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...
Peter Sallis Dies
The Last Of The Original Trio Passes Away
The death of actor Peter Sallis has been annouced.The actor was best known for appearing in Last of the Summer Wine and was also famous as the voice of Wallace in ...
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...
Last Of The Summer Wine – Crums, 1988
Enter Auntie Wainwright
As a tribute to Jean Alexander who died on Friday evening we've moved Christmas to October to look back at the very first appearence of Auntie Wainwright, a character who would stay wit...
Last Of The Summer Wine – Comedy Playhouse Pilot
Last Of The Summer Wine - Of Funerals And Fish - 1973
Who would have thought in 1973, when The Last Of The Summer Wine was just another episode in the long running BBC series, Comedy Playhouse, that it would h...