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.
- 1986 Specials, New Year Special repeated tomorrow at 10am on U&Gold
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Series 9, Episode 1 - Why Does Norman Clegg Buy Ladies' Elastic Stockings?
Arriving at Seymour's to find barriers and barbed wire,
Compo and Clegg realise that he must have invented something breathtakingly original: and so he has, but their initial interest is dimmed when the pedal-powered thing has to be road- and field-tested.
Compo and Clegg realise that he must have invented something breathtakingly original: and so he has, but their initial interest is dimmed when the pedal-powered thing has to be road- and field-tested.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Sunday 4th January 1987
- Time
- 7:15pm
- Channel
- BBC One
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Bill Owen | William 'Compo' Simmonite |
| Peter Sallis | Norman Clegg |
| Michael Aldridge | Seymour Utterthwaite |
| Kathy Staff | Nora Batty |
| Jean Fergusson | Marina |
| Robert Fyfe | Howard Sibshaw |
| Juliette Kaplan | Pearl Sibshaw |
| Jane Freeman | Ivy |
| Joe Gladwin | Wally Batty |
| Jonathan Linsley | 'Crusher' Milburn |
| Gordon Wharmby | Wesley Pegden |
| Thora Hird | Edith Pegden |
| Johnny Leeze | YEB Man |
| Roy Clarke | Writer |
| Alan J. W. Bell | Director |
| Alan J. W. Bell | Producer |
| Ian Williams | Editor |
| John Wilkinson | Editor |
| Stephan Paczai | Production Designer |
| Peter Halston | Costume Designer |
| Martha Livesley | Make-up Designer |
| Peter Smee | Lighting Designer |
| Ronnie Hazlehurst | Composer |