The Morecambe & Wise Show (1968)
- TV variety / sketch show
- BBC One / BBC Two
- 1968 - 1977
- 70 episodes (9 series)
Sketch series starring comedy legends Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, plus a string of top-name celebrity guests.
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Morecambe & Wise's wiped BBC1 debut found
A missing episode of The Morecambe & Wise Show has been found. The 45-minute special aired in October 1970 as the duo's BBC1 debut for their hit sketch series.
British Comedy Guide, 20th July 2021Morecambe and Wise cleared over 'racist' Irish sketch
The BBC's complaints unit today reveals that they have investigated the much-loved duo over a comedy sketch they recorded in 1968. The skit featured Irish singer Ronnie Carroll and contained references to the IRA that at least one viewer found offensive enough to complain about.
Chortle, 15th April 2021Decline in Xmas comedy classics is no laughing matter
The audience is more fragmented than it used to be, and there is less consensus about what counts as family entertainment. The sitcom Mrs Brown's Boys is one of the BBC's biggest hits in that area, but I can't be the only one who finds its endless reliance on swearing for laughs off-putting.
Andrew Vine, The Yorkshire Post, 24th December 2019André Previn dies at the age of 89
The conductor and composer André Previn has died at the age of 89.
BBC, 28th February 2019Morecambe & Wise Show: The Lost Tapes, review
Lost reels of The Morecambe & Wise Show from 1968 have been freshly restored. But the material is not a patch on the pair's later Christmas specials, finds Gerard Gilbert.
Gerald Gilbert, The Independent, 26th December 2018Morecambe and Wise: The Lost Tapes, review
A reminder of comedy genius.
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 26th December 2018BFI announces Morecambe & Wise and Sid James recoveries
Newly recovered episodes of Sid James sitcom Citizen James and The Morecambe & Wise Show will be screened at the BFI next month.
British Comedy Guide, 5th November 2018Obituary: Fenella Fielding
She was a serious actress remembered for a single, stand-out comic performance.
BBC, 12th September 2018Eric Morecambe's East Fife 4 Forfar 5 finally occurs
The Scottish League Cup Group B tie between the sides went to penalties after a 1-1 draw. And the score in the shootout? East Fife 4 Forfar 5. Had he lived to see that, it would surely have raised a smile from Morecambe, who came up with the score as a jokey greeting whenever he met his friend James Alexander Gordon, the popular announcer who read the classified results on the BBC for 40 years.
BBC, 22nd July 2018Morecambe and Wise: Rescuing a 'lost' film
An old BBC broadcast of Morecambe and Wise from 1968 has been restored using a groundbreaking new technique. Once thought unsalvageable by experts, the badly damaged old film was scanned using X-rays, then an algorithmic reconstruction method was used to digitally reconstruct the images. Now they have 30 seconds of restored film which can be seen for the first time in decades.
BBC, 26th February 2018