RIP
I've been watching the repeats, the whole series, on one of the smaller channels. I used to really enjoy it in its early years when I was a young man. Then it grew slower and I went off it.
Now I'm old I've grown into it again, like a comfortable pair of slippers, and the more I watch the more I see the interaction between the characters, the things they say that wouldn't be allowed on TV these days in a new production.
It's genuinely funny, a true reflection - in a way - of the working class Yorkshire folk at their best.
They've almost all gone now. In watching the programmes this year it seems as if, when each actor dies in real life and their character disappears, I go through funeral after funeral. Sad.