Last of the Summer Wine: The Inside Story of the World's Longest-running Comedy Programme

Author: Vine, AndrewBinding: HardcoverNumber Of Pages: 256Release Date: 01-12-2010Details: The definitive guide to the longest running comedy program in the world, complete with dozens of new interviews with cast and crew It premiered 27 years ago, in 1973, and, after 30 series it is still going strong. Remarkably for a series of such longevity and international appeal, it is all about elderly people, has little action or plot, and is set and filmed in and around the small Yorkshire village of Holmfirth. Now the deputy editor of Yorkshire’s daily newspaper has written the definitive history of this television phenomenon, with the full cooperation of series inventor and scriptwriter Roy Clarke. It covers the show’s inauspicious beginnings, with low ratings; its endless reinvention as participants like Bill Owen, Michael Bates, Brian Wilde, and Kathy Staff retired or died; the appearance of a string of guest stars from John Cleese and Norman Wisdom to Thora Hird and Russ Abbott (both of