Series 1

Series 1

Last of the Summer Wine's first series originally aired on BBC One between 12 November 1973 and 17 December 1973.^[1] All episodes from this series were written by Roy Clarke and produced and directed by James Gilbert.^[2]

The pilot episode, alternately known as "The Last of the Summer Wine" and "Of Funerals and Fish," originally premiered on the BBC's Comedy Playhouse on 4 January 1973 at 8:00 p.m. "The Last of the Summer Wine" was the first episode of that show's fourteenth series.^[3] The pilot warranted a positive enough that the BBC ordered a full series of episodes which premiered on 12 November 1973.^[4]

The first series was released on DVD in region 2 as a combined box set with series 2 on 2 September 2002.