Last of the Summer Wine - Season 1

Season 1

Last of the Summer Wine's first series originally aired on BBC1 between 12 November 1973 and 17 December 1973. All episodes from this series were written by Roy Clarke and produced and directed by James Gilbert. The pilot episode, alternately known as "The Last of the Summer Wine" and "Of Funerals and Fish," originally premiered on the BBC's Comedy Playhouse on 4 January 1973 at 8:00 p.m. "The Last of the Summer Wine" was the first episode of that show's fourteenth series. The pilot warranted a positive enough that the BBC ordered a full series of episodes which premiered on 12 November 1973. The first series was released on DVD in region 2 as a combined box set with series 2 on 2 September 2002.

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Episodes6

DatesNov 12, 1973 - Dec 17, 1973

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Episodes

Season 1Episode 130 min

Short Back and Palais Glide

Compo loses the key to his house so he and his companions, Clegg and Blamire, spend the day trying to find it.
However, they also manage to find a fair amount of trouble on the way...

Nov 12, 1973

Season 1Episode 230 min

Inventor of the 40-Foot Ferret

Compo has never been to church but when Blamire and Clegg drag him into one, the reactions are not what they expect.

Nov 19, 1973

Season 1Episode 330 min

Pate and Chips

Compo's nephew takes the trio plus his own family to visit a stately home where they stroll, picnic - and get thrown out.

Nov 26, 1973

Season 1Episode 430 min

Spring Fever

Spring! and Compo advertises for a housekeeper. It's an annual stirring in his breast which always alarms Blamire and Clegg -especially when they see who replies ...

Dec 3, 1973

Season 1Episode 530 min

The New Mobile Trio

Clegg thinks that the time has come for him and his friends, Compo and Blamire, to get about a bit more - widen their horizons. With this in mind, they buy an old car. But Clegg is more imaginative than practical ...

Dec 10, 1973

Season 1Episode 630 min

Hail Smiling Morn or Thereabouts

Blamire has become very keen on photography and this, combined with Clegg's memories of camping, leads the threesome into a weekend under the stars with the smell of hay in their nostrils.....
Compo is reluctant to go - and, in the end, wishes he hadn't.

Dec 17, 1973