List of Last of the Summer Wine episodes
The following is an episode list for the long-running BBC One sitcom "Last of the Summer Wine" which was broadcast from 4 January 1973 to 29 August 2010. Overview. The pilot episode aired as an episode of "Comedy Playhouse" on 4 January 1973 and the first full series of episodes premiered on 12 November the very same year. The 31st (and final) series started broadcasting on 25 July 2010. Every episode was written by Roy Clarke. As of 29 August 2010 (the very last day of transmission), a total of around  295 episodes of "Last of the Summer Wine" have aired. This includes the "Comedy Playhouse" pilot, twenty-four Christmas Specials, three New Year Specials and a Millennium Special (but not the short Christmas sketch, a comedy trial or the 25 Year and 30 Year Documentaries). Some of these have been regular episodes (often held over from the previous series, or taken from the forthcoming series), others have been dedicated festive stories. Some of these specials have also been feature-length. All episodes are 30 minutes long, unless otherwise stated. Series overview. <onlyinclude> </onlyinclude> Episodes. Series 1  (1973). The pilot episode, known as either "The Last of the Summer Wine" or "Of Funerals and Fish," which originally premiered on the BBC's "Comedy Playhouse" was included as an Extra feature on Series 31 & 32 on disc 4 which was released on 15 August 2016. Series 26 (2005). Episodes in series 26 were broadcast out of sequence. Who's That Mouse in the Poetry Group? was due to be shown on 3 April 2005, but postponed to 17 April 2005, due to a last minute schedule change. Hermione (the Short Course) was broadcast as originally planned on 10  April 2005, as the TV listings magazines had already been published for that week's programmes. Notes. The first three episodes of series 1 were edited together on the DVD in what appeared to be a straight transfer from the video release in the 1980s. "Pâté & Chips" ended with credits for all three episodes plus the original BBC Video ident, however a re-release of series 1 & 2 in 2011 put all three episodes with their start and end credits back on them, on the same re-release the scene from the series 2 episode "Some Enchanted Evening" which was  missing on the original release has been put back into the episode. Over the years there has been a number of edits on DVD releases in all regions with region 1 having certain music edits on the DVD releases. Region 2 DVDs have some edits such as Milburn not appearing in "The Loxley Lozenge" as he did on original transmission and "Uncle of the Bride" and "Big Day at Dream Acres" on the DVD release being only 1 of 3 versions of each episode, "Elegy for Fallen Wellies" on the region 2 DVDs is the alternate version on DVD and  not the original transmission version, another episode edited was on the re-release of series 3 & 4 in 2010 when a line was removed from "The Kink in Foggy's Niblick" when the lady golfers go walking past Compo and Clegg. Apart from "Elegy for Fallen Wellies" there doesn't appear to be much editing on the later releases in region 2.