Last of the Summer Wine episodes from series seventeen and the 30th anniversary documentary. A 2008 release named "Last of the Summer Wine: Vintage 1976" focuses on the third series of the show and includes bonus interviews with Peter Sallis, Brian Wilde, and Frank Thornton. Subsequently, every episode from the third to the twenty-seventh series has been released on DVD in "Vintage" collections, many including special features and interviews. A spin-off prequel show, "First of the Summer Wine", premiered on BBC1 in 1988. The new programme was written by Roy Clarke and used different actors to follow the activities of the principal characters from "Last
Are You Being Served? (Australian TV series) where "Are You Being Served?" was popular, such as Ireland, the United States, Canada, and New Zealand. The series has not been repeated on Australian television since the late 1980s. (The UK original "Are You Being Served?" had been repeated by ABC Television in Australia several times. By 1978 it had been repeated by Channel Seven in Australia to even larger audiences.) In a recurring joke on the radio show "Get This", it was stated that only the loss of the master tapes for the series is preventing its release on DVD. The National Film and Sound Archive does in