Last of the Summer Wine broadcast on 29 August 2010. Since its original release, all 295 episodes, comprising thirty-one series — including the pilot and all films and specials — have been released on DVD. Repeats of the show are broadcast in the UK on Gold, Yesterday, and Drama. It is also seen in more than twenty-five countries, including various PBS stations in the United States and on VisionTV in Canada. "Last of the Summer Wine" is the longest-running comedy programme in Britain and the longest-running sitcom in the world. "Last of the Summer Wine" was set and filmed in and around Holmfirth, West Yorkshire,
British television science fiction British television science fiction British television science fiction refers to popular programmes in the genre that have been produced by both the BBC and Britain's largest commercial channel, ITV. The BBC's "Doctor Who" is listed in the "Guinness World Records" as the longest-running science fiction television show in the world and as the "most successful" science fiction series of all time. The first known science fiction television programme was produced by the BBC's prewar television service. On 11 February 1938, a thirty-five-minute adapted extract of the play "R.U.R.", written by the Czech playwright Karel Čapek, was broadcast live from the