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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 115600" data-attributes="member: 23">My Summer Wine viewing bobs happily along. It's quite consistently enjoyable with little variation, so there's little to write about. And I suspect that will be the same for many years to come. I've now reached the end of Series Six and up to '82. Series Seven will be pretty much exactly a decade on from the first. Time flies in Holmfirth. And yet not. The Christmas specials, annoyingly, aren't placed correctly on the discs, so at the end of Series Six we bounced back a couple of years to watch the specials going back to Series Four. Of course, this being Summer Wine, it wasn't too noticeable. The only jarring aspect was seeing Sid's cafe which had a makeover and then suddenly was back to dinge. With the show having all male leads, scenes between women are a rarity. There was one notable scene between Ivy and Nora in one of the Christmas specials in which the writing seemed particularly sharp and the energy great. It did stand out as different - almost like cutting to a different series - but was very enjoyable indeed. Thanks. I enjoy behind-the-scenes books, so I'll look out for this one. Ah - that sounds familar. I think I'd read something about Bates and Owen beforehand, with Bates an ardent Conservative supporter and Owen affiliated with Labour.</blockquote>