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As of 29 August 2010 (the very last day of transmission), a total of 295 episodes of Last of the Summer Wine have aired. This includes the Comedy Playhouse pilot, twenty-four Christmas Specials, three New Year Specials and a Millennium Special (but not the short Christmas sketch, a comedy trial or the 25 Year and 30 Year Documentaries). Some of ...
Last of the Summer Wine is a British sitcom set in Yorkshire created and written by Roy Clarke and originally broadcast by the BBC from 1973 to 2010. It premiered as an episode of Comedy Playhouse on 4 January 1973, and the first series of episodes followed on 12 November 1973.
Last of the Summer Wine 's thirty-first and final series was aired in 2010, beginning on 25 July. [1] All six episodes in series 31 were 30 minutes in length. All of the episodes were written by Roy Clarke and directed by Alan J. W. Bell.
This New Year special was the last ever episode to be filmed with Bill Owen as Compo and finished filming just days before he died. The BBC & crew agreed not to be credited at the closing credits but be moved to the opening credits instead, allowing for the moving final image of Compo.
Gladwin last appeared in series 9. He died just days before the broadcast of his final appearance. [citation needed] In the Comedy Playhouse pilot, the character (still unseen) was referred to as Harold. The character was played by Gary Whitaker in the prequel series First of the Summer Wine.
Last of the Summer Wine's twelfth series aired on BBC1.All of the episodes were written by Roy Clarke and produced and directed by Alan J. W. Bell.. With the departure of Michael Aldridge who had left to nurse his ill wife, the character of Foggy Dewhurst returned to the fold.
Last of the Summer Wine 's first series originally aired on BBC1 between 4 January 1973 and 17 December 1973. [1] All episodes from this series were written by Roy Clarke and produced and directed by James Gilbert.
Last of the Summer Wine's fourteenth series aired on BBC1 in 1992. All of the episodes were written by Roy Clarke and produced and directed by Alan J. W. Bell.. This was the first series to be shot entirely on film, although the complete episode was still assembled on videotape.