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See full summary » Stars: Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett, The Fred Tomlinson Singers Edit Storyline Three old men from Yorkshire who have never grown up face the trials of their fellow town citizens and everyday life and stay young by reminiscing about the days of their youth and attempting feats not common to the elderly. 4 January 1973 (UK) See more » Also Known As: A bor nem válik vízzé See more » Filming Locations: Did You Know? Trivia Holmfirth was chosen as the setting for Last of the Summer Wine after Barry Took made a programme about Working Men's Clubs at nearby Burnlee WMC. When producer James Gilbert was looking for a location for an episode of Comedy Playhouse (1961), Barry Took recommended Holmfirth. That episode was developed into the series "Last of the Summer Wine". See more » Quotes Ivy : Anyway, you're allowed to be stupid at seventeen. Pearl : You were never seventeen. You were forty when you were born. (United Kingdom) – See all my reviews I was a big fan of this series before i appeared in it. I still get letters and cards from fans despite leaving the show in 1988.

Roy Clarke is one of the greatest comedy writers of his generation, he explores the British class system, old age, and the relationships between Yorshiremen and the Women they love brilliantly. The early shows were about boredom, retirement, life in Yorkshire and friendship between men of differing backgrounds. When the show was taken over by Alan J W Bell ,who produced and directed all the episodes i appeared in, the comedy broadened. Wonderful slapstick and unlikely romance became the strong central themes. In 1987 the show regularly had viewing figures just below 20 Million, and it continues to have a cult following to this day. I made some wonderful friends on the series too, Jane Freeman (who played my Auntie Ivy), Bill Owen (who i sadly miss) Peter Sallis (who taught me so much when we worked on stage together) Thora Hird (who told great stories of her early life in the Co-op as a sales assistant) Joe Gladwyn (who told me the most wonderful tales of early music hall and variety shows) to name just a few...

I think one of the best qualities of this show is that anyone of any age can watch it and find something amusing, popular family entertainment is rare these days and this is a gem. 51 of 53 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes As Last of the Summer Wine finally ends...How Compo, Cleggie and Co. drove Nora Batty | Daily Mail Online comments The camera was ready, but whether the same could be said of the three nervous actors perched in a perilously wobbly canoe on Yorkshire's fast- flowing and very cold River Wharfe was rather less certain. Shooting on the penultimate episode of the second series of Last Of The Summer Wine, however, could not wait. 'Action!' called director Bernard Thompson. And so off went the canoe, carrying its anxious crew towards the famous bridge at Bolton Abbey. Last of the great battle-axes: Kathy Staff with troublesome trio Peter Sallis, Bill Owen and Brian Wilde In the bow was Bill Owen, who as a young actor had once been under contract at Rank film studios and who was hoping that the role of 'Compo' Simmonite would give him a final tilt at fame.

In the stern was Michael Bates, a former Gurkha officer who played the part of Cyril Blamire for the first two series. And in the middle was a shaking Peter Sallis, probably wishing he'd never accepted the part of Norman Clegg. Sallis, you see, couldn't swim. The canoe shot under the bridge, as planned. Then it started to wobble. And shudder. And then it went over. The non-swimming Sallis would later recall that he managed to escape the river only because he was able to put a foot on a hard object under the water and lever himself out on to the bank. RELATED ARTICLES Share That hard object turned out to be Owen's head. 'To have us row a canoe and shoot the bridge and come out the other side into this choppy water, there's no wonder the bloody thing turned over and no wonder I nearly drowned,' said Sallis. The problem for Sallis, and indeed for many future members of the Summer Wine cast, was that the show's audience thought it was precisely this sort of knockabout comedy that was funny; very funny, in fact.

It may have been only a couple of years since the pilot episode had been successfully aired at the beginning of 1973, but Roy Clarke's creation was already changing. There was less talking, more of the glorious Yorkshire scenery and, as the second series took shape, far more of the absurd stunts that kept the show on air for a record-breaking 37 years. The prolific Clarke, who would go on to write Open All Hours for Ronnie Barker, loved writing sharp dialogue. But he adored creating physical comedy, too. His comic hero was Buster Keaton - and it showed. Over 295 episodes, just about anything on wheels or capable of being put on wheels - beds, sofas, baths, even rocket-powered rollerskates - careered down one of those vertiginously steep Yorkshire hills, almost always with Compo on board. Three men in a boat: Actors Bill Owen, Peter Sallis and Michael Bates.

Sallis, who couldn't swim, dreaded the programme's water-based scenes Sallis, the only one of the three to make it from pilot to final episode, would later recall how he would scan new scripts for the dread words: 'All we see of our three is a row of bubbles on the surface of the water.' Later, as the three main male leads grew older, it increasingly fell to stunt men and younger members of the cast to continue the physical comedy tradition, as Jean Fergusson - who played the man-hunting Marina for 25 years - remembers. She recalls one scene that required Marina and her lover Howard Sibshaw, played by Robert Fyfe, to fall out of a boat into some filthy canal water. And like Sallis many years earlier, Fyfe couldn't swim. 'Robert put his hand on top of my head,' said Fergusson. 'I went under this foul, foul water - there's still a pair of earrings somewhere in the Marsden canal.' Getting cold or soaked and often both was part and parcel of being a Summer Wine regular. 'I was introduced to thermal knickers up there,' recalls Juliette Kaplan, who played Howard's bossy wife, Pearl Sibshaw.

'I have never known the wind get so bad.' Stunts, however, were only part of the reason Last Of The Summer Wine attracted up to 18 million viewers. Some said the show harked back nostalgically to a better, simpler time, but those involved in its making insist that's not the case. Summer Wine Land, as it was first dubbed by Sallis, is not something that used to be, it's something that never was. 'It's in a time-warp,' Bill Owen said once. 'Nobody gets old, people don't die, people are always there.' But if it's about anything at all, it's about enduring male companionship and the scrapes that three old schoolfriends get into as they meander aimlessly through the beautiful Yorkshire countryside. Nora Batty was one of only two female characters to survive from the pilot -the other was cafe owner Ivy, played by Jane Freeman - and thanks to her endless rebuttals of Compo's constant wooing, she had quickly become a firm favourite with audiences. But television's favourite battle-axe bore hardly any resemblance to the cheerful and very welldressed actress who played her, the late Kathy Staff.

Wearing a padded man's vest and her famously baggy stockings, she would transform her customarily kindly demeanour into a humourless scowl. 'I never mind how ugly they make me look,' she once said. 'I never had any wish to look glamorous.' Right from the outset, the good-natured joshing and teasing that was another key part of Summer Wine's appeal was very different from what was going on off screen, as original producer Jimmy Gilbert discovered while making the pilot. After filming the three male leads taking a walk, during which one stood in a cowpat, cast and crew retired to the pub where they were to stay, a bleak but popular hostelry that Clarke would later describe as 'Wuthering Heights with strippers'. And it was here, over dinner, that Michael Bates - aka Cyril - a man that Gilbert recalls as having 'strong Tory views on the Empire, patriotism and pretty much everything else', started to vent his trenchant opinions. This was a red rag for Bill Owen, who had inherited his fiery, Left-wing politics from his tram-driving father. Voices were raised; the atmosphere turned ugly.

So ugly, in fact, that the producer was forced to take the pair outside, where he threatened to cancel the entire show. The tactic worked - after half an hour, the two men returned to the table and finished their food. If it’s about anything at all, it’s about enduring male companionship and the scrapes that three old schoolfriends get into Gilbert, however, had learnt an important lesson and swiftly booked his stars into separate accommodation - Owen into a boarding house on the edge of the moors and Sallis and Bates into comfortable hotels. Peace was restored. Owen would continue to go his own way for his entire 26-year association with the show, preferring to rent the same house each year, on the outskirts of Holmfirth, and settling into a routine: a whisky between 6.30pm and 7.30pm and then an M&S fish pie for dinner. But if that makes him sound as eccentric as Compo, nothing could be farther from the truth. He hated the stubble he had to keep for the part, and refused to leave the set in Compo's clothes.

As the producer put it: 'He was always beautifully turned out, quite snappy.' But he was never easy company, as a new member of the cast would soon discover. Having sustained a nasty injury while doing pantomime, Michael Bates found himself too frail to commit to play Cyril in the show's third season, leaving incoming producer Sydney Lotterby with no 'third man'. The trio needed a new leader - and urgently: a man with an immovable sense of his own destiny, superiority and abilities. Above all, a man who was what Yorkshire folk call a 'barmpot' - a bit of an idiot. Clarke set to work and within days had created a character that propelled Summer Wine into the ranks of classic British sitcoms. Like Michael Bates's Cyril Blamire, Walter 'Foggy' Dewhurst would be an old soldier, but there the resemblance ended. Foggy was an ex-corporal sign-writer, a man still clinging to the minutiae of Army life, an under-achiever with a misfounded but unshakeable self-belief in his abilities as a leader of men - and as a master of unarmed combat.

And the team knew exactly the right actor to play him - Brian Wilde, who had made the mild-mannered Mr Barrowclough such a popular character in Porridge. Everybody liked the casting decision and yet the arrival of this gangling, 6ft 3in actor would soon cause a whole new raft of tensions. Despite his amiable screen presence, Wilde had a cantankerous streak, as Alan Bell, who arrived as producer in 1981, soon found. That Christmas, the Summer Wine Special brought in a bigger audience than the first television screening of Gone With The Wind - 'Nora Batty more popular than Scarlett O'Hara' screamed the newspaper headlines - but as plans for the next series were made, Wilde put his foot down. He wouldn't do it if Bell, who often used time-consuming techniques more common in film-making than television, remained in charge. Amazingly, a face-saving compromise was reached - Bell would go off and film the new Spike Milligan series while Lotterby would return to Summer Wine - but a spin-off feature film, destined to become the popular Christmas special of 1983, remained in Bell's control.

But while he may have made his peace with Bell, in the Winnebago Wilde shared with his two co-stars, the temperature was dropping. Indeed, the three jealously guarded their personal space - at the front was Owen, counting his lines to make sure nobody was getting more laughs than him; in the middle was Wilde, and at the back was Sallis, normally lost in the Times crossword. The shenanigans of the male stars were regarded with resigned amusement by female regulars such as Kathy Staff, but the men's privileges did rankle. In the early days, without their own trailer, Staff and Freeman were forced to find shelter from the Yorkshire weather in Freeman's car. They also got less money. Slapstick: Up to 18 million tuned in to watch Compo's latest attempts to woo Norma Batty But, as a committed Christian, Staff wasn't one to dwell on such injustices. Instead, she and Freeman grew close, with the two women falling into the habit of breaking off from rehearsals in London to take tea at the Ritz. Relations between Owen and Wilde, however, were nothing like as cordial, the two men having a gift for rubbing each other up the wrong way.

Owen made no secret of his belief that he was the real star. That irritated Wilde, as did Owen's political views. And relations continued to worsen, particularly when it emerged Wilde was being paid more than the others. In 1984, Wilde had finally had enough of the squabbling, bringing to a close what many believe was a golden age for the show. But once again, Summer Wine moved on, expanding the cast to include national treasure Thora Hird as Edie Pegden, and bringing in Michael Aldridge as the show's new 'third man', retired headmaster and madcap inv entor Seymour Utterthwaite. Their arrival certainly caused ripples. Gordon Wharmby, who played the popular Wesley Pegden, was so terrified by the prospect of an actress of Hird's stature playing his wife that he had a nervous breakdown and had to be treated (successfully) in a psychiatric hospital. The arrival of the ebullient Aldridge, meanwhile, lightened the atmosphere, particularly in the bar of their regular haunt, the Huddersfield Hotel, where at last Sallis found a fellow spirit. His long-established table for one quickly became a table for two.

Hird's arrival proved somewhat more problematic. Hird loved socialising off-set even more than Aldridge, settling down each evening at what quickly became known as Thora's Table, where she would draw on a seemingly bottomless well of reminiscences. Gracious, funny and sometimes using language that would have had the audience for her Sunday teatime hymn programme, Praise Be, reaching for their smelling salts, Thora loved to talk and talk and talk… so much so that the easygoing Aldridge and Sallis soon refused to go to dinner with her. Later, however, when another national treasure - Jean Alexander, who'd played Hilda Ogden in Coronation Street for 23 years - joined the cast as Auntie Wainwright, Hird found a real friend. As the 91-year-old grew more frail and Thora's Table became a quieter place, it was often Alexander who would help her up to her room and put her rollers in for her before going to bed. It was two legends together, one looking after the other.

Aldridge would leave the show after only four years in order to look after his sick wife, newly diagnosed with Alzheimer's, a move that would herald the return, albeit temporarily, of a much mellowed Brian Wilde. But if Wilde was easier company, so, too, was Owen, by now in his mid-70s. Owen loved the show - and he worked on for another ten years until filming got under way for a Millennium special. Clarke had penned a poignantly multi-layered script that took Compo back to the beaches of Dunkirk, where the character had been evacuated in 1940. Reflecting on fear and death, Last Post And Pigeon called on all Owen's experience and expertise as he moved from humour to sadness in a few lines. But for the first time, the 85-year-old Owen was uncertain of his words and it soon became quite obvious that he was struggling. Like the seasoned pro he was, he persevered, but one day - during filming back in Britain - he sat down heavily and looked wearily up at his director. 'I'd do anything, but I just can't do any more today,' he said.

Owen was suffering cancer of the pancreas and had only weeks to live, although it's uncertain whether he knew or not. But there did seem to be a sad acknowledgement that his life was nearing its end. Sallis remembers sitting in a car with him as filming drew to a close, and Owen turning to him and saying: 'I don't want to go, Peter, there's so much left to do.' Ten days later, on July 12, 1999, Owen died. Last Of The Summer Wine would go on - indeed it would survive another decade - but this time there was no doubt. Without Compo, without that overgrown schoolboy in his silly green hat and folded-over wellies, it would never be the same again. Extracted from Last Of The Summer Wine: The Story Of The World's Longest-Running Comedy Series by Andrew Vine, published by Aurum at £18.99. To order a copy at £17.10 (p&p free), call 0845 155 0720. The final episode will be broadcast at 7.30pm on Sunday, August 29, on BBC1.

BBC - Comedy - Last of the Summer Wine Last of the Summer Wine Last of the Summer Wine 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 over 30 series as well as several Christmas specials. At last count, it's notched up nearly 30 series, numerous Christmas specials and a 1988 prequel, First of the Summer Wine, with the whole canon being written by just one man: Roy Clarke. Created as a submission for the BBC's Comedy Playhouse in 1973, before the year was up, a full series had hit our screens. A whimsical comedy with a penchant for light philosophy and full-on slapstick, that first run followed the misadventures of three elderly friends tramping around the Yorkshire countryside (the town of Holmfirth and its surroundings). The upper, middle and lowers classes writ large: they were Former Royal Signals Sergeant and notional gang leader Cyril Blamire; flat cap-wearing voice-of-reason Norman 'Cleggy' Clegg and scruffy hormone-riddled layabout Compo Simonite.

In a world where men are just over-grown kids, the authority figures come in the shape of some of TV's most formidable women. There's the physically intimidating tea shop owner Ivy, but even she pales in comparison to Nora Batty. With her wrinkled stockings and hair curlers, she's both a bogeyman figure curtailing the trio's fun and became an unlikely lust object for Compo. Ill-heath forced Bates to quit after the second series. He was replaced by Brian Wilde as the pompous ex-army corporal Walter 'Foggy' Dewhurst, who led the show into its finest years, as the friends got into increasingly preposterous scrapes, usually resulting in near loss of life for Compo. Wilde bowed out in 1985, and the following year Michael Aldridge was introduced as ineffectual inventor Seymour Utterthwaite: younger brother to another fearsome Yorkshirewoman, Edie Pegden. He remained until 1990, at which point Wilde, and Foggy, returned. Over the years, the show adapted to the passing of many of its cast, but never was the challenge greater than when Bill Owen died in 1999.

The following year, his onscreen character was given a funereal send-off, and Owen's real life son Tom brought in to play Compo's long-lost son, also named Tom. With Wilde long since replaced by Frank Thornton as retired police office Herbert 'Truly' Truelove, it was initially thought the new trio of characters was in place. However, perhaps realising the set-up had seen better days, Clarke has instead widened the cast, creating bigger roles for Auntie Wainwright; aging Lothario Howard Sibshaw and introducing newcomers such as Billy Hardcastle: a passionate outdoorsman who claims to be a descendant of Robin Hood. And so it keeps going. Cut to some years in the future, when this website has rotted down to its very pixels. Somewhere in the Yorkshire Pennines there'll still be an old man hurtling down a hill in a tin bath.

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He wrote the following yesterday for an internal blog, but we thought we'd share with you his tribute to the much-loved show. Mark Freeland writes... If only I could write this blog on Friday afternoon, but deadlines are deadlines. That's because I am going to lunch in the Council Chamber at Broadcasting House, to mark the end of the legendary and incomparable Last Of The Summer Wine. Many of the cast will be there - Peter Sallis, June Whitfield, Burt Kwouk, Frank Thornton - and of course, writer Roy Clarke. I'd better be a bit careful, a glass of sherry too many and I won't be able to resist creeping up on Burt Kwouk, doing a bit slapstick karate and then disappearing through the floor to Mark T's office below, which somehow would then catch fire. All too risky. I know Friday will be one of those BBC occasions that I will never forget and it will be an honour being there. Last year, I went to composer, Ronnie Hazlehurst's memorial concert in the Radio Theatre.

It was one of the most special events I have attended, and when his band played the theme from Last Of The Summer Wine, it was like a last post for a lost age. Not a dry eye in the house. I suspect tomorrow will feel very sad, too, but at the same time uplifting. I see Alan Yentob is on the guest list. I am sitting here wracking my brain to remember which episode he was in. I bet he has been. The pilot was shot in June 1972. The show started in November 1973 (some things never change). The BBC didn't like the title (some things never change) and wanted to alter it to The Library Mob. They didn't like the theme music either (some things, etc. etc.). Lots of things have changed and come and gone since then, but not LOTSW (as I will now abbreviate). Nine Presidents of the US, eight Prime Ministers. In November 1973 Mark Phillips and Princess Anne got married. Gone. (Extraordinarily, my memory of that very day was catching a part of my body in my flies and having to be rushed off to the doctors). Petrol cost 35p.

Gone. The three day week started. Hopefully gone. Interest rates were at 13%. Again, hopefully gone. I had a crush on Tessa Price from down the road. Partially gone. And at number one was Gary Glitter. Absolutely gone. There have been a staggering 295 episodes of LOTSW, every word of which has been written by the extraordinary Roy Clarke. You would have thought that would keep him busy - take a break, have a cuppa and a Hobnob - but in his downtime, Roy wrote more comedies, such as Keeping Up Appearances and Open All Hours . All of his shows focus on a wonderful and sharply observed, yet loving, dissection of British culture. That's why they are loved shows in the UK, but also massively popular across the world. Indeed LOTSW producer, Alan JW Bell, still spends time in the US at LOTSW lectures and events. By the way, Alan produced and directed 250 episodes. Incredible. I doubt any television programme has so defined the place in which it was made. That hotel in Torquay is gone. The offices in which The Office was shot have been stripped out and gone all open plan and high achieving.

But go to beautiful Holmfirth in West Yorkshire , and not only will you see eager tourists snapping up LOTSW memorabilia, but take a tin bath and you can actually create you own Episode. It's all there - the beflowered terraces, the bridges over the twinkling Holme River. Down the pretty streets, on the breeze coming off the Pennines, you will hear the names of Foggy, Nora Batty, Compo and Clegg. So tomorrow will be very sad. We will raise a glass to the cast members sadly not with us - legends like Thora Hird, Bill Owen, Kathy Staff and many more. We will delight in the company of others. No doubt everyone there will have their own special memories of fellow cast and crew members. 37 years of cherished times for themselves, and of course the devoted audiences across the world. We will also all pray that interest rates do not go back to 13%. God bless Last Of The Summer Wine, and a heartfelt thank you. Mark Freeland is Head of BBC Comedy.

Question: Who writes Last Of The Summer Wine?
Answer: Roy Clarke