Last Of The Summer Wine
- TV sitcom
- BBC One
- 1973 - 2010
- 295 episodes (31 series)
Gentle sitcom following a group of pensioners living in Yorkshire. This show was Britain's longest-running TV sitcom. Stars Bill Owen, Peter Sallis, Frank Thornton, Brian Murphy, Michael Bates and more.
- Series 12, Episode 4 repeated at 6:40pm on Drama
Streaming rank this week: 4,117
Press clippings
Last Of The Summer Wine: Compo costume fetches £6k at auction
An "endearing" tattered jacket, knitted waistcoat, rope belt and woollen hat from Last Of The Summer Wine has sold for £6,000 at auction.
Bea Swallow, BBC, 8th December 2023Compo costume from Last Of The Summer Wine up for auction
An "endearing" tattered jacket, knitted pullover, rope belt and woollen hat from Last Of The Summer Wine will soon be up for auction.
BBC, 30th November 2023Last Of The Summer Wine at 50: Super fans head to Holmfirth
It is 50 years since the world's longest-running sitcom, Last Of The Summer Wine, first aired on TV screens in Britain. With a few bars of lilting harmonica playing out, millions of viewers would sit down on a Sunday night to watch the antics of Compo, Clegg and Foggy meddling mischief in the Yorkshire countryside.
Alex Moss, BBC, 27th May 2023We live in real Last Of The Summer Wine town
Residents in the town where Last Of The Summer Wine was filmed say the show's characters would hate what the quaint area has become.
Jon Rogers, The Sun, 5th April 2023BBC Four to repeat comedy classics
To link in with the celebrations of 100 years of the BBC, from Saturday 22nd October BBC Four will begin broadcasting classic episodes of sitcoms and sketch shows.
British Comedy Guide, 14th October 2022Watching Last Of The Summer Wine for the first time
I watched an episode of Last Of The Summer Wine for the first time and I have a lot to say about it.
Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 25th October 2021Legendary sitcom producer/director Sydney Lotterby dies
Producer and director Sydney Lotterby, whose credits include Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, Porridge, The Liver Birds and As Time Goes By, has died at the age of 93.
British Comedy Guide, 30th July 2020Seven classic sitcoms to revisit during lockdown
Sitcoms, when they work, are beautiful things. Familiar characters and running jokes all brought together in easily digestible half-hour chunks of delicious, warming, audio-visual comfort food. So here, in no particular order, are seven favourites to see you through the coronacrisis.
Tim Dawson, The Spectator, 7th May 2020TV nostalgia comedy boom as viewers flock to classics
Locked-down viewers are finding comfort in comedy nostalgia as Only Fools And Horses and Last Of The Summer Wine repeats record an audience surge.
Adam Sherwin, i Newspaper, 24th April 2020Poll reveals the best sitcom Christmas specials
The finale of The Office has been voted as the best TV Christmas sitcom special by readers of Radio Times.
British Comedy Guide, 11th December 2019