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{{Infobox television season
| season_number =
| bgcolour = #DEDDE2
| image = LOTSWs7.jpg
| image_size = 200px
| image_alt =
| caption = ''Last of the Summer Wine'' Series 7 & 8 DVD
| starring =
| country = UK
| num_episodes = 8
| network = [[BBC1]]
| first_aired = {{start date|1982|12|25|df=y}}
| last_aired = {{end date|1983|12|27|df=y}}
| prev_season = [[Last of the Summer Wine (series 6)|6]]
| next_season = [[Last of the Summer Wine (series 8)|8]]
| episode_list =
}}

'''''[[Last of the Summer Wine|Last of the Summer Wine's]]''''' '''seventh series''' originally aired on [[BBC1]] between 25 December 1982 and 27 December 1983.<ref>Bright and Ross (2000), pp. 178–181</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> except for "Getting Sam Home", which is produced and directed by [[Alan J.W. Bell]].

The seventh series was released on [[DVD]] in [[DVD region code|region 2]] as a combined box set with series 8 on 3 March 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]]
|-
|}

==First appearances==

*[[List of Last of the Summer Wine characters#PC Cooper|PC Cooper]] (1983, 1988–2010)

==Last appearances==

*[[List of Last of the Summer Wine characters#Sid|Sid]] (1973–1983)

==List of episodes==
'''Christmas Special (1982)'''
{| 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
|-
|All Mod Conned
|25 December
|Deciding to abandon the commercialised side of Christmas, Foggy books a caravan for the trio.
|
*Included on the Series 7 & 8 boxset.
|-
|}
'''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
|-
|The Frozen Turkey Man
|30 January
|Compo and Clegg decide that Foggy needs a woman, and they persuade a barmaid that he is a Millionaire.
|
*This (series 7 premier) episode had ratings of 15.95 million viewers, making it the 5th most watched programme of the same year.
|-
|The White Man's Grave
|6 February
|Deciding that Wally needs a break from Nora, the trio decide to swap Clegg with Wally.
|
|-
|The Waist Land
|13 February
|Foggy hits upon a money making idea – Selling junk food to people from the local health club.
|
*Guest appearance of [[John Barrard]] as Lapsley. Barrard who had previously played Josie's Dad in the 1976 episode [[Last of the Summer Wine (series 3)|"Going to Gordon's Wedding"]]
*Guest appearance of [[Hugh Lloyd]] as Alex
|-
|Cheering Up Ludovic
|20 February
|Ludovic has bought a tatty old van, but is too drunk to drive it. So it's up to Clegg to test drive it.
|
* [[Bryan Pringle]] guest-starred as Ludovic
|-
|The Three Astaires
|27 February
|Foggy volunteers the trio to help out at a church concert party, but Compo can't resist trying on a suit of armour
|
*Second and final appearance of [[John Horsley (actor)|John Horsley]] as the local vicar.
|-
|The Arts of Concealment
|6 March
|Foggy demonstrates his army camouflage techniques, to the dismay of a group of cyclists.
|
|-
|}
{{anchor|ChristmasSpecial1983}}'''Christmas Special (1983)'''
{| 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
|-
|Getting Sam Home
|27 December
|The lads visit Sam in hospital, and agree to his request that he wants to spend one last night with his 'other woman', Lily Bless'er. Unfortunately, while at Lily's, Sam dies. It's up to Foggy, Compo, Clegg and Sid to get him back home in such a way that his wife Sybil thinks he died in his own bed. But that's not the end of their troubles, and worse still, Ivy is determined to find out what the four are up to.
|
*This was a 90-minute special, a film made for television.
*This was the first episode to have no laughter track.
*Based upon Roy Clarke's ''Last of the Summer Wine'' Novel.
*The title 'Getting Sam Home' is not given onscreen, but is used in all reference books and television listings.
*First and only appearance of Sam.
*Guest appearance of [[Lynda Baron]] as Lily Bless'er.
*This episode marked the final appearance of Sid. [[John Comer]]'s voice was affected by illness, and so his lines were dubbed over by another actor, [[Tony Melody]]. Comer died 6 weeks after the broadcast, and Tony Melody would later appear as a landlord in the 2003 episode [[Last of the Summer Wine (series 24)|The Second Husband and the Showgirls]].
*This is the second occasion when the title music, with added lyrics, was sung by [[Mike Sammes|The Mike Sammes Singers]].
*This episode even marked the first appearance of [[Ken Kitson]] playing a [[Recurring characters in Last of the Summer Wine#Policemen|policeman]].
*Norris Fairburn (David Williams), who appears in this episode, later reprises his role in "Will Stella Find True Love with Norris Fairburn?" in the [[Last of the Summer Wine (series 30)|2009 series]] 26 years later.
*Included on the Series 7 & 8 boxset.
|-
|}

==DVD release==
The box set for series 7 and 8 was released by Universal Playback in March 2008.

{| 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 7 & 8'''
|-valign="top"
| align="center" width="400" colspan="3"| '''Set Details'''<ref name="DVD">{{cite web |url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Last-Summer-Wine-Peter-Sallis/dp/B000YHMTGC/ref=pd_bxgy_74_3?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=FY8VYW2WXKJVY1R3CEYV|title=Last of the Summer Wine Series 7 & 8|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" | 3 March 2008
|}

==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-7 Series 7] at the [[Internet Movie Database]]

{{Last of the Summer Wine}}

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