Editing Brian Wilde (section)

===''Last of the Summer Wine''===
Wilde gained and established another role in 1976, when he took over from [[Michael Bates (actor)|Michael Bates]] as the third member of a trio of old men in the BBC sitcom ''[[Last of the Summer Wine]]''. The character, Walter "Foggy" Dewhurst, was a determined ex-army man who planned the group's misadventures with military precision and a painstaking eye for detail. Wilde saw the long-running series gather momentum and continue its success; he stayed with the series for nine years, before leaving in 1985 to work on other projects. Foggy was written out of the series and was replaced by [[Michael Aldridge]] as Seymour Utterthwaite.

When Aldridge left ''Last of the Summer Wine'', Wilde returned as Foggy in 1990. He stayed until 1997, when he contracted [[shingles]] during the preparations for series 19 and decided to leave. [[Frank Thornton (actor)|Frank Thornton]] was invited to join the cast to replace Wilde, making his debut in the 1997 Christmas special "There Goes The Groom!". Wilde never returned to the programme, despite several invitations to do so.