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Last Of The Summer Wine - The Compo Years
It's less than a week before we remember it was ten years since the we took our very last sip of Summer Wine. Last Of The Summer Wine is the longest ever running sitco...
Last Of The Summer Wine – Enter Seymour
Last Of The Summer Wine, The Michael Aldridge Years, 1986 - 1990
This year 2020 sees the tenth anniversary of the final episode of Last Of The Summer Wine.For this post we are looking at the Michael Aldrid...
Last Of The Summer Wine – Comedy Playhouse Pilot
Last Of The Summer Wine - Of Funerals And Fish - 1973
It's 10 years since this long running sitcom left our screens and as we get towards that date we'll be publishing a series of Last Of The Summer Wine posts...
Uncle Of the Bride
Uncle Of the Bride, A Last Of The Summer Wine Special, 1986
Summer Wine fans had a real treat with Christmas and New Year T.V. in 1985/86. A feature length New Year's Day special. Brian Wilde had left to per...
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...
The Ghosts Of Motley Hall
The Ghosts Of Motley Hall, 1976
BBC had Rentaghost, so in the days when there were only three channels there had to be a ghost series on ITV.Largely forgotten about in these days of repeating classic old s...
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 – Christmas – 1979
Last Of The Summer Wine - "And A Dewhurst Up A Fir Tree"
The second Last Of The Summer Wine Christmas Special came after the end of series five which would be the last full series until 1982, another Christmas...
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...
The Ultimate Compo Tribute?
Last Of The Summer Wine, It's Never Ten Years, 2008
It was during series 29 that the show chose to pay tribute to it's greatest character - Compo. Played by Bill Owen, Compo had been at the contrite of the s...