Last of the Summer Wine ''Last of the Summer Wine'' is a British sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke and originally broadcast by the BBC from 1973 to 2010. It premiered as an episode of '' Comedy Playhouse'' on 4 January 1973, and the first series of episodes f ...

's twenty-first series aired on

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. Most of the episodes were written by

Roy Clarke Royston Clarke OBE (born 28 January 1930), usually known as Roy Clarke, is an English comedy writer best known for creating the sitcoms ''Last of the Summer Wine'', ''Keeping Up Appearances'', ''Open All Hours'' and its sequel series, ''Stil ...

and produced and directed by Alan J. W. Bell.

Outline

The trio in this series consisted of:

First appearances

* Ros Utterthwaite (2000–2005) * Tom Simmonite (2000–2010) * Mrs Avery (2000–2001)

Last appearances

* Compo Simmonite (1973–2000)

List of Episodes

Millennium Special (2000) Regular series

DVD release

The box set for series twenty one was released by Universal Playback in March 2012, mislabelled as a box set for series 21 & 22.

Outline

First appearances

Last appearances

List of Episodes

DVD release

References

See also