"Last of the Summer Wine" The White Man's Grave (TV Episode 1983) Poster

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Sneaking Wally out
Prismark103 October 2016
What is this Wally leaving an outside lavatory? It is in the middle of the street, outside his house. These things are usually in the backyard and we know Wally has a backyard because that is where he keeps his pigeons.

Even in the 1980s we had a house with an outside lavatory in the back garden. We never used it as far as I was concerned it was falling to bits but my father kept it in functioning order so he could send guests that he did not like out to use it.

Just as with the previous episode there is theme of marriage and being single running through this episode. Foggy never married which causes envy with the others. Still they tried to fix him up the previous episode and it has never been mentioned again that he went to Wales a few years back as he intended to get fixed up.

Clegg had been married but never felt comfortable with marital life. If it was not for the First of the Summer Wine, I seriously wonder if Clegg was just in the closet and his wife was just a beard.

By the time the show is coming to an end, the scenes that Clegg and Truly have in the house, they come across as an old married couple. Although those scenes of the elderly actors were kind of forced on the BBC as the elderly actors could not be insured for outside location shooting.

Sid is tinkering again in the cafe, this time fixing a Kenwood Chef rather than a microwave. As always the other men want to help. Again Ivy makes a reference to Sid's roving eye as well as other things that wander. Sid makes not secret of the fact that he likes to play away and Ivy seems to have caught him in the act.

Wally just wants to get away from Nora and again in the climax of the episode we have some knockabout comedy as they first try to smuggle Wally out without Nora knowing, then bring him back in the house as a baby in a pram. At least four years before The Untouchables movie the show does its own homage to the Odessa steps scene from The Battleship Potemkin.
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