Seasons & episodes

Feeling too old for a bicycle, Howard purchases a "secret" car. Barry is having a spiritual crisis.

Truly and Norman are drawn into Howard's latest escape plan. Auntie Wainwright dresses Smiler as Father Christmas and Tom as an elf. Glenda tries to help Barry get over a negative reflective mood. The local police think the men are a gang trying to dispose of a body.

Alvin has Truly and Norman over for a Holiday dinner. Glenda invited a man to dinner that Barry does not like. Pearl and Marina each give Howard a sweater vest, so he wears them both... at the same time. Auntie Wainwright gives Tom and Smiler a dinner that is actually nice, and then empties their pockets in a card game.

S0 · E28I Was a Hitman for Primrose Dairies (2008 Christmas Special) 2008-12-31 · 30 min＋

Luther 'Hobbo' Hobdyke, a retired milkman with strong links to MI5, arrives in the village. Very soon, calling upon his experiences on numerous dangerous missions overseas as a master spy, he forms a small team of reluctant volunteers, consisting of Alvin and Entwistle, ready to react to any emergency in the village. Finding that Hobbo has moved in next door, Clegg and Truly recall that he was never much of a milkman, but have to admit that his needlework is always exemplary.

Norman Clegg visits his late wife's grave on the anniversary of her death, then he reunites with his friends Compo Simmonite and Cyril Blamire and the trio wonders through town talking about, life, death and fish.

S1 · E2Short Back And Palais Glide 1973-11-12 · 30 min＋

The trio pays a visit to the barbers where they talk about the war, marriage, local women, and the frequent rows that exist between couples. Then they go to the cafe, where the first (of many) arguments between Ivy and Sid takes place. Compo realizes he forgot his house key in the library and the trio wonders through town, in search for the librarian (Mr. Wainwright).

S1 · E3Inventor Of The 40-Foot Ferret 1973-11-19 · 30 min＋

Clegg and Blamire try to convince Compo to step inside a church. Then they talk about the existence of God, miracles and the possibility of an afterlife.

S1 · E4Pâté And Chips 1973-11-26 · 30 min＋

The trio visits a stately home, but naturally have some problems with Compo's messy ways.

S1 · E5Spring Fever 1973-12-03 · 30 min＋

Spring's coming and Compo is once again suffering from spring fever, so he sets off to find the perfect companionship for him. He ends up hiring a female housekeeper, in search of new-found love.

S1 · E6The New Mobile Trio 1973-12-10 · 30 min＋

Thinking they need a faster way to travel through the hills, Clegg convinces the others to buy a car. They end up with an old piece of metal that proves to be more trouble than it's worth.

S1 · E7Hail Smiling Morn Or Thereabouts 1973-12-17 · 30 min＋

With a new camera in hands, the trio spends the day trying to find interesting things to photograph.

S2 · E1Forked Lightning 1975-03-05 · 30 min＋

After Clegg suffers a little incident with his bicycle it's up to the trio to find someone to mend it.

S2 · E2Who's That Dancing With Nora Batty Then? 1975-03-12 · 30 min＋

Gloria, a friend of Nora Batty is emigrating to Australia. It's up to the trio to find a piano for her surprise farewell party.

S2 · E3The Changing Face Of Rural Blamire 1975-03-19 · 30 min＋

Thinking they have too much free time on their hands, the trio decides to find some kind of occupation. They come across a dodgy bankrupt dealer who persuades them to sell his new product, with disastrous results, particularly for Blamire.

S2 · E4Some Enchanted Evening 1975-03-26 · 30 min＋

When Wally Batty threatens to leave home, Compo sees it as a perfect opportunity to move in with Nora Batty, so he does everything possible to impress her, like cleaning his home and dressing smartly.

S2 · E5A Quiet Drink 1975-04-02 · 30 min＋

The trio tries to persuade a tight-fisted man to buy a round of drinks, for which they concoct a very peculiar plan.

S2 · E6Ballad For Wind Instruments And Canoe 1975-04-09 · 30 min＋

The trio comes across a canoe, and it seems it's time for a little expedition up the river. Of course, with Blamire in charge they are soon likely to get wet.

S2 · E7Northern Flying Circus 1975-04-16 · 30 min＋

Compo takes up motorcycling, much to the surprise of Blamire and Clegg.

S3 · E1The Man From Oswestry 1976-10-27 · 30 min＋

Compo is bored. Since Cyril Blamire left for Oswestry, to live with a woman, things have been a bit too calm for him in town. But soon, Clegg brings the solution to all their boredom. A letter from Blamire asking them to welcome home an old fried of his, called Foggy Dewhurst, and help him cope with the sudden changes in his life, after he was more or less forced to retire. Compo and Clegg meet with the new "third man", the war hero Foggy Dewhurst, who because of his peculiar life and his endless wartime stories soon makes his presence noted around town. His military posture, and his "murderous" impulses only get him in a fight with Big Malcolm, and his military precision doesn't seem to be a great help, when the trio tries to carry Foggy's heavy wartime luggage up a hill.

S3 · E2Mending Stuart's Leg 1976-11-06 · 30 min＋

Mr Wainwright is back in town, and quickly throws the trio out of the library. The trio goes back to the cafe, where Ivy is having the usual battle of wits with Sid. There they meet with Stuart, and old man who's having a strange click in his leg. Later the trio helps Sid to mend a whole in the roof of the cafe with the usual disastrous results. Meanwhile Wainwright dates the new female librarian.

S3 · E3The Great Boarding House Bathroom Caper 1976-11-10 · 30 min＋

The trio takes takes a little holiday in Scarborough, but what's the deal with Compo's cardboard box?

S3 · E4Cheering Up Gordon 1976-11-17 · 30 min＋

When the trio notices Compo's nephew Gordon is depressed, they come up with various ways of cheering him up.

S3 · E5The Kink In Foggy's Niblick 1976-11-24 · 30 min＋

When Foggy discovers his old golf clubs in the attic of his home, he takes Compo, Clegg and Sid for a little practice of "the noble sport".

S3 · E6Going To Gordon's Wedding 1976-12-01 · 30 min＋

It's Gordon's wedding day and, as always, problems are near. this time they appear with a face and a name: Big Malcolm. As always it's up to the trio to see that the wedding ends properly, but not without some incidents in between.