Last of the Summer Wine's eighth series originally aired on BBC1 between 30 December 1984 and 17 March 1985.

[1] All episodes from this series were written by Roy Clarke and produced and directed by Alan J. W.

[2] The eighth series was released on DVD in region 2 as a combined box set with series 7 on 3 March 2008.

The region 2 DVD contains edited episodes for The Loxley Lozenge and Catching Digby's Donkey.

Both episodes are unedited on the region 1 DVD release.