Last of the Summer Wine's ninth series originally aired on BBC1 between 1 January 1986 and 27 December 1987.

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

[2] The ninth series was released on DVD in region 2 as a box set on 5 May 2008.

The trio in this series consisted of: New Year Special (1986) Christmas Special (1986) Regular series Christmas Special (1987) When recordings were "repackaged" for overseas sale, UK series 9 (12 episodes) was split into "Season 9" and "Season 10" (each of 6 episodes), with all subsequent "seasons" being renumbered accordingly.

This miss-numbering occurs on the UK DVD releases for reasons unknown.