User Reviews

Apart from the fanciful part about how you cure treacle toffee of the eye (!) this is a Clegg no one who came to SW later would recognise. Not only is he the driving force (sorry) behind the three buying a car, but he also delivers the line: 'My dear wife, God rest the silly b!tch...' and is mean to the child who is using the simulator to get him to vacate it.

Interestingly there's apparently no mention of the whole road safety exhibition/driving simulator section in the original published script.

The car salesman schooling his colleague about how scruffy customers may turn out to be very rich is a nice touch.

The New Mobile Trio is the official title, and so much more suitable, it's a good episode, one that sees Cleggy buy a car from Walter for thirty quid. The only trouble, is that Walter isn't the best of drivers, during a test spin, the car has a tangle with a tractor.

I love these early years, I've been watching the much later years, but there is definitely more grit here, this is a good episode, it's fair to say it's not the best if the first series, but it does have its merits.

Hard not to enjoy the original trio engaging in some motoring capers.

Compo is a scream, of course the best scene has to be the tangle with the tractor, but Compo's scene with Ivy was great also, I'd forgotten how cheeky he was.

A good watch, 6/10.

We see Clegg being adventurous in this episode. He wants to buy a car for £30 even though he is a bad driver. We see this when the trio go to a road safety demonstration and try out a driving simulation where Clegg keeps going off road. I actually remember those driving simulation booth, it still stands up well today.

Clegg then encounters a man called Walter, a kind of guy who tries to teach a dog how to ride a bicycle and sell dodgy food to Sid at the cafe. Walter has a car for sale but it is a clapped out banger which collides into a tractor when they go for a test drive.

Clegg decides to go to a proper car showroom than a cowboy like Walter. Trouble is the banger they buy still manages to collide with another tractor.

It is nice to see Clegg being the intrepid here, wanting to break free a little. Walter is played by Ronald Lacey who gives a funny performance. He is better known as the sinister Gestapo officer from Raiders of the Lost Ark.