I wonder just how much of this brilliant series the BBC have retained in their archives. I have seen a great many episodes over the years. That the series is as old as me is quite surprising. Another surprise, of course, is that most of the leading actors are from SE England, but speak in the series with Yorkshire accents even I as a Yorkshireman find highly convincing. The idea of three (although not always the same three) old men still yearning for that buzz of youth, and, to all intents and purposes, actually getting it, may seem a strange concept for comedy, but Roy Clarke has pulled off a master stroke here. I am not sure the later episodes are as good, without Bill Owen.
Review of Last of the Summer Wine
