Last of the Summer Wine Archives - British Classic Comedy

Last Of The Summer Wine – Part 4- Return Of The Warrior

July 17, 2019

1990's BBC Comedy

The Brian Wilde Years (part 2) 1990 - 1997 When Michael Aldridge left the show (it was rumoured that as Michael Bates before him he was finding the amount of walking taking it's toll on his health...

Last Of The Summer Wine – The Michael Bates Years

April 29, 2019

1970's BBC Comedy

Last Of The Summer Wine - The Michael Bates Years Last of The Summer Wine made it’s debut in January 1973 as an episode of the long running Comedy Playhouse series. It was commissioned almost immediately fo...

Roy Clarke In Profile

February 3, 2019

Comedy Profiles

Roy Clarke, OBE Surely Britain's most prolific comedy script writer with a list of works that includes some of Britain's best loved sitcoms. We interviewed Roy Clarke back in 2014. He sites fellow comedy w...

British Classic Comedy Talk To Roy Clarke

April 22, 2018

BBC Comedy, Interviews, TV Comedy

Celebrating sixty years of the great British sitcom, we talk to Roy Clarke about his classic sitcoms and catch up with Still Open All Hours. The Misfit (1970-71) Last Of The Summer Wine (1973 - 2010) Oh No...

Brian Wilde joins Peter Sallis and bill owen in series 3 of last of the summer wine

Last Of The Summer Wine – Pt 2

June 6, 2017

1970's BBC Comedy, 1980's BBC Comedy

The Brian Wilde Years - Part One, 1976 - 1985 In Tribute To Peter Sallis 1921 - 2017 Perhaps the most popular time in the long runing sitcom's time was the first tenure of Brian Wilde. After ther departu...

Bill Owen, Peter Sallis and Brian Wilde star in the very first feature length episode of last of the summer wine: getting sam home

Transportation Problems For Foggy And Co…

November 22, 2016

1980's BBC Comedy

Last Of The Summer Wine - Getting Sam Home, 1983 In 1983, Last Of The Summer Wine had been running for ten years. Writer Roy Clarke had written a novelisation of the show. Bill Owen suggested to returni...

Michel aldridge joins last of the summer wine cast

Enter Seymour

February 18, 2016

1980's, 1980's BBC Comedy, BBC Comedy, Comedy Archives

Last Of The Summer Wine, The Michael Aldridge Years, 1986 - 1990 This year 2016 sees so many things to mark. For this post we turn our attention to Britain's longest running sitcom, we reach New Year's Day 19...

New Faces And Old Hands

October 6, 2013

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Last Of The Summer Wine - The Next Generation, 2008 We left the story in 2008 with the entry of a new character Hobbo played by Russ Abbott, he would form a new trio of central characters with Entwhistle (Burt...

BBC Head Of Comedy Previews 2015

Terrance Dicks Has Died

Three Dates For Your TV Recorder

Joe Longthorne Dies, Aged64

Lenny Henry Hitting The Double

In Tribute To John Myers

Freddie Starr Found Dead

Looking Back 30 Years

Is There Life In Those Old Shows?

Is There Life In Those Old Shows?

Is There Life In Those Old Shows?

British Classic Comedy Talk to Galton and Simpon - Hancock, 1961

British Classic Comedy Talk To Adrienne Conway

British Classic Comedy Talk To Roy Clarke

British Classic Comedy Talk To Carla Lane

We Talk To Tessa Le Bars

Galton and Simpson Discuss The Beginnings Of Hancock.

Galton and Simpson’s 60th Anniversary Interview – Comedy Playhouse

Dad's Army On Radio

Lines From My Grandfather’s Forehead

Radio’s Long Running Comedy Panel Show……..

In Tribute To John Myers

And Now For Something A Little Surreal…

It’s A Fair Cop

The Mary Whitehouse Experience (Radio)

Last Of The Summer Wine – Part 4- Return Of The Warrior

Last Of The Summer Wine – The Michael Bates Years

Roy Clarke In Profile

British Classic Comedy Talk To Roy Clarke

Last Of The Summer Wine – Pt 2

Transportation Problems For Foggy And Co…

Enter Seymour

New Faces And Old Hands

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