Last of the Summer Wine: Some Adventures of the Inventor of the Mother Stitch
6:00 pm - 6:40 pm, Friday, July 24 on U&Drama (20)
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Some Adventures of the Inventor of the Mother Stitch
Season 30, Episode 1
Barry is shocked to discover his golf captain has moved in next door when Glenda shows a keen interest in her new neighbours. Hobbo tries to help a dejected Morton feel less lonely, while Hobbo's driving skills attract unwanted attention when he takes to the wheel of a truck following a visit to an inn
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Cast & Crew
Peter Sallis
(Actor)
.. Clegg
Brian Murphy
(Actor)
.. Alvin
Burt Kwouk
(Actor)
.. Entwistle
Russ Abbot
(Actor)
.. Hobbo
Christopher Beeny
(Actor)
.. Morton
Mike Grady
(Actor)
.. Barry
Sarah Thomas
(Actor)
.. Glenda
Trevor Bannister
(Actor)
.. Toby
Roy Clarke
(Writer)
Alan JW Bell
(Director)
More Information
Did You Know..
Peter Sallis
(Actor)
.. Clegg
Born:
February 01, 1921
in
Twickenham, Middlesex
Best Known For:
Playing Clegg in Last of the Summer Wine and providing the voice of Wallace in Wallace & Gromit.
Early-life:
Peter Sallis was born on February 1, 1921, in Twickenham, Middlesex. His first job was as a bank clerk and he held no desire to be an actor until he became an RAF instructor during the Second World War. One of his pupils, Peter Bridge, asked him to play the leading part in Noel Coward's Hay Fever at the YMCA. Peter never looked back and eventually maked his TV debut in a 1947 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Career:
Roles in films such as Doctor in Love, The Mouse on the Moon, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and Charlie Bubbles followed. BBC sitcom Last of the Summer Wine made him a household name. He featured in all 295 episodes as Norman Clegg between 1973 and 2010. He also played his character's father in short-lived prequel First of the Summer Wine. He was also the voice of Wallace of Wallace & Gromit fame in the acclaimed A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, and A Matter of Loaf and Death. He was awarded an OBE in the Queen's 2007 Birthday Honours list for services to drama. He died on June 2, 2017 at the age of 96.
Quote:
'I don't eat it, because of the cholesterol effect. I've never eaten much in the way of cheese ever. However, I don't mind pretending that I like it.'
Trivia:
When Sallis was first asked by Nick Park to voice Wallace for a student film, he donatated his £50 fee to charity.
Brian Murphy
(Actor)
.. Alvin
Born:
September 25, 1933
in
Isle of Wight
Best Known For:
Playing George Roper in Man About the House and George and Mildred.
Early-life:
Brian was born on the Isle of Wight on September 25, 1933. During his national service at RAF Northwood, he met future actor Richard Briers. On leaving the RAF, Brian and Richard performed in productions by the Dramatic Society at what is now London South Bank University. Brian was also a member of Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop, with Yootha Joyce. During the 1960s and the early 1970s, Brian made guest appearances in a number of TV shows, including The Avengers, Z Cars, Sez Les, Callan, and Dixon of Dock Green.
Career:
Murphy's big break came in 1974 when he began playing George Roper alongside Joyce in the sitcom Man About the House. Joyce played his long-suffering wife Mildred. The popularity of Murphy and Joyce's characters led to them starring in their own spin-off sitcom George and Mildred. The hugely popular series ran on ITV for five series until 1979 and ended after Joyce died in 1980. Murphy and Joyce also starred in a stage version of George and Mildred and a spin-off movie. Murphy went on to star in The Incredible Mr Tanner, L for Lester, Lame Ducks, One Foot in the Grave, the Booze Cruise TV movies, Last of the Summer Wine, and The Cafe.
Quote:
'I was just coming up to 40 when Man About the House fell into my lap and turned everything around.'
Trivia:
Murphy and his wife, actress Linda Regan, have talked about their careers in An Audience with Linda Regan and Brian Murphy.
Burt Kwouk
(Actor)
.. Entwistle
Russ Abbot
(Actor)
.. Hobbo
Christopher Beeny
(Actor)
.. Morton
Mike Grady
(Actor)
.. Barry
Sarah Thomas
(Actor)
.. Glenda
Trevor Bannister
(Actor)
.. Toby
Born:
August 14, 1934
in
Durrington, Wiltshire
Best Known For:
Playing menswear assistant Mr Lucas in the sitcom Are You Being Served?
Early-life:
Trevor Gordon Bannister was born in Durrington, Wiltshire, on August 14, 1934. After leaving school at the age of 15, he joined a repertory theatre company in Folkstone and went on to train at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. After two years' national service in the army, he gained further repertory experience in Torquay, Bath, Bedford, Worthing, Wolverhampton, York and Birmingham. In 1960, he made his West End debut as Arthur Crabtree in Billy Liar.
Career:
Bannister's breakthrough on TV came in the 1968 drama The War of Darkie Pilbeam, a trilogy about a 1940s spiv, written by Coronation Street creator Tony Warren. Playing menswear assistant Mr Lucas in popular BBC sitcom Are You Being Served? made Bannister a household name. In his later career, he played a recurring character in Last of the Summer Wine. Bannister died on April 14, 2011, at the age of 76, after suffering a heart attack at his allotment in Thames Ditton, Surrey.
Quote:
On Are You Being Served? 'The joy of that particular show was the fact that most of us had known each other before we came to do it.'
Trivia:
Bannister was a regular pantomime dame on stage, taking 34 roles in 35 years.
Roy Clarke
(Writer)
Alan JW Bell
(Director)
