Last of the Summer Wine (TV Series) Some Enchanted Evening (1975) User Reviews

Here's Wally!

[keysam-02610 · 8/10 · 27 June 2022]

Compo is madly in love with Nora Batty. We knew that, but the idea seems to be that it ebbs and flows in strength and this is a period of him feeling stronger than usual. So he spends most of the episode apart from the other two because he's moping after Nora. Or at least , he's moping at first. But then - joy! Wally Batty has had enough and leaves to go back to his mother!

Clegg and Blamire are struggling as a duo - they realise Compo is the essential ingredient to make things work - but when they call round to see what's going on everything has changed. Compo is clean and tidy and so is his house! He's off for morning coffee with (a rather spruced up) Nora and clearly thinks he's got his feet under her table, finally.

Clegg and Blamire set out to "free" Compo, which is easier than they might have expected, as Wally just wanted a break. He never intended to leave permanently, which Compo knows!

Clegg and Blamire proceed to wind Compo up with the idea that Wally has really gone forever. The meanies! (Although quite how far Compo would have gone with Nora makes you think perhaps it's as well to have saved her)

It's a rather entertaining episode this one, because it's so different in the way Compo and Nora are portrayed. It's also nice to have it made so clear that the trio actually need each other.

While the cat's away.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 8/10 · 8 March 2023]

Compo is falling further and further in love with his wrinkly stockinged beau, Nora Batty, and when Wally moves out, Compo takes his chance, and makes a play for the woman of his dreams.

I think it's my favourite episode from Series 2, it's very funny and also super sweet and charming. It explores the often frivolous relationship between Compo and Nora, and takes it one step further. We're even treated to a smartly dressed Compo.

The snaps of Nora Batty were the highlight, she must have had so much fun filming them, the bicycle scene also very amusing.

Great that we get to see more of Wally, who isn't all that bothered about Compo's desires for his wife, we learn he's more keen on his pigeons.

The librarians were good fun once again, quite a bold move to have a gay woman in a comedy show in the 70's, men were popping up, women not quite so much.

8/10.

Some Enchanted Evening

[Prismark10 · 5/10 · 6 June 2016]

The trio used to spend a lot of time in the library and we find that Miss Probert is actually a lesbian which might explain why she thinks men are just interested in mucky thoughts. Miss Jones would rather have any man with mucky thoughts.

Compo on the other hand has designs on Nora when he finds out that Wally Batty is going to be away for a while and spruces himself up and invites Nora to his flat for supper. Blamire and Compo knowing decide to play a trick on him.

This episode allows Bill Owen to smarten himself up. People forget that he had a good career as a supporting actor in movies and he was initially regarded as too smart and middle class for Compo.

It actually is rather a romantic episode given that it features a man trying to move in with a married woman while her husband is away.