called it a day
