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Yeah I got an e-mail from them too.

I wont be applying for this though - I used to watch it many years ago but it doesnt appeal to me now.

Oh come on, it's only a one off, it's not as if they're about to bring back the series. I for one am looking forward to it.

"Hello, Flick, The Gestapo... no I said Flick, The Gestapo!"

There doesn't even need to be a one-off though. As someone has already mentioned the series was tied up nicely - so why bring it back now? It's such a random "comeback".

The final episode was set post-war with Rennie and other character much older. The painting of the fallen Madonna with the big boobies was finally found in a statue in the square. If I recall from interviews the episode was deliberately created to bring 'it' to a close and prevent 'one offs' or new series being made.

écoute très soigneusement je dirai ceci seulement une fois

Hate to say this, but the Gary episode wasn't the last one, they did one in 2003 which was worse and they treated it as the final one as Rodney and Cassandra finally had a child, it was more Drama than Comedy and it wasn't very good.

The 'Gary' episode was in 2002 and it was the best of a bad bunch.

I was pleased they brought back Vicar of Dibley at Christmas to tie that up as the previous "last" epsioses were the dreaful smutty Christmas day epsiode and the awful one that turned into a guilt-tripping charity appeal.

OFAH WAS repeated too much a few years ago - it was on prime-time almost the whole year round; I never bothered looking at Friday nights on BBC1 as it was always going to be OFAH. I agree - the series ended with them going off into the sunset, the tapes of the follow ups should be wiped! They should leave it a while longer before running repeats of it though - maybe over the summer period, a series a year, although it's looking very dated now.

Yes I forgot Sleepless in Peckham (?). The one where Rodney finds a photograph of his father (also played by Nicholas Lyndhurst) who isn't Del's.

Its hard to believe The Green Green Grass is a spin-off of OFAH. Its absolutely dire and there is no storyline with each episode.

but half the cast are DEAD! how will this work

now of course there could do a one of spiecal of Keeping up appearances
but this NO, it would be like doing a are you being served special

I would love them to do a one off special of Keeping Up Appearances. That was the best comedy IMO.

"Half"? I realise that you probably don't mean literally half, but I still think you're being a bit over-zealous there...

Of the "main" characters (that were in every season), I only know of Carmen Silvera (Edith Artois) being deceased, as things stand in March 2007. Please do correct me if I'm under-informed.

The late Kenneth Connor's character (Monsoir Alfonse), although in every season (IIRC), was arguably mostly a "mid - small" character, not a "main" one.

Going by the cast/charcters guide at the bottom of this webpage, there were relatively few characters that were there for the duration. There's lots of examples of characters that were only "regulars" for, say, a random couple of seasons, somewhere in the middle of the total number of seasons.

How many of these "temporary regulars" (if you see what I mean) actors/actresses are dead now, Idon't know. But I still think it's probably too few to constitute a very big proportion of the total cast across all seasons.

Edith is perhaps really the only "true regular" that the new episode will lack, rather than "half" the characters. (Although I wonder if a some of the main Nazi characters' actors are also deceased, as they seemed not-very-young even at the time...?)

Having said that, I notice from the cast list that the actor playing Herr Flick changed for the final season - so is the original Herr Flick actor (another "true regular", surely?) also deceased?

Slightly off-topic, but I'm sure I spotted Guy Siner (who played Lieutenant Gruber) in the first " Pirates of the Carribbean " movie, in a cameo role as a bewigged beaurocrat, in an early scene of the film, when Johnny Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow first arrives at the port.

General von Klinkerhoffen died a few years ago,