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Last of the Summer Wine

TV-14

1973–2010·Ended·31 Seasons·269 Episodes·30 min·BBC One·Sunday · 18:30

Studio: BBC

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Overview

Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never really grown up explore their world in the Yorkshire Dales. They spend their days speculating about their fellow townsfolk and thinking up adventures not usually favored by the elderly. Last of the Summer Wine premiered as an episode of Comedy Playhouse in 1973. The show ran for 295 episodes until 2010. It is the longest running comedy Britain has produced and the longest running sitcom in the world.

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Cast

Peter Sallis

Frank Thornton

Jane Freeman

Jean Fergusson

Robert Fyfe

Juliette Kaplan

Juliette Kaplan

Sarah Thomas

Jean Alexander

Auntie Wainwright

Mike Grady

Brian Murphy

Burt Kwouk

Tom Owen

Christopher Beeny

Christopher Beeny

Russ Abbot

Josephine Tewson

Josephine Tewson

Barbara Young

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Keywords

husband wife relationshipinfidelitysmall townretirementnorthern englandyorkshireslapstick comedyfriendsrural areaunemploymentbritish farcesitcomwanderingmischief

Seasons

Specials29 episodes

1978

Small Tune on a Penny Wassail (1978 Christmas Special)

And a Dewhurst Up a Fir Tree (1979 Christmas Special)

Whoops (1981 Christmas Special)

All Mod Conned (1982 Christmas Special)

The Funny Side of Christmas

Getting Sam Home (1983 Christmas Special)

The Loxley Lozenge (1984 Christmas Special)

Uncle of the Bride (1986 New Year's Special)

Merry Christmas, Father Christmas (1986 Christmas Special)

Big Day at Dream Acres (1987 Christmas Special)

Crums (1988 Christmas Special)

What's Santa Brought for Nora Then? (1989 Christmas Special)

Barry's Christmas (1990 Christmas Special)

Situations Vacant (1991 Christmas Special)

Welcome to Earth (1993 Christmas Special)

The Man Who Nearly Knew Pavarotti (1995 New Year's Special)

A Leg Up for Christmas (1995 Christmas Special)

Extra! Extra! (1996 Christmas Special)

There Goes the Groom (1997 Christmas Special)

Last Post And Pigeon (2000 New Year's Special)

Potts in Pole Position (2001 Christmas Special)

A Musical Passing for a Miserable Muscroft (2002 Christmas Special)

Thirty Years of Last of the Summer Wine (2003 Documentary)

A Short Blast of Fred Astaire (2003 Christmas Special)

Variations on a Theme of the Widow Winstanley (2004 Christmas Special)

Merry Entwistle and Jackson Day (2005 Christmas Special)

A Tale of Two Sweaters (2006 Christmas Special)

I Was a Hitman for Primrose Dairies (2008 Christmas Special)

25 Years Of Last of the Summer Wine

Season 17 episodes

1973

Of Funerals and Fish (pilot)

Short Back And Palais Glide

Inventor Of The 40-Foot Ferret

Pâté And Chips

The New Mobile Trio

Hail Smiling Morn Or Thereabouts

Season 27 episodes

1975

Forked Lightning

Who's That Dancing With Nora Batty Then?

The Changing Face Of Rural Blamire

Some Enchanted Evening

Ballad For Wind Instruments And Canoe

Northern Flying Circus

Season 37 episodes

1976

The Man From Oswestry

Mending Stuart's Leg

The Great Boarding House Bathroom Caper

Cheering Up Gordon

The Kink In Foggy's Niblick

Going To Gordon's Wedding

Isometrics And After

Season 48 episodes

1977

Ferret Come Home

Getting On Sydney's Wire

Flower Power Cut

Who's Made A Bit Of A Splash In Wales Then?

A Merry Heatwave

The Bandit From Stoke-On-Trent

Season 57 episodes

1979

Full Steam Behind

The Flag And Its Snag

The Flag And Further Snags

Deep In The Heart Of Yorkshire

Earnshaw Strikes Again

Here We Go Into The Wild Blue Yonder

Here We Go Again Into The Wild Blue Yonder

Season 67 episodes

1982

In The Service Of Humanity

The Odd Dog Men

A Bicycle Made For Three

One Of The Last Few Places Unexplored By Man

Serenade For Tight Jeans And Metal Detector

From Wellies To Wetsuit

Season 76 episodes

1983

The Frozen Turkey Man

The White Man's Grave

Cheering up Ludovic

The Three Astaires

The Arts of Concealment

Season 86 episodes

1985

The Mysterious Feet of Nora Batty

Keeping Britain Tidy

Enter The Phantom

Catching Digby's Donkey

The Woollenmills of Your Mind

Who's Looking After the Cafe Then?

Season 912 episodes

1987

Why Does Norman Clegg Buy Ladies' Elastic Stockings?

The Heavily Reinforced Bottom

Dried Dates And Codfanglers

The Really Masculine Purse

Who's Feeling Ejected Then?

The Ice-cream Man Cometh

Set The People Free

Go With The Flow

Edie And The Automobile

When You Take A Good Bite, Yorkshire Tastes Terrible.

Season 106 episodes

1988

The Treasure Of The Deep

That Certain Smile

The Day Of The Welsh Ferret

Season 117 episodes

1989

Come Back, Jack Harry Teesdale

The Kiss And Mavis Poskitt

Oh Shut Up And Eat Your Choc-Ice

Who's That Bloke With Nora Batty Then?

Happy Anniversary Gough And Jessie

Getting Barry Higher In The World

Three Men And A Mangle

Season 1210 episodes

1990

Return Of The Warrior

Come In, Sunray Major

The Charity Balls

Walking Stiff Can Make You Famous

That's Not Captain Zero

Das (Welly) Boot

The Empire That Foggy Nearly Built

The Last Surviving Maurice Chevalier Impression

A Landlady For Smiler

Season 136 episodes

1991

Quick, Quick, Slow

Was That Nora Batty Singing?

Cash Flow Problems

Passing The Earring

Season 1410 episodes

1992

By The Magnificent Thighs Of Ernie Burniston

Errol Flynn Used To Have A Pair Like That

The Phantom Of The Graveyard

The Self-Propelled Salad Strainer

Ordeal By Trousers

Happy Birthday, Howard

Who's Got Rhythm?

Stop That Castle [1992 Christmas Special]

Season 159 episodes

1993

How To Clear Your Pipes

Where There's Smoke, There's Barbeque

The Black Widow

Have You Got A Light Mate?

Springing Smiler

Concerto For Solo Bicycle

There Are Gypsies At The Bottom Of Our Garden

Aladdin Gets On Your Wick

Season 168 episodes

1995

Adopted By A Stray

The Defeat Of The Stoneworm

Once In A Moonlit Junkyard

The Most Powerful Eyeballs In West Yorkshire

The Dewhirsts Of Ogleby Hall

The Sweet Smell Of Excess

Season 1710 episodes

1995

Leaving Home Forever, Or Till Teatime

Bicycle Bonanza

The Glamour Of The Uniform

The First Human Being To Ride A Hill

Captain Clutterbuck's Treasure

Desperate For A Duffield

The Suit That Turned Left

Beware Of The Elbow

The Thing In Wesley's Shed

Brushes At Dawn

Season 1810 episodes

1997

The Love Mobile

The Mysterious C. W. Northrop

A Double For Howard

How To Create A Monster

Deviations With Davenport

According To The Prophet Bickerdyke

Next Kiss Please

Destiny And Six Bananas

A Sidecar Named Desire

Season 1910 episodes

1998

Beware of the Oglethorpe

Tarzan Of The Towpath

Truly And The Hole Truth

Oh Howard, We Should Get One Of Those

The Suit That Attracts Blondes

The Only Diesel Saxophone In Captivity

Perfection - Thy Name Is Ridley

Nowhere Particular

From Audrey Nash To The Widow Dilhooley

Support Your Local Skydiver

Season 2010 episodes

1999

How Errol Flynn Discovered The Secret Scar Of Nora Batty

Who's Thrown Away Her Tom Cruise Photographs?

What's Happened To Barry's Nose?

Optimism In The Housing Market

Will Barry Go Septic Despite Listening To Classical Music?

Beware The Vanilla Slice

Howard Throws A Wobbler

The Phantom Number 14 Bus

Season 2110 episodes

2000

Lipstick And Other Problems

Magic And The Morris Minor

Elegy For Fallen Wellies

Surprise At Throstlenest

Just A Small Funeral

From Here To Paternity

Some Vans Can Make You Deaf

Waggoner's Roll

I Didn't Know Barry Could Play

Season 2210 episodes

2001

Getting Barry's Goat

The Art Of The Shorts Story

The Missing Bus Of Mrs. Avery

Hey, Big Vendor

A Hair Of The Blonde That Bit You

A White Sweater And A Solicitor's Letter

Why Is Barry At An Angle?

The Coming Of The Beast

Season 2310 episodes

2002

A Brief Excursion In The Fast Lane

The Mystical Squeak Of Howard's Bicycle

Mervyn Would Be Proud

The Incredible Ordeal Of Norman Clegg

Beware Of The Hot Dog

In Search Of Childlike Joy And The Farthest Reaches Of The Lotus Position

A Chaise Longue Too Far

Exercising Father's Bicycle

Sadly, Madly, Bradley

It All Began With An Old Volvo Headlamp

Season 2410 episodes

2003

The Lair Of The Cat Creature

Ancient Eastern Wisdom - An Introduction

A Pick-Up Of The Later Ming Dynasty

The Secret Birthday Of Norman Clegg

In Which Gavin Hinchcliffe Loses The Gulf Stream

The Miraculous Curing Of Old Goff Helliwell

The Frenchies Are Coming

The Man Who Invented Yorkshire Funny Stuff

The Second Husband And The Showgirls

All Of A Florrie

Season 2510 episodes

2004

Jurassic - No Parking

The General's Greatest Battle

Happy Birthday Robin Hood

Who's That With Barry And Glenda? It's Not Barry And Glenda

Barry Becomes A Psychopathic Killer But Only Part Time

Things To Do When Your Wife Runs Off With A Turkish Waiter

Beware of Laughing at Nora's Hats

Yours Truly - If You're Not Careful

Season 2610 episodes

2005

The Swan Man Of Ilkley

Watching the Clock

Has Anyone Seen a Peruvian Wart?

Hermione (The Short Course)

Who's That Mouse in the Poetry Group?

Available for Weddings

The McDonaghs of Jamieson Street

The Afterthoughts of a Co-op Manager

Little Orphan Howard

Season 279 episodes

2006

Follow that Bottle

How to Remove a Cousin

Has Anyone Seen Barry's Midlife Crisis?

The Genuine Outdoors Robin Hood Barbi

Barry in Danger from Reading and Aunt Jessie

Who's That Merry Man with Billy, Then?

Who's That Talking To Lenny?

Oh Look! Mitzi's Found Her Mummy

Plenty of Room in the Back

Season 2810 episodes

2007

The Second Stag Night of Doggy Wilkinson

What Happened to the Horse?

Variations on a Theme of Road Rage

In Which Howard gets Double Booked

Will The Nearest Alien Please Come In

Elegy for Small Creature and Clandestine Trackbike

The Crowcroft Challenge

Must Be Good Dancer

In Which Howard Remembers Where He Left His Bicycle Pump

Sinclair And The Wormley Witches

Season 2911 episodes

2008

Enter the Finger

Will the Genuine Racer Please Stand Up?

A Short Introduction to Cooper's Rules

Is Jeremy Quite Safe?

All That Glitters is Not Elvis

Eva's Back in Town

In Which Romance Isn't Dead - Just Incompetent

The Mischievous Tinkle in Howard's Eyes

Of Passion and Pizza

It's Never Ten Years

Get Out Of That Then

Season 3010 episodes

2009

Some Adventures of the Inventor of the Mother Stitch

The Mother of All Mistakes - Or Is It?

Will Howard Cross the Atlantic Single Handed?

Who's That Looking Sideways At Nelly?

Nobody Messes with Tony the Throat

Will Stella Find True Love with Norris Fairburn?

Will Randolph Make a Good Impression?

In Which Romance Springs a Leak

Variations on a Theme of Father's Day

Goodnight Sweet Ferret

Season 316 episodes

2010

Behind Every Bush There is Not Necessarily a Howard

The Rights of Man (Except For Howard)

Howard and the Great Outdoors

Look Whose Wheel's Come Off

How Not to Cry at Weddings

Added: 5/14/2026Updated: 6/3/2026