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Director: Alan J.w. Bell
Actors: Stephen Lewis, Jean Alexander, Danny O'dea, Riky Ash
Studio: BBC Warner
Category: DVD

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

43 reviews
Sales Rank: 14196

Format: Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 2
Running Time: 360
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6

MPN: WARDE1995D
ISBN: 079079327X
UPC: 794051199522
EAN: 9780790793276
ASIN: B0001JXP70

Release Date: June 15, 2004
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And to think they credit Seinfield for the sitcom about nothing! January 6, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

Definitely a comedy that is an acquired taste but one that becomes completely addicting! The three old guys are just little kids in wrinkled bodies, and the poor women in the series are stuck trying to cope with whatever silly idea has moved in next! It's not cruel or nasty humor, but one that is completely self-deprecating and can be enjoyed as much by a small child as a grandmother or father (in fact, one of my friends watches it with her grandson, and they both enjoy it!). Not much else can be shared across the generations and no foul language! But Nora Batty's wrinkled stockings might take some getting used to..LOL

5 out of 5 stars

Last of the Summer Wine October 18, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

Several episodes of the series during the 90's. Very enjoyable, relaxing, and gives great views of the country. Several old friends during retirement deal with their insignificance to the world.

5 out of 5 stars

Just a quiet little Britcom . . . with surprises in store! September 6, 2007
The LOTSW series is my favorite of any British comedy. I promise that you will fall head over heels for each character in this program! Head over heels laughing! When you get 3 old age penshioners together that have much time on their hands, they just might act as if they are 10 years old, and have adventures that you might just not expect. You will also enjoy the unique-to-Yorkshire attitudes and use of the English language. You've got to see this DVD set!

5 out of 5 stars

Last of the Summer Wine Season 17 August 27, 2007
As is every episode, this is funny and delightful. This season is especially good as it has my favorite episode, Brushes at Dawn, where Compo challenges another man to duel over Nora Beatty's honor. The (horses) are bicylcles and the weapons are Nora's weapon of choice, brushes. Roy Clarke really outdid himself this season.

3 out of 5 stars

What's wrong with BFS video? May 29, 2007
15 out of 16 found this review helpful

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 "Pat� & 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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