Super fans head to Holmfirth to share memories of Compo, Clegg and Foggy.
Last of the Summer Wine, featuring the trials and tribulations of three pensioners, pulled in millions of viewers every weekIt is 50 years since the world's longest-running sitcom, Last of the Summer Wine, first aired on TV screens in Britain. With a few bars of lilting harmonica playing out, millions of viewers would sit down on a Sunday night to watch the antics of Compo, Clegg and Foggy meddling mischief in the Yorkshire countryside.
Among the locals and tourists savouring the afternoon sunshine sits self-confessed super fan Bobby Loney. Sat next to his wife Debbie, the pair have travelled from Kentucky in America for the celebrations.Bobby Loney and his wife Debbie have travelled from America for the celebrations Ms Booth, who has helped organise the 50th anniversary events, says the best part of her job is witnessing the "genuine joy" of tourists as they walk into the cafe made famous from the sitcom.
"My best story is that the BBC hired my dad's battered old pick-up off him for Compo to hang-glide off. My dad was quite chuffed really because they paid him more than it was actually worth."Jonathan Linsley described Last of the Summer Wine fans as some of the "most loyal" "The number of times fans have said to me, 'I watched you Sunday night, it'd be Songs of Praise, Antiques Roadshow and then I was allowed to stay up and watch Last of the Summer Wine.'"
Fischer says: "It's funny, it's real, it's very northern. It's that kind of northern, surreal, sarcastic humour but just brilliantly funny. And of course it's wonderfully acted."
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