Last Of The Summer Wine: The Complete Collection [DVD]

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Every single episode of the world's longest-running sitcom: all thirty-one series of the BBC's Last Of The Summer Wine. Bill Owen also wrote a different version of the lyrics but this version was never used during an episode of the show.

I had very fond memories of the first two series of Last of the Summer Wine, the ones with Michael Bates but these final three episodes, despite the odd funny line here and there, were the final disabusement of nostalgia. There’s nothing wrong with the BBC wanting to appeal to a young audience, in fact it’s wholly sensible: you don’t get an old audience without their being a young audience first. Gilbert had seen film actor Bill Owen playing northern characters in the Royal Court Theatre and proposed to cast him as Compo.Even when it was finally cancelled, to choruses of relief and high condecension from people who hadn’t watched the series in decades but still thought it shouldn’t offend their sight, Last of the Summer Wine was pulling in 6,000,000 viewers a week. For items that are dispatched using our standard service, we ask that you wait 14 days from the date of dispatch before reporting any items as undelivered. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. In 2010, the BBC killed off Last of the Summer Wine, and millions cheered to think that never again would they have to not watch a programme they despised as ‘three old men sliding down a hillside on a tea tray’.

I never intended to follow the show any further than these first two, nostalgia-carried, series, even though the first Foggy Dewhurst period was probably the most consistenty successful era of Last of the Summer Wine: I remember that period only too well for nostalgia to have much of a grip. It seems that they did this due to lack of space on the previous series disc and just put them in where they had room. It premiered as an episode of Comedy Playhouse on 4 January 1973, and the first series of episodes followed on 12 November 1973. The back cover of the box gives a brief bit of info for that series and a list of it’s dvd’s with the episodes.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. It’s been gone now for four years, the longest running sitcom in the world, the series that everyone, except its audience, loved to hate. In its last decade, the show seems to have accumulated new characters hand over fist, to the point where it seems impossible, from the outside, for the series to have worked if everybody’s schtick had to be accommodated in every episode. This was filmed almost fifty years ago, in a different era of technology, and the same contrast between interior and exterior shots was wildly in evidence, and LOTSW spent a lot of time out of doors, utilising Holmfirth’s streets and its attendant hills to wide extent. Still much, much better than watching from a well used VHS or poor quality youtube copy from over a decade ago.

The BBC confirmed on 2 June 2010 that Last of the Summer Wine would no longer be produced and the 31st series would be its last.Due to the age of the main cast, a new trio was formed during the 30th series, featuring somewhat younger actors.

The role of the Third Man had, by necessity, always seemed mutable, but the combination of Clegg and Compo was the bedrock of the show’s longevity. Each of these recurring characters contributed their own running jokes and subplots to the show, often becoming reluctantly involved in the schemes of the trio, or on occasion having their own, separate storylines. Last of the Summer Wine: The Complete Collection Welcome to Holmfirth, a breathtakingly beautiful village in the heart of the Holme Valley, home to our favourite idiosyncratic retired gentlemen. If the chance had not been seized with Foggy, I have always believed that Clarke would, in series 3, have started presenting Blamire as a more proactive character, and the same development would have advanced.

The BBC denied these claims, saying that a decision had not yet been reached whether to commission another series or not.