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.
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Episode # 107
Seymour offers the trio's services to help Jack Harry and his weeping wife to maneuver his caravan into his drive. (74)
Wednesday, May 01, 2013
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 108
Clegg could be the answer to a lonely widow's prayer! meanwhile, who is kissing whom? (75)
Thursday, May 02, 2013
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 109
How do you get a bale of hay back up the hill after you have been the cause of it rolling down? (76)
Friday, May 03, 2013
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 602
Clegg has bet an old friend that you can still see the clock in the village over the hills from the top of a certain tree. Unwisely, he sets out to prove that he was right, but gets stuck up the tree and can't get down. Meanwhile, Nora Batty, Ivy, Pearl and Glenda buy a slightly used cooker from Auntie Wainwright for the Church hall. Smiler and Tom (Tom Owen) are charged with delivering the cooker and soon find that its weight makes the handcart uncontrollable - especially on hills, when it passes a police car.
Sunday, May 05, 2013
Length : 29 min
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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.
Monday, May 06, 2013
Length : 30 min
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Episode # 2
A visit to the barbers-but Compo's key is missing. It may be in the library-but where is the librarian?
Tuesday, May 07, 2013
Length : 30 min
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Episode # 3
Blamire decides it's time Compo went to church.
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 4
A day out at a stately home with Compo's nephew and family. This episode is sometimes called "Pate and Chips."
Thursday, May 09, 2013
Length : 27 min
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Episode # 5
If Nora won't have Compo, what are his chances with a thrice-widowed woman from Bradford?
Friday, May 10, 2013
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 603
Clegg has bet an old friend that you can still see the clock in the village over the hills from the top of a certain tree. Unwisely, he sets out to prove that he was right, but gets stuck up the tree and can't get down. Meanwhile, Nora Batty, Ivy, Pearl and Glenda buy a slightly used cooker from Auntie Wainwright for the Church hall. Smiler and Tom (Tom Owen) are charged with delivering the cooker and soon find that its weight makes the handcart uncontrollable - especially on hills, when it passes a police car.
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Length : 29 min
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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.
Monday, May 13, 2013
Length : 27 min
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Episode # 7
When Blamire takes up photography, no one can hide from his demon lens.
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Length : 27 min
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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.
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Length : 29 min
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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?
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Length : 29 min
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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.
Friday, May 17, 2013
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 604
Howard and Pearl are very concerned when Clegg doesn't answer his door - is he all right? Truly and Billy arrive and find that Clegg is merely writing-up his diaries and doesn't want to be disturbed. Smiler is pining for Hermione, a lost love and Alvin is upsetting Nora Batty by complaining about the depressing drabness of her washing.
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Length : 29 min
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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.
Monday, May 20, 2013
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 12
Can Mouse be conned into buying a round? It may take more than second sight.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 13
An expedition in the jungles of Yorkshire by canoe ? if our elderly heroes can catch it! (
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 14
Compo takes up motorcycling, so look out Barry Sheene -- and the rest of Homfirth!
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Length : 27 min
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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.
Friday, May 24, 2013
Length : 30 min
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Episode # 605
The day starts with Clegg reading in the local paper that a statue of some civic dignitary has been unveiled. Truly, Alvin, and Billy remember when they were at school and would hold their breath as long as possible to see who could stay still the longest. They decide to do this, and create some incredulous interest for two passing walkers.
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Length : 28 min
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Episode # 16
Stuart has a 'click' in his knee. Has anyone else got one?
Monday, May 27, 2013
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 17
The lads are on a holiday break to Scarborough, but what is the secret of Compo's cardboard box?
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 18
Despite being on holiday, Compo's nephew persists in being miserable. What can be done to cheer him up?
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Length : 29 min
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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.
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Length : 29 min
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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?
Friday, May 31, 2013
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 606
Cycling down a hillside for a short-cut, Clegg ends up with a fractured foot. Truly decides that the accident could have been avoided if they had used studded tyres, and promptly puts in hand a practical demonstration of his theory.
Sunday, June 02, 2013
Length : 29 min
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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?
Monday, June 03, 2013
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 22
Compo's ferret has escaped and taken up residence at Nora Batty's. Can Wally get it back safely?
Tuesday, June 04, 2013
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 23
Sid at the caf# is trying to install a bell, but its advanced technology is beyond Compo, Clegg and Foggy.
Wednesday, June 05, 2013
Length : 28 min
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Episode # 24
Holmfirth is organizing its own celebrations for the Queen's Silver Jubilee, and Foggy decides the trio should have their own float.
Thursday, June 06, 2013
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 25
Some people talk to trees, but Clegg is serenading flowers in the caf#.
Friday, June 07, 2013
Length : 30 min
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Episode # 607
Smiler has met a woman who - forgetting to leave her address - told him to look her up sometime. Truly, Alvin and Billy go on the trail to track her down. With the help of Nora Batty and Ivy they find out that the woman lived at Jamieson Street. And Entwistle finds out that everyone in Jamieson Street was re-housed to Pepworth Street. So they go knocking on doors. Unfortunately, the first door has a rather ugly dog and the enquiries come to a sudden end.
Sunday, June 09, 2013
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 26
Foggy visits a lady friend in Wales, but what will happen when the others arrive?
Monday, June 10, 2013
Length : 29 min
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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.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Length : 29 min
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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?
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Length : 28 min
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Episode # 29
Foggy takes Compo and Clegg on a nostalgic trip to the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway.
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Length : 29 min
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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.
Friday, June 14, 2013
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 608
Truly leads the enquiries into the whereabouts of a Co-op Manager who was a tyrant when Clegg worked there. With the help of Alvin and Billy, their enquiries lead them to Billy Pilsworth, the father of an ex-boyfriend of Marina, who reveals that his son, Ronnie, went off to Australia. Ultimately, Clegg finds out that the Co-op Manager lost his life in the war and was commended for bravery.
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 31
Foggy collects his flag and achieves his vision.
Monday, June 17, 2013
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 32
Sid and Wally are seen disappearing into the woods. Why are their wives worried?
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Length : 28 min
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Episode # 33
Anyone criticising Yorkshire is rousing old Yorkshire ghosts - Clegg, for one, is very superstitious...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
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.
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Length : 28 min
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Episode # 35
Compo gets his hang-glider, courtesy of Wally Batty.
Friday, June 21, 2013
Length : 28 min
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Episode # 609
Overcome by the smell of a real bargain, Auntie Wainwright has made a successful bid at the auction rooms. Unfortunately she doesn't know what it is, and when she finds out, she doesn't know what to do with it.
Sunday, June 23, 2013
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 36
After a close encounter with an emergency, Foggy decides to go into the rescue business.
Monday, June 24, 2013
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?
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Length : 30 min
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Episode # 38
Foggy decides there is money to be made in walking people's pets.
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 39
Foggy gets Compo and Clegg to each design a bicycle to suit their personalities.
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Length : 30 min
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Episode # 40
Compo wants his photograph taken ? in Nora Batty's bedroom!
Friday, June 28, 2013
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 610
Clegg convinces the gullible Howard that, contrary to his belief, he was left on a doorstep as a baby. While Howard tries to come to terms with this, Alvin is coming to terms with the fact that his newly-made kite won't fly.
Sunday, June 30, 2013
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.
Monday, July 01, 2013
Length : 27 min
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Episode # 42
Compo buys a wet suit from Sid and decides to take up water ski-ing.
Tuesday, July 02, 2013
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 43
Compo convinces a barmaid that Foggy is an eccentric millionaire.
Wednesday, July 03, 2013
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.
Thursday, July 04, 2013
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.
Friday, July 05, 2013
Length : 28 min
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Episode # 701
Resting on the bank of the river, Clegg, Truly, Billy and Alvin are intrigued by a bottle containing a note that floats past them. With the help of Entwistle and his truck, they track the bottle on its course downstream, making various attempts to catch it on the way. Meanwhile, Auntie Wainwright rewards Smiler for unearthing an old rusting suit of armour, by letting him exercise it to rid it of squeaks.
Sunday, July 07, 2013
Length : 29 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
Monday, July 08, 2013
Length : 30 min
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Episode # 47
Foggy enlists Compo and Clegg to help out at the church concert.
Tuesday, July 09, 2013
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.
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
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.
Thursday, July 11, 2013
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.
Friday, July 12, 2013
Length : 30 min
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Episode # 702
There is trouble at the Clegg household. Clegg has somehow allowed his cousin Aubrey (Col Farrell) to stay with him, and has found, to his cost, that the man is coming between him and his friends.
Sunday, July 14, 2013
Length : 29 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.
Monday, July 15, 2013
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'.
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
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.
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Length : 31 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.
Thursday, July 18, 2013
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?
Friday, July 19, 2013
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 703
Barry is concerned that he may have missed the opportunity to have a mid-life crisis. Howard is imprisoned in his bedroom again, but Truly (on behalf of Clegg, Alvin and Billy) graciously accepts the challenge of springing him. Their first attempt ? pretending to be repairing Clegg's stonework ? results in Howard being caught red-handed.
Sunday, July 21, 2013
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.
Monday, July 22, 2013
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.
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
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.
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 59
Compo willingly agrees to 'road-test' Seymour's new concept of a gentleman's purse, especially as there will be real money provided in it.
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Length : 30 min
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Episode # 60
With Wesley's help and a specially made chassis, Seymour's latest invention- a car safety device - is ready for testing. But Compo, his 'Executive in charge of testing', finds it far from safe.
Friday, July 26, 2013
Length : 27 min
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Episode # 704
Alvin dresses himself up (complete with suit and bow tie) in an effort to encourage Nora Batty to do likewise and improve the tone of the area. He is none-too-enthusiastic when Billy, who scoffs at modern-day barbeques, invites himself,Truly and Clegg to an outdoor feast in a remote place.
Sunday, July 28, 2013
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 61
Compo's craving for ice-cream in remote places gives Seymour the idea that the time could be right for bringing back the old 'stop me and buy one' mobile ice-cream vendor. All that is required is a bike, a fridge, a uniform and a volunteer.
Monday, July 29, 2013
Length : 30 min
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Episode # 62
Clegg and Compo are used to the sight of Wally and Howard doing routine domestic chores under the scrutiny of their wives, but Seymour cannot accept this and decides to help them escape for a few moments of freedom.All he needs is a well-thought-out plan.
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Length : 29 min
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Episode # 63
Despite Clegg's disturbing experience with two young evangelists, Seymour decides it is time to do something worthwhile and puts his talents at the vicar's disposal. It?s rather difficult to sell tickets for the church Beatrix Potter evening, until Compo comes up with an idea which gets him scurrying.
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Length : 28 min
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