Last of the Summer Wine (TV Series)

Full Steam Behind (1979)

Brian Wilde: Foggy

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Quotes 

• Foggy Dewhurst : It's sad to see the place in this condition.

  Compo Simmonite : What are you talking about? Old railway sheds were always in this condition. Tat!

  Foggy Dewhurst : Listen who's talking about being tat.

  Compo Simmonite : They were built in this condition.

  Norman Clegg : He could be right, Foggy.

  Foggy Dewhurst : Who builds places in this condition?

  Norman Clegg : Your local authorities mostly. It's called progress. It used to take years to build a slum, and nowadays they're building them practically ready-to-wear.

• [last lines] 

  Compo Simmonite : I'm glad that's all over.

  Norman Clegg : Me, too.

  Foggy Dewhurst : It'll be a long time before I go near another steam engine.

• [Foggy bursts into the house, repeatedly blowing a whistle and furiously waving a green flag] 

  Compo Simmonite : Look at that dozy pillock. What's he supposed to be?

  Norman Clegg : Looks like a taxi driver.

  Foggy Dewhurst : A taxi driver? What, with a whistle and a flag?

  Norman Clegg : A lion tamer.

  Compo Simmonite : For deaf lions.

  Compo Simmonite : A lollipop man. That's what he is.

  Foggy Dewhurst : [scornfully]  Get on your feet. Come on, it's train time. Wake up, that man. We'll just be in time for the Grand Opening.

• Foggy Dewhurst : I'd no idea it was happening, till I ran into Arnold Watts.

  Norman Clegg : You ran into Arnold Watts? I told you he was a taxi driver.

  Foggy Dewhurst : No, I ran into him on foot.

  Norman Clegg : You can't win with taxi drivers. If they miss you with a vehicle, they get out and *trample* you to death!

• Compo Simmonite : [sings gleefully]  We're gonna see a puffer train!

  Foggy Dewhurst : [proudly]  Yes you are. And you'll be grateful. You're about to see a *steam engine*. A steam engine, *lovingly* restored. The official re-opening of the line, and we can be part of it. We can be among the passengers on this first *historic* journey.

  Norman Clegg : As long as we don't have to walk.

• [Foggy, Compo and Clegg are waiting to catch a glimpse of the steam engine. Foggy is proud; Compo and Clegg are distinctly underwhelmed] 

  Foggy Dewhurst : Can't you work up a bit of enthusiasm? Can't you feel your spine tingling with pride?

  Compo Simmonite : I can feel the ache in me spine from all that walking.

  Norman Clegg : Mine's in my knee. I can feel my knee stiff with pride.

• Norman Clegg : It's no good, Foggy. It's too dangerous.

  Foggy Dewhurst : Oh, what's life without a spice of danger?

  Compo Simmonite : Longer!