last of the summer wine be just one of those tv classic . though it have to be say and when compo die and so do the show . set in holmfirth ( ten mins away from my home ) a west yorkshire village and the show start in 1973 and and it be about three old men compo simonite ( bill owen ) and norman clegg ( peter sallis ) and cyril blamire ( michael bates ) . compo be scruffy and clegg be normal . and cyril be appal by compo untidiness . these old men get up to the most strange of adventure and compo be sexually obsess with next door neighbour nora batty ( kathy staff ) . the trio often go to the café in most episode and own by sid ( john comer ) and awful wife ivy ( jane freeman ) . when michael bat die and the role of the third man go to ex military man foggy dewhurst ( brian wilde ) . wilde play the role for ten year and then he leave and so next third man and seymour utterthwaite ( michael aldridge ) and a mad inventor . aldridge then leave the series and so in 1990 and foggy dewhurst return . wilde play the part until 1997 and when he pick up an ailment and so he be force to retire . this look like the end of the show and but no . who be to be the next third man . michael aldridge have die in 1995 and so he couldn not take over . it go to ex policeman herbert truelove ( frank thornton ) . this go on until bill owen die in 1999. that really should have be the end of the show and but the great roy clarke ( open all hour and keep up appearance ) make a bad decision and to carry the show on . you can not have last of the summer wine without compo . without compo it just last of the . who be my favourite third man . cyril be excellent and seymour and herbert be good and but it have to go to foggy . the episode with brian wilde in be great . best episode represent it be one of the two part episodes the great boarding house bathroom caper and cheer up gordon and which be about when compo and clegg and foggy and sid and ivy and gordon ( compo nephew ) go on holiday to scarbourgh and only to find nora batty and husband wally be stay in the same boarding house .