The Magnificent Evans
The Magnificent Evans - 1984
"There's no point opening the curtains if there's nothing in the parlour"The Magnificent Evans is largely based on an earlier entry in the Comedy Playhouse series, also from th...
Roy Clarke At 90
Roy Clarke, What A Legacy!
As we approach the ten years since Last Of The Summer Wine left our screens, it's worth remembering that creator and scriptwriter Roy Clarke turned 90 this year.In a writing care...
Mann’s Best Friends
Mann's Best Friends, 1985
Coming from the pen of Last Of The Summer Wine comes this six part sitcom.Despite a strong cast Mann's Best Friends only managed one series.
Summary
When Henry Mann inherits The...
Last Of The Summer Wine – Enter Seymour
Last Of The Summer Wine, The Michael Aldridge Years, 1986 - 1990
This year 2020 sees the tenth anniversary of the final episode of Last Of The Summer Wine.For this post we are looking at the Michael Aldrid...
Last Of The Summer Wine – Comedy Playhouse Pilot
Last Of The Summer Wine - Of Funerals And Fish - 1973
It's 10 years since this long running sitcom left our screens and as we get towards that date we'll be publishing a series of Last Of The Summer Wine posts...
Last Of The Summer Wine – Life After Compo
Has It Really Been 20 Years?
It's now 2020 and twenty years have passed since the passing of one of comedy's great characters: Compo.This post deals with how the show moved on after the loss of it's centra...
Last Of The Summer Wine – Christmas – 1979
Last Of The Summer Wine - "And A Dewhurst Up A Fir Tree"
The second Last Of The Summer Wine Christmas Special came after the end of series five which would be the last full series until 1982, another Christmas...
Open All Hours
Open All Hours, 1976
It's the one with the Nurse and a grasping grocerA true classic sitcom. Starting out as the opening episode of the Seven Of One series in 1973, Open All Hours ran for twenty six epis...
Potter
Potter, 1979
This largely forgotten classic from the pen of Roy Clarke, ran for three series between 1979 and 1983, Potter was Arthur Lowe’s last work, he died in 1982.As plans for a third series were so a...
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...