A group of elderly delinquents wander round the Yorkshire countryside, living out their second childhood. The continuing focus of Last of the Summer Wine is a trio of retired men, whose differing views of life provide much of the comic tension. Until the death of Compo in 2000 (following the death of actor Bill Owen), the trio consisted of scruffy lower-class “Compo” Simmonite, meek and timid middle-class Norman Clegg and a “third man”. The character in the role of third man varied over the years (the longest standing and most famous being Walter “Foggy” Dewhurst), who was always an authoritarian figure, playing the ring-leader in the escapades of the friends. Following the death of actor Bill Owen, the trio was maintained by the addition of Billy Hardcastle, and, for a short time, became a quartet with the addition of Nora Batty’s new next door neighbor, Alvin Smedley.
Important regular sub-plots in Last Of The Summer Wine revolve around Howard’s love affair with Marina (which his wife, Pearl, knows about, and tolerates up to a point, mainly because it gives her something to use against him); discussions of the women’s informal group: Nora, Ivy, Pearl, Edie and Glenda and, later, Aunt Roz and Nellie (with the customary unspoken battle between Nora and Ivy as to who gets the eclair and the synchronized tea-drinking); Compo’s pursuit of Nora (figuring more prominently after Wally Batty is no longer on the scene, having died, although it was an element of the series to some extent even before that); penny-pinching Auntie Wainwright’s machinations to sell her merchandise; Eli’s gaffes; Barry’s pursuit of new hobbies in an attempt to make his life less humdrum, and Tom’s constant efforts to stay one step ahead of the repo-man. Another much used plot device, is an invention or idea created by one of or all of the main trio (or sometimes, by Wesley), and their disastrous attempts to put it into practice. This was particularly common during inventor Seymour’s years with the series, and also common with Foggy.
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