British Comedy Guide
The Morecambe & Wise Show. Image shows from L to R: Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise. Copyright: BBC
The Morecambe & Wise Show

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.

  • The Morecambe & Wise Christmas Show 1977, Christmas Special repeated Wednesday at 7:55pm on BBC2

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Press clippings Page 5

Doreen Wise reveals how she sacrificed having children

Robert Sellers, Daily Mail, 24th September 2011

Growing up with a comic legend

Gary Morecambe has spent his life analysing his father, Eric Morecambe, whose death 25 years ago ended Britain's best-loved double act, Morecambe and Wise. Even now, Gary is no closer to knowing what made him tick.

Emma Cook, The Guardian, 17th October 2009

How Eric Morecambe saved Ernie from an unwise break-up

They were one of the nation's most enduring comedy double-acts, their sketches tickling audiences for more than four decades and catapulting them from music halls to some of the highest audiences ever recorded on British television. But the emergence of a long-lost letter reveals that Morecambe and Wise almost broke up long before their TV debut.

Aidan Jones, The Guardian, 12th October 2009

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