You're Only Young Once
- Radio sketch show / variety
- BBC Home Service
- 1953 - 1954
- 30 episodes (3 series)
Sketch and music series based around the Morecambe and Wise Detective Agency, starring the loveable comedy duo. Stars Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise, Pearl Carr and Deryck Guyler.
Key details
- Genres
- Sketch Show, Variety
- Broadcast
- 1953 - 1954
- Channel
- BBC Home Service
- Episodes
- 30 (3 series)
- Stars
- Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise, Pearl Carr and Deryck Guyler
- Writers
- Frank Roscoe, Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise, Ronnie Taylor and John Ammonds
- Producers
- Ronnie Taylor and John Ammonds
- Company
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.
Additional details
- Part of
- Also known as
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- YOYO (Acronym)
- Production setting
- Studio
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Monday 9th November 1953 on BBC Home Service