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{{Infobox television season
| season_number =
| bgcolour = #DEDDE2
| image = LOTSWs3.jpg
| image_size = 200px
| image_alt =
| caption = ''Last of the Summer Wine'' Series 3 & 4 DVD
| starring =
| country = UK
| num_episodes = 9
| network = [[BBC1]]
| first_aired = {{start date|1977|11|9|df=y}}
| last_aired = {{end date|1978|12|26|df=y}}
| prev_season = [[Last of the Summer Wine (series 3)|3]]
| next_season = [[Last of the Summer Wine (series 5)|5]]
| episode_list =
}}

'''''[[Last of the Summer Wine|Last of the Summer Wine's]]''''' '''fourth series''' originally aired on [[BBC1]] between 9 November 1977 and 4 January 1978.<ref>Bright and Ross (2000), pp. 172–174</ref> All episodes from this series were written by [[Roy Clarke]] and produced and directed by [[Sydney Lotterby]].<ref>Bright and Ross (2000), p. 164</ref>

The fourth series was released on [[DVD]] in [[DVD region code|region 2]] as a combined box set with series 3 on 26 July 2004. A box set featuring just series 4 was released for [[DVD region code|region 1]] on 9 September 2008.

==Outline==
The trio in this series consisted of:
{| class="wikitable"
! Actor
! Role
|-
| [[Bill Owen (actor)|Bill Owen]]
| [[List of Last of the Summer Wine characters|Compo]]
|-
| [[Peter Sallis]]
| [[List of Last of the Summer Wine characters|Clegg]]
|-
| [[Brian Wilde]]
| [[List of Last of the Summer Wine characters|Foggy]]
|-
|}

==List of episodes==
'''Regular series'''
{| class="wikitable" width=100% border=1 style="font-size: 95%"
|-
! style="background:#ffdead" width=17%|Title
! style="background:#ffdead" width=8%|Airdate
! style="background:#ffdead" width=40%|Description
! style="background:#ffdead" width=35%|Notes
|-
|Ferret Come Home
|9 November 1977
|One of Compo's ferrets escapes into Nora's house. Can Wally retrieve it?
|
|-
|Getting on Sidney's Wire
|16 November 1977
|Sid is installing a doorbell in the cafe, and the trio decide to help him.
|
|-
|Jubilee
|23 November 1977
|It is the Queen's Silver Jubilee, and Foggy decides that the trio should help the vicar's parade.
|
* Guest Appearance of [[John Horsley (actor)|John Horsley]]
|-
|Flower Power Cut
|30 November 1977
|Clegg tries to persuades the others that flowers have feelings and will respond to music.
|
* Guest Appearance of [[Frances Cox]]
|-
|Who Made a Bit of a Splash in Wales Then?
|7 December 1977
|Foggy is visiting a lady friend in Wales, but what will happen when Compo and Clegg intrude?
|
* Guest Appearance of [[Jean Boht]]
* Guest Appearance of [[Margaret John]]
|-
|Greenfingers
|21 December 1977
|Foggy is disappointed in the size of the vegetables being sold in the market, so searches out some bigger examples.
|
|-
|A Merry Heatwave
|1 January 1978
|Nora's brother, who lives in Australia, is very ill and unlikely to see another British Christmas. Foggy decides to film an old fashioned Christmas to send to him, unfortunately where do you find holly in the middle of a summer heatwave.
|
* Guest Appearances of [[Pete Postlethwaite]] and [[Teddy Turner (actor)|Teddy Turner]]
* First Christmas themed episode, although actually set in the middle of Summer.
* Thirty-five-minute-long episode.
* There is some confusion as to whether this episode was originally intended to be a Christmas Special or not, as it was broadcast in the usual place within a series, but it also happened to be within the Christmas and New Year holidays.
|-
|The Bandit From Stoke-on-Trent
|4 January 1978
|Why has "Laugh a Minute" Amos Hames returned to town? Foggy is suspicious.
|
* Guest Appearance of [[Timothy Bateson]]
|-
|}

'''Christmas Special (1978)'''
{| class="wikitable" width=100% border=1 style="font-size: 95%"
|-
! style="background:#ffdead" width=17%|Title
! style="background:#ffdead" width=8%|Airdate
! style="background:#ffdead" width=40%|Description
! style="background:#ffdead" width=35%|Notes
|-
|Small Tune on a Penny Wassail
|26 December 1978
|Christmas arrives and the trio visit a friend in hospital, before opening their presents.
|
*Guest Appearance of [[Teddy Turner (actor)|Teddy Turner]]
*Included on Series 5 & 6 Boxset
|-
|}

==DVD release==
The box set for series 3 and 4 was released by Universal Playback in July 2004.

{| border="2" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 0 1em 0 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
|- style="background:#EFEFEF"
| colspan="5" | '''The Complete Series 3 & 4'''
|-valign="top"
| align="center" width="400" colspan="3"| '''Set Details'''<ref name="DVD">{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Last-Summer-Wine-Brian-Wilde/dp/B0002JK76G/ref=pd_sim_74_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=7SBB13ZNAY210KJKF74S|title=Last of the Summer Wine Series 3 & 4 [DVD]|accessdate=21 August 2016 |publisher=Amazon }}</ref>
|-valign="top"
| colspan="3" align="left" width="400"|
* 15 episodes
* 3-disc set
* Language: English
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" | '''Release Date'''
|-
|align="center" | [[DVD region code#2|Region 2]]
|-
|align="center" |26 July 2004
|}

In addition, ''Last of the Summer Wine: Vintage 1977'' has been released on 9 September 2008 in Region 1 and included all episodes from the fourth series including a rare 1977 interview with Roy Clarke.<ref>{{cite news | first=David | last=Lambert | title=World's Longest-Running Sitcom Gets a New DVD Release This Fall | date=8 May 2008 | url=http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Summer-Wine-Season-4/9569 | work=TVShowsOnDVD.com | accessdate=22 May 2008 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080522154926/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Summer-Wine-Season-4/9569 | archivedate=22 May 2008 }}</ref>

==Notes==
{{reflist}}

==References==
{{cite book
| last = Bright
| first = Morris
| author2 = Robert Ross
| title = Last of the Summer Wine: The Finest Vintage
| publisher = BBC Worldwide Ltd
| year = 2000
| location = London
| url = https://archive.org/details/lastofsummerwine0000brig
| isbn = 0-563-55151-8
| url-access = registration
}}

==External links==
*[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069602/episodes#season-4 Series 4] at the [[Internet Movie Database]]

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