You're Only Young Once
Sketch and music series based around the Morecambe and Wise Detective Agency, starring the loveable comedy duo
- Genres
- Sketch Show, Variety
- Broadcast
- 1953 - 1954
- Channel
- BBC Home Service
- Episodes
- 30 (3 series)
- Starring
- Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise, Pearl Carr and Deryck Guyler
- Writer
- Frank Roscoe
- Producers
- Ronnie Taylor and John Ammonds
Sketches and music based loosely around the Morecambe and Wise Detective Agency. Each episode would see a special guest star visit the agency in search of help or assistance in some manner.
Guests included: Robert Beatty; Charlie Chester; the Dargie Quintet; the Maple Leaf Four; John Slater; MacDonald Hobley; the Ray Ellington Quartet; the Radio Revellers; and Harry Secombe.
Originally broadcast on the North of England Home Service.
- Part of
- Production company
- Also known as
- YOYO (Acronym)
- Laugh track
- Live audience
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Monday 9th November 1953 on BBC Home Service
- Last new broadcast
- Friday 17th December 1954 on BBC Home Service
- Length of episodes
- 30 minutes

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