last of the summer wine

[wesw]

any other fans out there?

[MajGenl.Meade]

For the early series, yes.

[Long Run]

Trade in the Vinho Verde for some red?

[wesw]

yeah the earlier the better, but I like them all.

[Gob]

Me too, it was good initially, but jumped the shark after about series 3.

[wesw]

it reminds me of my grandparents and great grandparents. really all the old people around here when I was a kid. and the trios travels remind me of my childhood and the freedom we kids used to have without worry

[wesw]

speaking of great grandmothers.....

see avatar

[oldr_n_wsr]

any other fans out there?

Never heard of it. or if i did, i don't remember

I dio remember this

my childhood and the freedom we kids used to have without worry

Coming home from school, getting on my bike and being "gone" til dinner time (6pm sharp). Playing pickup baseball or stickball. Exploring the sump (water recharge basin), just riding around with other kids. Playing Spud, hide and go seek, tag, ring-o-levio, war. On the weekends I would bike 5 miles to my cousins house and we would go to the "base" (mitchel field by the colesium) and go bow hunting or head south to hempstead lake and fish. Scour the woods for snakes. Can't do those thing anymore.

[Big RR]

Can't do those thing anymore.

Getting too old?

[Long Run]

Last Tango in Halifax is quite good. Two seasons in and BBC is doing a third.

[Gob]

Jim, Joe and Meade, that was what they were called wasn't it?

[MajGenl.Meade]

"X Image"? No, I don't think so. That was Prince wasn't it?

[rubato]

The last summer whine in San Francisco:

"Do we HAVE to go to the Russian river again?"


yrs,
rubato

[Lord Jim]

As regular readers of this space know I'm a huge fan of classic britcoms (especially those made from the late 70s through the 90s) and have posted extensively about them...I would venture to guess that I have probably seen more British comedy series than any other non-Brit on this board...

But I never really warmed to this one; the humor was just a little too gentle and low key for my taste...

For a British comedy about old folks, I much prefer Waiting For God...

[wesw]

I don t know jim, I may give you a run for your money....

fools and horses is a great one, along with, open all hours

nurse Gladys Emmanuel.... va va voom!

[rubato]

The last summer whine in Santa Cruz: "the students are back at UCSC!"


yrs,
rubato

*The period between labor day and campus opening is known as the 'golden period' when the locals have the town more or less to ourselves. Most tourists are gone and the students have not flooded back. You can tell they've moved in when the number of BMWs doubles.

[Lord Jim]

I don t know jim, I may give you a run for your money....

Okay Wes, well check this out:

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1248&p=15035&hilit= ... ter#p15035

and tell me if you still think so...

(To that list you can add the shows mentioned earlier in the thread)

Here's a clip from Only Fools and Horses I posted a little while back, (may have been before you got here)




You can find a few complete episodes of the show on youtube, (including the first episode)

ETA:

I really wish that BBC America would start running some of those classic Britcoms...(they used to do so occasionally) it would make a nice change of pace from 20,000 episodes of Top Gear...

[wesw]

I watched the whole series on dvd. my better half is a librarian, she can find anything

[wesw]

... I like yes minister too, the local pbs station runs an episode occasionally

[wesw]

all creatures great and small, that s another good series