Ode to Last Of The Summer Wine
Every now and again you stumble across something deeply worrying in an online forum. Click the following link for proof, where a fan of Last of The Summer Wine asks if anyone might know where it was filmed.
Maybe it’s just me, being British and proud, but growing up watching Last Of The Summer Wine—a piece of television so inherently British in its style that I’ve always thought it to be utterly unmistakable—I always thought it was thoroughly unique and stood apart in its own special way from U.S. or any other television. Not there’s anything wrong with U.S. or any other television, of course; what I mean to say is that I was and am proud of our tiny little stiff-upper-lip Island. And the forum subject in question—presumably posted by an
First I pondered Baywatch, it being so groundbreaking and all (not to mention responsible for bringing us The Hoff). I thought, could you be mistaken for thinking Baywatch was actually filmed on Great Yarmouth’s sandy beach? I decided no, you could not. For one thing, Great Yarmouth is largely inhabited by the older generation—who rarely, I hope, strip down to the kind of revealing beach wear that Baywatch is so famous for. But who knows? Maybe that’s why people don’t visit Great Yarmouth in the hordes after all?—and for another, the sun shines for little more than a week every year, not nearly long enough to film more than a few episodes.
Then I considered the infamous
What can we draw from these conclusions? Well, apart from giving people yet another reason to think that Americans are stupid people—not something I endorse, of course—I’m happy to say that this forum posting actually opened my eyes to something; if Last Of The Summer Wine is loved in the U.S. then may be there’s the chance of another series?
If they can do it with Only Fools And Horses, then why not a prequel to Summer Whine? (With any luck it has to be better than the prequel to the former…)
February 10 2010 02:28 am | General