|  UK
/ BBC / 240+ x30 minute episodes / 12 November 1973 - continuing
Writer: Roy
Clarke
Having grown
out of an episode of the BBC's legendary Comedy Playhouse series and
written by the well respected Roy Clarke Last of the Summer Wine started
off in a quiet low key fashion and has continued ever since, making it
the BBC's longest running sitcom and one of the longest running shows in
the world, all this from a gentle comedy about the pleasures of growing
old. The situation is basically the shenanigans of three elderly men
looking to spice up their retirement in an idyllic Yorkshire village
(Holmfirth in real life); Blamire tends to get the ideas, Clegg is
generally unwilling to get too involved whilst the slovenly Compo is
usually the one who sends the plan awry.
The trio has changed over
the years but Peter Sallis as Clegg as been a constant as was Bill Owen
as Compo for 26 years until his death. Clegg seemed permanently worried
and Compo spent most of his time lusting after the wrinkled stockinged
Goddess (at least in Compo's eyes) Nora Batty .The third of the trio
changed occasionally but was always a bumptious military type (most
notably Foggy Dewhurst). There was a prequel called First
of the Summer Wine.
cast
BILL OWEN as Compo(-99) / PETER SALLIS as Norman Clegg / MICHAEL BATES
as Blamire (Seasons 1-2) / BRIAN WILDE as Foggy / Dewhurst(Seasons
3-8/12-) / MICHAEL ALDRIDGE as Seymour Utterthwaite(Seasons 9-11) /
KATHY STAFF as Nora Batty / JOE GLADWIN as Wally Batty / JOHN COMER as
Sid / JANE FREEMAN as Ivy / THORA HIRD as Edie Pegden / GORDON WHARMBY
as Wesley Pegden / STEPHEN LEWIS as Smiler / JEAN ALEXANDER as Auntie
Wainwright / TOM OWEN as Tom
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