Season of television series
| Last of the Summer Wine | |
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| Series 12 | |
| No. of episodes | 11 |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC1 |
| Original release | 2 September (1990-09-02) – 27 December 1990 (1990-12-27) |
| Additional information | |
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| Series chronology | |
| ← Previous 11 Next → 13 | |
| List of episodes | |
Last of the Summer Wine's twelfth series aired on BBC1. All of the episodes were written by Roy Clarke and produced and directed by Alan J. W. Bell.
With the departure of Michael Aldridge who had left to nurse his ill wife, the character of Foggy Dewhurst returned to the fold.
Outline
The trio in this series consisted of:
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Michael Aldridge | Seymour |
| Bill Owen | Compo |
| Peter Sallis | Clegg |
| Brian Wilde | Foggy |
- only appeared briefly in Return of the Warrior
Returning this series
- Foggy Dewhurst (1976–1985, 1990–1997)
Last appearances
- Seymour Utterthwaite (1986–1990)
- Barry Wilkinson (1986–1990, 1996–2010)
List of episodes
Regular series
| Title | Airdate | Description | Notes |
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| Return of the Warrior | 2 September | Compo and Clegg see Seymour off, ready to take up a post of headmaster, and ponder what they will do with their lives now he has gone; they just keep missing a returning Foggy, until they finally bump into him. |
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| Come In, Sunray Major | 9 September | After a miscommunication leads to Foggy getting split up from Compo and Clegg while out walking, he comes up with an idea – portable radios. | |
| The Charity Balls | 16 September | Compo, Clegg, Foggy and Howard take part in sponsored football dribble for charity. |
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| Walking Stiff Can Make You Famous | 23 September | Foggy is tired of not receiving what he perceives as sufficient gravitas for his position and dreams up a suitably high-profile game befitting his status within the community: bicycle polo. |
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| That's Not Captain Zero | 30 September | After meeting Captain Zero, the human cannonball, the trio take him to the pub while his van is fixed. Unfortunately, when he gets arrested for being drunk, it is up to Compo to take his place. |
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| Das (Welly) Boot | 7 October | Foggy decides to restore an old boat, and Compo knows who he wants to take on the first trip...Nora Batty, but how can they lure her on board with him? Foggy has a plan yet again. |
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| The Empire That Foggy Nearly Built | 14 October | After seeing an argument over a parking space, Foggy decides that there must be money to be made out of car parking. |
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| The Last Surviving Maurice Chevalier Impression | 21 October | In another attempt to woo Nora Batty, Compo decides to go on a local television programme with his Maurice Chevalier impression, but unfortunately decides it's also a good idea to bring along his lucky ferret |
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| Roll On | 28 October | The trio train for a barrel- rolling event. |
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| A Landlady For Smiler | 4 November | The lads do their best to find a new place to live for a returning Smiler, without much luck, until they strike upon the idea of the widow Nora Batty, though Compo is not too keen for another man to live with "his bird". |
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Christmas Special (1990)
| Title | Airdate | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barry's Christmas | 27 December | It's Christmas 1990, and Glenda's so upset because Barry didn't come home the night before. The trio find him dressed as Santa Claus, under a table in the local pub |
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DVD release
The box set for series twelve was released by Universal Playback in December 2008, mislabelled as a box set for series 13 & 14.
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| Release Date | ||
| Region 2 | ||
| 26 December 2008 | ||
References
- "Last of the Summer Wine Series 13 & 14". Amazon. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
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