Roy Clarke

Roy Clarke

Royston Clarke OBE, usually known as Roy Clarke, is an English comedy writer best known for creating the sitcoms Last of the Summer Wine, Keeping Up Appearances, Open All Hours and its sequel series, Still Open All Hours.

  • Title: Roy Clarke
  • Popularity: 1.986
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1930-01-28
  • Place of Birth: Austerfield, Doncaster, England, UK
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Roy Clarke Movies

  • 2023
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    Comedy Classics: Keeping Up Appearances

    Comedy Classics: Keeping Up Appearances

    7 2023 HD

    Keeping Up Appearances remains one of Britain's best loved series. Running for 5 years throughout the 90s, millions of viewers tuned in to watch the...

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  • 2022
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    Last Of The Summer Wine: 30 Years Of Laughs

    Last Of The Summer Wine: 30 Years Of Laughs

    1 2022 HD

    This new special reveals the secrets of the long-running sitcom's extraordinary success. Helped by former cast and crew members, families of the...

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  • 1983
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    Getting Sam Home

    Getting Sam Home

    8 1983 HD

    Three old chums agree to take the ailing Sam on one last trip to see his flousy girl-friend, Lily Bless Her, in the middle of the night.

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  • 2016
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    Young Hyacinth

    Young Hyacinth

    5.4 2016 HD

    Set in the 1950s, this prequel to Keeping Up Appearances looks at the life, relationships, and aspirations of 18-year-old Hyacinth. Long before she...

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  • 1977
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    The Bass Player and the Blonde

    The Bass Player and the Blonde

    1 1977 HD

    George Mangham is a former composer and bass player in a band struggling for money. Stuck in an engagement with Mrs Merino, a wealthy older woman,...

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  • 1973
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    That Sinking Feeling

    That Sinking Feeling

    1 1973 HD

    At the gathering of a North Country wedding, the prospective husband starts to have doubts about going ahead as he observes what marriage has done to...

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  • 1997
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    The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket

    The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket

    9 1997 HD

    Daisy and Onslow find the secret diary of Hyacinth and start reading in it. The rest of this TV-special are clips from prevous episodes.

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  • 1993
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    A Foreign Field

    A Foreign Field

    1 1993 HD

    Nostalgic comic drama in which Cyril and Amos, two veterans of the Normandy landings, return to France to visit the grave of their wartime buddy....

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  • 1990
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    The World of Eddie Weary

    The World of Eddie Weary

    1 1990 HD

    Alex Conway is an actor who plays the part of 'Eddie Weary', a sympathetic, down-at-heel, shabby, Northern, working-class private detective, in a TV...

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  • 1971
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    Will Amelia Quint Continue Writing 'A Gnome Called Shorthouse'?

    Will Amelia Quint Continue Writing 'A Gnome Called Shorthouse'?

    8 1971 HD

    They write so many innocent words, but what are the authors of your children's stories really like?

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  • 1988
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    Hawks

    Hawks

    6 1988 HD

    Two terminally ill patients in a hospital yearn for relief from their predicament. With little or no friends, they form an uneasy alliance and plot...

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  • 1973
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    Last of the Summer Wine

    Last of the Summer Wine

    7.145 1973 HD

    Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never really grown up explore their world in the Yorkshire...

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  • 1970
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    Last of the Summer Wine

    Last of the Summer Wine

    7.605 1970 HD

    Hyacinth Bucket (whose name, she insists, is pronounced "Bouquet") is a suburban housewife in the West Midlands. She would be the first to tell you...

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  • 1970
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    Last of the Summer Wine

    Last of the Summer Wine

    6 1970 HD

    Comedy Playhouse is a long-running British anthology series of one-off unrelated sitcoms that aired for 120 episodes from 1961 to 1975. Many episodes...

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  • 1970
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    Last of the Summer Wine

    Last of the Summer Wine

    6.3 1970 HD

    The Magnificent Evans is a 1984 BBC situation comedy written by Roy Clarke and starring Ronnie Barker, Sharon Morgan and Myfanwy Talog.

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  • 1970
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    Last of the Summer Wine

    Last of the Summer Wine

    5.6 1970 HD

    Sitcom prequel to Last of the Summer Wine set in a small Yorkshire village in 1939 as Britain becomes poised for war.

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  • 1970
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    Last of the Summer Wine

    Last of the Summer Wine

    7.145 1970 HD

    Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never really grown up explore their world in the Yorkshire...

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  • 1970
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    Last of the Summer Wine

    Last of the Summer Wine

    7.926 1970 HD

    Open All Hours is a BBC sitcom written by Roy Clarke and starring Ronnie Barker as a miserly shop keeper and David Jason as his put-upon nephew who...

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  • 1970
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    Last of the Summer Wine

    Last of the Summer Wine

    1 1970 HD

    The Misfit was an ATV sitcom series written by Roy Clarke and was broadcast from 1970 to 1971 on ITV.

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  • 1970
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    Last of the Summer Wine

    Last of the Summer Wine

    7 1970 HD

    The Wanderer is a television series of British origin, first transmitted in 1994 and comprising 13 episodes. Every episode brings a new adventure,...

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  • 1970
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    Last of the Summer Wine

    Last of the Summer Wine

    4 1970 HD

    Pulaski is a British television drama series produced by the BBC in 1987. Created by Roy Clarke, the series was a parody of detective dramas centred...

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  • 1970
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    Last of the Summer Wine

    Last of the Summer Wine

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Last of the Summer Wine

    Last of the Summer Wine

    6 1970 HD

    Funny Valentines is a comedy collection of nine original short films exclusive to BBC iPlayer, written and starring many of Britain's finest...

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  • 1970
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    Last of the Summer Wine

    Last of the Summer Wine

    7 1970 HD

    Arnie Cole (Hoskins) and his wife Maud (de la Tour) are an odd couple, having entered into the state of matrimony for purely practical reasons....

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  • 1970
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    Last of the Summer Wine

    Last of the Summer Wine

    5.5 1970 HD

    Earnest new recruit PC Penrose has left his home town and joined the force in the Yorkshire town of Slagcaster. He's young and naive but seasoned...

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  • 1970
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    Last of the Summer Wine

    Last of the Summer Wine

    1 1970 HD

    Sketches and clips from his greatest television comedy performances

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  • 1970
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    Last of the Summer Wine

    Last of the Summer Wine

    6.5 1970 HD

    Manhunt is a World War II drama series consisting of 26 episodes, produced by London Weekend Television in 1969 and broadcast nationwide.

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  • 1970
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    Last of the Summer Wine

    Last of the Summer Wine

    1 1970 HD

    When Clive and Sonia discover that their respective partners are having an affair, they join forces in an attempt to save their marriages.

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  • 1970
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    Last of the Summer Wine

    Last of the Summer Wine

    6 1970 HD

    Following the death of his long time terminally ill mother, Ashley, enthusiastically aided and abetted by his sister-in-law, Colette, decides that he...

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  • 1970
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    Last of the Summer Wine

    Last of the Summer Wine

    7.605 1970 HD

    Hyacinth Bucket (whose name, she insists, is pronounced "Bouquet") is a suburban housewife in the West Midlands. She would be the first to tell you...

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  • 1970
    imgS2 E6

    Last of the Summer Wine

    Last of the Summer Wine

    5.6 1970 HD

    Sitcom prequel to Last of the Summer Wine set in a small Yorkshire village in 1939 as Britain becomes poised for war.

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  • 1970
    imgS4 E6

    Last of the Summer Wine

    Last of the Summer Wine

    7.926 1970 HD

    Open All Hours is a BBC sitcom written by Roy Clarke and starring Ronnie Barker as a miserly shop keeper and David Jason as his put-upon nephew who...

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  • 1970
    imgS31 E6

    Last of the Summer Wine

    Last of the Summer Wine

    7.145 1970 HD

    Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never really grown up explore their world in the Yorkshire...

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  • 1970
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    Last of the Summer Wine

    Last of the Summer Wine

    6.333 1970 HD

    Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt! is an ITV sitcom that ran from 1974 to 1977 starring Bill Maynard as the council labourer, Scarsdale Working Men’s...

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  • 1970
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    Last of the Summer Wine

    Last of the Summer Wine

    7 1970 HD

    The Sharp End was a 1991 British television comedy drama starring Gwen Taylor, James Cosmo and Philip Martin Brown. It was written by Roy Clarke and...

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  • 1970
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    Last of the Summer Wine

    Last of the Summer Wine

    5.935 1970 HD

    Still Open All Hours is a sitcom set in a grocer's shop. It is a sequel to the series Open All Hours, written by original series writer Roy Clarke...

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  • 1970
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    Last of the Summer Wine

    Last of the Summer Wine

    7 1970 HD

    The Wanderer is a television series of British origin, first transmitted in 1994 and comprising 13 episodes. Every episode brings a new adventure,...

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  • 1970
    imgS1 E6

    Last of the Summer Wine

    Last of the Summer Wine

    6.3 1970 HD

    The Magnificent Evans is a 1984 BBC situation comedy written by Roy Clarke and starring Ronnie Barker, Sharon Morgan and Myfanwy Talog.

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  • 1970
    imgS1 E7

    Last of the Summer Wine

    Last of the Summer Wine

    5.5 1970 HD

    Earnest new recruit PC Penrose has left his home town and joined the force in the Yorkshire town of Slagcaster. He's young and naive but seasoned...

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  • 1970
    imgS2 E6

    Last of the Summer Wine

    Last of the Summer Wine

    1 1970 HD

    When Clive and Sonia discover that their respective partners are having an affair, they join forces in an attempt to save their marriages.

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