The WORST episodes of Last of the Summer Wine
Every episode of Last of the Summer Wine ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Last of the Summer Wine!
Last of the Summer Wine is an affectionate comedy about people in the autumn of their years. The series is the world's longest-running sitcom, having clocked up 31 series and numerous Christmas specials during its run.
#1 - Hail Smiling Morn or Thereabouts
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/17/1973
With a new camera in hands the trio spends the day trying to find interesting things to photograph.
#2 - The New Mobile Trio
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/10/1973
Thinking they need a faster way to travel through the hills Clegg convinces the others to buy a car. They end up with an old piece of metal, that proves to be more trouble than it's worth.
#3 - The Love Mobile
Season 18 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/20/1997
The trio come across a mobile ""lonely hearts agency"". This time it seem it's the owners of the agency who need a bit of marital advice. Smiler tries to get rid of a tandem Auntie Wainwright sold him. He ends up being the perfect client for the lonely hearts agency.
#4 - Forked Lightning
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/5/1975
After Clegg suffers a little incident with his bycicle it's up to the trio to find someone to mend it
#5 - The Mother of All Mistakes - Or Is It?
Season 30 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/26/2009
Adopted as a baby, former milkman and undercover secret agent Hobbo is determined to trace his natural mother.
#6 - A Quiet Drink
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/2/1975
The trio tries to persuade a tight fisted man to buy a round of drinks. For that they devise a very peculiar plan.
#7 - Short Back and Palais Glide
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/12/1973
The trio pays a visit to the barbers where they talk about the war, marriage, local women, and the frequent rows that exist between couples. then they go to the café, where the first (of many) arguments between Ivy and Sid takes place. Compo realises he forgot his house key in the library and the trio wonders through town, in search for the librarian (Mr. Wainright)
#8 - Of Funerals and Fish (pilot)
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/4/1973
Norman Clegg visits his late wife's grave on the anniversary of her death, then he reunites with his friends Compo Simmonite and Cyril Blamire and the trio wonders through town talking about, life, death and fish.
#9 - The Great Boarding House Bathroom Caper
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/10/1976
The trio takes takes a little holiday in Scarborough, but what's the deal with Compo's cardboard box?
#10 - Inventor of the 40-Foot Ferret
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/19/1973
Clegg and Blamire trie to convince Compo to step inside a church. than they talk about the existence of god, miracles and the possibility of an afterlife
#11 - Northern Flying Circus
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/16/1975
Compo takes up motorcycling much to the surprise of Blamire and Clegg.
#12 - The Bandit from Stoke-on-Trent
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/4/1978
When "Laugh a Minute" Amos Hames, who toured Europe during the 1940's returns to town after many years missing, the finger of suspicion arises about the reason of his return.
#13 - Spring Fever
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/3/1973
Spring's comming and Compo is once again suffering from spring fever, so he sets off to find the perfect companionship for him. He ends up hiring a female housekeeper, in search of new found love.
#14 - A White Sweater and a Solicitor's Letter
Season 22 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/20/2001
Tom recieves a Solicitor's letter, which says he has recieves a big screen television set, which he ends up giving to Eli, and Barry takes up flying, which is just a model airplane. Also, Howard wants Norman to play Tennis so he can play Tennis with Marina, who gets sick of it and then ends up flying with Barry.
#15 - Oh Look! Mitzi's Found Her Mummy
Season 27 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/23/2006
Howard gets to look after a friend's dog for the day. Glenda and Barry get dressed up as Cleopatra and an Egyptian Mummy to go to a fancy dress party. Auntie Wainwright upgrades Tom and Smilers transport..to a tandem!
#16 - When You Take a Good Bite, Yorkshire Tastes Terrible
Season 9 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/22/1987
Old chum Bill Henry dies in America, which prompts Clegg to take Compo and Seymour on a sentimental journey.
#17 - The Man from Oswestry
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/27/1976
Compo is bored. Since Cyril Blamire left for Oswestry, to live with a woman, things have been a bit too calm for him in town. but soon, Clegg brings the solution to all their boredom. a letter from Blamire asking them to welcome home an old fried of his, called Foggy Dewhurst, and help him cope with the sudden changes in his life, after he was more or less forced to retire. Compo and Clegg meet with the new ""third man"", the war hero Foggy Dewhurst, who because of his peculiar life, and his endless wartime stories soon makes his presence noted around town. his military posture, and his ""murderous"" impulses only get him in a fight with Big Malcolm, and his military precison doesn't seem to be a great help, when the trio tries to carry Foggy's heavy war time luggage up a hill.
#18 - The Woollen Mills of Your Mind
Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/7/1985
Compo enters the local marathon in order to impress Nora.
#19 - Wind Power
Season 9 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/15/1987
How can Seymour harness the power of the wind for the benefit of mankind? Once again, Compo is the ""test pilot""
#20 - Who's That Dancing with Nora Batty Then?
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/12/1975
Gloria, a friend of Nora Batty is emigrating to Australia. it's up to the trio to find a piano for her surprise farewell party.
#21 - Pate and Chips
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/26/1973
The trio visits a Stately home, but naturally have some problems with Compo's messy ways
#22 - The Second Stag Night of Doggy Wilkinson
Season 28 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/15/2007
An old friend, Doggy, is almost 80 and getting married again - so The Boys take him out for his bachelors party complete with arranged special lady ... But what starts out as a boring dry affair soon gets pronounced as "better than my first stag" by the groom.
#23 - The Flag and Its Snag
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1979
Foggy has a vision to put a flag in a prominent place on the great British landscape-but first he needs a flag and a flagpole.
#24 - The Pony Set
Season 20 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/18/1999
When Compo decides to take up horseriding lessons to impress Nora Batty, it's up to Clegg and Truly to help him. For that they buy Auntie Wainright's wooden horse. The problems start when it's wheels prove to be too much of a ride
#25 - The Experiment
Season 10 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/16/1988
Compo wonders why all the blood rushes to his head when he's turned upside down. Seymour sets out to discover why.