Last of the Summer Wine

We are great fans of this English comedy series and were delighted to discover that the local library have videos of all the series produced.  Starting at the beginning (of course) we will be working our way through the videos one at a time, and are now up to series two.  The antics of the three young at heart pensioners as they fill in their days coming up with daft schemes always amuse us.  We has forgotten just how disreputable scruffy old Compo was in the early series with missing teeth, although these seem to have to fixed in the later years.    Nora made her first appearance wearing the trademark wrinkled stockings enticing Compo to declare his undying passion for her.  Everyone smokes like chimneys in these early videos, which is certainly not done in modern filming.  And doesn’t philosophical Cleggy look young.  But when you realize that this TV show started way back in the 1970’s, of course the actors were so much younger and fitter then.

Series One – Last of the Summer Wine

Strangely, while we had been watching these early videos, the final series of Last of the Summer Wine has been playing on TV.  Sadly, BBC made the decision to stop production of this evergreen show with it’s world wide audience after this particular series was completed.  Roy Clarke, the writer of each and every episode, was upset that he didn’t have the chance to write a suitable finale to wind it all up with some dignity.