Ivy was good in the prime days, but when Sid died, she basically did, though not scientifically.

John Coma? As in what the actors & viewers were in.

John Comer actually.

Whoever writes the news on the home page has credited this new series as being number 28 when it is in fact number 29.

Oh christ, is this still going? I thought it had stopped.

That's Mark. He is a very naughty boy.

He'll have a good excuse - he's good at excuses

Must be a socialist then.

Quote: Alan C @ June 22 2008, 10:30 AM BST

Whoever writes the news on the home page has credited this new series as being number 28 when it is in fact number 29.

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Where? It says 29!

(That's the great think about the internet, you can cover up your mistakes with no record of what you did wrong

Basically I wrote that front page at midnight and lost count! Sorry.

Yeah you're right Aaron he is a socialist

Great idea. This show had so much more mileage to be gotten out of it.

It made me feel a little sad watching the ep yesterday.

The countryside is a vital part of the show's appeal and with Peter Sallis and Frank Thornton obviously unable to film on location, the premise of having 3 people walking up hills talking rubbish has been lost.

I still love the eps from the mid-90s that are currently being shown on UKTV Gold though.

It wasn't a bad episode. Nice to see the cast again and they were all looking pretty well. Was a little stupid near the end and yes it was bad that the original actors couldn't go out into the countryside, you could clearly see that when Howard rushed into Clegg's house that it was a painted background outside but oh well, still, not bad as I said.
The humour this time was a little faster and a little more witty and somehow it didn't seem as tired as usual.

Watched five minutes and turned it off due to depression. Watching a once masterpiece of a sitcom going off the rails drastically is awful, I try to convince myself that it is a different show to that once classic sitcom. I was very alarmed to see Peter Sallis relegated to number two on the cast-list, Brian Murphy in the number one spot. Sallis has been in it since the show began (35 years), Murphy just for a few years. What is Roy Clarke doing? Why is a show that once had hilarious dialogue now been watered down (everybody said bloody in the first few series in every sentance, that's how people from Yorkshire speak) and become a show that has no comedy and poor slapstick.

I agree that its become too gentle when harsher language said by respectable old people would be funny. I wished Peter Sallis was in it more and had funnier lines but he seemed realllllly old.