Last of the Summer Wine (series 1) episodes, however the pilot still was not included in the re-release. The pilot episode was released on the final boxset series 31 & 32 as an extra on disc four on 15 August 2016. Last of the Summer Wine (series 1) Last of the Summer Wine's first series originally aired on BBC1 between 4 January 1973 and 29 December 1973. All episodes from this series were written by Roy Clarke and produced and directed by James Gilbert. The pilot episode, alternately known as "The Last of the Summer Wine" and "Of Funerals and Fish," originally premiered on the BBC's "Comedy
Broadcast to the Empire Broadcast to the Empire Broadcast to the Empire is the fourth (and final) Christmas Night with the Stars sketch of the British television comedy series "Dad's Army" that was originally transmitted on Monday 25 December 1972. A full-length radio version was also made, entitled "Ten Seconds From Now" (This was the last radio episode made). The platoon are very excited as they have been chosen to take part in the BBC Radio Christmas Broadcast "To Absent Friends", in which they are due to perform a short dramatised presentation about their duty as members of the Home Guard, just before The