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-eighth series aired on

BBC One BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network owned and operated by the BBC. It is the corporation's flagship network and is known for broadcasting mainstream programming, which includes BBC News television bulletins, ...

. All 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:

Last appearances

* Smiler Hemingway (1988, 1990–2007)

List of Episodes

DVD release

The box set for series 28 was released by Universal Playback in May 2016, mislabelled as a box set for series 29 & 30.

References

{{Last of the Summer Wine Last of the Summer Wine series 2007 British television seasons