Of Funerals and Fish
- Episode aired Jan 4, 1973
- 30m
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7.7/10
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Pilot for BBC's Last of the Summer Wine (1973) series.Pilot for BBC's Last of the Summer Wine (1973) series.Pilot for BBC's Last of the Summer Wine (1973) series.
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- James Gilbert(uncredited)
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- TriviaThis pilot episode was originally shown as an episode of Comedy Playhouse (1961), a series of self-contained situation comedy plays.
- GoofsCompo refers to Mrs. Batty's husband Harold. In the series he is named Wally (short for Walter).
- ConnectionsFollowed by Last of the Summer Wine (1973)
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"Will there still be Wednesday's when your dead"
Here we first meet the original trio of OAP's Norman Clegg, Compo Simonite and Cyril Blaimire, along with Compo's next door neighbour Nora Batty, and cafe proprietors Sid and Ivy.
Norman Clegg's misus often gets mentioned in subsequent episodes, but here we see him taking flowers to her grave Norma Clegg.
And there are a couple of different characters, in a different location the library, the people are Mr Wainwright the head librarian and a married librarian Mrs Partridge. He is the over sexed sudo intellectual, whose principle preoccupation appears to be letching after her. While she is supposedly prim and proper, her unsatisfied yearnings are steadily simmering.
I would like to think that the show was recorded before a studio audience, rather than having a laughter track tacked on, but I wouldn't be surprised if anyone, finds some of the laughter rather off-putting.
Norman Clegg's misus often gets mentioned in subsequent episodes, but here we see him taking flowers to her grave Norma Clegg.
And there are a couple of different characters, in a different location the library, the people are Mr Wainwright the head librarian and a married librarian Mrs Partridge. He is the over sexed sudo intellectual, whose principle preoccupation appears to be letching after her. While she is supposedly prim and proper, her unsatisfied yearnings are steadily simmering.
I would like to think that the show was recorded before a studio audience, rather than having a laughter track tacked on, but I wouldn't be surprised if anyone, finds some of the laughter rather off-putting.
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- ygwerin1
- Jun 10, 2022
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