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Last of the Summer Wine is a British sitcom set in Yorkshire created and written by Roy Clarke and originally broadcast by the BBC from 1973 to 2010. It premiered as an episode of Comedy Playhouse on 4 January 1973, and the first series of episodes followed on 12 November 1973. Alan J. W. Bell produced and directed all episodes of the show from ...
The 31st (and final) series started broadcasting on 25 July 2010. Every episode was written by Roy Clarke. As of 29 August 2010 (the very last day of transmission), a total of 295 episodes of Last of the Summer Wine have aired. This includes the Comedy Playhouse pilot, twenty-four Christmas Specials, three New Year Specials and a Millennium ...
Summer Wine trio. Timeline of trios of principal characters. Truly and Clegg continued as secondary characters until the end of the show. Billy first appeared in series 20, and Alvin and Entwistle both in series 24. In the second half of series 21, Tom Simmonite was temporarily in the trio after the death of Compo.
LLC1042E. 1. The trio go to the gloomy and pessimistic Judd's ( Frank Middlemass) barber's shop for a haircut, then to the library where Blamire and Clegg hold Compo upside down to rid him of evil spirits. Compo realises he has lost his key and the trio go to find Mr Wainwright, the librarian. They find he has gone to a formal dinner dance, so ...
First of the Summer Wine is a British sitcom written by Roy Clarke that aired on BBC1. The pilot originally aired on 3 January 1988, and the first series of episodes followed from 4 September 1988. The show ran for two series of six episodes each, with the final episode airing on 8 October 1989. The pilot episode was produced and directed by ...
Last of the Summer Wine's thirty-first and final series was aired in 2010, beginning on 25 July. [1] All six episodes in series 31 were 30 minutes in length. All of the episodes were written by Roy Clarke and directed by Alan J. W. Bell . The series was the first in 19 years to be only six episodes long, due in part to the BBC axing the show ...
Julian Simmonote (great-nephew) 2 unnamed grandchildren. William Simmonite, better known by his nickname of Compo (from unemployment compensation, as in the phrase "he's on the compo", according to series writer Roy Clarke), [ 1] was a character in the world's longest-running sitcom, Last of the Summer Wine .
series 14. Last of the Summer Wine 's fourteenth series aired on BBC1 in 1992. All of the episodes were written by Roy Clarke and produced and directed by Alan J. W. Bell . This was the first series to be shot entirely on film, although the complete episode was still assembled on videotape.