Just the other day I referenced my wanting to finally watch Last of the Summer Wine, and I see its creator/writer Roy Clarke turns 92 today. What this guy has done is simply astonishing: he wrote Open All Hours, Keeping Up Appearances and Last of the Summer Wine, all three of which appear in ANY best-of Britcom lists. LOTSW had an insane number of episodes, 295, and he wrote each and every one. Even at age 90 he was knocking out episodes of the Open All Hours sequel, Still Open All Hours.
Also - it was Ray Butt happening to catch David Jason in a repeat of Open All Hours that led to his being cast as Del Boy in Only Fools and Horses. So in addition to the crazy number of C L A S S I C shows Clarke created and wrote, he's also indirectly (or directly?) responsible for Del Boy as we know it!
Roy Clarke (Top Left) is 92 today, Happy Birthday Roy 🎁🎂 (Roy wrote the scripts for the programmes you see below and many more he still writes to this day) pic.twitter.com/gIG6fyTokH
— 🇬🇧📺 Classic British TV 📺🇬🇧 (@Classicbritcom) January 28, 2022
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