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{{Infobox television season
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| image =
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| country = [[United Kingdom]]
| network = [[BBC One]]
| first_aired = {{start date|2002|12|29|df=y}}
| last_aired = {{end date|2003|3|16|df=y}}
| num_episodes = 11
| prev_season = [[Last of the Summer Wine (series 23)|23]]
| next_season = [[Last of the Summer Wine (series 25)|25]]
}}

'''[[Last of the Summer Wine]]'s twenty-fourth series''' aired on [[BBC One]]. All of the episodes were written by [[Roy Clarke]] and produced and directed by [[Alan J. W. Bell]].

==Outline==
The trio in this series consisted of:
{| class="wikitable"
! Actor
! Role
|-
| [[Keith Clifford]]
| [[List of Last of the Summer Wine characters#Billy Hardcastle|Billy]]
|-
| [[Peter Sallis]]
| [[List of Last of the Summer Wine characters#Norman Clegg|Clegg]]
|-
| [[Frank Thornton]]
| [[List of Last of the Summer Wine characters|Truly]]
|}

==First appearances==

*[[List of Last of the Summer Wine characters#Electrical Entwistle|Entwistle]] (2002–2010)
*[[List of Last of the Summer Wine characters#Alvin Smedley|Alvin Smedley]] (2003–2010)
*[[List of Last of the Summer Wine characters#Lucinda Davenport|Miss Davenport]] (2003–2010)

==Returning this series==

*[[List of Last of the Summer Wine characters#Nora Batty|Nora Batty]] (1973–2001, 2003–2008)

==Last appearances==

*[[List of Last of the Summer Wine characters#Edie Pegden|Edie Pegden]] (1986–2003)

==List of episodes==

'''Christmas Special (2002)'''
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! style="background:#ffdead" width=17%|Title
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|-
|A Musical Passing for a Miserable Muscroft
|29 December
|Billy Ingleton has acquired a mobile pipe organ, the use of which the ladies feel appropriate for a charity pageant. Meanwhile, isn't anyone going to nasty old Muscroft's funeral?
|
*Nora Batty returns having been absent since the series 22 episode "The Coming of the Beast".
*Norman Wisdom makes his fifth guest appearance as Billy Ingleton.
*First small appearance of [[Recurring characters in Last of the Summer Wine#Entwistle|Entwistle]] ([[Burt Kwouk]]), (although his introduction to the other characters occurs in the next series).
*The closing theme is played on organ by [[Phil Kelsall]] recorded at [[Tower Ballroom]].
*Audience of 6.27m – 44th most watched programme of the week.
|-
|}
'''Regular series'''
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|-
! 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 Lair of the Cat Creature
|5 January
|A new adventurer lands in town, eager to make a name for himself; luckily for him, the trio has in mind a heroic test of mettle.
|
*First appearance of [[Brian Murphy (actor)|Brian Murphy]] as Alvin Smedley (then a guest star).
*Audience of 6.67m – 33rd most watched programme of the week.
|-
|Ancient Eastern Wisdom-An Introduction
|12 January
|Enthralled by a book of fiction, Howard begins emulating its hero; meanwhile, Truly and Clegg meet an inscrutable bearer of ancient Eastern wisdom whom they recruit to help Tom deal with the repo man.
|
*This episode introduces Entwistle ([[Burt Kwouk]]), despite him previously appearing in the 2002 Christmas special.
*[[Katherine Kelly (actress)|Katherine Kelly]] ([[Becky McDonald]] in Coronation Street) appears as Sharlene, a shop assistant with Marina.
*Audience of 5.76m – 53rd most watched programme of the week.
|-
|A Pick-Up of the Later Ming Dynasty
|19 January
|After helping Entwistle fix his truck, the trio are recruited to lay hands on Smiler's cart.
|
*Audience of 6.17m – 50th most watched programme of the week.
|-
|The Secret Birthday of Norman Clegg
|26 January
|Clegg wants to celebrate his birthday as quietly as possible, so he goes to pieces when everybody in the village is dressed for a celebration.
|
*Audience of 6.26m – 33rd most watched programme of the week.
|-
|In Which Gavin Hinchcliffe Loses the Gulf Stream
|2 February
|An old schoolmate's preparations for global warming are hampered by a drunk girlfriend and one very nervous driver.
|
*Guest appearance of [[Josephine Tewson]] (Keeping Up Appearances) as [[List of Last of the Summer Wine characters#Lucinda Davenport|Miss Davenport]] before becoming a regular cast member in the 2003 Christmas special "A Short Blast of Fred Astaire".
*Guest appearance of [[Bernard Cribbins]].
*Audience of 6.38m – 44th most watched programme of the week.
|-
|The Miraculous Curing of Old Goff Helliwell
|9 February
|Clegg, Truly and Billy need to put a spark back in the life of an old chum.
|
*Guest appearance of [[Henry McGee]] from [[The Benny Hill Show]] as Goff Helliwell
*Audience of 6.10m – 37th most watched programme of the week.
|-
|The Frenchies are Coming
|23 February
|Billy assembles a band of archers to defend against French invaders, and Pearl finds a way to keep tabs on Howard's comings and goings.
|
*Audience of 5.89m – 43rd most watched programme of the week.
|-
|The Man Who Invented Yorkshire Funny Stuff
|2 March
|The trio are on the hunt for a green-fingered man whose reputation as a ladies' man has bred contempt among his old flames.
|
*Audience of 6.76m – 32nd most watched programme of the week.
|-
|The Second Husband and the Showgirls
|9 March
|Curiosity abounds when the new husband of the former Mrs. Truelove arrives in town.
|
*Guest appearance of [[William Lucas (actor)|William Lucas]] as Norris Leland.
*Audience of 6.07m – 42nd most watched programme of the week.
*[[Tony Melody]], who plays a landlord, had previously dubbed the voice of Sid in the 90 minute Christmas special, [[Last of the Summer Wine (series 7)|Getting Sam Home]], after [[John Comer]]'s voice was badly affected by cancer twenty years earlier.
|-
|All of a Florrie
|16 March
|Everyone lends a hand in helping Truly rid himself of an old next-door neighbour with misguided affections.
|
*Final appearance of Edie. [[Thora Hird]] died the day before broadcast of this episode.
*Alvin Smedley ([[Brian Murphy (actor)|Brian Murphy]]) becomes a regular character. He would later join the trio in Series 26 in 2005, thus making it a quartet, and remain until the show's end in 2010.
*Guest appearance of [[Jeanne Mockford]] as Florrie.
|-
|}

==DVD release==
The box set for series twenty four was released by Universal Playback in September 2014, mislabelled as a box set for series 25 & 26.

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|- style="background:#EFEFEF"
| colspan="5" | '''The Complete Series 25 & 26'''
|-valign="top"
| align="center" width="400" colspan="3"| '''Set Details'''<ref name="DVD">{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Last-Summer-Wine-25-26-DVD/dp/B00LFKIQPU/ref=pd_bxgy_74_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=ZPM1PN3D88SJM0ABY8RG|title=Last of the Summer Wine Series 25 & 26 [DVD]|accessdate=20 August 2016 |publisher=Amazon }}</ref>
|-valign="top"
| colspan="3" align="left" width="400"|
* 22 episodes
* 4-disc set
* Language: English
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" | '''Release Date'''
|-
|align="center" | [[DVD region codes|Region 2]]
|-
|align="center" | 29 September 2014
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Last of the Summer Wine}}

[[Category:Last of the Summer Wine series]]
[[Category:2003 British television seasons]]

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