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| Num Episodes: | 15 |
| Network: | BBC1 |
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| Prev Season: | 8 |
| Next Season: | 10 |
Last of the Summer Wine's ninth series originally aired on BBC1 between 1 January 1986 and 27 December 1987.[1] All episodes from this series were written by Roy Clarke and produced and directed by Alan J. W. Bell.[2]
The ninth series was released on DVD in region 2 as a box set on 5 May 2008.
For reasons not disclosed, the DVD box set in the UK splits series 9 into two series, renaming the second half as series 10. As a consequence, every subsequent DVD release is miss-numbered (series 10 is now series 11; series 11 is now series 12, etc).
The trio in this series consisted of:
| Actor | Role | |
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| Michael Aldridge | Seymour | |
| Bill Owen | Compo | |
| Peter Sallis | Clegg |
New Year Special (1986)
Christmas Special (1986)Regular series| Title | Airdate | Description | Notes |
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| Why Does Norman Clegg buy Ladies' Elastic Stockings | 4 January | Howard persuades a reluctant Clegg to take a message to Marina in the store where she works. Clegg buys random items, including ladies' stockings, in order to explain his extended presence in the store while he waits for a chance to pass the message. Seymour invents a drill and uses it in an attempt to find oil, with unhappy results. |
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| The Heavily Reinforced Bottom | 11 January | Compo takes up canoeing, with disastrous results. |
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| Dried Dates and Codfanglers | 18 January | Seymour invents a high-security door lock, which fails miserably. Compo has lost a prized possession – a date Nora Batty threw at him! | |
| The Really Masculine Purse | 25 January | After Compo claims that any man who uses a purse is effeminate, Seymour tries to invent a strictly masculine purse. | |
| Who's Feeling Ejected Then? | 1 February | Seymour builds an ejector seat, which Compo is persuaded to test. | |
| The Ice-Cream Man Cometh | 8 February | Seymour misses the good old days, and decides to promote the old tradition of bicycling ice-cream men. | |
| Set the People Free | 15 February | Howard and Wally have both been confined to quarters, and it's up to the trio to try to break them free. | |
| Go with the Flow | 22 February | Seymour volunteers the trio to help the Vicar and they are assigned to sell tickets for a production of Beatrix Potter – but all he succeeds in doing is getting himself thrown out of the local pub. Will Compo fare any better? |
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| Jaws | 1 March | Seymour invents a new waste disposal unit for Edie. |
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| Edie and the Automobile | 8 March | Edie is having driving lessons – no-one is safe! |
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| Wind Power | 15 March | Seymour's invents wind-powered rollerskates. | |
| When You take a Good Bite, Yorkshire Tastes Terrible | 22 March | Clegg receives word that an old friend in America, Bill Henry Duffield, died six months earlier. The trio relive some happy memories as a tribute. |
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Christmas Special (1987)
When recordings were "repackaged" for overseas sale, UK series 9 (12 episodes) was split into "Season 9" and "Season 10" (each of 6 episodes), with all subsequent "seasons" being renumbered accordingly. As a result, (for example) "Series 27" in the UK may be referred to as "Season 28" in the USA. This miss-numbering occurs on the UK DVD releases for reasons unknown.
The box set for series nine was released by Universal Playback in May 2008, mislabelled as a box set for series 9 & 10.
| The Complete Series 9 & 10 | ||||
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| Region 2 | ||||
| 5 May 2008 | ||||
Book: Bright , Morris . Robert Ross . Last of the Summer Wine: The Finest Vintage . BBC Worldwide Ltd . 2000 . London . 0-563-55151-8 . registration .