Last of the Summer Wine (series 22)
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The trio in this series consisted of:
Actor Role
Keith Clifford
Keith Clifford
Keith Clifford in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, UK is a British actor best known for his role as Billy Hardcastle on Last of the Summer Wine between 1999 and 2006....

Billy Hardcastle
Peter Sallis
Peter Sallis
Peter Sallis, OBE is an English actor and entertainer, well-known for his work on British television. Although he was born and brought up in London, his two most notable roles require him to adopt the accents and mannerisms of a Northerner.Sallis is best known for his role as the main character...

Clegg
Frank Thornton
Frank Thornton
Frank Thornton is an English actor who is best known for playing Captain Peacock in Are You Being Served? and its sequel Grace & Favour and as Truly in Last of the Summer Wine.-Early life:...

Truly

First appearanes

Herman Teesdale (2001-2010)
Toby Mulberry Smith (aka the Captain) (2001-2010)

List of Episodes

Title Airdate Description Notes
Getting Barry's Goat 1 April Barry tries to return Tom's goat after it has been left in his garage.
  • Billy becomes a regular character
  • First appearance of Herman Teesdale
  • Audience of 8.52m - 20th most watched programme of the week.
The Art of the Shorts Story 8 April Howard gets into a panic when he cannot find his shorts and is questioned about them by Pearl. Howard enlists Billy's help to provide him with some spare shorts, though perhaps he has failed to appreciate the height difference between them.
  • Audience of 7.17m - 37th most watched programme of the week.
  • The Missing Bus of Mrs. Avery 15 April Howard is cheerful and Pearl is suspicious. Mrs. Avery is flustered to drive the ladies on their outing.
  • Audience of 5.65m - 49th most watched programme of the week.
  • Hey! Big Vendor 22 April Wesley's latest invention should prove a big hit at the jumble sale, if only the rude noises it makes could be quietened down! Meanwhile, Clegg, Truly and Billy seek to help Barry improve his standing at the local golf club.
  • First appearance of Toby Mulberry Smith (aka the Captain). Trevor Bannister
    Trevor Bannister
    Trevor Gordon Bannister was an English actor best known for playing the womanising junior salesman Mr. Lucas in the sitcom Are You Being Served? from 1972 to 1979, and for his role as Toby Mulberry Smith in the longest-running sitcom Last of the Summer Wine, from 2003 until it ended its run in 2010...

     previously appeared on the series 9 years before as the Tailor in Who's Got Rhythm.
  • Audience of 6.69m - 40th most watched programme of the week.
  • Enter the Hawk 29 April Barry is interested in a pinstripe suit that he feels will help him look like managerial material. Pearl makes Howard his favourite meal, and Howard becomes suspicious.
  • Audience of 6.16m - 47th most watched programme of the week.
  • Gnome and Away 6 May Howard recruits Truly and Clegg to hide his latest gift for Marina until he can give it to her. The coffee circle becomes suspicious and attempts to uncover the truth behind the mysteriously shrouded object.
  • Norman Wisdom
    Norman Wisdom
    Sir Norman Joseph Wisdom, OBE was an English actor, comedian and singer-songwriter best known for a series of comedy films produced between 1953 and 1966 featuring his hapless onscreen character Norman Pitkin...

     makes his third guest appearance as Billy Ingleton. Although he is uncredited.
  • Audience of 5.38m - 55th most watched programme of the week.
  • A Hair of the Blonde That Bit You 13 May When Pearl finds a single blonde hair on one of Howard's shirts he need some assistance to get himself out of trouble enlisting Clegg, Truly and Billy to try to find him a plausible excuse.
  • Audience of 6.54m - 27th most watched programme of the week.
  • A White Sweater and a Solicitor's Letter 20 May As Barry and Howard indulge their latest respective passions, a solicitor's letter arrives, addressed to Compo. Truly, Clegg and a nervous Tom venture out to determine whether it's good Yorkshire fortune or a bad bookie debt.
  • Audience of 5.99m - 40th most watched programme of the week.
  • Why is Barry at an Angle? 27 May Barry has the undesirable task of collecting on a customer's late payment, and the quartet have a little fun at his expense; meanwhile, Howard and Marina find themselves in a stickier-than-normal situation.
  • Audience of 4.86m - 51st most watched programme of the week.
  • The Coming of the Beast 3 June While a rumour of a roaming tiger worries the townsfolk, Wesley's new toy gives Barry a chance to prove his usefulness in overalls.
  • Last appearance of Nora Batty until the 2002 Christmas special.
  • Final appearance of Mrs. Avery.
  • Norman Wisdom
    Norman Wisdom
    Sir Norman Joseph Wisdom, OBE was an English actor, comedian and singer-songwriter best known for a series of comedy films produced between 1953 and 1966 featuring his hapless onscreen character Norman Pitkin...

     makes his fourth guest appearance as Billy Ingleton
  • Audience of 5.4m - 43rd most watched programme of the week.

  • 2001 Christmas Special

    Title Airdate Description Notes
    Potts in Pole Position 30 December
    • June Whitfield
      June Whitfield
      June Rosemary Whitfield, CBE is an English actress, well known in the United Kingdom since the 1950s for roles in radio and television comedy series....

       makes a guest appearance in this episode, before joining the cast (in a different role) in Series 27 Warren Mitchell
      Warren Mitchell
      Warren Mitchell is an English actor who rose to initial prominence in the role of bigoted cockney Alf Garnett in the BBC television sitcom Till Death Us Do Part , and its sequels Till Death... and In Sickness and in Health , all of which were written by Johnny Speight...

      also made an appearance in the Episode as Whitfields husband. (Not Travis!)
    • Audience of 6.93m - 44th most watched programme of the week.
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