Last of the Summer Wine

Ivy lets Foggy fix her toaster, and it goes to his flippin' head. Now he thinks he can restore the tatty sunken boat he's found at the bottom of the lake. He actually accomplishes even this, so Compo decides he must get Nora Batty into the boat alone with him. But surely Nora knows better - she'll have to be tricked.

Our trio helps Captain Zero when his vehicle breaks down, but don't reckon on him getting drunk.

Foggy is upset because he's not famous for anything, so he invents the sport of bicycle polo.

When Foggy hears about an athletic charity drive, he enters Compo and Clegg despite their wishes. An "injured" Howard drops out of the race and stops to recover in this young lady's refreshment stand. How refreshed can one man get?

Foggy has an idea to use portable radios to improve communications.

Seymour leaves to look after a school. Will life be boring for Compo and Clegg? Not for long, as Foggy Dewhirst returns to the fold.

The trio examines a haystack, resulting in their having to push it back to the top of a hill.

Clegg could be the answer to a lonely widow's prayer! Meanwhile, who is kissing who?

Is Jack Harry's cumbersome caravan wrecking his marriage? Seymour seems to think so, so he drags in Compo and Clegg to lend a hand.

Is the piece of silver fished out of the canal really a thief's haul? Is there more where it came from?

Compo wonders why all the blood rushes to his head when he's turned upside down. Seymour sets out to discover why.

It's rather difficult selling tickets for the church's Beatrix Potter evening - until someone comes up with an idea to set Compo scurrying.

The trio devise a plan to "spring" Howard and Wally for a few hours of freedom.

Remember when you could buy ice cream from the man on the tricycle? This episode will refresh your memories for sure.

Will Seymour's car safety device really make him rich and famous? His "guinea pig" may not agree.

After Compo claims that any man who uses a purse is effeminate, Seymour tries to invent a strictly masculine purse.

Why has Compo just thrown something of great sentimental value into Seymour's pond?

A rotting old boat is made to float... sometimes most unsuccessfully.

Clegg has to deliver a note to Marina in the supermarket. Can Seymour invent something highly original to justify all the security?

A discarded mattress sets Foggy on a campaign to clean up the countryside.

Foggy says Nora has big feet, thus upsetting Compo, so they set out to find out whether it is true or not.

Wally is fed up with Nora's constant nagging so Compo, Clegg and Foggy devise a plan to get him out of the house for a few hours.

Compo convinces a barmaid that Foggy is an eccentric millionaire.

Foggy's latest scheme to earn some money appears when he discovers that there's good money to be made by walking other people's pets around town.

Compo enters a car race to impress Nora. Will Wesley's old banger ever start?

After a close encounter with an emergency, Foggy decides to go into the rescue business, all in the service of humanity, of course.

Foggy collects his flag and achieves his vision. His dream is achieved.

Foggy has a vision to put a flag in a prominent place on the great British landscape - but first he needs a flag and a flagpole.

Foggy takes Compo and Clegg on a nostalgic trip to the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway.

Some people talk to trees, but Clegg is serenading flowers in the cafe...

Keen to celebrate the Silver Jubilee, Foggy decides the trio should have their own float.

Sid's plan to install a new bell for the cafe door is doomed from the moment he asks for the help of the trio.

When one of Compo's ferrets escapes and takes residence in Nora's house, it's up to Wally Batty to get it back safely.

The trio takes takes a little holiday in Scarborough, but what's the deal with Compo's cardboard box?

Mr Wainwright is back in town, and quickly throws the trio out of the library. The trio goes back to the cafe, where Ivy is having the usual battle of wits with Sid. There they meet with Stuart, and old man who's having a strange click in his leg. Later the trio helps Sid to mend a whole in the roof of the cafe with the usual disastrous results. Meanwhile Wainwright dates the new female librarian.

Compo is bored. Since Cyril Blamire left for Oswestry, to live with a woman, things have been a bit too calm for him in town. But soon, Clegg brings the solution to all their boredom. A letter from Blamire asking them to welcome home an old fried of his, called Foggy Dewhurst, and help him cope with the sudden changes in his life, after he was more or less forced to retire. Compo and Clegg meet with the new "third man", the war hero Foggy Dewhurst, who because of his peculiar life and his endless wartime stories soon makes his presence noted around town. His military posture, and his "murderous" impulses only get him in a fight with Big Malcolm, and his military precision doesn't seem to be a great help, when the trio tries to carry Foggy's heavy wartime luggage up a hill.

Thinking they have too much free time on their hands, the trio decides to find some kind of occupation. They come across a dodgy bankrupt dealer who persuades them to sell his new product, with disastrous results, particularly for Blamire.

Gloria, a friend of Nora Batty is emigrating to Australia. It's up to the trio to find a piano for her surprise farewell party.

After Clegg suffers a little incident with his bicycle it's up to the trio to find someone to mend it.

Clegg and Blamire try to convince Compo to step inside a church. Then they talk about the existence of God, miracles and the possibility of an afterlife.

The trio pays a visit to the barbers where they talk about the war, marriage, local women, and the frequent rows that exist between couples. Then they go to the cafe, where the first (of many) arguments between Ivy and Sid takes place. Compo realizes he forgot his house key in the library and the trio wonders through town, in search for the librarian (Mr. Wainwright).

Norman Clegg visits his late wife's grave on the anniversary of her death, then he reunites with his friends Compo Simmonite and Cyril Blamire and the trio wonders through town talking about, life, death and fish.

Feeling too old for a bicycle, Howard purchases a "secret" car. Barry is having a spiritual crisis.

Norman has been roped into performing a humorous monologue for the Christmas Concert. Pearl plans to force Howard to mime a recording of Nelson Eddy. Glenda plans to force Barry to perform as a magician. Billy wants to give an archery demonstration. Alvin is practicing as a one-man-band. Entwistle hypnotizes Smiler into knowing how to dance.

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When Nora Batty books Billy Ingleton's organ for a charity fair, she badly underestimates how much of an attraction it will be... Marina declines to go out with Howard because she's caught the showbiz bug, and is rehearsing a play at the local church. Howard asks the trio to help him think of something "showbizzy" they can do together.

Tom intends to to give Howard a "going fishing" excuse. Truly, Clegg and Billy meet a polar explorer with a domineering wife. Marina and Auntie Wainwright tart-up the explorer's wife. Pearl and Glenda go hunting for fishermen.

Compo is selected to travel to France with a group of local WWII veterans, only to have the offer withdrawn when the organisers realize how scruffy he looks. The local ladies take pity on him and collect enough money for him to go, and Truly and Clegg join him for the trip. Meanwhile, Edie's long-estranged sister Ros shows up in town, ready to make amends with Edie and possibly settle down again. Edie, angry at her for leaving her husband and devastating their mother, isn't interested in reconnecting. In France, the trio has two goals: to release Billy Hardcastle's homing pigeon and to revisit a spot Compo and some of his fellow soldiers camped overnight after a gruelling escape from the Germans. There's just one snag: Compo doesn't remember where it is.

Compo, Clegg and Truly chase a reluctant groom all through the village and beyond to stop him from escaping his wedding. Meanwhile, hungover best man Barry is frantically trying to locate the missing wedding ring.

All types of strange creatures seem to be parading themselves through town. The reason? A new film's being made. All the locals get involved on the production of the film. Pearl puts a secret electric device on Howard's bycicle, so she can track him down, when he escapes her.

A depressed Howard tries to build himself up but, under Foggy's instruction, ends up breaking his leg. Auntie Wainwright has Smiler testing a Triumph Motorcycle, after she rents him the riding gear. Foggy intends to sneak Marina past Pearl and into Norman's house so that Howard can come over to see her. Meanwhile, the ladies morning coffee group plan to give Howard a surprise visit that same evening to cheer him up during his recovery.

Wesley gets Foggy, Norman and Compo to help him move a Piano for Auntie Wainwright almost running into Billy Ingleton, who takes a shine to the instrument. Foggy wants credit as the concert promoter for Billy. Howard and Marina wear, what they think are, disguises. Eli conducts The Holme Band at the concert. Compo saves the show.

Compo, Clegg and Foggy encounter a stranger from the Heckmondwike Extraterrestrial Club who foresees aliens landing in Yorkshire.

The trio start a courier service. Wesley fails to keep clean.

Is Barry taking the spirit of Christmas too far when he's found "sleeping it off" in the pub wearing a Santa suit?

Compo is desperate to buy a present for Nora, and a visit to Auntie Wainwright's may provide the answer.

Barry has a secret - he wants to get Glenda a water-bed for Christmas.

It's the annual garden fete at Dream Acres, featuring Nora as VIP waitress and a tramp who has taken a special interest in one particular donkey.

Seymour plans to put some magic back into Christmas and Santa back where he belongs-on the rooftops not on a bicycle.

The day of Barry and Glenda's wedding brings new gossip to town, and also introduces her uncle Seymour as the new third man of the group.

Wesley has discovered an old racing car. Compo, Clegg and Foggy offer to help him transport it back to his shed, not reckoning on its condition.

After Sam's inconsiderate demise at the home of Lily-Bless-Her, our trio are faced with the task of explaining to his wife about his wet feet and fluffy suit.

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Wanting to take a break from the comercial side of Christmas Foggy books a seaside caravan for himself, Compo and Clegg.

Christmas isn't what it used to be, so the trio decide to look for two old school chums to help recapture the spirit of their youth.

Foggy decides to beat the Christmas rush - in the middle of summer. He ends up being conned by Big Eric who sells him 100 Christmas trees for 10. A bargain? Not when they are crawling with insects!

It's Christmas Day and the usual festivities are underway. Compo becomes interested in a skateboard.