Have been watching this series since the inception.I would get home once a week to see beautiful England, and the antics of three of my favorite characters. I left Hove, UK. age 13 for the USA. Felt like I was home again every time I watched the show. There will always be an England in my heart.
I watch this every week day on my local PBS station. Tomorrow it starts all over with the pilot. It will be great to see old friends who are no longer with us.
Is it just me? I don't know why but that theme song is just so beautiful it brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it. Oh my, I just totally adore Peter Sallis...
Totally addicted to British sitcoms with their dry but highly entertaining humor. Hours would just fly watching them. Food for the heart and soul. So grateful for them. With love from Cape Town South Africa
LOTSW is my go-to happy place in the midst of all the rubbish in my life at the moment. Been watching it since Day 1. Love it so much. Who could fail to love Seymour, Smiler, Cleggy, Ivy, Sid, Foggy, Compo and all the others...especially our Nora!! xxx
I'm not so scared about turning 64. Like the character's on the show I live in a small village in Spain. My friends and I are like school boys. Thank you so much.
Wir , in Germany , sehen an jedem Silvester Abend " Dinner for one " , indem 2 von diesem staff uns köstlich amüsieren , in deutscher Sprache . I'm glad , to meet now all of them ! 🤣 Thanks all of us !
My all time favorite episode is when NB told Compo she likes a man in riding gear...I laughed so hard I cried. I adore this show...absolute genius...and the theme...the episode where the cast sang it was cool!❤❤❤❤❤🎉❤❤❤❤❤🎉
@@ammo8713 I thought Howard was a great character who did not have much luck but had a lot of sympathy from everyone (except his wife haha) Mr Fyfe the Scottish actor was in his nineties when he died
I recently purchased the whole boxset of this beautiful series (I collect boxsets) and am looking forward to watching it soon. I used my TV licence money as I don't watch the garbage they put out now. I found humour in some classic American soaps like Dynasty and Dallas also. It is there in the episodes too. Including Frasier. I was only six years old when this began. Time to catch up me thinks.
@@ladym6738 I know, they crack me up, every time, what a pair? I wish they would pull me over, l sure could have some fun, messing with their heads! 😁😁😁
@@susanfurlong2002 Gosh, not too keen on being pulled over but watching them be all law and order one minute and brilliantly bone idle the next. Never saw their wives; wonder if they could be worked into story line with ... gotta stop this and get back to work. Blessings to you and your loved ones.
When I was watching this show on PBS in the late 90s I tried to recommend it to co-workers, but they were turned off. I think some of it was because the humor was too subtle, but perhaps it was because all the main characters were so much older than we were used to in these Britcoms. Me? I love this show because it is NOT roll on the floor funny, but it is more character driven. It made me wonder if my parents would have been like this if they grew up in the U.K. BTW, for those who don't look this series up on Wikipedia: this show is the longest, continuously produced, English language sitcom to have ever run on tv. The 1st episode aired in 1970 and the last episode that WAS NOT a re-run was shown in 2007. Obviously, there were some cast changes over the years, this particular episode was in the later half of the 37 year run....I think. And having seen the pilot episode (it was on UA-cam at one point) and episodes before this one, it was funnier at the beginning. For the complainers: the laff track was a staple when this show first aired in 1970 and they probably felt they could not change the presentation in later years. And, if you are a fan of Britcoms: Frank Thornton played Captain Peacock on Are You Being Served, and the creator of this show would go on to create Keeping Up Appearances.
I grew to love this show. I am a Britcom fan from a very young age, and sometimes you have to make yourself just watch an unknown one to figure out the gist and, as you said, the subtly. That is what I love. The wiseass quips said out of the corner of a mouth when nobody is supposed to hear it. I do love this show. A bunch of old pensioners with nothing to do but avoid their fishwives and get into some kind of trouble. And the thick as a plank cops who take every opportunity to pull off the side of the road and take extended naps, and ignore the old guys causing mischief. It is funny, and relaxing, because it is not just always loud and raucous. I actually got a couple of my exes turned on to British comedy for the first time: "Just humor me and watch it for 30 minutes!" They wound up really liking "The Good Life," "Are you Being Served?" and "Fawlty Towers." I feel proud. 😂
I echo the comments made. In April of 2012 I was up on Nora Batty.com and saw that you could rent Nora's flat for a week. I called the number provided and a mate of mine, also a fan, drove me up from Norwich in June and in we went. Inside, the rooms and stairways were chockful of items that were part of an episode, and many framed photos in the stairway and on the room walls. In the kitchen, there was a life-size cardboard picture of a scowling Nora in her pini and hair pinned up, with a large broom at Port Arms. It was stunning, she was so life-like. When we heard a crowd forming up to photograph the famous blue door, with the 28, I would open the door and step out and ask if they were there to see Nora, they would all yell "yes." I would bring the cardboard Nora out on her porch and everyone would applaud and I would retreat so they could shoot all they wanted. When we were in the flat, I would repeat for each group of fans. Upstairs there was a loo. I went in to use the facility and as I dropped my pants, I was immediately startled and stood back up. Fifteen feet away was a life-size photo of Compo staring at me. It was quite funny. I never mentioned it to my mate, allowing him to have the same experience. We went to Sid's Cafe for sandwiches and a hot chocolate twice a day and drove up on the moors where the filming was done. Also, just outside of the cafe, a small rickety-looking 1920's bus would take you out to several familiar shooting sites for a 45-minute tour for 10 lbs. We did that twice while we were there. The week went quickly, mores the pity, but I have to say it was the best trip I ever had and have about 60 photographs with which I can reminisce in my home in Arizona.
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
RIP Howard. Though he has gone now, I wonder if he has managed to meet his girlfriend Marina at last or whether his wife is waiting for him with arms folded
@@susanfurlong2002 thank you. I watch DOC MARTIN and am in love with the Cornish way of life there and the houses. I read the cottages are also for hire as holiday cottages. One day I shall visit. beautiful. unspoilt . I read somewhre yorkshire is Gods country. :) not far wrong... I know these are two different areas..yorkshire and cornwall...
🤔I notice there is a running 'bow tie' joke in this series that implies the dubious nature of one so attired... this and the episode 'jaws' are two that come to mind that make negative remarks about bow ties...fascinating.
This would have been so great had they left out the laughing. Everytime the "insert of audience laughing" (when it's so obvious they're not performing in a tv studio or stage) , well you can't hear what the person talking is saying from all the laughter. I really wanted to watch it, but the forced laughter got on my last nerve. I know when I what to laugh and when I don't. Not "everything" is funny in shows. We all have different senses of humor. Again, it was probably great! Why does someone always have this bright idea on how to mess a good thing up??!! Thanks though. L :)
L Bluebird the completed footage was shown in front of an audience and the laughter was recorded live and then both footage and laughter was then broadcast.
It was not worth the time from, when would that be, let me think! When they thought a laugh track was needed! They should have stopped around 6 series.
Have been watching this series since the inception.I would get home once a week to see beautiful England, and the antics of three of my favorite characters. I left Hove, UK. age 13 for the USA. Felt like I was home again every time I watched the show. There will always be an England in my heart.
YOUR A FRUITCAKE
About the only place it exists anymore, sadly.
@@philipmalaby8172
Harmless, friendly, relaxing, great characters, brilliantly written and very funny, never get bored of this great British comedy
Don't let Nora Batty hear you calling her friendly and harmless.
Why would you get bored?
I never knew that English Comedy episodes were so wonderful,funny and relaxing.....now that I'm a lot older, I absolutely love them .....all of them.
me too! even though i cant undestand what theyre saying a lot of times, i love the scenery and the music!
The music gets me every time l listen to it. Just reminds me of watching the show with my Dear Mum, may she rest in peace. 😁
Yes, an old comfy friend.🙂🙂👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I watch this every week day on my local PBS station. Tomorrow it starts all over with the pilot. It will be great to see old friends who are no longer with us.
I live in Europe. and I used to live near Doncaster Yorkshire.. so I really love this series and watch them many times.. lovely countryside as well 👍😊
Is it just me? I don't know why but that theme song is just so beautiful it brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it. Oh my, I just totally adore Peter Sallis...
I, too, find it enchanting. Composer Ronnie Hazlehurst was a genius, in my opinion.
I totally agree about the music, brings tears to my eyes.
Totally addicted to British sitcoms with their dry but highly entertaining humor. Hours would just fly watching them. Food for the heart and soul. So grateful for them. With love from Cape Town South Africa
If you want a good cry, watch the episode "Eulogy for Wellie" which plays the song as Compo is buried.
Not just you.
Thank. You. For. This. Reminders. Of. The. Best. Show. That. Was. I. Still. Love. Clegg. And. Compo. Foggy. Truly. Thank. You
I could watch this programme all day I luv it x
I can always rewatch my favorites.🤸💋☺️💖😷
This is my first time watching this show and I absolutely love it! Great to see my old friend Captain Peacock from Are You Being Served.
I liked that show too.
Love Sunday afternoons watching this all afternoon chilling total bliss
Haven't seen this show for a very long time. Always great stuff and very well done. Thanks for bringing it back. Much better than today's stuff.
One of my favourite shows back in the day, still enjoy it today thanks.
SMILER AND ELY ARE MY FAVORITES !😁👍
I love it this show gives me peace of mind thanks for uploading regards
One of the best inoffensive series ever made.
well said!!
You can't get any more inoffensive than this!
LOTSW is my go-to happy place in the midst of all the rubbish in my life at the moment. Been watching it since Day 1. Love it so much. Who could fail to love Seymour, Smiler, Cleggy, Ivy, Sid, Foggy, Compo and all the others...especially our Nora!! xxx
Don't forget Blamire
I can see lots of artist scenes in every show while I laugh like crazy!!!! Love these shows too, a senior lady from America.
Like an old friend this show.
♡♡♡
Just pure Class 💙💙💙
I'm not so scared about turning 64. Like the character's on the show I live in a small village in Spain. My friends and I are like school boys. Thank you so much.
As a man who has Swedish Viking ancestry who loves fruit cake so that the Vikings came for fruit cake part made me laugh so much 😂😂
BECAUSE AS A VIKING MYSELF WE BOTH KNOW ITS COMPLETELY TRUE
I have English and Scandinavian heritage so I might be related to some Vikings too!
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Wir , in Germany , sehen an jedem Silvester Abend " Dinner for one " , indem 2 von diesem staff uns köstlich amüsieren , in deutscher Sprache . I'm glad , to meet now all of them ! 🤣 Thanks all of us !
Smiler's faces are unsurpassed!
I still laugh at this show, even after all these years
Me too.
It never made me laugh.. but it made me smile. Like sliding into a comfortable pair of old slippers.
"Wait here! I'll show you fruitcake!" Brilliant! Hilarious!
My all time favorite episode is when NB told Compo she likes a man in riding gear...I laughed so hard I cried. I adore this show...absolute genius...and the theme...the episode where the cast sang it was cool!❤❤❤❤❤🎉❤❤❤❤❤🎉
LOVED HOWARD AND MARINAS CHARACTERS ! 👍😂
Howard has just died in real life
@@georgealderson4424 I SHALL MISS THEM ALL.
WHAT A FANTASTIC SERIES ! 👍😁🇺🇸
@@ammo8713 I thought Howard was a great character who did not have much luck but had a lot of sympathy from everyone (except his wife haha) Mr Fyfe the Scottish actor was in his nineties when he died
@@georgealderson4424R.I.P. Dear Howard
Roy Clarke wrote Oppen all Houers sitcom too, ... hilarious as this one.
♡from Brazil 🇧🇷!
This always made me and my family laugh so much
Another great British sitcom
This one is even funnier than most
The cast are a who's who of comedic icons.
I recently purchased the whole boxset of this beautiful series (I collect boxsets) and am looking forward to watching it soon. I used my TV licence money as I don't watch the garbage they put out now. I found humour in some classic American soaps like Dynasty and Dallas also. It is there in the episodes too. Including Frasier. I was only six years old when this began. Time to catch up me thinks.
This is pure GOLD!😁😂😂😂
Just wish this was full screen, love the series, seen it back to front probably 10 - 15 times now.
so delightful and refreshing compared to American shows
Thank you for the show I like it
I love this show 😘
Love the two policemen!
Lady M I got signed of them
The policemen are absolutely hysterical! 😁😁😁
@@susanfurlong2002 Do not understand why a show has not been written around them.
@@ladym6738 I know, they crack me up, every time, what a pair? I wish they would pull me over, l sure could have some fun, messing with their heads! 😁😁😁
@@susanfurlong2002 Gosh, not too keen on being pulled over but watching them be all law and order one minute and brilliantly bone idle the next. Never saw their wives; wonder if they could be worked into story line with ... gotta stop this and get back to work. Blessings to you and your loved ones.
Thank you from TX, for sharing another great video of one of my favorite shows. I follow the same group on FB
@M-NJ B ty
No matter how #@%* I'm feeling this show can make me giggle.
Good job, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME ,we all love you FROM American, 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The incidentlal music is masterful.
When I was watching this show on PBS in the late 90s I tried to recommend it to co-workers, but they were turned off. I think some of it was because the humor was too subtle, but perhaps it was because all the main characters were so much older than we were used to in these Britcoms.
Me? I love this show because it is NOT roll on the floor funny, but it is more character driven. It made me wonder if my parents would have been like this if they grew up in the U.K.
BTW, for those who don't look this series up on Wikipedia: this show is the longest, continuously produced, English language sitcom to have ever run on tv. The 1st episode aired in 1970 and the last episode that WAS NOT a re-run was shown in 2007. Obviously, there were some cast changes over the years, this particular episode was in the later half of the 37 year run....I think. And having seen the pilot episode (it was on UA-cam at one point) and episodes before this one, it was funnier at the beginning.
For the complainers: the laff track was a staple when this show first aired in 1970 and they probably felt they could not change the presentation in later years.
And, if you are a fan of Britcoms: Frank Thornton played Captain Peacock on Are You Being Served, and the creator of this show would go on to create Keeping Up Appearances.
I grew to love this show. I am a Britcom fan from a very young age, and sometimes you have to make yourself just watch an unknown one to figure out the gist and, as you said, the subtly. That is what I love. The wiseass quips said out of the corner of a mouth when nobody is supposed to hear it. I do love this show. A bunch of old pensioners with nothing to do but avoid their fishwives and get into some kind of trouble. And the thick as a plank cops who take every opportunity to pull off the side of the road and take extended naps, and ignore the old guys causing mischief. It is funny, and relaxing, because it is not just always loud and raucous. I actually got a couple of my exes turned on to British comedy for the first time: "Just humor me and watch it for 30 minutes!" They wound up really liking "The Good Life," "Are you Being Served?" and "Fawlty Towers." I feel proud. 😂
Oh, and Thin Blue Line. Brilliant.
Howard Kerr best english language, of course PG wodehouse comes first
very lovely sunday nights were beatiful
Always funny those naughty old men & Auntie Wainwright ever eager for people to part with their money🐹
Classic stuff.
I'm glad they did a re-boot or a reloaded remake of the first series. Thank you
When did they do this
The fruitcake sketch had recollections of our Arkwright trying to push the Jamaican gingercake.
I echo the comments made. In April of 2012 I was up on Nora Batty.com and saw that you could rent Nora's flat for a week. I called the number provided and a mate of mine, also a fan, drove me up from Norwich in June and in we went. Inside, the rooms and stairways were chockful of items that were part of an episode, and many framed photos in the stairway and on the room walls. In the kitchen, there was a life-size cardboard picture of a scowling Nora in her pini and hair pinned up, with a large broom at Port Arms. It was stunning, she was so life-like. When we heard a crowd forming up to photograph the famous blue door, with the 28, I would open the door and step out and ask if they were there to see Nora, they would all yell "yes." I would bring the cardboard Nora out on her porch and everyone would applaud and I would retreat so they could shoot all they wanted. When we were in the flat, I would repeat for each group of fans.
Upstairs there was a loo. I went in to use the facility and as I dropped my pants, I was immediately startled and stood back up. Fifteen feet away was a life-size photo of Compo staring at me. It was quite funny. I never mentioned it to my mate, allowing him to have the same experience.
We went to Sid's Cafe for sandwiches and a hot chocolate twice a day and drove up on the moors where the filming was done. Also, just outside of the cafe, a small rickety-looking 1920's bus would take you out to several familiar shooting sites for a 45-minute tour for 10 lbs. We did that twice while we were there. The week went quickly, mores the pity, but I have to say it was the best trip I ever had and have about 60 photographs with which I can reminisce in my home in Arizona.
Love this all ways will
Who else feel like childhood memes
shut your eyes and think of breakfast....ha ha classsic that will keep me smiling for a week.
That was a good one.
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam."
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
RIP Howard. Though he has gone now, I wonder if he has managed to meet his girlfriend Marina at last or whether his wife is waiting for him with arms folded
Norman Barroclough was well known making appearances with Les Dawson. on the Les Dawson show. Much younger then he was.
Roy Barraclough
Pearl wasnt daft she knew about Howard and Marina.?
Howard makes the show lol
I wish that they had DVD
They are on DVD, but can be hard to find outside the UK.
Number one show
Wacky Heart Felt Fun & Goodness!
is that Alec Gilroy of Corro fame in this episode!?
The old ones are the best
those houses and the area are so beautiful. where was this filmed...
@mastermind thanks..lovely. God's country
A place called Holmfirth
Yorkshire.
@@susanfurlong2002 thank you. I watch DOC MARTIN and am in love with the Cornish way of life there and the houses. I read the cottages are also for hire as holiday cottages. One day I shall visit. beautiful. unspoilt . I read somewhre yorkshire is Gods country. :) not far wrong... I know these are two different areas..yorkshire and cornwall...
@@jessiejames7492 Yes, seems a happy, simple way of living, you would most probably live longer too. Away from all the chaos of today! 😁
Thank you !
"(inaudible) like Compo" at 26:47
Route 152 Guy there is no dialogue at 26:47.
I wish your videos were as good on TV as they are on my PC. USA
The one guy was from cissie and adda
Tüneményes👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
🤔I notice there is a running 'bow tie' joke in this series that implies the dubious nature of one so attired... this and the episode 'jaws' are two that come to mind that make negative remarks about bow ties...fascinating.
Only *Nora* *Batty* would know how to get to the Costa Del Clotted....😀
Auntie Wainwright passing the copper car backwards,
...and Hilda Ogden from Corrie.
I'm enjoying these but why are the out of frame? cant see all of the bottom or left side
strange, but it's the same for everyone.
To avoid copyright bots
Brian murphy, george y mildred from chile
Yes
Blessings and peace from UK
Smile. She'd die laughing if he turned up.
Howard always trying to get away from home I'd like to see the show were she loses interest
STOP PINCHING MY KALANCHOE
what did she do to him to leave him that terrified??????
amelia silva Maybe she took her stockings off😂
@@carolynhughes8364 LMAO GOOD 1
So all the over 50s in the village are the "last of the summer wine?"
aha the vikings and romans invaded for fruitcake it all makes sense now.
wat did she do to im?
Did anyone ever find out what was in Compos matchbox?
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
im expecting facial-k warts any dAY NOW
This would have been so great had they left out the laughing. Everytime the "insert of audience laughing" (when it's so obvious they're not performing in a tv studio or stage) , well you can't hear what the person talking is saying from all the laughter. I really wanted to watch it, but the forced laughter got on my last nerve. I know when I what to laugh and when I don't. Not "everything" is funny in shows. We all have different senses of humor. Again, it was probably great! Why does someone always have this bright idea on how to mess a good thing up??!! Thanks though. L :)
I think they did it because it just was`nt as funny without Compo it lost a lot when he passes away sadly and the story lines became very weak
L Bluebird the completed footage was shown in front of an audience and the laughter was recorded live and then both footage and laughter was then broadcast.
9:47 Bad camera work.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💕💕💕🌴
If you r British why were r we paying for the TV licence for the should be abolished
Do you mean "your'e"?
6
bel ragazzino
Kkk
It was not worth the time from, when would that be, let me think! When they thought a laugh track was needed! They should have stopped around 6 series.
Pointless & silly with original actors dead.
You’re pointless and silly
gerry whelan - And an ignorant, disrespectful git.
gerry then why watch,we will all be dead one day
Don't be nasty.
YOUR TIME IS COMING SONNY BOY......NOTHING LASTS
FOREVER !