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
Streaming rank this week: 1,637
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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 1990And as The Last Of The Summer Wine (BBC1) trickles tickling down our throats, we say farewell for now to Foggy, Clegg, Compo and to Nora Batty of the erotic wrinkled stockings, so late in life and so unexpectedly the sweetheart of the nation.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 17th February 1982It reminded me, oddly enough, of Last of the Summer Wine (BBC1), which has just ended its run. Foggy Dewhirst, Clegg and Compo, respectively an ex-officer, redundant lino salesman and a burden on the welfare state, are released by age from all that and spend the afternoons as if they were children. The afternoons because they's when the pubs close.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 5th January 1978By not bothering to get up on Monday and Friday, one could avoid Opportunity Knocks and Miss World. No small bonus. Bonuses? Yes, well. This theory of the good life is rather thrown out of true by Last of the Summer Wine (BBC1), a new, mellow and gorgeous comedy series.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 20th November 1973The Last Of The Summer Wine by Roy Clarke in the Comedy Playhouse Series struck me as a delightful straight play. And I could have wished that something would strike the woman in the studio audience, who thought she was watching The Comedians.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 5th January 1973