Sykes And A.... Image shows from L to R: Eric (Eric Sykes), Hat (Hattie Jacques). Copyright: BBC

Sykes And A...

TV sitcom
BBC One
1960 - 1965
59 episodes (9 series)

Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques play twins living together at 24 Sebeastapol Terrace. Also features Richard Wattis.

15th April: Recovered Sykes and Basil Brush episodes to be screened

Sykes And A.... Image shows from L to R: Hat (Hattie Jacques), Eric (Eric Sykes). Copyright: BBC

Genre

Broadcast

Channel

Episodes

59 (9 series), plus 1 short special

Stars

Eric Sykes, Hattie Jacques and Richard Wattis

Writers

Eric Sykes and Johnny Speight

Directors

Philip Barker, Dennis Main Wilson, Vere Lorrimer, Sydney Lotterby and William G Stewart

Producers

Dennis Main Wilson, Sydney Lotterby and Philip Barker

Company

BBC

Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques play twins living together at 24 Sebeastapol Terrace. Each episode was titled Sykes And A... - the theme of the episode completed the title.

Along with their snobbish neighbour Mr Brown, they find themselves in many unlikely and uproarious situations, often with Eric's almost child-like behaviour largely as the root cause.

During Series 3 Mr Brown emigrated to Australia.

Additional details

Production: Studio
Camera set-up: Multi-camera
Picture: Black and white

Website links

IMDb

Broadcast details

First broadcast

Friday 29th January 1960 at 8:30pm on BBC One

All previous repeats

Wednesday 19th January 2011 at 8:00pm on BBC4 - Series 5, Episode 7