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  • 1983-09-06T23:00:00Z on ITV1
  • 30m
  • 3h (6 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Comedy
Loved by the public and critics alike, the legendary team of Morecambe & Wise were a staple ingredient of British television for four decades. Bad puns, botched song and dance numbers, short fat hairy legs and something a little bit magical are brought together to form hilarious entertainment from the nation’s favourite comedians with aid from Terry Wogan, Hannah Gordon, Hugh Paddick, Dave Prowse, Deryck Guyler, Suzanne Danielle, Gemma Craven, David Frost, Glenda Jackson, Donald Sinden, Judi Dench, Leonard Rossiter and Alec Guinness.

6 episodes

Season Premiere

1983-09-06T23:00:00Z

4x01 Episode 1

Season Premiere

4x01 Episode 1

  • 1983-09-06T23:00:00Z30m

The opening spot is followed by a quickie entitled A Good Ending, with a further BBC sketch reworked into Ghandi Morecambe; then Honeymoon Hotel and the song and dance routine The Waiter, The Porter & The Upstairs Maid featuring Maggie Moone. The show also features Margaret Courtenay who would go on to star in the pair's final film Night Train To Murder the next year. an antique renovations skit is followed by No Time For...Jolson

1983-09-13T23:00:00Z

4x02 Episode 2

4x02 Episode 2

  • 1983-09-13T23:00:00Z30m

The usual opening spot is followed by a flat-based sketch revolving around the repairing of an electric blanket; a short Sacked By Mail skit is followed by the Swiss Slapping Dance (part of the duo's earliest routines revised and updated) leading into a Tyrolean Extravaganza and a return to the flat for repairs, closing with No Time For...Hunchback Of Notre Dame

1983-09-20T23:00:00Z

4x03 Episode 3

4x03 Episode 3

  • 1983-09-20T23:00:00Z30m

Following the usual opening spot, a flat sketch about warming up the bed features, then the Great Basket Escape and the language of birds which is reincarnated from a BBC sketch that featured Percy Edwards. The Chinese Musical is a song and dance number featuring the Stutz Bear Cats, this is followed by Eric's coin tricks and another re-used flat sketch themed around there being nudists next door, closing with No Time For...Robin Hood

1983-10-04T23:00:00Z

4x04 Episode 4

4x04 Episode 4

  • 1983-10-04T23:00:00Z30m

After the opening spot, another new flat sketch features Eric's bedroom telescope, which is followed by a re-working of Ern's scrapbook from a BBC show; an unnamed star guest then chickens out and a Gypsy Dance song a dance number precedes the classic Old Men's Memories. A quickie entitled A Brush With The Law is followed by No Time For...Long John Silver

1983-10-11T23:00:00Z

4x05 Episode 5

4x05 Episode 5

  • 1983-10-11T23:00:00Z30m

The opening spot is followed by a hand-bell players skit using The Bells Of St. Mary, a rehashed BBC sketch in a record shop is followed by a Frankie & Johnny routine; Mr. Bartholomew the Pigeon Man is a new sketch (featured later in video compilations) and the close features No Time For...Peter Pan

1983-10-18T23:00:00Z

4x06 Episode 6

4x06 Episode 6

  • 1983-10-18T23:00:00Z30m

For their final regular show the opening spot is followed by a flat-based sketch where the duo attempt to fix the bed, Eric then appears as a one-man band; a further re-used BBC sketch featuring the male nannies in the park follows. An impresario requesting Ern is a re-used BBC sketch that featured a spoof telephone call from Alfred Hitchcock (suitably updated following Hitchcock's death in 1980), a department store song and dance routing features Puttin' On The Ritz(part of the duo's earliest routines revised and updated) and the show closes with No Time For...Elvis

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