Last of the Summer Wine Archives - British Classic Comedy

Last Of The Summer Wine – Life After Compo

January 20, 2020

2000's BBC Comedy

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

January 2, 2020

1990's BBC Comedy

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...

Foggy, Clegg and compo in last of the summer win'e 1979 BBC Christmas special

Last Of The Summer Wine, Where Are They Now?

November 17, 2019

TV Comedy

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

November 16, 2019

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

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 (...

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 - 2017Perhaps 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...

Python Legend Terry Jones Dies

Nicholas Parsons Dies, Aged 96

A Bit More Fry And Laurie And Other News Round Up

Derek Fowlds Dies

Comedy News Round Up

News Round Up

Actor, Christopher Beeny Has Died

Saturday Nights Now V's Then ?

Love Thy Neighbour Goes Down Under

Victoria Wood With All The Trimmings

On The Buses – Christmas Duty – 1970

Galton and Simpson Discuss The Beginnings Of Hancock.

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

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

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

Galton And Simpson Present - 3

More Forgotten Radio Comedy With The Motorway Men

The Russ Abbott Show

The Missing Hancocks

Little Britain – The Reunion

Brother’s In Law

The Eric Morecambe And Ernie Wise Show

Last Of The Summer Wine – Life After Compo

Last Of The Summer Wine – There Goes The Groom

Last Of The Summer Wine, Where Are They Now?

Jean Fergusson Dies

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…

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