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 4, Episode 1 repeated at 11:10am on U&Gold
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Series 12, Episode 1 - Return Of The Warrior
Life without Seymour soon becomes boring for Compo and Clegg - but not for long.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Sunday 2nd September 1990
- Time
- 7:15pm
- Channel
- BBC One
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Bill Owen | William 'Compo' Simmonite |
| Peter Sallis | Norman Clegg |
| Brian Wilde | Walter C. 'Foggy' Dewhurst |
| Michael Aldridge | Seymour Utterthwaite |
| Kathy Staff | Nora Batty |
| Sarah Thomas | Glenda Wilkinson |
| Jean Fergusson | Marina |
| Robert Fyfe | Howard Sibshaw |
| Juliette Kaplan | Pearl Sibshaw |
| Jane Freeman | Ivy |
| Gordon Wharmby | Wesley Pegden |
| Danny O'Dea | Eli Duckett |
| Alan Starkey | Customer |
| Roy Clarke | Writer |
| Alan J. W. Bell | Director |
| Alan J. W. Bell | Producer |
| John Wilkinson | Editor |
| Steve Jamison | Editor |
| Marjorie Pratt | Production Designer |
| Dinah Collin | Costume Designer |
| Lesley Smith | Make-up Designer |
| Derek Slee | Lighting Designer |
| Ronnie Hazlehurst | Composer |
Press
A joyful return is Foggy Dewhurst (Brian Wilde) in The Last Of The Summer Wine (BBC1). It is not given to everyone to be able to act innocence. but Wilde can, and without Corporal Dewhurst, Compo and Clegg have been like a softly boiled egg without its soldiers.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 3rd September 1990