Last of the Summer Wine Took saw Holmfirth's potential as the backdrop of a television show. Twenty years later, he returned to Holmfirth, where he filmed an episode of the BBC documentary series "Having a Lovely Time", which turned out to be the highest rated episode of the show. When Took heard that James Gilbert and Roy Clarke were looking for a place with a centre surrounded by hills for their new television programme, he suggested the idea to Duncan Wood, who was at that time filming "Comedy Playhouse". Gilbert and Clarke then travelled to Holmfirth and decided to use it as the setting for
The Last Chance Detectives Odyssey" in the first album. Both made by Focus on the Family, the two series were partially joined together for this series. Three albums were created: "The Last Chance Detectives" television films were filmed at Kingman Airport in Kingman, Arizona. "Focus on the Family Films" paid $3,000 to lease the land to film it there. There were three films created: "The Last Chance Detectives" currently airs on JellyTelly and KDOV-LP theDove TV. The Last Chance Detectives The Last Chance Detectives is a series of Christian television movies, and later a radio drama series created by Robert Vernon and produced by