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{{Infobox television season
| bgcolour = #DEDDE2
| image =
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| country = UK
| network = [[BBC1]]
| first_aired = {{Start date|1990|09|02|df=yes}}
| last_aired = {{End date|1990|12|27|df=yes}}
| num_episodes = 11
| prev_season = [[Last of the Summer Wine (series 11)|11]]
| next_season = [[Last of the Summer Wine (series 13)|13]]
}}

'''[[Last of the Summer Wine]]'s twelfth series''' aired on [[BBC1]]. All of the episodes were written by [[Roy Clarke]] and produced and directed by [[Alan J. W. Bell]].

With the departure of [[Michael Aldridge]] who had left to nurse his ill wife, the character of Foggy Dewhirst returned to the fold.

==Outline==
The trio in this series consisted of:
{| class="wikitable"
! Actor
! Role
|-
| [[Michael Aldridge]]
| [[List of Last of the Summer Wine characters|Seymour]] {{efn|only appeared briefly in Return of the Warrior}}
|-
| [[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]]
|-
|}

{{notelist}}

==Returning this series==

*[[List of Last of the Summer Wine characters#Foggy Dewhurst|Foggy Dewhurst]] (1976–1985, 1990–1997)

==Last appearances==

*[[List of Last of the Summer Wine characters#Seymour Utterthwaite|Seymour Utterthwaite]] (1986–1990)
*[[List of Last of the Summer Wine characters#Barry Wilkinson|Barry Wilkinson]] (1986–1990, 1996–2010)

==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
|-
|Return of the Warrior
|2 September
|Compo and Clegg see Seymour off, ready to take up a post of headmaster, and ponder what they will do with their lives now he has gone; they just keep missing a returning Foggy, until they finally bump into him.
|
*Final appearance of Seymour and the return of Foggy (having been absent since [[Last of the Summer Wine (series 8)|Series 8]] in 1985, five years before).
*First episode featuring two of the 'third men', but they never meet.
*When Compo and Clegg inform Seymour that the caning of children is now illegal, Seymour is clearly disappointed by this news, despite him knowing it about in the 1987 feature-length episode ''Big Day at Dream Acres''
|-
|Come In, Sunray Major
|9 September
|After a miscommunication leads to Foggy getting split up from Compo and Clegg while out walking, he comes up with an idea – portable radios.
|
|-
|The Charity Balls
|16 September
|Compo, Clegg, Foggy and Howard take part in sponsored football dribble for charity.
|
*This episode includes the second and final appearance of [[Bert Parnaby]] as Jack Harry Teesdale.
|-
|Walking Stiff Can Make You Famous
|23 September
|Foggy is tired of not receiving what he perceives as sufficient gravitas for his position and dreams up a suitably high-profile game befitting his status within the community: bicycle polo.
|
*Rare appearance of Foggy's house.
|-
|That's Not Captain Zero
|30 September
|After meeting Captain Zero, the human cannonball, the trio take him to the pub while his van is fixed. Unfortunately, when he gets arrested for being drunk, it is up to Compo to take his place.
|
*Guest Appearance [[Trevor Peacock]] (Captain Zero)
*The last appearances of Clegg and Howard's original respective homes.

|-
|Das (Welly) Boot
|7 October
|Foggy decides to restore an old boat, and Compo knows who he wants to take on the first trip...Nora Batty, but how can they lure her on board with him? Foggy has a plan yet again.
|
*Clegg and Howard move into new homes, still next-door neighbours.
*They would remain there for the rest of the series, until the show's end.
*Episode title is a spoof on the film ''Das Boot''
|-
|The Empire That Foggy Nearly Built
|14 October
|After seeing an argument over a parking space, Foggy decides that there must be money to be made out of car parking.
|
*Cameo Appearance [[James Thackeray]] (Motor Cyclist)
|-
|The Last Surviving Maurice Chevalier Impression
|21 October
|In another attempt to woo Nora Batty, Compo decides to go on a local television programme with his Maurice Chevalier impression, but unfortunately decides it's also a good idea to bring along his lucky ferret
|
*Guest-featuring a then injury-recovering [[Gorden Kaye]] (of [['Allo 'Allo]] fame) as Maynard Lavery.
|-
|Roll On
|28 October
|The trio train for a barrel- rolling event.
|
*Cameo Appearance [[Rachel Bell]] (Barmaid)
*Cameo Appearance [[Max Harvey]] (Customer)
|-
|A Landlady For Smiler
|4 November
|The lads do their best to find a new place to live for a returning Smiler, without much luck, until they strike upon the idea of the widow Nora Batty, though Compo is not too keen for another man to live with "his bird".
|
*Guest appearance of [[Chris Breeze]]
*Second guest appearance of Smiler before he becomes a regular from 1991 until 2007.
|-
|}

'''Christmas Special (1990)'''
{| 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
|-
|Barry's Christmas
|27 December
|It's Christmas 1990, and Glenda's so upset because Barry didn't come home the night before. The trio find him dressed as Santa Claus, under a table in the local pub
|
*there is no on-screen title for this episode
*uniquely, the open and close of this episode feature a fade to sepia
*Last appearance of Barry, who returns 6 years later in the [[List of Last of the Summer Wine episodes#1996 Christmas Special|1996 Christmas Special]] "Extra! Extra!" as Mike Grady left to pursue other TV projects of work at the time.
*This was the last episode to use 16mm film for outdoor scenes until series 14. The next series was shot entirely on video tape.
|-
|}

==DVD release==
The box set for series twelve was released by Universal Playback in December 2008, mislabelled as a box set for series 13 & 14.

{| 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 13 & 14'''
|-valign="top"
| align="center" width="400" colspan="3"| '''Set Details'''<ref name="DVD">{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Last-Summer-Wine-13-DVD/dp/B001DTKY2Q/ref=pd_bxgy_74_3?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=PGMPQJCY4MRQZVJRPTAM |title=Last of the Summer Wine Series 13 & 14|accessdate=20 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 codes|Region 2]]
|-
|align="center" | 26 December 2008
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==See also==
{{Last of the Summer Wine}}

[[Category:Last of the Summer Wine series]]
[[Category:1990 British television seasons]]

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