Compo takes up motorcycling much to the surprise of Blamire and Clegg.Compo takes up motorcycling much to the surprise of Blamire and Clegg.Compo takes up motorcycling much to the surprise of Blamire and Clegg.
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[first lines]
Compo: I wonder if I ought to give up betting on the horses.
Blamire: I don't believe it!
Clegg: I should give up losing. Just bet on winners.
Compo: Maybe I could start betting on the dogs.
Blamire: Oh. Now I believe it. You see, I didn't quite understand at first; I thought he was flirting dangerously with common sense, but he isn't. Are you?
Compo: No-o.
Blamire: You had me worried for the minute. The world is changing that fast you don't know what to rely on. But if he abandoned stupidity, that's my last certainty gone.
Compo: Well, My Last Certainty's gone and all. Come in fifth.
Clegg: Well, you won't be able to put so much on dogs. They're smaller. So that'll save you some money.
Compo: I think I fancy an ice lolly.
His life was cut short at 57, which is a great shame. Wondering how Summer Wine would have played out if he'd stayed is interesting; I think it would have been quite different. He was a terrific comic actor.
Anyway, all that to say there's no sense of "end of an era" here, not even "end of series" tbh. It's just a fairly typical episode in which the library newspaper reading and musing on the local notices - deaths in particular - leads to the trio going to obtain the old motorbike & sidecar outfit of a deceased friend. Attempting to use the vehicle goes about as well as you would imagine and it all ends with the lads going back to the pub.
A good solid episode, but no fanfare for Blamire. Next episode will bring us Foggy and possibly the era most people remember as classic LotSW.
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