Last of the Summer Wine series 16
Appearance
Last of the Summer Wine | |
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Series 16 | |
No. of episodes | 9 |
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Original network | BBC1 |
Original release | 1 January 26 February 1995 | –
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Filming dates |
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Series chronology | |
Last of the Summer Wine's sixteenth series aired on BBC1. All of the episodes were written by Roy Clarke and produced and directed by Alan J. W. Bell.
Outline
[edit]The trio in this series consisted of:
Actor | Role |
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Bill Owen | Compo |
Peter Sallis | Clegg |
Brian Wilde | Foggy |
List of episodes
[edit]Title | Airdate | Description | Notes |
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The Man Who Nearly Knew Pavarotti | 1 January | After Wesley almost runs over Billy Ingleton. Foggy gets to prove his talents as a concert promoter. |
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The Glory Hole | 8 January | While out in the hills one day, Foggy sees a hole in the road that reminds him of a World War II slit trench. Compo swaps his portable air raid siren for a flag pole from Auntie Wainwright. |
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Adopted by a Stray | 15 January | The trio meet Mr Broadbent, who is giving up everything to find the wilderness. He gives the trio his van, but they don't expect Mrs Broadbent to come with it. |
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The Defeat of the Stoneworm | 22 January | Howard says he has stoneworm in his cellar, so the trio try to convince everyone that stoneworm are real. | |
Once in a Moonlit Junkyard | 29 January | Compo has a visit from a mysterious motorcyclist and eventually realises it could be Babs, one of his old girlfriends. | |
The Space Ace | 5 February | Stanley Pocklington is training to be an astronaut, but when he gets drunk, Foggy devises a whole training programme for him. | |
The Most Powerful Eyeballs in West Yorkshire | 12 February | The trio have a go at hypnotherapy to help Howard take control over Pearl, but Foggy ends up hypnotising himself. |
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The Dewhirsts of Ogleby Hall | 19 February | Foggy believes he could be related to the Dewhirsts of Ogleby Hall. Compo buys Nora Batty a hat. | |
The Sweet Smell of Excess | 26 February | Compo uses his bed as a trampoline to get up to Nora Batty's window, but ends up getting stuck in the bed springs. On his release, he falls down a manhole and the trio then have to find a way to get rid of the resulting smell. |
DVD release
[edit]The box set for series sixteen was released by Universal Playback in December 2010, mislabelled as a box set for series 17 & 18.
Set Details[1] | ||
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Release Date | ||
Region 2 | ||
27 December 2010 |
References
[edit]- ^ "Last of the Summer Wine Series 17 & 18 [1995] [DVD]". Amazon. Retrieved 20 August 2016.