Playing catchup with #clarkeaday due to other adventures, so starting with 24 Feb 1985 we have Last of the Summer Wine's 'Enter the Phantom'

A showcase for the post-Compo characters in “The Frenchies are Coming”, an episode of Last of the Summer Wine's 24th series broadcast on 23rd Feb 2003 #clarkeaday

On the 20th February 1976, the first proper episode of Open All Hours aired on BBC2. This was the first time we heard the familiar theme, saw the familiar location, or met Lynda Baron as Nurse Gladys Emmanuelle – all were different in the 1973 pilot #clarkeaday

Today is one of those rare days that doesn't match up with the broadcast or premiere of a Roy Clarke script, so here is a photo of Roy and Bill Owen during production of Last of the Summer Wine instead. #clarkeaday

Second only to the infamous bath rolling down a hill, 'From Wellies To Wet Suit' surely has to feature the most repeated sequence from all of Last of the Summer Wine? First shown on February the 15th, 19882. #clarkeaday

A polaroid snap of a disgruntled looking Bill Owen on location for 'The Waist Land' – a Last of the Summer Wine episode first shown on the 13th Feb 1983. A treasure-trove of previously unpublished images from this shoot can be found in the magazine in the comments. #clarkeaday

Last of the Summer Wine – 'The Most Powerful Eyeballs in West Yorkshire” – broadcast on the 12th of Feb 1995 #clarkeaday

The magnificent beast that was Paul Luty in all his glory from Rosie, 'The Cheese and Wine' – broadcast on the 9th of Feb, 1977. The wrestler turned actor also appeared in two 1976 Last of the Summer Wine episodes as Malcolm. #clarkeaday

The sight of Joe Gladwin in a pram is one of the most simultaneously disturbing and hilarious images in all of Last of the Summer Wine – 'The White Man's Grave' was first broadcast on the 6th of Feb 1983 #clarkeaday

Compo, Clegg, and Foggy belatedly enter the space race in the sixth episode of the sixteenth series of Last of the Summer Wine – 'The Space Ace' – broadcast on the 5th of Feb 1995 #clarkeaday

Wesley Pegden joins the mobile catering trade? What could possibly go wrong? Last of the Summer Wine's 'Beware of the Hot Dog' – broadcast on the 3rd of Feb 2002. #clarkeaday

Our second month of one Roy Clarke production a day begins with 'Summer Wine Country', published on the 1st of Feb 1989. Paul Barker's Yorkshire landscape photography is complemented by extracts from letters written by Norman Clegg. #clarkeaday

The second series of Roy Clarke's anti-romantic comedy Ain't Misbehavin' takes a fantastical turn in its fourth episode, first broadcast on the 31st January 1995 #clarkeaday

A terrifying smoulder is aimed at Foggy by a misled barmain during 'The Frozen Turkey Man', an episode of Last of the Summer Wine first shown on this day – 30th Jan 1983. #clarkeaday

The reliable Geoffrey Whitehead (Z-Cars, Not Going Out, Reggie Perrin, The Worst Week of My Life) as Mr Newbold in Still Open All Hours. The episode 'Mr Newbold's Homemade Jam' was first broadcast on the 29th January 2017 #ClarkeADay

Happy Birthday Roy Clarke! Born on this day in 1930, Roy is the creator of Last of the Summer Wine, Open All Hours, Rosie, Potter, Keeping Up Appearances, Still Open All Hours and so much more. One of British television's greatest assets and still writing at 94!

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'Lift A Bright Stone' – one of Roy's early radio collaborations with the wonderful Alan Ayckbourn – was first broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 on the 27th January 1968. You can find a lot of information on their collaborations at the exhaustive alanayckbourn.net #clarkeaday

LTW broadcast 'The Regulars', a one-off play by Roy Clarke, on the 26th of Jan 1973 and Richard Last of The Telegraph was not a fan. Note the use of the name Nora before Nora actually had a name in Last of the Summer Wine. #ClarkeADay