Last of the Summer Wine episode list

All episodes were written by Roy Clarke.

Contents

1 Pilot 2 Series 1 3 Series 2 4 Series 3 5 Series 4 6 Series 5 7 Series 6 8 Series 7 9 Series 8 10 Series 9 11 Series 10 12 Series 11 13 Series 12 14 Series 13 15 Series 14 16 Series 15 17 Series 16 18 Series 17 19 Series 18 20 Series 19 21 Series 20 22 Series 21 23 Series 22 24 Series 23 25 Series 24 26 Series 25 27 Series 26 28 Specials

Pilot

• Of Funerals and Fish

Series 1

• Short Back and Palais Glide
• Inventor of the 40-Foot Ferret
• Pate and Chips
• Spring Fever
• The New Mobile Trio
• Hail Smiling Morn or Thereabouts

Series 2

• Forked Lightning
• Who's That Dancing With Nora Batty Then?
• The Changing Face of Rural Blamire
• Some Enchanted Evening
• A Quiet Drink
• Ballad for Wind Instruments and Canoe
• Northern Flying Circus

Series 3

• The Man From Oswestry
• Mending Stuart's Leg
• The Great Boarding House Bathroom Caper
• Cheering up Gordon
• The Kink In Foggy's Niblick
• Going to Gordon's Wedding
• Isometrics and After

Series 4

• Ferret Come Home
• Getting on Sydney's Wire
• Jubilee
• Flower Power Cut
• Who's Made a Bit of a Splash in Wales Then?
• Greenfingers
• A Merry Heatwave
• The Bandit From Stoke-On-Trent

Series 5

• Full Steam Behind
• The Flag and its Snags
• The Flag and Further Snags
• Deep in the Heart of Yorkshire
• Earnshaw Strikes Back
• Here we go Into the Wild Blue Yonder
• Here we go Again Into the Wild Blue Yonder

Series 6

• In the Service of Humanity
• Car and Garter
• The Odd Dog Men
• A Bicycle Made for Three
• One of the Last Few Places Unexplored by Man
• Serenade For Tight Jeans and Metal Detector
• From Wellies to Wetsuit

Series 7

• The Frozen Turkey Man
• The White Man's Grave
• The Waist Land
• Cheering up Ludovic
• The Three Astaires
• The Arts of Concealment

Series 8

• The Mysterious Feet of Nora Batty
• Keeping Britain Tidy
• Enter the Phantom
• Catching Digby's Donkey
• The Woollen Mills of Your Mind
• Who's Looking After the Cafe Then?

Series 9

• Why Does Norman Clegg Buy Ladies' Elastic Stockings?
• The Heavily Reinforced Bottom
• Dried Dates and Codfanglers
• The Really Masculine Purse
• Who's Feeling Ejected Then?
• The Ice-Cream Man Cometh
• Set the People Free
• Go With the Flow
• Jaws
• Edie and the Automobile
• Wind Power
• When you Take a Good Bite of Yorkshire, It Tastes Terrible

Series 10

• The Experiment
• The Treasure of the Deep
• Dancing Feet
• That Certain Smile
• Downhill Racer
• The Day of the Welsh Ferret

Series 11

• Come Back, Jack Harry Teesdale
• The Kiss and Mavis Poskitt
• Oh Shut up and Eat Your Choc Ice
• Who's That Bloke with Nora Batty Then?
• Happy Anniversary Gough and Jessie
• Getting Barry Higher in the World
• Three Men and a Mangle

Series 12

• Return of the Warrior
• Come in, Sunray Major
• The Charity Balls
• Walking Stiff Can Make you Famous
• That's Not Captain Zero
• Das Welly Boot
• The Empire That Foggy Nearly Built
• The Last Surviving Maurice Chevalier Impression
• Roll on
• A Landlady for Smiler

Series 13

• Quick, Quick, Slow
• Give us a Lift
• Was That Nora Batty Singing?
• Cash Flow Problems
• Passing the Earring
• Pole Star

Series 14

• By the Magnificent Thighs of Ernie Burniston
• Errol Flynn Used to Have a Pair Like That
• The Phantom of the Graveyard
• The Self-Propelled Salad Strainer
• Ordeal by Trousers
• Happy Birthday, Howard
• Who's Got Rhythm?
• Camera Shy
• Wheelies

Series 15

• How to Clear Your Pipes
• Where There's Smoke, There's Barbecue
• The Black Widow
• Have you Got a Light Mate?
• Stop That Bath
• Springing Smiler
• Concerto for Solo Bicycle
• There are Gypsies at the Bottom of our Garden
• Aladdin Gets on Your Wick

Series 16

• The Glory Hole
• Adopted by a Stray
• The Defeat of the Stoneworm
• Once in a Moonlit Junkyard
• The Space Ace
• The Most Powerful Eyeballs in West Yorkshire
• The Dewhursts of Ogleby Hall
• The Sweet Smell of Excess

Series 17

• Leaving Home Forever or Till Teatime
• Bicycle Bonanza
• The Glamour of the Uniform
• The First Human Being to Ride a Hill
• Captain Clutterbuck's Treasure
• Desperate for a Duffield
• The Suit That Turned Left
• Beware of the Elbow
• The Thing in Wesley's Shed
• Brushes at Dawn

Series 18

• The Love-Mobile
• A Clean Sweep
• The Mysterious C. W. Northrop
• A Double for Howard
• How to Create a Monster
• Deviations With Davenport
• According to the Prophet Bickerdyke
• Next Kiss Please
• Destiny and Six Bananas
• A Sidecar Named Desire

Series 19

• Beware the Oglethorpe
• Tarzan of the Towpath
• Truly and the Hole Truth
• Oh Howard, we Should Get One of Those
• The Suit That Attracts Blondes
• The Only Diesel Saxophone in Captivity
• Perfection - Thy Name is Ridley
• Nowhere Particular
• From Audrey Nash to the Widow Dilhooley
• Support Your Local Skydiver

Series 20

• The Pony Set
• How Errol Flynn Discovered the Secret Scar of Nora Batty
• Who's Thrown her Tom Cruise Photos Away?
• What's Happened to Barry's Nose?
• Optimism in the Housing Market
• Will Barry go Septic Despite Listening to Classical Music?
• Beware the Vanilla Slice
• Howard Throws a Wobbler
• The Phantom Number 14 Bus
• Ironing Day

Series 21

• Lipstick and Other Problems
• Under the Rug
• Magic and the Morris Minor
• Elegy for Fallen Wellies
• Surprise at Throstlenest
• Just a Small Funeral
• From Here to Paternity
• Some Vans Can Make you Deaf
• Waggoner's Roll
• I Didn't Know Barry Could Play

Series 22

• Getting Barry's Goat
• The Art of the Shorts Story
• The Missing Bus of Mrs. Avery
• Hey! Big Vendor
• Enter the Hawk
• Gnome and Away
• A Hair of the Blonde That Bit You
• A White Sweater and a Solicitor's Letter
• Why is Barry at an Angle?
• The Coming of the Beast

Series 23

• A Brief Excursion in the Fast Lane
• The Mystical Squeak of Howard's Bicycle
• Mervyn Would be Proud
• The Incredible Ordeal of Norman Clegg
• Beware of the Hot Dog
• In Search of Childlike Joy and the Farthest Reaches of the Lotus Position
• A Chaise Longue Too Far
• Exercising Father's Bicycle
• Sadly, Madly, Bradley
• It All Began With an Old Volvo Headlamp

Series 24

• The Lair of the Cat Creature
• Ancient Eastern Wisdom: An Introduction
• A Pick-Up of the Later Ming Dynasty
• The Secret Birthday of Norman Clegg
• In Which Gavin Hinchcliffe Loses the Gulf Stream
• The Miraculous Curing of Old Goff Helliwell
• The Frenchies are Coming
• The Man Who Invented Yorkshire Funny Stuff
• The Second Husband and the Showgirls
• All of a Florrie

Series 25

• Jurassic No Parking
• The General's Greatest Battle
• Spores
• Happy Birthday Robin Hood
• Who's That With Barry and Glenda - It's Not Barry and Glenda
• An Apple A Day
• Barry Becomes a Psychopatic Killer - But Only Half Time
• Things To Do When Your Wife Runs Off With a Turkish Waiter
• Beware Of Laughing At Nora's Hats
• Yours Truly - If You're Not Careful

Series 26

• The Swan Man of Ilkley
• Watching the Clock
• Has Anyone Seen a Peruvian Wart?
• Hermione (The Short Course)
• Who's That Mouse in the Poetry Group?
• Available for Weddings
• The McDonagh's of Jamison Street
• The Afterthoughts of a Co-Op Manager
• Lot Number 8
• Little Orphan Howard

Specials

• Small Tune on a Penny Wassail
• And a Dewhurst up a Fir Tree
• Whoops
• All Mod Conned
• Getting Sam Home
• The Loxley Lozenge
• Uncle of the Bride
• Merry Christmas, Father Christmas
• Big Day at Dream Acres
• Crums
• What's Santa Brought for Nora Then?
• Barry's Christmas
• Situations Vacant
• Stop That Castle
• Welcome to Earth
• The Man who Nearly Knew Pavarotti
• A Leg up for Christmas
• Extra! Extra!
• There Goes the Groom
• Last Post and Pigeon
• Potts in Pole Position
• A Musical Passing for a Miserable Muscroft
• A Short Blast of Fred Astaire
• Variations on a Theme of the Widow Winstanley

See: Last of the Summer Wine