Season 25: Episode 11

Season 26: Episode 2

Last of the Summer Wine (1973)

Season 26: Episode 1

The Swan Man Of Ilkley

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Air Date:

2025-12-07

Genre

Comedy

Release Date

1973

End Date

2010

Episode Description

Lennie from the pickle factory, who has visions of sailing the canals in a swan boat, unwisely allows Clegg, Truly, Alvin and Billy to help him on his way. But a passing narrowboat puts paid to his dream.

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Cast

Of Funerals and Fish (pilot)

Short Back And Palais Glide

Inventor Of The 40-Foot Ferret

Pâté And Chips

The New Mobile Trio

Hail Smiling Morn Or Thereabouts

Forked Lightning

Who's That Dancing With Nora Batty Then?

The Changing Face Of Rural Blamire

Some Enchanted Evening

Ballad For Wind Instruments And Canoe

Northern Flying Circus

The Man From Oswestry

Mending Stuart's Leg

The Great Boarding House Bathroom Caper

Cheering Up Gordon

The Kink In Foggy's Niblick

Going To Gordon's Wedding

Isometrics And After

Ferret Come Home

Getting On Sydney's Wire

Flower Power Cut

Who's Made A Bit Of A Splash In Wales Then?

A Merry Heatwave

The Bandit From Stoke-On-Trent

Full Steam Behind

The Flag And Its Snag

The Flag And Further Snags

Deep In The Heart Of Yorkshire

Earnshaw Strikes Again

Here We Go Into The Wild Blue Yonder

Here We Go Again Into The Wild Blue Yonder

In The Service Of Humanity

The Odd Dog Men

A Bicycle Made For Three

One Of The Last Few Places Unexplored By Man

Serenade For Tight Jeans And Metal Detector

From Wellies To Wetsuit

The Frozen Turkey Man

The White Man's Grave

Cheering up Ludovic

The Three Astaires

The Arts of Concealment

The Mysterious Feet of Nora Batty

Keeping Britain Tidy

Enter The Phantom

Catching Digby's Donkey

The Woollenmills of Your Mind

Who's Looking After the Cafe Then?

Why Does Norman Clegg Buy Ladies' Elastic Stockings?

The Heavily Reinforced Bottom

Dried Dates And Codfanglers

The Really Masculine Purse

Who's Feeling Ejected Then?

The Ice-cream Man Cometh

Set The People Free

Go With The Flow

Edie And The Automobile

When You Take A Good Bite, Yorkshire Tastes Terrible.

The Treasure Of The Deep

That Certain Smile

The Day Of The Welsh Ferret

Come Back, Jack Harry Teesdale

The Kiss And Mavis Poskitt

Oh Shut Up And Eat Your Choc-Ice

Who's That Bloke With Nora Batty Then?

Happy Anniversary Gough And Jessie

Getting Barry Higher In The World

Three Men And A Mangle

Return Of The Warrior

Come In, Sunray Major

The Charity Balls

Walking Stiff Can Make You Famous

That's Not Captain Zero

Das (Welly) Boot

The Empire That Foggy Nearly Built

A Landlady For Smiler

Quick, Quick, Slow

Was That Nora Batty Singing?

Cash Flow Problems

Passing The Earring

By The Magnificent Thighs Of Ernie Burniston

Errol Flynn Used To Have A Pair Like That

The Phantom Of The Graveyard

The Self-Propelled Salad Strainer

Ordeal By Trousers

Happy Birthday, Howard

Who's Got Rhythm?

Stop That Castle!

How To Clear Your Pipes

Where There's Smoke, There's Barbeque

The Black Widow

Have You Got A Light Mate?

Springing Smiler

Concerto For Solo Bicycle

There Are Gypsies At The Bottom Of Our Garden

Aladdin Gets On Your Wick

Adopted By A Stray

The Defeat Of The Stoneworm

Once In A Moonlit Junkyard

The Most Powerful Eyeballs In West Yorkshire

The Dewhirsts Of Ogleby Hall

The Sweet Smell Of Excess

Leaving Home Forever, Or Till Teatime

Bicycle Bonanza

The Glamour Of The Uniform

The First Human Being To Ride A Hill

Captain Clutterbuck's Treasure

Desperate For A Duffield

The Suit That Turned Left

Beware Of The Elbow

The Thing In Wesley's Shed

Brushes At Dawn

The Love Mobile

The Mysterious C. W. Northrop

A Double For Howard

How To Create A Monster

Deviations With Davenport

According To The Prophet Bickerdyke

Next Kiss Please

Destiny And Six Bananas

A Sidecar Named Desire

Beware of the Oglethorpe

Tarzan Of The Towpath

Truly And The Hole Truth

Oh Howard, We Should Get One Of Those

The Suit That Attracts Blondes

The Only Diesel Saxophone In Captivity

Perfection - Thy Name Is Ridley

Nowhere Particular

From Audrey Nash To The Widow Dilhooley

Support Your Local Skydiver

Lipstick And Other Problems

Magic And The Morris Minor

Elegy For Fallen Wellies

Surprise At Throstlenest

Just A Small Funeral

From Here To Paternity

Some Vans Can Make You Deaf

Waggoner's Roll

I Didn't Know Barry Could Play

Getting Barry's Goat

The Art Of The Shorts Story

The Missing Bus Of Mrs. Avery

Hey, Big Vendor

A Hair Of The Blonde That Bit You

A White Sweater And A Solicitor's Letter

Why Is Barry At An Angle?

The Coming Of The Beast

A Brief Excursion In The Fast Lane

The Mystical Squeak Of Howard's Bicycle

Mervyn Would Be Proud

The Incredible Ordeal Of Norman Clegg

Beware Of The Hot Dog

In Search Of Childlike Joy And The Farthest Reaches Of The Lotus Position

A Chaise Longue Too Far

Exercising Father's Bicycle

Sadly, Madly, Bradley

It All Began With An Old Volvo Headlamp

The Lair Of The Cat Creature

Ancient Eastern Wisdom - An Introduction

A Pick-Up Of The Later Ming Dynasty

The Secret Birthday Of Norman Clegg

In Which Gavin Hinchcliffe Loses The Gulf Stream

The Miraculous Curing Of Old Goff Helliwell

The Frenchies Are Coming

The Man Who Invented Yorkshire Funny Stuff

The Second Husband And The Showgirls

All Of A Florrie

Jurassic - No Parking

The General's Greatest Battle

Happy Birthday Robin Hood

Who's That With Barry And Glenda? It's Not Barry And Glenda

Barry Becomes A Psychopathic Killer But Only Part Time

Things To Do When Your Wife Runs Off With A Turkish Waiter

Beware of Laughing at Nora's Hats

Yours Truly - If You're Not Careful

The Swan Man Of Ilkley

Watching the Clock

Has Anyone Seen a Peruvian Wart?

Hermione (The Short Course)

Who's That Mouse in the Poetry Group?

Available for Weddings

The McDonaghs of Jamieson Street

The Afterthoughts of a Co-op Manager

Little Orphan Howard

Follow that Bottle

How to Remove a Cousin

Has Anyone Seen Barry's Midlife Crisis?

The Genuine Outdoors Robin Hood Barbi

Barry in Danger from Reading and Aunt Jessie

Who's That Merry Man with Billy, Then?

Who's That Talking To Lenny?

Oh Look! Mitzi's Found Her Mummy

Plenty of Room in the Back

The Second Stag Night of Doggy Wilkinson

What Happened to the Horse?

Variations on a Theme of Road Rage

In Which Howard gets Double Booked

Will The Nearest Alien Please Come In

Elegy for Small Creature and Clandestine Trackbike

The Crowcroft Challenge

Must Be Good Dancer

In Which Howard Remembers Where He Left His Bicycle Pump

Sinclair And The Wormley Witches

Enter the Finger

Will the Genuine Racer Please Stand Up?

A Short Introduction to Cooper's Rules

Is Jeremy Quite Safe?

All That Glitters is Not Elvis

Eva's Back in Town

In Which Romance Isn't Dead - Just Incompetent

The Mischievous Tinkle in Howard's Eyes

Of Passion and Pizza

It's Never Ten Years

Get Out Of That Then

Some Adventures of the Inventor of the Mother Stitch

The Mother of All Mistakes - Or Is It?

Will Howard Cross the Atlantic Single Handed?

Who's That Looking Sideways At Nelly?

Nobody Messes with Tony the Throat

Will Stella Find True Love with Norris Fairburn?

Will Randolph Make a Good Impression?

In Which Romance Springs a Leak

Variations on a Theme of Father's Day

Goodnight Sweet Ferret

Behind Every Bush There is Not Necessarily a Howard

The Rights of Man (Except For Howard)

Howard and the Great Outdoors

Look Whose Wheel's Come Off

How Not to Cry at Weddings

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