Last Of The Summer Wine – Enter Foggy
The Brian Wilde Years - Part One, 1976 - 1985
Perhaps the most popular time in the long running sitcom's time was the first tenure of Brian Wilde.After the departure of Michael Bates there was a vacancy fo...
Last Of The Summer Wine – Life After Compo
Has It Really Been 20 Years?
It's now 2020 and twenty years have passed since the passing of one of comedy's great characters: Compo.This post deals with how the show moved on after the loss of it's centra...
Last Of The Summer Wine – There Goes The Groom
Last Of The Summer Wine – There Goes The Groom, 1997
A Christmas Feature Length Special
In 1997 Brian Wilde was struck down by shingles, meaning he was not available for the start of filming season 19 and the...
Last Of The Summer Wine, Where Are They Now?
Last Of The Summer Wine, Where Are They Now?
Has it really been almost ten years since the final series Last Of The Summer Wine? After the sad passing of Jean Fergusson we look back at some of those quirky ch...
Jean Fergusson Dies
Jean Fergusson Dies
Oh Marina ! what would Howard do? Last Of The Summer Wine actress Jean Fergusson has died, aged 74, it was announced today.She will perhaps always be best remembered for playing the La...
Last Of The Summer Wine – Part 4- Return Of The Warrior
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
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
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
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 It's Selwyn Frogitt ( Pilot, 1974)
Open All Hours (...
Transportation Problems For Foggy And Co…
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...