While the dialogue is still a bit on the coarse side and Clegg is still rather assertive compared to his later persona, this episode - first of the second series - is beginning to feel ever so slightly like the SW most will remember.
For a start there's some physical comedy - poor Clegg has a very unfortunate accident on his bike. Later all three men are riding the one bike and they fall off. Sid later also suffers from a bike injury!
There's a nice exchange with Ivy towards the end - in which the diffident Clegg appears for what might actually be the first time - when Compo admires her chest & she first gives him what-for, then admires herself in the mirror.
The scenes with the homage to Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, are also quite typical for SW, which over the years kept up quite nicely with "modern life" and will go on to make a fair number of topical references.
All in all, this is where the later, gentler Summer Wine first peeks out.
For a start there's some physical comedy - poor Clegg has a very unfortunate accident on his bike. Later all three men are riding the one bike and they fall off. Sid later also suffers from a bike injury!
There's a nice exchange with Ivy towards the end - in which the diffident Clegg appears for what might actually be the first time - when Compo admires her chest & she first gives him what-for, then admires herself in the mirror.
The scenes with the homage to Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, are also quite typical for SW, which over the years kept up quite nicely with "modern life" and will go on to make a fair number of topical references.
All in all, this is where the later, gentler Summer Wine first peeks out.