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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Swami" data-source="post: 114174" data-attributes="member: 13">In many ways when Thora Hird joins the series as Edie Pegden, she is an early prototype for Hyacinth Bucket with her mock poshness, when calling Wesley in from the shed and such like.It is hard to believe when you watch the definitive trio - Brian Wilde, Bill Owen and Peter Sallis - that behind the scenes things were far from sweetness and light.  Wilde himself blew the myth to bits in an interview when he confirmed friction between himself and Bill Owen.  Yet Wilde was possibly the one who created the difficulties, for the 1982 series he refused to take part unless Alan J W Bell was replaced as director by Syd Lotterby.  The irony was Bell returned the following year, and Wilde was content with his return.Swami</blockquote>