[riverside 57]

My favourite scene ever of this show was when Hyacinth was pretending that some stranger's house was hers and she had to keep low while passing the windows, and she was taking huge long strides while crouching down! I'm actually laughing now as I think of it!

[Jimmy_McNulty]

KUA was great, i really enjoyed it when she sang 'Rule Britannia', in fact i sing it sometimes because of KUA!

[~ Mandy ~]

I always wanted Richard and Liz to get it on.

My favourite episodes were the ones where Onslow and Richard got drunk

[jazzyjazzy]

Originally Posted by ags_rule

As far as I'm concerned this show worked for one main reason - everybody knows a Hyancinth. And they probably know a long-suffering Richard.

I swear my next-door neighbours are them, and I'm certain other people reading this forum would say the same thing about people they know!

3 of us have a mutual "friend" we call The Bucket Woman and often laugh at her antics between us. She could have been the woman the series was based on.

[Pacman 2011]

Why did they introduce Emmett?

[scorpiogran]

I used to enjoy the programme but felt it had run its course.
Did anyone know that Clive Swift (Richard) is the father of the gardener Jo Swift (Gardeners World).
Clive has an actor brother David Swift who used to be in Drop The Dead Donkey.

[scotch]

Originally Posted by scorpiogran

I used to enjoy the programme but felt it had run its course.
Did anyone know that Clive Swift (Richard) is the father of the gardener Jo Swift (Gardeners World).
Clive has an actor brother David Swift who used to be in Drop The Dead Donkey.

Yep Joe Swift is Clive Swifts son.-

edit; just realised you made a statement not a question

no more drink for me. . .

[Pacman 2011]

Originally Posted by steveh31

I suspect Richard and Emmet were up to no good just because you didn't see it in the episode doesn't mean it wasn't happening there was certainly some spark between the two
Would people have preferred to have had Sheridan in the show?

Emmett and Richard loved each other?
Richard and Elizabeth loved each other?

Confused...

Originally Posted by riverside 57

My favourite scene ever of this show was when Hyacinth was pretending that some stranger's house was hers and she had to keep low while passing the windows, and she was taking huge long strides while crouching down! I'm actually laughing now as I think of it!

You mean when Elizabeth dropped Hyacinth at 'Daisys house' when in fact it was a strangers?

Originally Posted by Jimmy_McNulty

KUA was great, i really enjoyed it when she sang 'Rule Britannia', in fact i sing it sometimes because of KUA!

RULE BRITANIA BRITANIA RULES THE WAVES BRITAIN NEBVER NEVER NEVER SHALL BE SLAVES
There all Scandinavians anyway! lol

[steveh31]

Apologies I of course meant Richard and Elizabeth

[Pacman 2011]

Originally Posted by steveh31

Apologies I of course meant Richard and Elizabeth

OH WHY DO YOU THINK THAT AND THANK GOODNESS FOR THAT HAHA!

[number six]

Clive Swift played the Vicar in "Born and Bred" and in one episode his real life brother appeared as his not so likeable brother!

[Pacman 2011]

Does anyone think it would have been great to pair up The Major and Rose for an episode?!

[steveh31]

I think Richard having an affair behind Hyacinth's back would have spiced it up.

If Patricia hadn't ended the show do you think it would have developed or stayed the same?

Would there have been new characters?

I think it's a shame they never properly ended it like Open All Hours should have ended with Arkwright and Granville getting married.

[Terry Wigon]

Originally Posted by sarahj1986

Dont want to make you all jealous but I live in the same aera where most external shots were filmed. Violet (the posh sister) her house isnt far away from me. Most driving shots are same town as me. When the go to shops/train stations etc its filmed in the same town as me.

I like watching to see repeats to see where they go. I rememeber one where they were going into town and literally went round the whole of the town before they got there (only a person living here would recognise this and know)

wish they did bring it back though

I know where you mean as I live there too. They were filming a scene right where I was living (you may know it, but you are poss too young: near the old gasworks) Interestingly,Hyancinth's house was not in our town but in Binley Woods, and Onslow and Daisy's was in Stoke Aldermoor in Coventry.

[cooperone]

It's on Uk gold all the time my Oh has it on seen it so many times now but parts are still funny. I can never get over the fact the first Rose is Edna from emmerdale, I am sure emmett was in hi di hi as well.

[Pacman 2011]

Originally Posted by steveh31

I think Richard having an affair behind Hyacinth's back would have spiced it up.

If Patricia hadn't ended the show do you think it would have developed or stayed the same?

Would there have been new characters?

I think it's a shame they never properly ended it like Open All Hours should have ended with Arkwright and Granville getting married.

Sometimes doing a normal episode is the best way to exit...

Originally Posted by cooperone

It's on Uk gold all the time my Oh has it on seen it so many times now but parts are still funny. I can never get over the fact the first Rose is Edna from emmerdale, I am sure emmett was in hi di hi as well.

Could it return? Edna could come back! WILL IT EVER RETURN ALONG WITH EDNA? Why did Edna leave?

[steveh31]

Originally Posted by Terry Wigon

I know where you mean as I live there too. They were filming a scene right where I was living (you may know it, but you are poss too young: near the old gasworks) Interestingly,Hyancinth's house was not in our town but in Binley Woods, and Onslow and Daisy's was in Stoke Aldermoor in Coventry.

Open All Hours amuses me because I know in the episode where they goto the hotel the hotel is on the opposite side of Doncaster and nowhere near the shop and you cannot see it from the hotel window you would probably see into a ward window at Doncaster Royal Infirmary if you was looking through binoculars out of the window

[Pacman 2011]

Where did they film all the church scenes?

[Terry Wigon]

Originally Posted by Pacman 2011

Where did they film all the church scenes?

I think it may have been somewhere round Northampton. I don't think it was within a 15-mile radius of Leamington as I didn't recognise it. I'm sure I remember hearing some locations were in Northants.

[Technix]

I've been past Hyacinth's and Elizabeth's houses on Heather Road, Binley Woods several times. Thery're almost all unrecognisable now.

[Pacman 2011]

Originally Posted by Technix

I've been past Hyacinth's and Elizabeth's houses on Heather Road, Binley Woods several times. Thery're almost all unrecognisable now.

Why?

Does anyone think Hyacinth is really horrible in the first series?

[Pacman 2011]

in the episode were the woman wants to marry daddy 'he asked for marriage'... her son and his friend (when they hide and sit on the stolen teles.) The FRIEND is also in the next series as the sales assistant when they look for cottages!

Anyone notice that Richard in series 4 is very rebellious and verbal about it... plus why are the major and the vicar barely in it!

[Pacman 2011]

Last Rebump

[writerlady]

I would love to write a Rock and Chips style prequel to this set in the 1950s where a young Hyacinth brings Richard home for the first time to meet her family...

[Gulftastic]

Originally Posted by writerlady

I would love to write a Rock and Chips style prequel to this set in the 1950s where a young Hyacinth brings Richard home for the first time to meet her family...

If that happens, I'm blaming you.