Join Compo Simmonite Bill Owen, Norman Clegg Peter Sallis, Cyril Blamire Michael Bates and Foggy Dewhurst (Brian Wilde), four retirees in a quaint and picturesque Yorkshire village, getting on in years, who have nothing to bide their time aside from dreaming up outrageous schemes and trading weathered philosophical musings, in LAST OF THE SUMMER WINE, the longest running sitcom in the world, which debuted on the BBC in the early seventies and has endured for over three decades, retaining tremendous popularity despite constant upheavals and shifts in its cast from season to season. W. Bell, it featured interviews with the majority of cast and crew members, outtakes from the show, and a behind-the-scenes look at production. 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.

A 2008 release named Last of the Summer Wine: Vintage 1976 focuses on the third series of the show and includes bonus interviews with Peter Sallis, Brian Wilde, and Frank Thornton. The 1983 film, Getting Sam Home, used those two verses, with an additional two and played them over the opening credits.Rumours circulated as early as the 1980s that the BBC wanted to end the show and replace it with a new programme aimed at a younger audience. The café has become a tourist destination on the strength of the series, and features a model of Compo outside for photographic purposes.

There's one on the rooftops, four on the doorstep, and one very sozzled one, enjoying a silent night locked in a pub.Last of the Summer Wine is a British sitcom set in Yorkshire created and written by Roy Clarke and originally broadcast by the BBC from 1973 to 2010. In 1983, Granada Books published a slightly different version of the first novel with Foggy in it instead of Blamire. Clarke, who initially saw Owen as an archetypal cockney who could not play as solid a northern character as Compo was meant to be, recognised Owen's potential only after going to London for a read-through with him.

BBC producers hated this at first and insisted that it remain a temporary working title, while the cast worried that viewers would forget the name of the show. Regular subplots in the first decade of the show included: Sid and Ivy bickering over the management of the café, [94] Mr Wainwright and Mrs Partridge having a secret love affair that everyone knows about, [53] Wally trying to get away from Nora's watchful eye, [95] Foggy's exaggerated war stories, [96] and Compo's schemes to win the affections of Nora Batty. After Compo died in 1999, his son, Tom Simmonite, filled the gap for the rest of that series, [42] and Billy Hardcastle joined the cast as the third lead character in 2001. Gilbert and Clarke then travelled to Holmfirth and decided to use it as the setting for the pilot episode.There were twenty-one Christmas specials, three television films and a documentary film about the series.