In 1969, who took over from Dick Hills and Sid Green as a script?writer for Morecambe and Wise?
"TV's long running variety show ""The Good Old Days"" in a Boxing Day edition of the programme. In later years the pair would become a Christmas TV institution in their own right. They had a series of shows that spanned over twenty years, during which time they developed and honed their act, most notably after moving to the BBC in 1968, where they were to be teamed with their long-term writer Eddie Braben. It is this period of their careers that is widely regarded as their ""glory days"". Their shows were: The pair starred in three feature films during the"
"who had recently stopped working with Ken Dodd. Although Braben was a very different writer to Hills and Green, with the three all vaguely unsure that any collaboration would work, after a meeting between them and Bill Cotton, the writer submitted first a sample piece for the duo, before writing a full 45-minute script. In his interpretation, he moved away from how Morecambe and Wise had been presented by Hills and Green, instead creating characters that he perceived as exaggerated versions of their own personas as he had observed them. The second series eventually began in July 1969 and, unlike"
"duo's split from Dick Hills and Sid Green. The first Braben-penned ""Morecambe & Wise Show"" was broadcast in July 1969, and he wrote most of their BBC shows after that, including many of the Christmas specials. In 1980, he joined Thames Television to continue writing for the duo following their move back to ITV two years previously. Braben, along with Morecambe and Wise, won the Society of Film Television Artists 1973 award for Outstanding Contribution to Television. He also won the Best British Light Entertainment Script award from the Writer's Guild of Great Britain in 1969, 1970, 1971 and 1973."
"and ""Double Six"". In 1961, Lew Grade offered the duo a series for the London-based ITV station ATV. Entitled ""Two of a Kind"", it was written by Dick Hills and Sid Green. An Equity strike halted that show, but Morecambe and Wise were members of the Variety Artists' Federation, then a separate trade union unaffiliated with Equity. Green and Hills later appeared in the series as ""Sid"" and ""Dick"". The sixth Morecambe and Wise series for ATV was planned from the start to be aired in the United Kingdom as well as exported to the United States and Canada. It"
"for a second attempt at a television series of their own. With memories of their previous attempt still in their mind, the duo said that they would accept the offer from Grade if they could obtain the services of the writing team of Dick Hills and Sid Green, as well as producer Colin Clews. Once these were in situ, work could begin in earnest on the new show. Initially, there were problems in the working relationship between the two duos; the first scripts were, to Morecambe and Wise, too crowded with people for they, as the stars of the piece,"
"films made by Morecambe and Wise in the 1960s: ""The Intelligence Men"" (1965) (in which they also had cameo roles), ""That Riviera Touch"" (1966), and ""The Magnificent Two"" (1967). After nearly 10 years writing for Morecambe and Wise, Green and Hills signed an exclusive contract writing for ATV around 1968, and their professional relationship with Morecambe and Wise ended. After their two-year contract ended, the two writers attempted to try to break into the US TV market with Green and Hills writing for Johnny Carson. Green alone wrote for ""The Don Knotts Show"" (1970–71) in Los Angeles, although Don Knotts"
"in the 1970s. Cryer is seen serving the wine in the original performance of the Four Yorkshiremen sketch on ""At Last the 1948 Show"", first broadcast in 1967. Cryer always prefers to write in partnership, so that should he dry up he is never left to deliver material. His regular partner during the 1970s was John Junkin, and with Junkin performing as Eric Morecambe and Cryer most often the role of Ernie Wise, the pair wrote some of ""The Morecambe and Wise Show"" in its BBC heyday (the 1972 and 1976 Christmas shows) when regular writer Eddie Braben was unavailable."
"Green, were brought in to deal with the scripts. Meanwhile, Cotton recruited John Ammonds to serve as the new show's producer. Ammonds was an experienced producer/director of light entertainment on the BBC, and had worked with Morecambe and Wise on their radio series, ""You're Only Young Once"" in the 1950s. The first episode of ""The Morecambe & Wise Show"" was broadcast on BBC2 on 2 September 1968 and, initially, showed little difference to their previous series on ITV. Bill Cotton's plan was to allow Morecambe and Wise to become comfortable with their new surroundings before implementing his plan to extend"
"became writers of Dave King's TV show. Hills and Green created (with star Anthony Newley) and wrote the six-part surreal comedy series ""The Strange World of Gurney Slade"" (1960). The partnership also wrote for such performers as Roy Castle and Frankie Howerd, but their best-remembered collaboration was with the comedy double act Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise on the ATV show ""Two of a Kind"" (1962–66), and the comedians' first colour BBC series in 1968. Hills and Green also played supporting roles in various sketches in the series. Hills and Green were involved in the writing of the three cinema"
"Green created the sitcom ""Mixed Blessings"" (1978–80) and wrote some episodes of it. Hills continued to write for light entertainment shows in the UK during the 1980s. During the early eighties they wrote for the British double act Cannon and Ball, occasionally recycling material that had been used for Morecambe and Wise in the sixties. Dick Hills and Sid Green Richard Michael Hills (17 January 1926 – 6 June 1996) and Sidney Green (24 January 1928 – 15 March 1999), informally known as Sid Green and Dick Hills, were a British partnership of television comedy writers, at their highest profile"
"the project. Stephen Tompkinson, a lifelong fan of Braben’s work, agreed to play the lead role. Mark Bonnar and Neil Maskell joined the cast as Morecambe and Wise, Liz White as Dee Braben and Rufus Jones as producer John Ammonds. The film was directed by Dan Zeff. The film runs from 1969 to 1977. It shows Braben and Morecambe and Wise being put together by Bill Cotton, former Head of Light Entertainment at the BBC, and their changing relationship as they worked together at the BBC until 1977. It shows the pressure that Braben was put under as The Morecambe"
"Morecambe and Wise Eric Morecambe (John Eric Bartholomew, 14 May 1926 – 28 May 1984) and Ernie Wise (Ernest Wiseman, 27 November 1925 – 21 March 1999), known as Morecambe and Wise (and sometimes as Eric and Ernie), were an iconic English comic double act, working in variety, radio, film and most successfully in television. Their partnership lasted from 1941 until Morecambe's death in 1984. The show was a significant part of British popular culture, and they have been described as ""the most illustrious, and the best-loved, double-act that Britain has ever produced"". In a list of the 100 Greatest"
"of time, a three-year deal was negotiated for Morecambe and Wise to move to the BBC. This deal not only encompassed more money than they had been receiving from ATV (and than had been offered by Lew Grade), but also the opportunity to broadcast in colour. At the time, BBC2 was the only station in Britain transmitting in colour, and so the agreement was that the new series would initially be transmitted on BBC2, before receiving a repeat showing in black and white on BBC1. As part of the deal agreed with the BBC, the duo's regular writers, Hills and"
"to stand out. The reception for the first shows was described by Eric Morecambe as ""lukewarm to say the least"". In spite of this, more of the same came, until a strike by Equity saw the television schedules decimated. However, Morecambe and Wise were members of the Variety Artistes Federation, and therefore unaffected by the strike. As a consequence, Hills and Green were forced to write sketches that were more along the lines that Morecambe and Wise were looking for. Additionally, the writers were occasionally added to the situations as ""Sid and Dick"", the new, general-purpose stooges. The series introduced"
"Thames needed to make other arrangements for the upcoming production of their first shows. Keith Beckett was recruited as producer, while Barry Cryer and John Junkin, who had written sketches for Morecambe and Wise at the BBC, were brought in to do the scripts for their upcoming shows. For the first year with Thames, there was no series planned, with instead a single introductory special, plus the Christmas show, the only shows to be broadcast in 1978, with a plan for a subsequent series. In March 1979, Eric Morecambe suffered a second heart attack. Following a heart bypass operation, he"
"Morecambe and Wise, Ken Dodd and Spike Milligan. The programme was hosted by Leonard Sachs. The show eventually became so popular that the waiting list for tickets had to be closed, when it rose to a total of 25,000 people. Colehan was also involved in other major television successes. Colehan had the idea in 1963 of making a TV version of Jimmy Savile's popular Radio Luxembourg show ""Teen and Twenty Disc Club"". He produced the pilot which later became ""Top of the Pops"". In August 1966, Colehan brought ""It's a Knockout"" to the screen which ran for 16 years under"
"the death of Tom Sloan in May. In this position, Cotton was responsible for overseeing the production of a whole series of popular and iconic comedy programmes, including ""The Morecambe and Wise Show"" (1968–77), ""Monty Python's Flying Circus"" (1969–74), ""The Two Ronnies"" (1971–87), ""Bruce Forsyth and the Generation Game"" (first run 1971–77) and ""Look: Mike Yarwood"" (1971-76). Cotton's era was generally seen as the most eclectic in the history of BBC Light Entertainment, with programmes such as ""Morecambe and Wise"" becoming icons of British popular culture and drawing huge audiences, while the more subversive ""Monty Python"" provided a more cutting-edge,"
"in ensuring that each successive show topped the last; indeed, in some years, there would be no series so that the full attentions of writer, producer and stars could be focused on the Christmas show. By 1977, Morecambe and Wise were the most important parts of the BBC's entertainment schedule. That year, they had again not done a series to focus on the Christmas show, which ended up gaining just over 28m viewers. However, just over a month later, in January 1978, an announcement was made that the duo had elected to leave the BBC, having signed a contract with"
"in the company to Stigwood, while Galton and Simpson (to their later regret) sold their share of Orme Court to Milligan and Sykes. Milligan later sold his half to Sykes, who reportedly retained the freehold on the valuable property into the 21st century. Wanting to move into production, Beryl Vertue opted to go with Stigwood becoming deputy chairman of his group; she subsequently became a leading independent producer. Associated London Scripts Associated London Scripts was a writers' agency organised as a co-operative which involved many leading comedy and television writers of the 1950s and 1960s. In the early 1950s, as"
"Dick Hills and Sid Green Richard Michael Hills (17 January 1926 – 6 June 1996) and Sidney Green (24 January 1928 – 15 March 1999), informally known as Sid Green and Dick Hills, were a British partnership of television comedy writers, at their highest profile during the 1960s. They both attended Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham Boys Grammar School in south-east London. They were both school captains, Hills in 1943 and Green in 1945. Richard returned to the school as a teacher of English, Latin and French. They co-wrote a number of radio scripts whilst Hills was still employed there, and then"
"began to focus more on writing. Morecambe and Wise made a series for showing during the autumns of 1980 to 1983. They also appeared together recalling their music hall days in a one-hour special on ITV on 2 March 1983, called ""Eric & Ernie's Variety Days"". During this time Morecambe published two other novels: ""The Reluctant Vampire"" (1982) and its sequel, ""The Vampire's Revenge"" (1983). Morecambe and Wise's final show together was the 1983 Christmas special for ITV. Morecambe and Wise worked on a television movie in 1983, ""Night Train to Murder"", which was broadcast on ITV in January 1985."
"Eric Morecambe John Eric Bartholomew, (14 May 1926 – 28 May 1984), known by his stage name Eric Morecambe, was an English comedian who together with Ernie Wise formed the award-winning double act Morecambe and Wise. The partnership lasted from 1941 until Morecambe's death in 1984. Morecambe took his stage name from his home town, the seaside resort of Morecambe in Lancashire. He was the co-star of the television series ""The Morecambe & Wise Show"", which for one Christmas episode gained UK viewing figures of over 27 million people. One of the most prominent comedians in British popular culture, in"
"Light Entertainment Show for the Morecambe and Wise 1977 Christmas Show, was also responsible for devising and choreographing many of their great musical comedy routines including ""The Breakfast Sketch"", ""Singin' in the Rain"", and the homage to South Pacific, ""There is nothing like a dame"" featuring BBC newsreaders in an acrobatic dance routine. The other writers were Barry Cryer, John Junkin, Dick Hills and Sid Green during the ATV ""Two of a Kind"" series, Mike Craig and Lawrie Kinsley. Much of the material of the Morecambe and Wise shows consisted of their well-worn catch phrases that recurred like motifs throughout"
"1971 Morecambe and Wise sketch that featured conductor André Previn. Previn was told that the booked guest, Yehudi Menuhin, had cancelled because he was ""opening at the Argyle Theatre, Birkenhead in Old King Cole"". A large, decorative stone sign that was once attached to the Argyle Theatre's exterior was moved to the Williamson Art Gallery for preservation, prior to demolition. The inscription on the sign read: """"Argyle Theatre Of Varieties. Two Performances Nightly""."" A department store car park now occupies the site and a play, ""Argyle Remembered"", was written to commemorate the theatre. Argyle Theatre The Argyle Theatre was a"
"Holmes replace him as script editor after he left. Holmes accepted the offer while the season was still in production, editing (uncredited) ""Death to the Daleks"". Holmes was known for his morbid sense of humour and his inclination to write dark and disturbing material. The previous producer Barry Letts often had Holmes tone down his writing, but Letts's successor Philip Hinchcliffe wanted to take the programme in a darker and more dynamic direction along with the introduction of its new lead actor, Tom Baker. Holmes continued as script editor for the next three years, seeing ""Doctor Who"" through one of"
"Morecambe (play) Morecambe is a play by Tim Whitnall which celebrates the life of Eric Morecambe and is based on his life in the entertainment industry. The play was co-produced by Guy Masterson of Theatre Tours International and Feather Productions and premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the summer of 2009 and transferred to the Duchess Theatre in London's West End for a limited Christmas season running from 9 December 2009 until 17 January 2010. ""Morecambe""'s first production received several awards including the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Entertainment 2010, Scotsman Fringe First Award, Edinburgh 2009 and was nominated"
"The Morecambe & Wise Show (1968 TV series) The Morecambe & Wise Show was a comedy sketch show originally broadcast by BBC television and the third TV series by English comedy double-act Morecambe and Wise. It began airing in 1968 on BBC2, specifically because it was then the only channel broadcasting in colour, following the duo's move to the BBC from ATV, where they had made ""Two of a Kind"" since 1961. ""The Morecambe & Wise Show"" was popular enough to be moved to BBC1, with its Christmas specials garnering prime-time audiences in excess of 20 million, some of the"
"specialising in light entertainment producing shows for such performers as Charlie Drake and Dave Allen, and also The Black and White Minstrel Show between 1970 and 1976. He was most notable for taking over from John Ammonds in producing The Morecambe and Wise Show from 1974 until 1977. He won a BAFTA for the 1977 ""Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show"" and the Rose d'Or for the ""Charlie Drake 1812 Overture"" in 1968. His final series for the BBC was ""The Les Dawson Show"" in 1981-1982, before his retirement at the age of 60. His first wife from 1952 was dancer"
"Eddie Braben Edwin Charles Braben (31 October 1930 – 21 May 2013) was an English comedy writer and performer best known for providing material for Morecambe and Wise. He also worked for David Frost, Ronnie Corbett and Ken Dodd. Braben's father was a butcher at St. John's Market, Liverpool, and he was born in Monkswell Street, Dingle. He was evacuated to Anglesey as a child during World War II, and was a fan of radio comedy, particularly Arthur Askey. He left school in 1945 and worked in the British American Tobacco factory before national service in the Royal Air Force,"
"many of his public engagements. Morecambe took six months off, returning for a press call at the BBC Television centre in May 1969. In August of that year, Morecambe and Wise returned to the stage at the Bournemouth Winter Gardens, and received a four-minute standing ovation. Morecambe suffered a second heart attack in March 1979 and underwent bypass surgery in June. Morecambe took part in a charity show, hosted by close friend and comedian Stan Stennett, at the Roses Theatre in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, on Sunday 27 May 1984. His wife Joan, who was in the audience, recalled that Morecambe was"
"Edward Hume Edward Hume (born May 18, 1936, in Chicago) is an American film and television writer, best known for creating and developing several TV series in the 1970s, and for writing the 1983 TV movie ""The Day After"". During the 1970s Hume wrote the pilot scripts for four television series: ""Cannon"" (which ran on CBS for five seasons), ""Barnaby Jones"" (CBS, eight seasons), ""The Streets of San Francisco"" (ABC, five seasons), and ""Toma"" (ABC, one season). During the week of April 21, 1974, all four series appeared together in the Nielsen top twenty ratings. In 1981, ABC Motion Pictures"
"has been released on 3 August 2009. The seventh series was released on 3 May 2010. The eighth series was released on 5 July 2010, and the ninth series was released on 23 August 2010. A complete box-set containing all nine series and eight Christmas specials (not included was the 1974 Michael Parkinson Christmas programme) was released on 4 October 2010. The Morecambe & Wise Show (1968 TV series) The Morecambe & Wise Show was a comedy sketch show originally broadcast by BBC television and the third TV series by English comedy double-act Morecambe and Wise. It began airing in"
"principal address delivered by Dickie Henderson. There was a private cremation service at Garston. His ashes were later returned to the church for burial in the Garden of Remembrance. Eric Morecambe John Eric Bartholomew, (14 May 1926 – 28 May 1984), known by his stage name Eric Morecambe, was an English comedian who together with Ernie Wise formed the award-winning double act Morecambe and Wise. The partnership lasted from 1941 until Morecambe's death in 1984. Morecambe took his stage name from his home town, the seaside resort of Morecambe in Lancashire. He was the co-star of the television series ""The"