Last of Last of....

So the Beeb have finally decided to pension off "Last of the Summer Wine" which has been running since 1973, would you believe. I don't think it ever really recovered from the enforced death of Compo Simmonite (as a result of the real-life death of Bill Owen, who played him), although it made valiant attempts to. And then losing Nora Batty (Kathy Staff) really tore the heart out of it. Question is, where now for that band of aging sit-com actors, who all seemed to gravitate sooner or later to the show. Thank goodness the earlier episodes keep cropping up on the "nostalgia channels" and long may they continue to do so. And I really like the author's description of the show as "Just William in long trousers". Spot on.