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The Great Boarding-House Bathroom Caper

Name: The Great Boarding-House Bathroom Caper
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1976-11-10
Duration: 29 min
Rating: 8.3
Cast: Bill Owen, Peter Sallis, Brian Wilde

Episode aired Nov 10, 1976
TV-14
29m

IMDb RATING

8.3/10

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Bill Owen, Peter Sallis, and Brian Wilde in Last of the Summer Wine (1973)

Comedy

The trio decide to take a holiday near the seaside with Sid and Ivy in tow. The three share a room and find some unexpected friends in the hostel where they stay as well.The trio decide to take a holiday near the seaside with Sid and Ivy in tow. The three share a room and find some unexpected friends in the hostel where they stay as well.The trio decide to take a holiday near the seaside with Sid and Ivy in tow. The three share a room and find some unexpected friends in the hostel where they stay as well.

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IMDb RATING

8.3/10

YOUR RATING

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Trivia
One of a number of episodes where a deformity in Compo's right pinkie finger is seen. It always appears to be bent inward.

Goofs
Another episode where the outside of Sid and Ivy's café is different. This time, looking out the door, instead of a roadway with buildings across the way, we see what appears to be a cinder block wall, just a few feet away.

Quotes
[first lines]
Foggy: Boy, I'm looking forward to it. A weekend by the sea: salt air in your lungs, sun on the water.
Clegg: Sand in your sandwiches.
Foggy: I refuse to be discouraged by that cynical attitude. You're looking forward to it just as much as I am. When I called for you this morning, you were whistling.
Clegg: Well, I had just opened my electricity bill.
Foggy: No, you were happy.
Clegg: Sh, not so loud! Nobody admits to being happy these days; they'll think I'm weird.
Foggy: Exercise.
Clegg: And the world is full of social reformers, and nothing irritates your social reformer more than finding some damn fool who's happy!
Foggy: Oh, exercise is all you need. I don't keep this figure by accident, you know.

Soundtracks
Scarborough Fair
(uncredited)
(traditional English ballad)
Arranged by Ronnie Hazlehurst
background music while The Trio shop and enjoy amusements at the beach

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Featured review

9/10

One of my all time favourite episodes.

Compo, Cleggy, Foggy, Sid and Ivy set off for a weekend in Scarborough, driven by the slightly vacant Gordon. Foggy aims to make the weekend run like clockwork, he's a stickler for time keeping and order. Compo does his utmost, dressed in his summer jacket, to scupper his plans for efficiency.

This kicked off a wonderful 2 part story, I think the only time the comedy moved away from its glorious surroundings, it feels wonderfully fresh. It's been a long time since I went to Scarborough, it makes me feel nostalgic.

Some great lines, 'look at him standing there like a bossy giraffe.' 'You remind me of my Auntie Bluebell, she did't wear so much scent.'

Sid and Ivy were a wonderful comedy duo, great chemistry, such contrasting characters, she was so bullish in these early days. Philip Jackson (Poirot's Japp) is hardly recognisable as Gordon.

It's a wonderful warm, cosy episode, it's funny and loaded with charm, I love this one.

9/10.