User Reviews

Although I personally feel I identify more closely with the character of Norman Clegg than William 'Compo' Simonite I cannot deny the genius that Bill Owen brings to screen.

This episode encapsulates that genius. His sheer brilliance and raw physical comic timing is what makes this episode so great. The narrative is standard Summer Wine fare, and this is a good thing.

It may not make your list of top 10 episodes, it may not even make your list of top 25, but it is still a fantastic episode and deserves each and every one of the 8 stars I have awarded it.

8* - Brilliant

I thought Desperate for a Duffield was a rather mundane episode which only livens up at the second half.

Compo is sick and tired of Nora knocking him back. He decides he will look up Audrey Mottershaw that fancied him at primary school. A rather daft idea after all she could be happily married with grandkids sixty years later.

Foggy and Clegg have difficult remembering her. There was a girl with a dirty neck who had a thing for young Clegg and walked with him part of the way home from school. It seems Audrey was a big lass whose voice broke before the lads.

The trio ask around and go looking for her, when they find out her married name is Duffield.

When they think they have found the right woman, Compo dresses up as a rocker, clothes borrowed from Howard and go in Wesley's motor looking for Audrey. Compo ends up inadvertently coming out of the closet.