Roy Clarke In Profile
Roy Clarke, OBE
Surely Britain's most prolific comedy script writer with a list of works that includes some of Britain's best loved sitcoms.
We interviewed Roy Clarke back in 2014. He sites fellow comedy w...
Last Of The Summer Wine – Part One
Last Of The Summer Wine - The Michael Bates Years
Last of The Summer Wine made it’s debut in January 1973 as an episode of the long running Comedy Playhouse series. It was commissioned almost immediately fo...
British Classic Comedy Talk To Roy Clarke
Celebrating sixty years of the great British sitcom, we talk to Roy Clarke about his classic sitcoms and catch up with Still Open All Hours.
The Misfit (1970-71)
Last Of The Summer Wine (1973 - 2010)
Oh No...
Last Of The Summer Wine – Pt 2
The Brian Wilde Years - Part One, 1976 - 1985
In Tribute To Peter Sallis 1921 - 2017
Perhaps the most popular time in the long runing sitcom's time was the first tenure of Brian Wilde.
After ther departu...
Transportation Problems For Foggy And Co…
Last Of The Summer Wine - Getting Sam Home, 1983
In 1983, Last Of The Summer Wine had been running for ten years. Writer Roy Clarke had written a novelisation of the show.
Bill Owen suggested to returni...
Enter Seymour
Last Of The Summer Wine, The Michael Aldridge Years, 1986 - 1990
This year 2016 sees so many things to mark. For this post we turn our attention to Britain's longest running sitcom, we reach New Year's Day 19...
New Faces And Old Hands
Last Of The Summer Wine - The Next Generation, 2008
We left the story in 2008 with the entry of a new character Hobbo played by Russ Abbott, he would form a new trio of central characters with Entwhistle (Burt...