When Last of the Summer Wine finally ceased production, it had up 32 series, numerous Christmas specials and a 1988 prequel, First of the Summer Wine, with the whole canon being written by just one man: Roy Clarke. Created as a submission for the BBC's Comedy Playhouse in 1973, before the year was up, a full series had hit our screens. A whimsical comedy with a penchant for light philosophy and full-on slapstick, that first run followed the misadventures of three elderly friends tramping around the Yorkshire countryside (the town of Holmfirth and its surroundings). The upper, middle and lowers classes writ large: they were Former Royal Signals Sergeant and notional gang leader Cyril Blamire; flat cap-wearing voice-of-reason Norman 'Cleggy' Clegg and scruffy hormone-riddled layabout Compo Simonite. In a world where men are just over-grown kids, the authority figures come in the shape of some of TV's most formidable women. There's the physically intimidating tea shop owner Ivy, but even she pales in comparison to Nora Batty. With her wrinkled stockings and hair curlers, she's both a bogeyman figure curtailing the trio's fun and became an unlikely lust object for Compo.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/l/lastofthesummerw_7774090.shtml
Episode # 30
Foggy has a vision to put a flag in a prominent place on the great British landscape - but first he needs a flag and a flagpole.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 31
Foggy collects his flag and achieves his vision.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 32
Sid and Wally are seen disappearing into the woods. Why are their wives worried?
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Length : 28 min
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Episode # 33
Anyone criticising Yorkshire is rousing old Yorkshire ghosts - Clegg, for one, is very superstitious...
Friday, May 25, 2012
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 3
Blamire decides it's time Compo went to church.
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 204
Clegg and Truly collect Bab's music from the station.
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 34
Compo contemplates the sport of hang-gliding. Nora gets Wally to take her out for a meal.
Monday, May 28, 2012
Length : 28 min
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Episode # 35
Compo gets his hang-glider, courtesy of Wally Batty.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Length : 28 min
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Episode # 36
After a close encounter with an emergency, Foggy decides to go into the rescue business.
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 37
Compo enters a car race to impress Nora. After all, Wesley Pegden's (Gordon Wharmby) old banger never starts ? or does it?
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Length : 30 min
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Episode # 38
Foggy decides there is money to be made in walking people's pets.
Friday, June 01, 2012
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 205
Truly and Clegg find themselves searching for Tom's missing, untalented protogee, Babs.
Sunday, June 03, 2012
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 39
Foggy gets Compo and Clegg to each design a bicycle to suit their personalities.
Monday, June 04, 2012
Length : 30 min
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Episode # 40
Compo wants his photograph taken ? in Nora Batty's bedroom!
Tuesday, June 05, 2012
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 41
When Clegg buys a metal detector, our heroes head off to the hills to look for treasure.
Wednesday, June 06, 2012
Length : 27 min
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Episode # 42
Compo buys a wet suit from Sid and decides to take up water ski-ing.
Thursday, June 07, 2012
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 43
Compo convinces a barmaid that Foggy is an eccentric millionaire.
Friday, June 08, 2012
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 206
Tom causes chaos when he leaves something special in Barry's garage.
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 44
Wally is fed up with Nora's constant nagging so Compo, Clegg and Foggy devise a plan to get him out of the house for a few hours.
Monday, June 11, 2012
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 45
Foggy discovers there is money to be made selling food to the desperate inhabitants of a local health farm.
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Length : 28 min
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Episode # 46
Ludovic has bought a new van and, to cheer him up, Clegg is given the job of test-driving it
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Length : 30 min
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Episode # 47
Foggy enlists Compo and Clegg to help out at the church concert.
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Length : 27 min
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Episode # 48
Trying to camouflage himself, Foggy upsets a group of cyclists. Compo also upsets someone - over the state of his trousers.
Friday, June 15, 2012
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 207
Howard panics when Pearl asks him why one of his undergarments is missing.
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 49
Wesley has discovered an old racing car. Compo, Clegg and Foggy offer to help him transport it back to his shed, not reckoning on its condition.
Monday, June 18, 2012
Length : 30 min
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Episode # 50
Compo, Clegg and Foggy attempt to settle a question involving the size of Nora Batty's feet.
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Length : 30 min
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Episode # 51
An old, discarded matress prompts Foggy to institute the Dewhurst Campaign for a Cleaner Countryside. One of his first recruits is an innocent insurance salesman in a Mini.
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Length : 30 min
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Episode # 52
Encouraged by Foggy and Clegg, Compo sets out to impress Nora Batty by becoming daredevil motorcycle rider 'The Phantom'.
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Length : 30 min
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Episode # 53
The complete inability of Digby to catch a simple-brained animal is beyond the comprehension of Foggy. With the assistance of Compo and Clegg, Foggy sets out to show the donkey who is the boss.
Friday, June 22, 2012
Length : 31 min
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Episode # 208
When Pearl finds a long blonde hair on Howard, he calls on his friends to help him establish how such a thing could possibly happen.
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 54
In an effort to give Nora Batty a much-needed interest in life, Compo surprises everyone by announcing that he will be running for her in the forthcoming marathon.
Monday, June 25, 2012
Length : 30 min
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Episode # 55
Ivy has to leave the caf# for the afternoon. But are Compo, Clegg and Foggy Dewhurst the wisest people to leave in charge?
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 56
Foggy has left Holmfirth to run an egg-painting business in Bridlington, but Compo and Clegg have found a wonderful new friend in Seymour Utterthwaite (Michael Aldridge), a former headmaster and amateur inventor. But when Seymour's new invention has to be road- and field-tested, their initial interest is dimmed.
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Length : 33 min
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Episode # 57
In Seymour's opinion, what Compo urgently needs is some tough physical exercise to get himself back into peak condition, and there is no better way of achieving this than the ideal combination of Compo, a canal and a canoe.
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Length : 28 min
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Episode # 58
Compo discovers (too late) that the little black ball he has just tossed into Seymour's pond is of great sentimental value to him. But Seymour is more interested in his new voice-activated electronic door-lock.
Friday, June 29, 2012
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 4
A day out at a stately home with Compo's nephew and family.
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Length : 27 min
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01:32 PM
Episode # 29
Foggy takes Compo and Clegg on a nostalgic trip to the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway.
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Monday, May 21, 2012
Length : 29 min
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07:00 PM
Episode # 203
Compo's son, Tom, sparks chaos when he tries to find a spare exhaust pipe for his van
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Sunday, May 20, 2012
Length : 29 min
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01:34 PM
Episode # 28
'Laugh-a-minute' Amos Hames may have toured Europe in the 1940s, but what is he doing here at Holmfirth now? It all seems rather suspicious?
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Friday, May 18, 2012
Length : 28 min
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01:31 PM
Episode # 27
Deciding that the deterioration of the British vegetable is due to a lack of good honest muck (manure), our heroes go in search of good fresh vegetables and encounter a giant carrot.
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
Length : 29 min
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01:32 PM
Episode # 26
Foggy visits a lady friend in Wales, but what will happen when the others arrive?
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Length : 29 min
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01:32 PM
Episode # 25
Some people talk to trees, but Clegg is serenading flowers in the caf#.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Length : 30 min
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01:32 PM
Episode # 24
Holmfirth is organizing its own celebrations for the Queen's Silver Jubilee, and Foggy decides the trio should have their own float.
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Monday, May 14, 2012
Length : 29 min
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07:00 PM
Episode # 202
Clegg and Truly learn that Compo has a son who is about to pay his father a visit. (169)
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Sunday, May 13, 2012
Length : 29 min
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01:33 PM
Episode # 23
Sid at the caf# is trying to install a bell, but its advanced technology is beyond Compo, Clegg and Foggy.
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Friday, May 11, 2012
Length : 28 min
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01:30 PM
Episode # 22
Compo's ferret has escaped and taken up residence at Nora Batty's. Can Wally get it back safely?
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
Length : 29 min
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01:32 PM
Episode # 21
Foggy decides Compo and Clegg are not as fit as they should be. The path back to physical fitness is isometrics-or is it?
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Wednesday, May 09, 2012
Length : 29 min
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01:30 PM
Episode # 20
It is Gordon's wedding day, but how many comings and goings under the threat of Big Malcolm can the assembled guests stand?
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012
Length : 29 min
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01:31 PM
Episode # 19
Foggy decides football is too dangerous, so he goes back to playing golf - even though his clubs have not seen the light of day for years.
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Monday, May 07, 2012
Length : 29 min
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07:00 PM
Episode # 201
Clegg and Truly brace themselves for their saddest moment, Compo's funeral - while Howard is torn between three demanding ladies. (168)
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Sunday, May 06, 2012
Length : 28 min
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01:34 PM
Episode # 18
Despite being on holiday, Compo's nephew persists in being miserable. What can be done to cheer him up?
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Friday, May 04, 2012
Length : 29 min
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01:32 PM
Episode # 17
The lads are on a holiday break to Scarborough, but what is the secret of Compo's cardboard box?
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Thursday, May 03, 2012
Length : 29 min
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01:32 PM
Episode # 16
Stuart has a 'click' in his knee. Has anyone else got one?
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Wednesday, May 02, 2012
Length : 29 min
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01:32 PM
Episode # 15
Compo and Clegg are minus one playmate now that Blamire has gone, but things soon look up when Foggy Dewhurst (Brian Wilde) arrives on the scene and makes his presence felt.
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Tuesday, May 01, 2012
Length : 30 min
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01:31 PM
Episode # 14
Compo takes up motorcycling, so look out Barry Sheene -- and the rest of Homfirth!
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Monday, April 30, 2012
Length : 27 min
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06:59 PM
Episode # 200
While preparations are being made for Compo's funeral, Nora finds a letter he has written. (167)
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Sunday, April 29, 2012
Length : 28 min
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01:33 PM
Episode # 13
An expedition in the jungles of Yorkshire by canoe ? if our elderly heroes can catch it! (
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Friday, April 27, 2012
Length : 29 min
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01:32 PM
Episode # 12
Can Mouse be conned into buying a round? It may take more than second sight.
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Thursday, April 26, 2012
Length : 29 min
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01:30 PM
Episode # 11
When Wally Batty (Joe Gladwin) decides to leave home, Compo seizes the opporunity to woo and win the woman he loves. Easier said than done, of course, where Nora is concerned.
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Length : 29 min
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01:30 PM
Episode # 10
A trio of salesmen is Blamire's latest idea, but Shinyglow cleaner turns out not to be all it is meant to be.
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Length : 29 min
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01:32 PM
Episode # 9
Neighbour Gloria Is emigrating to Australia. A party is organized to give her a good send-off ? but where can they find a piano?
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Monday, April 23, 2012
Length : 29 min
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07:00 PM
Episode # 199
When Nora forsakes her wrinkled stockings for black tights, the results are catastrophic. (166)
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Sunday, April 22, 2012
Length : 29 min
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01:32 PM
Episode # 8
Clegg's bike attacks him where it hurts, so he decides it should be returned to where he bought it ? 30 years ago.
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Friday, April 20, 2012
Length : 29 min
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01:33 PM
Episode # 7
When Blamire takes up photography, no one can hide from his demon lens.
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Thursday, April 19, 2012
Length : 27 min
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01:31 PM
Episode # 6
So they can get around more easily, the trio buys a car from a man named Walter who attempted to teach a dog how to ride a bicycle. But Norman Clegg is the only one of the trio that has a driver's license, and the test drive is unsuccessful when the clunker's brakes fail. This episode, also known as "The New Mobile Trio," was written by Roy Clarke and produced and directed by James Gilbert.
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Length : 27 min
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01:32 PM
Episode # 5
If Nora won't have Compo, what are his chances with a thrice-widowed woman from Bradford?
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Length : 29 min
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01:33 PM
Episode # 4
A day out at a stately home with Compo's nephew and family.
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Monday, April 16, 2012
Length : 27 min
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07:00 PM
Episode # 198
Comedy series. Compo, Clegg and Truly happen upon a couple whose car has got stuck in a remote field. (165)
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Sunday, April 15, 2012
Length : 29 min
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10:00 AM
Episode # 1
Taking flowers to his wife's grave, Clegg (Peter Sallis) stops to chat with the vicar. Blamire (Michael Bates) and Compo (Bill Owen) meet up with him to reminisce about life, death and tiddlers.
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Saturday, April 14, 2012
Length : 30 min
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01:33 PM
Episode # 3
Blamire decides it's time Compo went to church.
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Friday, April 13, 2012
Length : 29 min
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01:31 PM
Episode # 2
A visit to the barbers-but Compo's key is missing. It may be in the library-but where is the librarian?
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Thursday, April 12, 2012
Length : 30 min
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01:31 PM
Episode # 1
Taking flowers to his wife's grave, Clegg (Peter Sallis) stops to chat with the vicar. Blamire (Michael Bates) and Compo (Bill Owen) meet up with him to reminisce about life, death and tiddlers.
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Length : 30 min
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01:32 PM
Episode # 927
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Length : 29 min
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01:31 PM
Episode # 926
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Monday, April 09, 2012
Length : 29 min
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07:00 PM
Episode # 197
Clegg knows there is trouble ahead when Howard tells him to expect a postal delivery that he doesn't want Pearl to know about. (164)
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Sunday, April 08, 2012
Length : 29 min
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01:31 PM
Episode # 925
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Friday, April 06, 2012
Length : 29 min
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01:30 PM
Episode # 924
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Thursday, April 05, 2012
Length : 29 min
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01:32 PM
Episode # 923
PC Walsh informs PC Cooper that the sergeant is on their back - he's complaining about the amount of crumbs they're leaving in the car. Pearl throws Howard out, so Hobbo suggests putting cucumbers on his eyes to help with the stress. Howard goes to Clegg's for sympathy but it falls on deaf ears.
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Wednesday, April 04, 2012
Length : 29 min
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01:32 PM
Episode # 922
Hobbo enlists the services of his 'team' to help Toby win back the affections of his ex-wife. Glenda decides to make it her mission to find Morton a woman. Howard sneaks into the library to tell Marina there's a problem with their bike ride that afternoon - Pearl is going out too. Meanwhile, PCs Cooper and Walsh try out a new in-car fryer.
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Tuesday, April 03, 2012
Length : 29 min
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01:29 PM
Episode # 921
GOODNIGHT SWEET FERRET Pearl (Juliette Kaplan) tells Nelly (June Whitfield) that she is quite certain that Howard (Robert Fyfe) will follow form and completely forget her birthday. Marina (Jean Fergusson) is also interested to know if he has remembered, as he forgot hers last week. Meanwhile, Glenda (Sarah Thomas) is having to convince Barry (Mike Grady) that he won?t look foolish wearing a top hat and tails at a friend?s wedding. When Hobbo hears that an old pal, Heptonstall (Peter Baldwin) is confined to bed with a bad leg and is looking for volunteers, he says he need look no further. He takes his team; Alvin (Brian Murphy) and Entwistle (Burt Kwouk), to see the invalid, whom they find is sleeping in his garden shed. Heptonstall reveals that he wants their help in burying Christine - a loved one - in the church cemetery. They are relieved when the deceased turns out to be a furry creature, and agree to take it out of it?s temporary resting place (in a potato waffle box in a deep freezer) and put it in a decent box for burial. At his home, Hobbo and his team respectfully place the ferret in a fancy chocolate box and retreat to the rear garden to get a shovel. Unfortunately, Howard has remembered Pearl?s birthday and, not having bought her anything, rushes into Hobbo?s house for help. There is nobody about, but, seeing the chocolate box, he sees salvation and borrows it to give to Pearl. The result is predictable, but there is little damage to the box which flies though the air at Howard. At the church, P.C.?s Cooper and Walsh (Ken Kitson and Louis Emerick) see the burial team climbing over the wall carrying the chocolate box and a shovel. They immediately suspect that some voodoo ritual involving dead bodies is about to take place. Hobbo and his team find that they have happened upon a wedding with all the guests assembled outside. Two of the guests are Glenda and Barry, who is now dressed in his top hat and tails. The men see the two policemen climbing over the wall, and hear them say they are looking for someone carrying a chocolate box. Barry is confused when Hobbo appears and hands him the box to hold for a moment. Barry is even more confused when the bride (Bree Martin) ? a lady of generous proportions with a liking for chocolates - sees the box and assumes that it is a gift for her. She settles down to open the box. The policemen are searching the church grounds when they hear a horrific scream. The box comes flying through the air again and hits the terrified policemen. Hobbo quickly convinces the policemen that only a voodoo ritual can save them from evil spirits. In no time at all, they have dug a hole and formally buried Christine to Hobbo?s amusement and satisfaction of Old Heptonstall.
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Monday, April 02, 2012
Length : 29 min
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07:00 PM
Episode # 196
The telltale signs of Barry's chivalrous rescue of Marina cause marital strife. (163)
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Sunday, April 01, 2012
Length : 29 min
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