Last of the Summer Wine is an affectionate comedy about people in the autumn of their years. The series is the world's longest-running sitcom, having clocked up 31 series and numerous Christmas specials during its run.
Last of the Summer Wine is an affectionate comedy about people in the autumn of their years. The series is the world's longest-running sitcom, having clocked up 31 series and numerous Christmas specials during its run.
Suggest an edit
Seasons (31)
Season 1
12 Nov 1973 – 17 Dec 1973 · 6 episodes
1Short Back and Palais Glide12 Nov 1973
2Inventor of the 40-Foot Ferret19 Nov 1973
3Pate and Chips26 Nov 1973
4Spring Fever3 Dec 1973
5The New Mobile Trio10 Dec 1973
6Hail Smiling Morn or Thereabouts17 Dec 1973
Season 2
5 Mar 1975 – 16 Apr 1975 · 7 episodes
1Forked Lightning5 Mar 1975
2Who's That Dancing with Nora Batty Then?12 Mar 1975
3The Changing Face of Rural Blamire19 Mar 1975
4Some Enchanted Evening26 Mar 1975
5A Quiet Drink2 Apr 1975
6Ballad for Wind Instruments and Canoe9 Apr 1975
7Northern Flying Circus16 Apr 1975
Season 3
27 Oct 1976 – 8 Dec 1976 · 7 episodes
1The Man from Oswestry27 Oct 1976
2Mending Stuart's Leg6 Nov 1976
3The Great Boarding House Bathroom Caper10 Nov 1976
4Cheering Up Gordon17 Nov 1976
5The Kink in Foggy's Niblick24 Nov 1976
6Going to Gordon's Wedding1 Dec 1976
7Isometrics and After8 Dec 1976
Season 4
9 Nov 1977 – 26 Dec 1978 · 9 episodes
1Ferret Come Home9 Nov 1977
2Getting on Sydney's Wire16 Nov 1977
3Jubilee23 Nov 1977
4Flower Power Cut30 Nov 1977
5Who Made a Bit of a Splash in Wales Then?7 Dec 1977
6Greenfingers14 Dec 1977
7A Merry Heatwave1 Jan 1978
8The Bandit from Stoke-on-Trent4 Jan 1978
9Small Tune on a Penny Wassail (1978 Christmas Special)26 Dec 1978
Season 5
18 Sep 1979 – 25 Dec 1981 · 9 episodes
1Full Steam Behind18 Sep 1979
2The Flag and Its Snag25 Sep 1979
3The Flag and Further Snags2 Oct 1979
4Deep in the Heart of Yorkshire9 Oct 1979
5Earnshaw Strikes Back16 Oct 1979
6Here We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder23 Oct 1979
7Here We Go Again Into the Wild Blue Yonder30 Oct 1979
8And a Dewhurst Up a Fir Tree (1979 Christmas Special)27 Dec 1979
9Whoops (1981 Christmas Special)25 Dec 1981
Season 6
4 Jan 1982 – 25 Dec 1982 · 8 episodes
1In the Service of Humanity4 Jan 1982
2Car and Garter11 Jan 1982
3The Odd Dog Men18 Jan 1982
4A Bicycle Made for Three25 Jan 1982
5One of the Last Few Places Unexplored by Man1 Feb 1982
6Serenade for Tight Jeans and Metal Detector8 Feb 1982
7From Wellies to Wetsuit15 Feb 1982
8All Mod Conned (1982 Christmas Special)25 Dec 1982
Season 7
30 Jan 1983 – 30 Dec 1984 · 8 episodes
1The Frozen Turkey Man30 Jan 1983
2The White Man's Grave6 Feb 1983
3The Waist Land13 Feb 1983
4Cheering Up Ludovic20 Feb 1983
5The Three Astaires27 Feb 1983
6The Arts of Concealment6 Mar 1983
7Getting Sam Home (1983 Christmas Special)27 Dec 1983
8The Loxley Lozenge (1984 Christmas Special)30 Dec 1984
Season 8
10 Mar 1985 – 1 Jan 1986 · 7 episodes
1The Mysterious Feet of Nora Batty10 Mar 1985
2Keeping Britain Tidy17 Mar 1985
3Enter the Phantom24 Mar 1985
4Catching Digby's Donkey31 Mar 1985
5The Woollen Mills of Your Mind7 Apr 1985
6Who's Looking After the Cafe Then?14 Apr 1985
7Uncle of the Bride1 Jan 1986
Season 9
4 Jan 1986 – 31 Dec 1987 · 14 episodes
1Why Does Norman Clegg Buy Ladies' Elastic Stockings?4 Jan 1986
2The Heavily Reinforced Bottom11 Jan 1986
3Dried Dates and Codfanglers18 Jan 1986
4The Really Masculine Purse25 Jan 1986
5Who's Feeling Ejected Then?1 Feb 1986
6The Ice-Cream Man Cometh8 Feb 1986
7Set the People Free15 Feb 1986
8Go with the Flow22 Feb 1986
9Jaws1 Mar 1986
10Edie and the Automobile8 Mar 1986
11Wind Power15 Mar 1986
12When You Take a Good Bite of Yorkshire, It Tastes Terrible22 Mar 1986
13Merry Christmas, Father Christmas (1986 Christmas Special)28 Dec 1986
14Big Day at Dream Acres (1987 Christmas Special)31 Dec 1987
Season 10
16 Oct 1988 – 24 Dec 1988 · 7 episodes
1The Experiment16 Oct 1988
2The Treasure of the Deep23 Oct 1988
3Dancing Feet30 Oct 1988
4That Certain Smile6 Nov 1988
5Downhill Racer13 Nov 1988
6The Day of the Welsh Ferret20 Nov 1988
7Crums (1988 Christmas Special)24 Dec 1988
Season 11
15 Oct 1989 – 23 Dec 1989 · 8 episodes
1Come Back, Jack Harry Teesdale15 Oct 1989
2The Kiss and Mavis Poskitt22 Oct 1989
3Oh Shut Up and Eat Your Choc Ice29 Oct 1989
4Who's That Bloke with Nora Batty Then?5 Nov 1989
5Happy Anniversary Gough and Jessie12 Nov 1989
6Getting Barry Higher in the World19 Nov 1989
7Three Men and a Mangle26 Nov 1989
8What's Santa Brought for Nora Then? (1989 Christmas Special)23 Dec 1989
Season 12
2 Sep 1990 – 27 Dec 1990 · 11 episodes
1Return of the Warrior2 Sep 1990
2Come In, Sunray Major9 Sep 1990
3The Charity Balls16 Sep 1990
4Walking Stiff Can Make You Famous23 Sep 1990
5That's Not Captain Zero30 Sep 1990
6Das Welly Boot7 Oct 1990
7The Empire That Foggy Nearly Built14 Oct 1990
8The Last Surviving Maurice Chevalier Impression21 Oct 1990
9Roll On28 Oct 1990
10A Landlady for Smiler4 Nov 1990
11Barry's Christmas (1990 Christmas Special)27 Dec 1990
Season 13
18 Oct 1991 – 22 Dec 1991 · 7 episodes
1Quick, Quick, Slow18 Oct 1991
2Give Us a Lift25 Oct 1991
3Was That Nora Batty Singing?1 Nov 1991
4Cash Flow Problems8 Nov 1991
5Passing the Earring15 Nov 1991
6Pole Star29 Nov 1991
7Situations Vacant22 Dec 1991
Season 14
25 Oct 1992 – 26 Dec 1992 · 10 episodes
1By the Magnificent Thighs of Ernie Burniston25 Oct 1992
2Errol Flynn Used to Have a Pair Like That1 Nov 1992
3The Phantom of the Graveyard8 Nov 1992
4The Self-Propelled Salad Strainer15 Nov 1992
5Ordeal by Trousers22 Nov 1992
6Happy Birthday, Howard29 Nov 1992
7Who's Got Rhythm?6 Dec 1992
8Camera Shy13 Dec 1992
9Wheelies20 Dec 1992
10Stop That Castle26 Dec 1992
Season 15
24 Oct 1993 – 1 Jan 1995 · 11 episodes
1How to Clear Your Pipes24 Oct 1993
2Where There's Smoke, There's Barbecue31 Oct 1993
3The Black Widow7 Nov 1993
4Have You Got a Light Mate?14 Nov 1993
5Stop That Bath21 Nov 1993
6Springing Smiler28 Nov 1993
7Concerto for Solo Bicycle5 Dec 1993
8There Are Gypsies at the Bottom of Our Garden12 Dec 1993
9Aladdin Gets on Your Wick19 Dec 1993
10Welcome to Earth27 Dec 1993
11The Man Who Nearly Knew Pavarotti1 Jan 1995
Season 16
8 Jan 1995 – 26 Feb 1995 · 8 episodes
1The Glory Hole8 Jan 1995
2Adopted by a Stray15 Jan 1995
3The Defeat of the Stoneworm22 Jan 1995
4Once in a Moonlit Junkyard29 Jan 1995
5The Space Ace5 Feb 1995
6The Most Powerful Eyeballs in West Yorkshire12 Feb 1995
7The Dewhursts of Ogleby Hall19 Feb 1995
8The Sweet Smell of Excess26 Feb 1995
Season 17
3 Sep 1995 – 29 Dec 1996 · 12 episodes
1Leaving Home Forever or Till Teatime3 Sep 1995
2Bicycle Bonanza10 Sep 1995
3The Glamour of the Uniform17 Sep 1995
4The First Human Being to Ride a Hill24 Sep 1995
5Captain Clutterbuck's Treasure1 Oct 1995
6Desperate for a Duffield8 Oct 1995
7The Suit That Turned Left15 Oct 1995
8Beware of the Elbow22 Oct 1995
9The Thing in Wesley's Shed29 Oct 1995
10Brushes at Dawn5 Nov 1995
11A Leg Up for Christmas (1995 Christmas Special)25 Dec 1995
12Extra! Extra! (1996 Christmas Special)29 Dec 1996
Season 18
20 Apr 1997 – 29 Dec 1997 · 11 episodes
1The Love-Mobile20 Apr 1997
2A Clean Sweep27 Apr 1997
3The Mysterious C. W. Northrop4 May 1997
4A Double for Howard11 May 1997
5How to Create a Monster18 May 1997
6Deviations with Davenport25 May 1997
7According to the Prophet Bickerdyke1 Jun 1997
8Next Kiss Please8 Jun 1997
9Destiny and Six Bananas15 Jun 1997
10A Sidecar Named Desire22 Jun 1997
11There Goes the Groom29 Dec 1997
Season 19
4 Jan 1998 – 8 Mar 1998 · 10 episodes
1Beware the Oglethorpe4 Jan 1998
2Tarzan of the Towpath11 Jan 1998
3Truly and the Hole Truth18 Jan 1998
4Oh Howard, We Should Get One of Those25 Jan 1998
5The Suit That Attracts Blondes1 Feb 1998
6The Only Diesel Saxophone in Captivity8 Feb 1998
7Perfection - Thy Name is Ridley15 Feb 1998
8Nowhere Particular22 Feb 1998
9From Audrey Nash to the Widow Dilhooley1 Mar 1998
10Support Your Local Skydiver8 Mar 1998
Season 20
18 Apr 1999 – 2 Jan 2000 · 11 episodes
1The Pony Set18 Apr 1999
2How Errol Flynn Discovered the Secret Scar of Nora Batty25 Apr 1999
3Who's Thrown Her Tom Cruise Photos Away?2 May 1999
4What's Happened to Barry's Nose?16 May 1999
5Optimism in the Housing Market23 May 1999
6Will Barry Go Septic Despite Listening to Classical Music?30 May 1999
7Beware the Vanilla Slice6 Jun 1999
8Howard Throws a Wobbler13 Jun 1999
9The Phantom Number 14 Bus20 Jun 1999
10Ironing Day27 Jun 1999
11Last Post and Pigeon2 Jan 2000
Season 21
2 Apr 2000 – 4 Jun 2000 · 10 episodes
1Lipstick and Other Problems2 Apr 2000
2Under the Rug9 Apr 2000
3Magic and the Morris Minor16 Apr 2000
4Elegy for Fallen Wellies23 Apr 2000
5Surprise at Throstlenest30 Apr 2000
6Just a Small Funeral7 May 2000
7From Here to Paternity14 May 2000
8Some Vans Can Make You Deaf21 May 2000
9Waggoner's Roll28 May 2000
10I Didn't Know Barry Could Play4 Jun 2000
Season 22
1 Apr 2001 – 30 Dec 2001 · 11 episodes
1Getting Barry's Goat1 Apr 2001
2The Art of the Shorts Story8 Apr 2001
3The Missing Bus of Mrs. Avery15 Apr 2001
4Hey! Big Vendor22 Apr 2001
5Enter the Hawk29 Apr 2001
6Gnome and Away6 May 2001
7A Hair of the Blonde That Bit You13 May 2001
8A White Sweater and a Solicitor's Letter20 May 2001
9Why is Barry at an Angle?27 May 2001
10The Coming of the Beast3 Jun 2001
11Potts in Pole Position30 Dec 2001
Season 23
6 Jan 2002 – 10 Mar 2002 · 10 episodes
1A Brief Excursion in the Fast Lane6 Jan 2002
2The Mystical Squeak of Howard's Bicycle13 Jan 2002
3Mervyn Would Be Proud20 Jan 2002
4The Incredible Ordeal of Norman Clegg27 Jan 2002
5Beware of the Hot Dog3 Feb 2002
6In Search of Childlike Joy and the Farthest Reaches of the Lotus Position10 Feb 2002
7A Chaise Longue Too Far17 Feb 2002
8Exercising Father's Bicycle24 Feb 2002
9Sadly, Madly, Bradley3 Mar 2002
10It All Began with an Old Volvo Headlamp10 Mar 2002
Season 24
29 Dec 2002 – 21 Dec 2003 · 12 episodes
1A Musical Passing for a Miserable Muscroft29 Dec 2002
2The Lair of the Cat Creature5 Jan 2003
3Ancient Eastern Wisdom: An Introduction12 Jan 2003
4A Pick-Up of the Later Ming Dynasty19 Jan 2003
5The Secret Birthday of Norman Clegg26 Jan 2003
6In Which Gavin Hinchcliffe Loses the Gulf Stream2 Feb 2003
7The Miraculous Curing of Old Goff Helliwell9 Feb 2003
8The Frenchies Are Coming23 Feb 2003
9The Man Who Invented Yorkshire Funny Stuff2 Mar 2003
10The Second Husband and the Showgirls9 Mar 2003
11All of a Florrie16 Mar 2003
12A Short Burst of Fred Astaire (2003 Christmas Special)21 Dec 2003
Season 25
8 Feb 2004 – 19 Dec 2004 · 11 episodes
1Jurassic No Parking8 Feb 2004
2The General's Greatest Battle15 Feb 2004
3Spores29 Feb 2004
4Happy Birthday Robin Hood7 Mar 2004
5Who's That with Barry and Glenda? It's Not Barry and Glenda14 Mar 2004
6An Apple a Day21 Mar 2004
7Barry Becomes a Psychopathic Killer...28 Mar 2004
8Things to Do When Your Wife Runs Off with a Turkish Waiter4 Apr 2004
9Beware of Laughing at Nora's Hats11 Apr 2004
10Yours Truly - If You're Not Careful18 Apr 2004
11Variations on a Theme of the Widow Winstanley (2004 Christmas Special)19 Dec 2004
Season 26
13 Mar 2005 – 18 Dec 2005 · 11 episodes
1The Swan Man of Ilkley13 Mar 2005
2Watching the Clock20 Mar 2005
3Has Anyone Seen a Peruvian Wart?27 Mar 2005
4Hermione (The Short Course)10 Apr 2005
5Who's That Mouse in the Poetry Group?17 Apr 2005
6Available for Weddings24 Apr 2005
7The McDonaghs of Jamieson Street1 May 2005
8The Afterthoughts of a Co-op Manager8 May 2005
9Lot Number 815 May 2005
10Little Orphan Howard29 May 2005
11Merry Entwistle and Jackson Day18 Dec 2005
Season 27
5 Mar 2006 – 30 Apr 2006 · 9 episodes
1Follow That Bottle5 Mar 2006
2How to Remove a Cousin12 Mar 2006
3Has Anyone Seen Barry's Midlife Crisis?19 Mar 2006
4The Genuine Outdoors Robin Hood Barbi26 Mar 2006
5Barry in Danger from Reading and Aunt Jessie2 Apr 2006
6Who's That Merry Man with Billy, Then?9 Apr 2006
7Who's That Talking to Lenny?16 Apr 2006
8Oh Look! Mitzi's Found Her Mummy23 Apr 2006
9Plenty of Room in the Back30 Apr 2006
Season 28
15 Jul 2007 – 23 Sep 2007 · 10 episodes
1The Second Stag Night of Doggy Wilkinson15 Jul 2007
2What Happened to the Horse?29 Jul 2007
3Variations on a Theme of Road Rage5 Aug 2007
4In Which Howard Gets Double Booked12 Aug 2007
5Will the Nearest Alien Please Come In19 Aug 2007
6Elegy for Small Creature and Clandestine Trackbike26 Aug 2007
7The Crowcroft Challenge2 Sep 2007
8Must Be Good Dancer9 Sep 2007
9In Which Howard Remembers Where He Left His Bicycle Pump16 Sep 2007
10Sinclair and the Wormley Witches23 Sep 2007
Season 29
22 Jun 2008 – 31 Aug 2008 · 11 episodes
1Enter the Finger22 Jun 2008
2Will the Genuine Racer Please Stand Up?29 Jun 2008
3A Short Introduction to Cooper's Rules6 Jul 2008
4Is Jeremy Quite Safe?13 Jul 2008
5All That Glitters is Not Elvis20 Jul 2008
6Eva's Back in Town27 Jul 2008
7In Which Romance Isn't Dead - Just Incompetent3 Aug 2008
8The Mischievous Tinkle in Howard's Eyes10 Aug 2008
9Of Passion and Pizza17 Aug 2008
10It's Never Ten Years24 Aug 2008
11Get Out of That Then31 Aug 2008
Season 30
19 Apr 2009 – 21 Jun 2009 · 10 episodes
1Some Adventures of the Inventor of the Mother Stitch19 Apr 2009
2The Mother of All Mistakes - Or is It?26 Apr 2009
3Will Howard Cross the Atlantic Single-Handed?3 May 2009
4Who's That Looking Sideways at Nelly?10 May 2009
5Nobody Messes with Tony the Throat17 May 2009
6Will Stella Find True Love with Norris Fairburn?24 May 2009
7Will Randolph Make a Good Impression?31 May 2009
8In Which Romance Springs a Leak7 Jun 2009
9Variations on a Theme of Father's Day14 Jun 2009
10Goodnight Sweet Ferret21 Jun 2009
Season 31
25 Jul 2010 – 29 Aug 2010 · 6 episodes
1Behind Every Bush There is Not Necessarily a Howard25 Jul 2010