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Last of the Summer Wine (TV Series 1973–2010) - IMDb

Last of the Summer Wine (TV Series 1973–2010) ⭐ 7.1 | Comedy

30m | TV-PG

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Bummed that Roy Clarke never was a proper novelist, because both The 17 Jewelled Shockproof Swiss-Made Bomb and The Events at Black Tor (both original radio dramas, thriller-comedy and thriller-supernatural drama respectively) have become true comfort media to me, and I so would read novels by him.

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Open All Hours.

BBC: 4 Series. 26 Episodes. Written by Roy Clarke;

Ronnie Barker (Albert Arkwright) David Jason (Granville) Lynda Baron. (Nurse Gladys Emmanuel.) 

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Roy Clarke: Classic BBC Radio Thrillers : BBC Radio 4 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Two vintage BBC Radio thrillers, written by award-winning writer Roy Clarke and directed by Alan Ayckbourn.Acclaimed radio and TV dramatist Roy Clarke is well...

Roy Clarke: Classic BBC Radio Thrillers : BBC Radio 4 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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Open All Hours (Full TV Series) 1976 - 1985

A British television sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke for the BBC. It ran for 26 episodes in four series, which premiered in 1976, 1981, 1982 and 1985. The programme developed from a television pilot broadcast in Ronnie Barker's comedy anthology series, Seven of One (1973). Open All Hours ranked eighth in the 2004 Britain's Best Sitcom poll. The setting is a small grocer's shop in Balby, a suburb of Doncaster in South Yorkshire. The owner, Arkwright (Ronnie Barker), is a middle-aged miser with a stammer and a knack for selling. His nephew Granville (David Jason) is his put-upon errand boy, who blames his work schedule for his lacklustre social life. Across the road lives Nurse Gladys Emmanuel (Lynda Baron), occupied by her professional rounds, and her elderly mother. Arkwright longs to marry Gladys, but she resists his persistent pressures. In later episodes, it is explained that the two have been engaged for many years but have been unable to go through with a wedding due to the advanced age of her mother, for whom she cares at home. Though short-tempered with Arkwright, she is concerned for his and Granville's welfare. The shop is based on a little store called L E Riddiford in Thornbury, Gloucestershire. Roy Clarke visited this small town whilst travelling and was said to have fallen in love with the shop layout and its owner, Len Riddiford. This shop is referenced in numerous Open All Hours episodes by Arkwright. Ronnie Barker proposed that Arkwright should have a stammer, and this was written into the character. Barker also co-created the premise of the dangerous till. In the series, the shop's antiquated till has a drawer that tends to snap shut suddenly. Even though this terrifies Granville and Arkwright, Arkwright refuses to replace the till due to the cost of a replacement, and because he believes it discourages burglars. The exterior shots were recorded on Lister Avenue in Balby, a suburb of Doncaster; South Yorkshire. The shop itself is a hairdresser's salon, which closed for a Summer break during each year the series was being filmed by the BBC. The same location is used for the sequel series Still Open All Hours. The pilot episode (featured in the series Seven of One) used a shop front on the western intersection of Drayton Avenue and Manor Road in Ealing, London for exterior filming. The show's theme tune is a song called "Alice, Where Art Thou?", written by Joseph Ascher. It was arranged for a brass band and performed by Max Harris, who also wrote the incidental music for the programme.

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Keeping Up Appearances to make a comeback

Keeping Up Appearances to make a comeback

The hit 90’s sitcom ‘Keeping Up Appearances’ is set to make a sensational comeback, but with a twist. The show that saw impossible snob, Hyacinth Bucket, who insisted her surname be pronounced ‘Bouquet’ try to remove herself from her family as she tried to climb the social ladder, will make a return to our TV screens after 20 years away. The show will focus on the teenage years of Hyacinth, but…

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Open All Hours (1976-1985)

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NICK NOLTE IN LAST OF THE SUMMER WINE

HOLMEFIRTH - Last of the Summer Wine news keeps on coming following the teaser posters for Robert Redford's new film, issued last week. The latest shows the legendary Nick Nolte in the role of Norman Clegg, a part made famous by Peter Sallis in the original Roy Clarke BBC sitcom.  Nolte - a notoriously difficult actor - was almost kicked off the film when he repeatedly punched Robert Redford during their scenes together. An insider on set told the Studio Exec exclusively:

He said that it was all part of his method but in actual fact Nolte kept laughing every time he did and kept muttering something about hating Downhill Racer. It turned out Nolte had wanted to do a film called Slalom, but the release of Redford's skiing movie essentially torpedoed Nolte's project.

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