Last of the Summer Wine
by Alan J.W. Bell
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Actor: Danny O'Dea, Jean Alexander, Riky Ash, Stephen LewisDirector: Alan J.W. Bell
Brand: BFS ENT and Multimedia Limi
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 30 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-03-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BFS Entertainment
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Summary: 3 Stars
Compo (Bill Owen), Clegg (Peter Sallis), and Foggy (Brian Wilde) are the classic trio of elderly delinquents who swan about Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, unbridled from the responsibilities of marriage and employment. In short, they are three retired and widowed or unmarried chaps who have nothing better to do in their golden years than to muck about and cause trouble, much to the chagrin of the lady-folk and envy of the downtrodden husbands.
Foggy did not join the programme until series 3, so in this collection, he only appears on one disc. Still, he is the third man in what many consider the "classic trio". This collection revives the original trio from series 1 & 2: Compo, Clegg, and Blamire (Michael Bates), but they still get into lots of mischief.
Now that introductions are out of the way, tell me who organised this collection? The mind boggles when one realises where the episodes are from and how they are arranged.
Disc 1: Getting Sam Home ("feature film")
Disc 2: Last Of the Summer Wine ("feature film")
Disc 3: Forked Lightning, Who's That Dancing With Nora Batty Then?, The Changing Face Of Rural Blamire
Disc 4: Spring Fever, The New Mobile Trio, Hail Smiling Morn Or Thereabouts
"Getting Sam Home", while it is feature-length at about 90 min., is the 1983 Christmas Special following series 7. Compo, Clegg and Foggy have to sneak Sam, fresh from hospital, out of his house from under the nose of his wife Sybil, to the home of his "lady friend" Lily Bless 'er, then back again after "extenuating circumstances". Nothing says, "Christmas," more, right?
The "Last Of the Summer Wine" "feature film" is a blatantly misleading title. It is nothing more than the first three episodes of series 1 smooshed together as one. The original episode titles are: "Short Back & Palais Guide", Inventor Of the Forty Foot Ferret", and "Paté & Chips". As a result, it is quite confusing as they leap from one story arc to another. (Then again, the UK Playback release of series 1 & 2 does the very same thing. For "contractual reasons.")
Disc 4 and Disc 3 ought to be shifted round, for Disc 4 contains the second half of series 1. Disc 3 contains the first 3 of the 7 episodes of series 2.
Understand what I mean?
Oh, and one other thing. If you are only familiar with the more recent episodes of Last Of the Summer Wine (anything from the last, say 15, even 20 years), you may be in for a shock. Writer Roy Clarke was still getting a feel for the series (as were the production crew), so the humour and language (and cinematics) is a tad more crude than later stories. In fact, series 1 & 2 earned an overall rating of 12 for the first three episodes (the others are all rated PG, but remember, this is by British standards).
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