This is the story of a 21yr. old working man who went to the Falkland Islands to work on a sheep farm long before the late Falkland Islands War. It tells of life as it was in the 1950s on a sheep farming settlement on the West Falklands far away from the hustle and bustle of life as we know it today. A world much smaller than ours of today, where life was much harder, more caring, more generous and could be tragic with the turn of the weather. It gives a real life insight to readers as to the way that life was lived in those very remote Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean

All three series, as well as the pilot episode and the Christmas special, of the irreverant 1970s ITV comedy, created by Jack Rosenthal. Cheese and Egg, Heavy Breathing, Smelly Ibbotson, Eric and Winston are the binmen who do their rounds aboard 'Thunderbird 3', their rubbish truck, and who have always got a disparaging word to say about the people whose rubbish they pick up. Trying to avoid work as much as possible, the lads frequently find themselves at odds with Bloody Delilah, the feared inspector from the Corporation Cleansing Department.

Welcome to Holmfirth, a breathtakingly beautiful village in the heart of the West Yorkshire Dales, home to our three favourite idiosyncratic, retired gentlemen, as well as the BBC's longest running comedy series.

Here we meet these one-time school chums - Compo, Clegg and Foggy - long since left school, but now enjoying a mischievous second childhood, devising and executing a multitude of (grey) hair brained schemes. Which is just what you'd expect from Britain's oldest, if not wisest adolescents.

Helped by a supporting band of formidable wives, hen-pecked husbands, sexually-charged mistresses, inventors, pigeon fanciers and balding lotharios, our three heroes are never far from one adventure or another. And with the likes of a Christmas celebration in the middle of a sweltering hot summer, the installation of a new bell for the cafe door and the retrieval of a wandering ferret from its new-found home in Nora Batty's house, as always, there's plenty of room for disaster too.