Last of the Summer Wine (series 2) Jones (1975) (Both these two characters only appeared in this series) Blamire (1973-1975) <onlyinclude> </onlyinclude> The box set for series 1 and 2 was released by Universal Playback in September 2002. Last of the Summer Wine (series 2) Last of the Summer Wine's second series originally aired on BBC1 between 5 March and 16 April 1975. All episodes from this series were written by Roy Clarke and produced and directed by Bernard Thompson. Although ratings from the first series were not good, the BBC ordered a second series of "Last of the Summer Wine" after the first season aired but
Last of the Summer Wine of the Summer Wine" in the months leading up to World War II. Unlike its mother show, "First of the Summer Wine" was not filmed in Holmfirth. Period music was used instead of Ronnie Hazlehurst's score to create a more World War II era atmosphere. New supporting characters were added to those from "Last of the Summer Wine". Peter Sallis and Jonathan Linsley were the only actors from the original series to appear in the spin-off: Sallis played the father of his own character from the original show and Linsley appeared during the second series as a different character. The