Morecambe & Wise

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14 July 1962

21 July 1962

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Chris Barber and Otilie Patterson

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Clyde Valley Stompers

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--Joe Brown

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--The King Brothers

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--The King Brothers

The King Brothers (20 July 1963)

--The King Brothers

The King Brothers (27 July 1963)

--The King Brothers

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31 August 1963

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The Raindrops

--The Raindrops

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Kenny Ball

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--The Beatles - ""I Want To Hold Your Hand,"" ""All My Loving"" & ""This Boy"" --In a comedy segment, the Beatles sin

The Viscounts

The Viscounts

Acker Bilk / Jackie Trent

Guests: Acker Bilk Jackie Trent

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Patsy Ann Noble

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The King Brothers

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Joe Brown & His Bruvvers

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The Four Macs

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20 June 1964

Susan Maughan / The Migil Five

Susan Maughan The Migil Five

Lulu / Paul and Barry Ryan

--Lulu --Paul & Barry Ryan

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--Jackie Trent

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--Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames

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The Shadows

--The Shadows

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--Herman's Hermits - ""This Door Swings Both Ways""

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Music: --The Kinks - ""Dandy"" & ""Well-Respected Man"" --Engelbert Humperdinck - ""Release Me"" and ""Country Gir

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Music: --The Small Faces - ""I Can't Make It"" & ""All or Nothing"" --Bobby Rydell - ""The Impossible Dream"" & ""

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Music: --The Hollies - ""On a Carousel"" & ""Stop, Stop, Stop"" --Tom Jones - ""That Old Black Magic"" and ""Detro

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Music: --Manfred Mann - ""Ha Ha, Said the Clown"" & ""Just Like a Woman"" --George Maharis - ""Baby Has Gone Bye-B

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Music: --Frankie Avalon - ""I Could Write a Book"" & ""What Is This Thing Called Love?"" --The New Vaudeville Band

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Music: --The Moody Blues - ""Fly Me High"" & ""Really Haven't Got the Time"" --Tommy Leonetti - ""Once Upon A Time

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Music: --Peter Nero (pianist) - ""A Walk in the Black Forest"" & ""Variations on a Theme"" --The Tremeloes - ""Sil

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Music: --Eric Burdon & the Animals - ""When I Was Young"" & ""Good Times"" --Gene Pitney - ""Town without Pity"" &

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Music: --Georgie Fame - ""Sweet Thing"" & ""Funny How Time Slips Away"" --Bobby Vinton - ""Mr. Lonely,"" ""To Life

Cliff Richard / The Dave Clark Five

Georgia Brown / Los Zafiros

Acker Bilk / Roy Budd

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Skit: The stag night, Eric wants to play shadow-grams on his stag night. The performance is Desert Song. Singing perform

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Episode 1

The musical guests are Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen, Bobbie Gentry and Vince Hill. Ernie is sick and then Eric and Ernie p

Episode 2

Musical guests are Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen, Malcolm Roberts and Trio Athenee. Ernie reads some poetry and then Eric dis

Episode 3

Musical guests are Kennyball & His Jazzmen, The Pattersons and Moira Anderson. Juliet Mills is the guest actor. The sket

Episode 4

In the opening, Eric has brought an Incan talisman from Peru to show Ernie. Kennyball and His Jazzman perform "I Wan'na

Christmas Special

Guests: Frankie Vaughan, Nina, The Pattersons, Fenella Fielding, Sacha Distel

Episode 1

Ern the baggy pants comic Ticket clipper In bed: the secret of long life Monks smoking The world’s strongest man Lost

Episode 2

Ernie’s award, Ernie leaves, Passing the joke, Buskers, Monks: the epilogue, Routine with Nina, Ian Carmichael introdu

Episode 3

Ernie gets with it Playing in the park Ernie takes a bath Window-cleaning See you at seven Visiting Fenella Fielding Mon

Episode 4

Eric’s wig Meeting Diane Cilento for dinner At the cinema Soaking feet Play introduction Diane Cilento starts in the E

Episode 5

The permissive show, Edward Chapman introduction, Trouble At Mill, A Shot In The Dark, Whistling at bus stop, Monks: sho

Episode 6

This episode was entered for the Golden Rose Of Montreaux. The opening spot see the duo attempting to exchange trousers,

Episode 7

Ernie the scout The Nose Blowers Trying to sleep/Richard Greene Love In A Mist Pocket radio Monks: dancing Richard Green

Episode 1

This Is Your Life, Moon landing, It’s over between us, Eric Porter’s dressing room, Tarzan’s last adventure, Six w

Episode 2

Fox hunting, Record shop: bird calls, Visiting Eric’s parents, Three in a bed, Boarding house, In the park with baby,

Episode 3

Health food, Contagious disease, Underwear shop, Miss Holiday resort, Nina’s cake, Monks: pay day, Writing in bed

Episode 4

Ernie’s ballet Accident, Christening, Fenella Fielding comes to the flat, Directions from a policeman, The big record,

Episode 5

The stool, The diet, Messing up Ernie’s plays/famous guest stars, Ticket collector, The drama critic, Monks: the organ

Special (8 October 1970)

Moustache seeds, Ernie in hospital, Ear specialist, Honeymoon couple next door. This episode of The Morecambe and Wise

1970 Christmas Special

The second seasonal offering saw the return of recurring guest star Peter Cushing who still hadn't been paid (a joke tha

Episode 1

Sketches: Piano: sixty seconds, Employment office, Shoes, Impressing Flora Robson, Flora Robson, Queen Elizabeth The Fir

Episode 2

Sketches: Arthur Lowe meets Janet Webb, Marriage guidance, Ernie Wise sings, Going up to the flat, The facts of life, Ou

Episode 3

Sketches: Eric’s replacement, Monks; no talking, The Connoisseurs: antiques, Milk, Falling dream, Coming-and-going ill

Episode 4

Sketches: Modelling Ern's body, Wind, Record shop, Love letters, Dracula books a room, Goodbye, Harmonicas and Arthur To

Episode 5

Sketches: Ernie’s retirement, Train compartment full of vicars, No more lettuce, Glenda Jackson visits the flat, Felli

Episode 6

Sketches: Ernie’s education - 23 A levels, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Wig shop, Fed-up and listless, Police visit,

Episode 7

Sketches: Newspaper review, Piano: explodes, Multilingual Hotel, Pulpit: personal prayer, Fishing, The reversals, Going

Episode 1

Eric's new tape recorder; the book shop: The Language Of Birds; The House Of Terror

Episode 2

Doom and disaster; Submarine; Whistling; Bobo the glove puppet; Accident at work; The Legion Of The Lost

Episode 3

Eric buys a painting; ten years hence - life in 1981; Record contract; Gardeners' world

Episode 4

Eric receives a threatening letter; Top Of The Form; Fruitcake; Autographed banana; Escape From Stalag 54

Episode 5

Great Men Of Our Time; Car accessory shop; The Brian Rix Trousers Down Competition; Leg rejuvenating machine; Milkman; S

Episode 6

Family tree; Cement buckets; Wife's fancy man; Eric's dog; Dentist; Trying to work; Ernie's memoires

Christmas Special 1971

Considered by many to be their finest hour, the festive edition for 1971 contains several all-time classics such as Shir

Christmas Special 1972

No series was produced in 1972 with the duo concentrating on a high-quality spectacular for Christmas Night, by this tim

Episode 1

The series opened with a visit from pop star Cliff Richard to the pair's fictional flat, interrupting Eric's painting of

Episode 2

Respected thespian Robert Morley appears in The Curse Of Tutankhamen in which it is discovered that the mighty king took

Episode 3

The inured bird, Getting a violin for the Harpenden String Quartet, The Harpenden String Quartet, Bully on the bench, Ne

Episode 4

This show featured The Mighty Kong as the closing play and featured the actress Susan Hampshire as the love interest; th

Episode 5

Fresh from his appearance in the BBC's own adaptation of Casanova in which he played the title role, Frank Finlay appear

Episode 6

Not all the shows concluded with a play What Ern Wrote and this is one notable case; instead there is a riotous scenario

Episode 7

Mr Memory, Soap advert, Pretty baby song, Greeting card poetry, Northwest frontier of India 1890 This programme was the

Episode 8

Wilma Reading, Springfield Revival, Allan Cuthbertson, Ann Hamilton, Jan Rossini

Episode 9

Hannah Gordon, Mary Travers, Christopher Neil, Anthony Sharp, Raymond Mason, Christine Shaw, Hatti Riemer

Episode 10

Roy Castle, Pete Murray, Anne Murray, The Pattersons, Raymond Mason, Les Rawlings, Johnny Vyvyan, John East, Hugh Elton,

Episode 11

Nana Mouskouri, The Black & White Minstrels, Sooty with Harry Corbett, George Hamilton IV, Grazina Frame, Constance Carl

Episode 12

Peter Cushing, Bernie Winters, Wilma Reading, Alan Price, Georgie Fame

Christmas Special 1973

By this time, an established running gag was the fact that our intrepid duo could not get stars to work with them, and t

Episode 1

André Previn, Magnus Magnusson, Wilma Reading, Mrs Mills

Episode 2

Ludovic Kennedy, Wilma Reading, Allan Cuthbertson, Gordon Gostelow, Anita Tibbles, Arthur Tolcher

Episode 3

The Syd Lawrence Orchestra, Wilma Reading, Jo Rowbottom, Aimee Delamain, Grazina Frame, Roy Sampson, Arthur Tolcher

Episode 4

Richard Baker, Wilma Reading, A.J. Brown, Raymond Mason, Arthur Tolcher, Frank Finlay, Susan Hampshire, Glenda Jackson,

Episode 5

Hughie Green, David Dimbleby, Arthur Tolcher, Ann Hamilton, Wilma Reading

Episode 6

June Whitfield, Arthur Tolcher, Wilma Reading, John Quayle, Jenny Lee-Wright

Christmas Special 1975

The pair make a welcome return with a memorable festive offering penned by Eddie Braben; the opening routine which featu

Episode 1

Gilbert O'Sullivan, Dilys Watling, The Vernons, Peter O'Sullevan, Arthur Tolcher, Clare Russell, Eve Blanchard

Episode 2

Michele Dotrice, Frankie Vaughan, Patrick Moore, Tammy Jones, Jenny Lee-Wright, David Prowse

Episode 3

Lena Zavaroni, The Spinners, Ann Hamilton, Allan Cuthbertson

Episode 4

Jackie Darnell, Kenny Ball, Allan Cuthbertson, Ann Hamilton, The Geraldine Yates Dancers

Episode 5

The Karlins, Vincent Zarra, Ann Hamilton, Steven Payne, Norman Percival, The Geraldine Yates Dancers

Episode 6

Diane Solomon, Maggie Fitzgibbon, Champagne

Christmas Special 1976

The only BBC show that Eric and Ernie made (save for series one) that wasn't penned exclusively by Eddie Braben. Instead

Christmas Special 1977

The final BBC Christmas Show attracted audience figures of 28.5 million, a record that has still to be broken; this was

Thames Special 1978

No series was made in 1978 in an effort to make the Christmas Show stronger, but there was one hour-long offering (the s

1978 Christmas Special

Christmas Special

Episode 1

Content: the sketch featuring Terry Wogan is largely a re-hash of a routine done with Cliff Richard some years earlier a

Episode 2

Content: the sequence that features Hannah Gordon re-uses material from her previous appearance on a BBC show, only the

Episode 3

Contents: the opening scene sees Dave Prowse as Ernie's bodyguard "Cosmo" fresh from his fame as Darth Vader in the Star

Episode 4

Contents: Deryck Guyler appears in a flat scene as a local vicar who turns out to be a champion spoon and washboard cham

Episode 5

Contents: With further reworkings from the BBC era Suzanne Danielle appears as a budding writer (the BBC routine feature

Episode 6

Contents: In another re-working of a popular BBC routine, Morecambe appears as a "Hell's Grandad" complete with three-wh

Christmas With Morecambe & Wise 1980

Another outing sees further material re-used; the opening spot on-stage is however largely new and sees Eric presenting

Kate Lock / Kay Korda / Gemma Craven

Max Bygraves / Richard Vernon

Diane Keen

George Chisholm / Hannah Gordon / Richard Vernon

Peter Bowles / Faith Brown / April Walker

Ian Ogilvy / Kay Korda

Joanna Lumley / Richard Vernon

Christmas Special

Diana Dors / Richard Briers / Peter Salmon / Bonnie Langford

Jimmy Young / Wayne Sleep / Trevor Eve

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Isla St. Clair / Colin Welland

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Christmas Special

Maggie Moone / Anna Dawson / Margaret Courtenay

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Cherry Gillespie / Anita Graham / Jenny Meredith

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Margaret Courtenay

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Christmas Special