Last Of The Summer Wine

It's the end of an era, as the cork comes out of the bottle of Britain's longest-running sitcom for the last time. Roy Clarke's beloved tales of a group of hapless old men in a West Yorkshire village first appeared on our screens in 1973, but the show has gone on to carve a host of indelible characters, such as Bill Owen's Compo and Kathy Staff's Nora Batty, onto the television landscape. Tonight, Howard (Robert Fyfe) despairs of being allowed back into the marital home to retrieve his wedding suit.

The Very Last of the Summer Wine

The world's longest-running sitcom, Last of the Summer Wine, comes to an end this weekend. In the Yorkshire town where the series is set, fans are preparing to bid farewell to a TV institution.

The Very Last Of The Summer Wine Review

It has to be said, Last Of The Summer Wine isn't exactly my (nor anyone under the age of 40's) bag.

Last of the Summer Wine: Special friends in the north

'Last of the Summer Wine' ends tomorrow. We won't see its like again, says David Quantick.

The last of the Last of the Summer Wine

The final ever episode of Last of the Summer Wine airs on BBC1 on Sunday, ending an incredible 37 years and 31 series that made it the world's longest-running sitcom. And in an interview in the latest edition of Radio Times magazine, actor Peter Sallis reveals that Her Majesty the Queen is among the show's fans.

What did Last of the Summer Wine teach us?

After 37 years of capers from Compo and his pals, Last of the Summer Wine says goodbye this week. One thing it has taught us, says Yasmeen Khan, is that elderly people can still have fun.

Wine appreciation

How has this sitcom lasted so long? Maybe it is wrong to criticise a show which is not only virtually catchphrase-free but which has, for whatever reason, found a definite niche in the popular psyche.

They bickered over money, politics and the best jokes

The non-swimming Sallis would later recall that he managed to escape the river only because he was able to put a foot on a hard object under the water and lever himself out on to the bank. That hard object turned out to be Owen's head.

Swansong line for 'Last Of The Summer Wine' revealed

Long-running TV hit Last Of The Summer Wine will bow out with a line from the show's longest serving star Peter Sallis, it was revealed today.

So an era comes to an end, with the start of the final series of the world's longest-running sitcom. Its stars are disgruntled there will be no farewell finale. Instead, the Beeb is marking the event with a Countryfile special filmed in Holmfirth (the sitcom's setting) at 8.00pm. In the meantime, there's six episodes left, starting tonight with Toby (Trevor Bannister) and Morton's (Christopher Beeny) woman trouble.