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Schedule Thursday 4th January 1973

BBC One. Copyright: BBC 8pm
30 min
Last Of The Summer Wine. Image shows from L to R: Walter C. 'Foggy' Dewhurst (Brian Wilde), William 'Compo' Simmonite (Bill Owen), Norman Clegg (Peter Sallis). Copyright: BBC

Last Of The Summer Wine

Comedy Playhouse, Episode 1 - Of Funerals And Fish

Blamire, Compo and Clegg are three opposites with one thing in common - determination to make each day as full as possible. After being thrown out of the library for smoking and eating, the trio head to the café and are driven away by argument, then do a little fishing - before a chance sighting up in the hills opens the library doors to them once more.

ITV1 logo. Credit: ITV 8:45pm
30 min
Nearest And Dearest. Image shows from L to R: Nellie Pledge (Hylda Baker), Eli Pledge (Jimmy Jewel). Copyright: Granada Television

Nearest And Dearest

Series 7, Episode 3 - The French Disconnection

A visiting Frenchman discovers Pledge's Pickles and persuades Nellie and Eli to go to Paris to sell them to an important grocer.

BBC One. Copyright: BBC 10:15pm
30 min
Monty Python's Flying Circus. Image shows from L to R: Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, John Cleese, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam. Copyright: BBC

Monty Python's Flying Circus

Series 3, Episode 11 - Dennis Moore

This episode includes "Boxing Tonight - Jack Bodell vs. Sir Kenneth Clark", "The Great Debate" and the "Ideal Loon Exhibition".

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