Drama TV Guide — Tuesday, 8 September 2026

Seymour departs for a new teaching job, leaving Clegg and Compo at a loose end now he is no longer around to drag them into his eccentric schemes. However, they do not realise an old friend is about to return to the village. Comedy, starring Peter Sallis, Bill Owen and Brian Wilde

Foggy makes an ill-advised attempt to establish long-distance communication with Compo and Clegg by investing in some walkie-talkies. However, it doesn't take long for one of the units to fall foul of a tractor. Long-running rural comedy, with Brian Wilde, Peter Sallis and Bill Owen

Compo, Clegg and Foggy are intrigued by some perfectly respectable men who turn up without their trousers, before they take part in an event sponsored by a village charity

Von Klinkerhoffen's trust for the Gestapo is rapidly diminishing, so he orders Helga to marry Herr Flick so she can keep an eye on his activities. Elsewhere, the British airmen head to the canal to rendezvous with the submarine waiting for them. Comedy, starring Gorden Kaye, Hilary Minster and Kim Hartman

Rene and his staff disguise themselves as undertakers in a bid to rescue the British airmen. Meanwhile, Herr Flick and Von Smallhausen decide they want the pilots to join the Gestapo and dress up as German officers - but are arrested before they get chance to put their plan into action

Michelle concocts another plan to infiltrate German headquarters and rescue the British airmen using hijacked German uniforms, but who will they fit?

Sandra and the team investigate why five years earlier a man seemingly vanished during his morning run and has not been seen since. The alarm was raised when he never made it to work at the construction company belonging to his father-in-law, who has a history of violence, and the detectives' suspicions grow when they realise how much the missing man's wife is scared of her dad. Could he have had something to do with his son-in-law's disappearance? Amanda Redman, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Denis Lawson and Dennis Waterman star

Corcoran finds himself evaluating the decisions he has made about Annie. The arrival of a group of high-society out-of-towners offers Robert Morehouse a unique business opportunity