Last of the Summer Wine

The original trio consisted of Bill Owen, as Compo Simmonite, the scruffiest man in Yorkshire, with only two passions in life: his ferrets and Nora Batty (Kathy Staff).

The second man of the group, Norman Clegg, played by Peter Sallis, was from the beginning shown as the most timid of the group, and also the one who gets carried away by the crazy ideas and schemes of his companions, which always seem to get him in trouble.

Initially the third man of the group was Blamire, played by Michael Bates, but he was soon replaced by Foggy Dewhurst (Brian Wilde) who always seems to have a scheme or a story that somehow leads to his old days as a war hero... or so he says.
In 1986 Brian Wilde left the series, to start filming his new sitcom, which proved to be a wrong move, as the show hadn't the success needed to sustain even a second series. during his 4 year absence from last of the summer wine Michael Aldridge played Seymour, the new third man of the trio, until 1990. Brian Wilde returned to do the next seven years of the show.
When Brian Wilde left the series for the second time in 1997 Frank Thornton replaced him as the new third man on the trio as Truly Truelove of the Yard, an ex-police officer who's always remembering his past, both in the police force and in his former marriage to the former Mrs Truelove.

When Bill Owen passed away, his son Tom joined the series replacing him as Compo's long lost son Tom, and Keith Clifford also became a regular as Billy Hardcastle.

The main cast has always been surrounded by some amazing supporting cast throughout the run of the series, who helped to mantain the series as fresh today as it was when it premiered on the BBC.

Episodes:

Season 1:
1. Short Back And Palais Glide
2. Inventor Of The 40-Foot Ferret
3. Pate And Chips
4. Spring Fever
5. The New Mobile Trio
6. Hail Smiling Morn Or Thereabouts

Season 2:
1. Forked Lightning
2. Who's That Dancing With Nora Batty Then?
3. The Changing Face Of Rural Blamire
4. Some Enchanted Evening
5. A Quiet Drink
6. Ballad For Wind Instruments And Canoe
7. Northern Flying Circus

Season 3:
1. The Man From Oswestry
2. Mending Stuart's Leg
3. The Great Boarding House Bathroom Caper
4. Cheering Up Gordon
5. The Kink In Foggy's Niblick
6. Going To Gordon's Wedding
7. Isometrics And After

Season 4:
1. Ferret Come Home
2. Getting On Sydney's Wire
3. Jubilee
4. Flower Power Cut
5. Who's Made A Bit Of A Splash In Wales Then?
6. Greenfingers
7. A Merry Heatwave
8. The Bandit From Stoke-On-Trent
9. Small Tune On A Penny Wassail

Season 5:
1. Full Steam Behind
2. The Flag And Its Snags
3. The Flag And Further Snags
4. Deep In The Heart Of Yorkshire
5. Earnshaw Strikes Back
6. Here We Go Into The Wild Blue Yonder
7. Here We Go Again Into The Wild Blue Yonder
8. And A Dewhurst Up A Fir Tree
9. Whoops

Season 6:
1. In The Service Of Humanity
2. Car And Garter
3. The Odd Dog Men
4. A Bicycle Made For Three
5. One Of The Last Few Places Unexplored By Man
6. Serenade For Tight Jeans And Metal Detector
7. From Wellies To Wetsuit
8. All Mod Conned

Season 7:
1. The Frozen Turkey Man
2. The White Man's Grave
3. The Waist Land
4. Cheering Up Ludovic
5. The Three Astaires
6. The Arts Of Concealment
7. Getting Sam Home
8. The Loxley Lozenge

Season 8:
1. The Mysterious Feet Of Nora Batty
2. Keeping Britain Tidy
3. Enter The Phantom
4. Catching Digby's Donkey
5. The Woollen Mills Of Your Mind
6. Who's Looking After The Cafe Then?
7. Uncle Of The Bride

Season 9:
1. Why Does Norman Clegg Buy Ladies' Elastic Stockings?
2. The Heavily Reinforced Bottom
3. Dried Dates And Codfanglers
4. The Really Masculine Purse
5. Who's Feeling Ejected Then?
6. The Ice-Cream Man Cometh
7. Set The People Free
8. Go With The Flow
9. Jaws
10. Edie And The Automobile
11. Wind Power
12. When You Take A Good Bite Of Yorkshire, It Tastes Terrible
13. Merry Christmas, Father Christmas
14. Big Day At Dream Acres

Season 10:
1. The Experiment
2. The Treasure Of The Deep
3. Dancing Feet
4. That Certain Smile
5. Downhill Racer
6. The Day Of The Welsh Ferret
7. Crums

Season 11:
1. Come Back, Jack Harry Teesdale
2. The Kiss And Mavis Poskitt
3. Oh Shut Up And Eat Your Choc Ice
4. Who's That Bloke With Nora Batty Then?
5. Happy Anniversary Gough And Jessie
6. Getting Barry Higher In The World
7. Three Men And A Mangle
8. What's Santa Brought For Nora Then?

Season 12:
1. Return Of The Warrior
2. Come In, Sunray Major
3. The Charity Balls
4. Walking Stiff Can Make You Famous
5. That's Not Captain Zero
6. Das Welly Boot
7. The Empire That Foggy Nearly Built
8. The Last Surviving Maurice Chevalier Impression
9. Roll On
10. A Landlady For Smiler
11. Barry's Christmas

Season 13:
1. Quick, Quick, Slow
2. Give Us A Lift
3. Was That Nora Batty Singing?
4. Cash Flow Problems
5. Passing The Earring
6. Pole Star
7. Situations Vacant

Season 14:
1. By The Magnificent Thighs Of Ernie Burniston
2. Errol Flynn Used To Have A Pair Like That
3. The Phantom Of The Graveyard
4. The Self-Propelled Salad Strainer
5. Ordeal By Trousers
6. Happy Birthday, Howard
7. Who's Got Rhythm?
8. Camera Shy
9. Wheelies
10. Stop That Castle

Season 15:
1. How To Clear Your Pipes
2. Where There's Smoke, There's Barbecue
3. The Black Widow
4. Have You Got A Light Mate?
5. Stop That Bath
6. Springing Smiler
7. Concerto For Solo Bicycle
8. There Are Gypsies At The Bottom Of Our Garden
9. Aladdin Gets On Your Wick
10. Welcome To Earth
11. The Man Who Nearly Knew Pavarotti

Season 16:
1. The Glory Hole
2. Adopted By A Stray
3. The Defeat Of The Stoneworm
4. Once In A Moonlit Junkyard
5. The Space Ace
6. The Most Powerful Eyeballs In West Yorkshire
7. The Dewhursts Of Ogleby Hall
8. The Sweet Smell Of Excess

Season 17:
1. Leaving Home Forever Or Till Teatime
2. Bicycle Bonanza
3. The Glamour Of The Uniform
4. The First Human Being To Ride A Hill
5. Captain Clutterbuck's Treasure
6. Desperate For A Duffield
7. The Suit That Turned Left
8. Beware Of The Elbow
9. The Thing In Wesley's Shed
10. Brushes At Dawn
11. A Leg Up For Christmas
12. Extra! Extra!

Season 18:
1. The Love-Mobile
2. A Clean Sweep
3. The Mysterious C. W. Northrop
4. A Double For Howard
5. How To Create A Monster
6. Deviations With Davenport
7. According To The Prophet Bickerdyke
8. Next Kiss Please
9. Destiny And Six Bananas
10. A Sidecar Named Desire
11. There Goes The Groom

Season 19:
1. Beware The Oglethorpe
2. Tarzan Of The Towpath
3. Truly And The Hole Truth
4. Oh Howard, We Should Get One Of Those
5. The Suit That Attracts Blondes
6. The Only Diesel Saxophone In Captivity
7. Perfection - Thy Name Is Ridley
8. Nowhere Particular
9. From Audrey Nash To The Widow Dilhooley
10. Support Your Local Skydiver

Season 20:
1. The Pony Set
2. How Errol Flynn Discovered The Secret Scar Of Nora Batty
3. Who's Thrown Her Tom Cruise Photos Away?
4. What's Happened To Barry's Nose?
5. Optimism In The Housing Market
6. Will Barry Go Septic Despite Listening To Classical Music?
7. Beware The Vanilla Slice
8. Howard Throws A Wobbler
9. The Phantom Number 14 Bus
10. Ironing Day
11. Last Post And Pigeon

Season 21:
1. Lipstick And Other Problems
2. Under The Rug
3. Magic And The Morris Minor
4. Elegy For Fallen Wellies
5. Surprise At Throstlenest
6. Just A Small Funeral
7. From Here To Paternity
8. Some Vans Can Make You Deaf
9. Waggoner's Roll
10. I Didn't Know Barry Could Play

Season 22:
1. Getting Barry's Goat
2. The Art Of The Shorts Story
3. The Missing Bus Of Mrs. Avery
4. Hey! Big Vendor
5. Enter The Hawk
6. Gnome And Away
7. A Hair Of The Blonde That Bit You
8. A White Sweater And A Solicitor's Letter
9. Why Is Barry At An Angle?
10. The Coming Of The Beast
11. Potts In Pole Position

Season 23:
1. A Brief Excursion In The Fast Lane
2. The Mystical Squeak Of Howard's Bicycle
3. Mervyn Would Be Proud
4. The Incredible Ordeal Of Norman Clegg
5. Beware Of The Hot Dog
6. In Search Of Childlike Joy And The Farthest Reaches Of The Lotus Position
7. A Chaise Longue Too Far
8. Exercising Father's Bicycle
9. Sadly, Madly, Bradley
10. It All Began With An Old Volvo Headlamp

Season 24:
1. A Musical Passing For A Miserable Muscroft
2. The Lair Of The Cat Creature
3. Ancient Eastern Wisdom: An Introduction
4. A Pick-Up Of The Later Ming Dynasty
5. The Secret Birthday Of Norman Clegg
6. In Which Gavin Hinchcliffe Loses The Gulf Stream
7. The Miraculous Curing Of Old Goff Helliwell
8. The Frenchies Are Coming
9. The Man Who Invented Yorkshire Funny Stuff
10. The Second Husband And The Showgirls
11. All Of A Florrie
12. Thirty Years Of Last Of The Summer Wine
13. A Short Burst Of Fred Astaire

Season 25:
1. Jurassic No Parking
2. The General's Greatest Battle
3. Spores
4. Happy Birthday Robin Hood
5. Who's That With Barry And Glenda? It's Not Barry And Glenda
6. An Apple A Day
7. Barry Becomes A Psychopathic Killer, but Only Part Time
8. Things To Do When Your Wife Runs Off With A Turkish Waiter
9. Beware of Laughing at Nora's Hats
10. Yours Truly - If You're Not Careful
11. Variations on a Theme of the Widow Winstanley

Season 26:
1. The Swan Man Of Ilkley
2. Watching the Clock
3. Has Anyone Seen a Peruvian Wart?
4. Hermione (The Short Course)
5. Who's That Mouse in the Poetry Group?
6. Available for Weddings
7. The McDonaghs of Jamieson Street
8. The Afterthoughts of a Co-op Manager
9. Lot Number 8
10. Little Orphan Howard