Blamire, Compo and Clegg are three opposites with one thing in common - determination to make each day as full as possible. After being thrown out of the library for smoking and eating, the trio head ...

Blamire, Compo and Clegg are three opposites with one thing in common - determination to make each day as full as possible. After being thrown out of the library for smoking and eating, the trio head ...

The comedy famously revolved around the trio of Compo Simmonite, Norman Clegg, and originally Cyril Blamire. Compo is enchanted by his next-door neighbour, Nora Batty, an archetypal Northern ...

At last count, it's notched up nearly 30 series, numerous Christmas specials and a 1988 prequel, First of the Summer Wine, with the whole canon being written by just one man: Roy Clarke.