Last of the Summer Wine (TV Series)

In Which Gavin Hinchcliffe Loses the Gulf Stream (2003)

Frank Thornton: Truly

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• [first lines] 

  Billy : I saw Gavin Hinchcliffe yesterday.

  [pause] 

  Billy : There's no need to get excited.

  Tom : Yesterday I was interviewing a bank manager.

  Truly : You, in a bank? Huh. Must have been a river bank.

  Billy : I bet I haven't seen Gavin Hinchcliffe since we were at school.

  Truly : Huh.

  Billy : He looked just the same.

  Clegg : Does it suit him, still being in short trousers?

  Billy : No, nervous and twitchy. He must have jumped three foot in the air when I clapped him on the back and said, "How do, Gavin?"

  Truly : I can understand that. It'd scare me on a sudden appearance, and I've got nerves of steel.

  Clegg : Pass.

  Truly : What I can't understand is what was Tom doing in a bank.

  Tom : I often go to a bank.

  Truly : Could one ask what for? It's not as if you had any chance of getting any money.

  Tom : It's like Wembley; you go for the atmosphere.

• Clegg : I think they're a lovely couple. They have something.

  Truly : You like anybody who's barmy.

  Clegg : That's it - barmy.

• Gavin Hinchcliffe : The Big Freeze is coming!

  Clegg : Mrs Hinchcliffe due back is she?

  Gavin Hinchcliffe : I'm talking Global Warming!

  Truly : Oh, not just Miss Davenport?

  Lucinda Davenport : I gave up my night classes for him.

  Gavin Hinchcliffe : It's going to change the climate! We're going to lose the Gulf Stream!