Howard, Pearl & Marina: Never Too Old for a Love Triangle | Summer Wine Decanted
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- While there might be doubt concerning the fidelity of some of the men in the show, the only one we see trying to forge a relationship with someone other than his wife is Howard Sibshaw. Join me in the Yorkshire countryside and re-trace their parts in this record-breaking TV sitcom.
The year 2023 marks 50 years since the pilot and first series of “Last of the Summer Wine” were broadcast. This series of videos is filmed in many of the well-known, and some less well-known, locations seen in the programme.
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Thank you for this touching film. I am Dominic Fyfe, the youngest son of Robert Fyfe, and I remember staying with Dad in Bournemouth during the summer run of the stage play at the Pier Theatre in 1984. I believe Dad had known the play’s director Jan Butlin since the late 1950s when he was in weekly rep at the Castle Theatre in Farnham. He had also known Jane Freeman from plays at the Palace Theatre in Westcliff-on-Sea. Dad loved the show and we had always watched it as a family in the 1970s and early 80s. The fact that he then starred in it for 25 years made him immensely proud. Dad also had an abiding love for Yorkshire. Although a Scot by birth he had attended the Northern Theatre School in Bradford where he was trained by Esme Church. He graduated in 1954 and appeared in the York Mystery Plays that summer as ‘Second Devil’ with another young actor (appearing as the Angel): Judith Dench. In the summer of 1955 Dad joined the repertory company at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln where he met a young scenic designer, Diana Rush: our mother. We miss them dearly and very much hope to visit Holmfirth one day to see where Dad had so many happy years filming this irreplaceable series. Please let us know how we can be in touch.
Dominic, I am pleased you discovered my video and really happy you liked it. Your message is a fascinating insight in to your father's background that I do not think has been described before. I was always impressed, having heard his normal voice and accent, that he managed to sound as "Yorkshire" as he did! It is lovely to hear that he and your family had enjoyed the show before he joined the cast. You are welcome to email me: video@upstagedbyadog.co.uk - I am also on Facebook and Twitter @upstagedbyadog
Howard is easily my favourite character! A very fine performance from Robert Fyfe. Somehow manages to convey mischievousness and timidity - which should really be two contradictory traits - so well.
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I saw a fan theory that suggests Pearl was the sister of Norman Clegg's wife Edith. Hence why she's sympathetic to Norm, and why Cleggy has to tolerate Howard, because they're in-laws.
Interesting, but totally wrong!
I really like that idea and it does explain Pearl’s cordial relationship with Clegg.
We really enjoy your work on this project and look forward to seeing more of the same. Thank you!
Thank you very much, there's a lot more to come!
Another great video! 1:41 is the location of that row of homes (Norman's & Howard's/Pearl's homes) as big a tourist attraction as Compo's/Nora's homes & the Cafe? In the "30 Years of LOTSW" documentary Juliette is briefly interviewed. She explained that because the menage "is played for comedy it's not tacky, and that we know Howard's not going to do anything [truly adulterous] anyway". As I'm typing this I'm chuckling at Howard and Marina ... remembering their various subterfuges & the disguises they wore over the years.
The houses shown are the ones used from series 12 onwards. It is a private road but that does not seem to deter people from knocking on their doors. I'm there purely down to camera trickery!
Thank you for all of these wonderful episodes about the adorable characters and brilliant actors from Last Of The Summer Wine.
Never thought of Pearl as a shrew. Hum.
Another excellent episode, well done!
Another great episode. ❤
I'm so glad I found your channel!
I've been a Summer Wine fan for years...and this just makes it even better!!
Please keep up the good work!
Marina and howrad always found the why to get him to see marina
Hey Leigh when Howard goes to see Clegg about Marina I always notice that Howard always looks out Clegg window every time lol 😆
Howard knows "she" might be looking!!
Thank you for these videos. There is something very sad about them; LSW was already a world past (if it ever was), and you remind us that just about all the actors who played these wonderful characters are now gone. I always had a particularly liking for the sub groups, like Howard Pearl and Marina. Although Sid and Ivy were always the best!
You're very welcome Tony, pleased you enjoyed my videos, but I agree it does mostly feel like another time and place. Having spent so much time there filming I can say that some of the locations have hardly changed and I feel like I know the characters. Places like TH-cam and social media have given us an opportunity not available to even 20 years ago, to share our interests and memories in a way not possible before. So, even though they have mostly passed on, we can still enjoy their stories. Pearl had a hard time, but she never blamed Marina! I was pleased when Ivy shouted less, it's a wonder anyone ever visited the café!
I loved shouty Ivy, she was so funny, and yet so real!
Howard is one of Fave Characters.
He must get credit for persistence!
Thank you for all these wonderful mini documentaries.
Only just found you .
Great work 👍
Woof!
Has Roy Clarke ever mentioned the Pearl-Howard-Marina storyline as a comic version of an earlier
LOTSW episode "Getting Same Home"? Sam is ill but gets Compo et al to sneak him away from his wife and take him to his girlfriend, Lily Bless Her, where he promptly dies after some you-know-what with Lily. Sam's wife is very severe, she knows about Lily but apparently doesn't confront him, preferring to make him miserable in various ways.
I don't think Clarke has ever said it, but as "Getting Sam Home" was broadcast in December 1983, and the live show with Marina et al, was also in 1983, it's possible he though the idea of a love triangle was too good to use for a one-off.
As soon as Howard and Marina joined the series, I thought of Lily Bless Her.
How did residents react to filming at Jackson Bridge? I’m too wary to walk up for a look when it’s a private road but seen loads on fan sites going up
Sorry to spoil it for everyone, but we didn't film outside Clegg and Howard's at Jackson Bridge ... the rest is camera magic!
Brilliant thank you Leigh. I always love Edie s description of Marina in, The kiss and Mavis Poskitt, saying, She could conduct the Halle orchestra with those eyelashes!. Best wishes. Gérard.
Hey Leigh when watch keeping up appearances Rose is smiler to Marina talking about men and there men friends
At least Marina stuck to - more or less - one man!
@@upstagedbyadog yeah Rose liked Reg and Dennis lol 😆
@@Scotty19 .. there were about 20 mentioned in the show!
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Hi Leigh when watched Eastenders in the 90s when Arthur was seeing seeing Christine behind Pauline back at the shed. Howard a bit like Arthur but Howard was more desperate lol 😆
I'm not familiar with that EastEnders story ... but Howard was a bit of a wimp!
Thanks for making these episodes.
Another great video, thanks for the memories 👍👍
Leigh I watched crums a few days ago and Howard kissed Marina outside Auntie Wainwright shop think that was there only kiss over the years
They did come very close on a few occasions ... In "The McDonaghs of Jamieson Street" they are outside Aunties, again, and are about to kiss and realise they are in public - so they go out of view. Perhaps they did kiss then, but we didn't see!
Marina did get a man at the very last part of the show. He is the captain played by Travor Bannister. 💞
Only temporarily, he does say to Marina about his ex-wife that "I'll be back with her before you know it" ...
This is a great video I used to live in Yorkshire and now live in New Zealand and feel homesick 😊😊😊
Thanks Terry, pleased you're enjoying the series - but sorry we're making you homesick 😉
"She Knows You Know" was brilliant. I only heard the radio broadcast, but a colleague saw the stage show. Because Jean was a lot taller than Hylda Baker, the set and props were all oversized to make her look smaller.
I was telling someone about it once and accidentally said "Sheila Ferguson". That caused some confusion.
Hi "Benjie", thank you for commenting. The Hylda Baker costume looked authentic, but I did wonder about how she pulled off the voice and of course the difference in height would have been a challenge! However, she did display her character acting and vocal talent in the Summer Wine episode “The Pony Set” as Mr Lucy's domineering wife "Honeypot".
@upstagedbyadog As I recall, her vocal performance was spot on. It was a very funny, but also very poignant play.
Three wonderful actors who, although perhaps not the stars, they certainly helped keep the series moving along in the last few series.
Howard's - attempted - love life was certainly a regular feature, and Marina always had a suitable blouse and high heels for the occasion! They could have had a spin-off series!
@@upstagedbyadog indeed, a spin-off might have worked. With sporadic appearances from Auntie Wainwright, Smiler and the police officers.
@@crissamways2808 Excellent idea!
Just genius writing.