Morecambe and Wise NEVER failed to lift the Spirits. Our Spirits ! Some gems of One-liners. NEVER to be Equalled, never to be replaced. RiP, gentlemen and thanks for the Happy memories and moments 🙏 ❤ ♥ 💜 💙 💕
I don't care whether people think they were at their best on the Beeb rather than on the "other side", in today's turbulent times, who else could lift your spirits and cheer you up, than the best double act this country has ever produced. Brilliant
My father met Edward Woodward when he was filming an episode of The Equalizer. He told him that I was a big fan of the show (I still am) and Mr. Woodward signed a personal autograph to me which I still have to this day.
Yes and I think it's an insult to them when they say that those two Geordie wankers are the latter day Morcambe and Wise, they are nowhere near them in any way. The only resemblance is that they are both double acts.
These guys were adored. To have Peter Cushing and Edward Woodward join them for a bit of fun and laughs among many other stars of the day demonstrated how respected they were.
Mr Ewar Woowar, love the way he just stands there with the handbag. Poor ole Ann Hamilton always gets forgotten she was in alot of their shows. How she managed to keep a straight face beats me.
Eric Morecambe was truly a class act. I really can't understand those who don't find him funny. Or find him tedious and/or irritating. His style is actually quite intellectual, but many people miss that aspect and just think him "idiotic". Totally over their heads. It makes me smile reading comments such as "totally unfunny" or "M & W were just too idiotic" and even: "only now, do I realise, just how irritating eric morecambe is. ater 45 years" (sic). Oh, you poor people. You honestly don't know what you're missing (yes, I know you think you do). Or more accurately: You don't understand what you're missing. No matter.
If you haven't seen this, it's really a great insight into how they came together and their style: th-cam.com/video/4JmuaxvsX_M/w-d-xo.html Worth watching again even if you have seen it. Enjoy.
The unintentional irony in your comment is funnier than anything in the clip. Eric Morecombe is 'quite intellectual'? Compared to whom? My god, you'd have to set the bar at Keith Lemon level for that to make any sense. Eric would be spinning in his grave at that idea that anything he did was intellectual; he would be the first to say that it was straightforward silly stuff, mainly sight gags and charmingly obvious puns, all straight out of music hall (never noted for its intellectual rigour). You still like his schtick - fair enough, good for you - but the argument that anyone who doesn't get it is too stupid is in itself incredibly dull-witted. There, I've pointed out the irony for you, because if you didn't find it funny, obviously you didn't get it.
@@GBR4ME Huh, huh, huh, huh hurr-hurr squashed apricot, nurr hurr hurr. * *Pictures guy labouring over painfully unfunny simile for 10 minutes, brow furrowed, running through several iterations**
Callan was a roaring success on ITV when it first aired in 1967. It made Edward Woodward a household name and a big celebrity. By September 1969 when this sketch aired, Callan had just finished its successful second series, with the dramatic ending, so Edward was in big demand on television shows in the UK in 1969.
@@colinp2238 It started off as a special for Armchair Theatre and aired on 4th February 1967, it was filmed in the winter of 1966. The episode proved so popular that a full series was fast tracked into production, with series one commencing very quickly on 8th July 1967, five months was fast production back in 1967.
@@colinp2238 Superb series. Originally made by ABC Weekend Television, however they were forced to merge with Rediffusion London and form a new company called Thames Television, who would operate the London weekday franchise of ITV from 1968. Thames management liked the show and decided to keep it. They steered it into colour in 1970.
Q: What do you call a man with a plank of wood on his head? A: Edward. Q: What do you call a man with three planks of wood on his head? A: Edward Woodward.
The grandfather reference is to his role as Doctor Who in the film (1964?) The Doctor's granddaughter Susan appeared in the film and would also appear in a number of TV episodes as Susan Foreman.
Just think, during these times we thought we had real issues, Cold War, 3 day working week on and on but at least we had each other and our pride. What happened.
This aired in Sept 1969; the three day week - caused by the Arab oil producers putting the price of oil up from $3 a barrel to $12, in Oct 1973 - was Q1 1974. Maybe what happened, Moose, is that we now have a confused, constructed but rose-tinted memory of how it was then, and what we see now we don't recognise, though it aint so different.
This was from their second series on the BBC and the first series to be written by Eddie Braben. It aired on Sunday 7th September 1969 on BBC Two. It wasn't until 1971 that the BBC moved the Morecambe and Wise Show to BBC One. However from 1969-1971 their new BBC Two shows were always shown a few weeks later on BBC One, for those who could not receive BBC Two.
Thanks for the info. I was trying to place it myself. It seemed like part of the Braben inspired BBC era, but Eric still looked relatively young, as did Edward Woodward and Peter Cushing. I suppose Ernie did as well, but he was already going grey.
@@moosburger1 yes indeed. I believe that their return to the BBC with Eddie Braben as the new script-writer, first aired on BBC 2, which was the first station to have colour. And, as you rightly say, this was in the late 1960's, and decimal coinage did not come in until 1971. (15 February 1971 to be exact. I always remember that as it was the day I passed my driving test. Second attempt, but I was still seventeen, just. Which I was, I confess, rather chuffed about.)
Well, I still had a bit of time left before I was 18, but probably not enough to book another test. A lot of my mates were passing first time, but some of them were 18! 🙂
@@synthonaplinth5980 lol Yes, but not until the early eighties when they were back on ITV, this time Thames TV. They kept that joke running for a very long time. link here: th-cam.com/video/RZGVHaEFpUY/w-d-xo.html
@@Trev359 Thank you! For a long time, my only experience with Peter Cushing was like many other Americans, in the first Star Wars movie (there was the Biggles movie, but that's better left alone). While people say that the internet is bad for many things, it does give us a glimpse into the world.
@@synthonaplinth5980 yeah, I remembered this sketch where he was paid but couldn't remember what happened. I have always been a fan of Peter Cushing from the Hammer Horror movies of the 1960s and 1970s. As well, of course, as Star Wars, and the Dr Who movies.
@@Trev359 Judging by your screen name, you're also a fan of 'Only Fools and Horses', too....people have made the comment that American movies use English actors as villains a lot of the time. Cushing in Star Wars, Stamp and Douglas in Superman II, etc. etc.
Ah - yes. Ant and Dec have an almost uncanny physical resemblance to Morecambe and Wise. I suspect that this accounts for much of their popularity. You might think that there was too great a time-lapse between the two for this to appy, but of course Morecambe and Wise are so legendary that their faces have never left the public consciousness.
Eric could become very tedious at times, but Morecambe and Wise were very good most of the time. For me, their career took a nose dive in 1978 when they moved to Thames. In fact from 1980-1983 my family stopped watching them when they were on Thames Television.
I don’t see how you can compare a series like Are you being served with Morecambe and Wise, 2 totally different comedy formats. Morecambe and Wise is my childhood and growing up. It is difficult now to imagine now how anticipated their shows, particularly their Christmas specials were. 20 million viewers was not uncommon for those specials, and not all of those viewers could be wrong. Broadcasting companies would kill for the viewing figures they had. They have given me some of my fondest and funniest memories from TV, and I thank them for it.
Morecambe and Wise - Tribute to Noel Coward: th-cam.com/video/Tnm-ucUlkDk/w-d-xo.html
Morecambe and Wise NEVER failed to lift the Spirits.
Our Spirits !
Some gems of One-liners.
NEVER to be Equalled, never to be replaced.
RiP, gentlemen and thanks for the Happy memories and moments 🙏 ❤ ♥ 💜 💙 💕
I don't care whether people think they were at their best on the Beeb rather than on the "other side", in today's turbulent times, who else could lift your spirits and cheer you up, than the best double act this country has ever produced. Brilliant
I never get tired of watching Eric and Ernie. There is nobody comparable today.
Exactly. The dross they serve up now - especially on Christmas Day is abominable.
My father met Edward Woodward when he was filming an episode of The Equalizer. He told him that I was a big fan of the show (I still am) and Mr. Woodward signed a personal autograph to me which I still have to this day.
never goes out of style. long live M & W
Thoroughly fabulous!! Absolute classics and they had such huge names work with them too 💖
I can't believe the amount of joy I feel when I watch Eric Morecambe...
I know exactly what you mean. It's just an utter joy to see his (and Ernie's) genius.
RIP great man
Eric was an absolute comic genius.
"It's all right to say faculties isn't it.!" XD
I'd forgotten just how handsome Edward Woodward was!
Saw these guys on Norwegian TV in the 80’s. Loved it! :D
Morecambe and Wise were just Brilliant
Yes and I think it's an insult to them when they say that those two Geordie wankers are the latter day Morcambe and Wise, they are nowhere near them in any way. The only resemblance is that they are both double acts.
Fantastic! Absolutely hilarious! Comedy at it's absolute best
Absolute legends! Saturday nights at their best! 👍😁
Forensic Files will love this episode just as I have! Thank you! Well done blokes and woman!😂
I nearly fell over when Peter Cushing walked out on stage :)
Wished he'd said to Eric, "Charming... to the last."
far too trusting!
sheer gold. not seen this since it first went out.
Wonderful stuff. Thank you.
Love them! Thank u so much. A classic!
i love them so much.
-Could I have your name please?
-Why, don't you like your own?
These guys were adored. To have Peter Cushing and Edward Woodward join them for a bit of fun and laughs among many other stars of the day demonstrated how respected they were.
Thanks so much for posting this. I have to really search to get to watch them.
Mr Ewar Woowar, love the way he just stands there with the handbag. Poor ole Ann Hamilton always gets forgotten she was in alot of their shows. How she managed to keep a straight face beats me.
One of my favourite comedy duos, still got some VHS tapes of them
Legends. British finest ❤️✌️❤️
Hilarious as always!!! They were the best❤❤❤❤🤗💯🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏Love them to bits!
They were brilliant.
This is great stuff. Barely a chance to breathe before the next funny bit. I particularly love the "sideways through the door" running gag! :-)
How they manage not to trip over the actor playing the body is a miracle! ;)
Eric Morecambe was truly a class act.
I really can't understand those who don't find him funny.
Or find him tedious and/or irritating.
His style is actually quite intellectual, but many people miss that aspect and just think him "idiotic".
Totally over their heads. It makes me smile reading comments such as "totally unfunny" or "M & W were just too idiotic" and even: "only now, do I realise, just how irritating eric morecambe is. ater 45 years" (sic).
Oh, you poor people. You honestly don't know what you're missing (yes, I know you think you do). Or more accurately: You don't understand what you're missing. No matter.
If you haven't seen this, it's really a great insight into how they came together and their style:
th-cam.com/video/4JmuaxvsX_M/w-d-xo.html
Worth watching again even if you have seen it. Enjoy.
Yes, you will usually find that people who do not find this funny are those of an intellect lower than that of an squashed apricot.
Spot on. Eric can get more out of an expression than most comics these days.
The unintentional irony in your comment is funnier than anything in the clip. Eric Morecombe is 'quite intellectual'? Compared to whom? My god, you'd have to set the bar at Keith Lemon level for that to make any sense. Eric would be spinning in his grave at that idea that anything he did was intellectual; he would be the first to say that it was straightforward silly stuff, mainly sight gags and charmingly obvious puns, all straight out of music hall (never noted for its intellectual rigour).
You still like his schtick - fair enough, good for you - but the argument that anyone who doesn't get it is too stupid is in itself incredibly dull-witted. There, I've pointed out the irony for you, because if you didn't find it funny, obviously you didn't get it.
@@GBR4ME Huh, huh, huh, huh hurr-hurr squashed apricot, nurr hurr hurr.
* *Pictures guy labouring over painfully unfunny simile for 10 minutes, brow furrowed, running through several iterations**
Great sketch and clip.
Peter Cushion (well, that’s what my mum called him!)😂
Shame he never married Whoopi...
Peter allegedly not being paid was a running gag through several episodes I think.
They thought Edward Woodward would, but Edward Woodward wouldn't.
This episode made Billy Furious, Marty Wilde, Curtis Strange and poor old Merle Haggard.
fatbelly27 I bet he wouldda.
@@angelique___5607 In the end he did.
The way Eric laughed when giving Ernie the ticket 😂😂😂😂
Callan was a roaring success on ITV when it first aired in 1967. It made Edward Woodward a household name and a big celebrity. By September 1969 when this sketch aired, Callan had just finished its successful second series, with the dramatic ending, so Edward was in big demand on television shows in the UK in 1969.
He basically plays the same part in Wicker Man a few years later :p
Didn't it start off as a one off spy drama and was so well received that it became a full TV series? He was a great character actor.
@@colinp2238 It started off as a special for Armchair Theatre and aired on 4th February 1967, it was filmed in the winter of 1966. The episode proved so popular that a full series was fast tracked into production, with series one commencing very quickly on 8th July 1967, five months was fast production back in 1967.
@@johnking5174 Thanks I vaguely remember that it was something like that.
@@colinp2238 Superb series. Originally made by ABC Weekend Television, however they were forced to merge with Rediffusion London and form a new company called Thames Television, who would operate the London weekday franchise of ITV from 1968. Thames management liked the show and decided to keep it. They steered it into colour in 1970.
Can’t fault these two
The 'conductor' sight gag was reused for Mr Preview: 'I worked with Morecambe and Wise, and look what happened to me.'
A GREAT COMEDIC DUO
"I'm hot on the scent." -"There's no answer to that!" Brilliant. :-)
The world famous bus conductor
It was quite obvious as soon as Ernie said conductor but still funny.
Wonderful stuff.
I still remember the kitchen sketch. Perfect timing .
Never to be replaced
Comedy today is non existence
WONDERFUL...LEGENDS..
That laugh at 9:27 😁
If only Edward Woodward could have called on Peter Cushing to help against Christopher Lee in The Wicker Man!
Thumbs down must lack any sense of humour.
John Trott
The sound was at a poor level at the start of this sketch. Fortunately they had an Equalizer on set 🤣😂😀👍
😂
Edward Woodward used that accent again in Hot Fuzz decades later
Q: What do you call a man with a plank of wood on his head?
A: Edward.
Q: What do you call a man with three planks of wood on his head?
A: Edward Woodward.
Finished?
@@colinp2238 No, rough sawn.
@@majordendrocopos That's plane to see.
Q. What do you call a man with four planks of wood on his head?
A. I don't know either! But Edward Woodward would.
Sooty with no clothes on I spewed on my Computer screen laughing.
The Equalizer!
Watch out for Peter Cushing still dressed as King Arthur starting at 15:20 “There’s a grandfather in the clock” 😂
The grandfather reference is to his role as Doctor Who in the film (1964?) The Doctor's granddaughter Susan appeared in the film and would also appear in a number of TV episodes as Susan Foreman.
Edward Woodward playing a policeman seems very familiar.
Genius writing , superb comedy.
Although she didn't have many lines in this play, Ann Hamilton in her own way was an useful member of the regular support cast.
Pure joy.....
Just think, during these times we thought we had real issues, Cold War, 3 day working week on and on but at least we had each other and our pride. What happened.
This aired in Sept 1969; the three day week - caused by the Arab oil producers putting the price of oil up from $3 a barrel to $12, in Oct 1973 - was Q1 1974.
Maybe what happened, Moose, is that we now have a confused, constructed but rose-tinted memory of how it was then, and what we see now we don't recognise, though it aint so different.
Never seen this one before
Comedians live on stage laughing of their own jokes miss the last bit to be up there with the unforgettables...
Before Cornley, *THIS* was the original “The Play That Goes Wrong”
This was from their second series on the BBC and the first series to be written by Eddie Braben. It aired on Sunday 7th September 1969 on BBC Two. It wasn't until 1971 that the BBC moved the Morecambe and Wise Show to BBC One. However from 1969-1971 their new BBC Two shows were always shown a few weeks later on BBC One, for those who could not receive BBC Two.
Thanks for the info. I was trying to place it myself. It seemed like part of the Braben inspired BBC era, but Eric still looked relatively young, as did Edward Woodward and Peter Cushing. I suppose Ernie did as well, but he was already going grey.
Explains why Eric talks about 6d for a cup of tea. You always think colour telly is 70s
@@moosburger1 yes indeed. I believe that their return to the BBC with Eddie Braben as the new script-writer, first aired on BBC 2, which was the first station to have colour. And, as you rightly say, this was in the late 1960's, and decimal coinage did not come in until 1971. (15 February 1971 to be exact. I always remember that as it was the day I passed my driving test. Second attempt, but I was still seventeen, just. Which I was, I confess, rather chuffed about.)
Well, I still had a bit of time left before I was 18, but probably not enough to book another test. A lot of my mates were passing first time, but some of them were 18! 🙂
Love it, at 8:32 Eric nearly loses it. Comedy gold.
Peter Cushing and Edward Woodward- anyone know the common link?
Both Croydon lads.
Sorry. Big M&W fan, but the video seems faulty and jerky. Sound synch out too. Is it my PC? Don't think so.
BBC archive quality varies for the series, indeed part of the 1974 series has really bad cuts in the original video tapes and faults too
16:20 classic
The Breakfast one is the best. But singing in the rain is awesome
three very attractive gentlemen indeed
Peter Cushing didn't get much credit. He's in a few of Ern's plays.
Did he ever get paid?
@@synthonaplinth5980 lol Yes, but not until the early eighties when they were back on ITV, this time Thames TV. They kept that joke running for a very long time. link here: th-cam.com/video/RZGVHaEFpUY/w-d-xo.html
@@Trev359 Thank you! For a long time, my only experience with Peter Cushing was like many other Americans, in the first Star Wars movie (there was the Biggles movie, but that's better left alone). While people say that the internet is bad for many things, it does give us a glimpse into the world.
@@synthonaplinth5980 yeah, I remembered this sketch where he was paid but couldn't remember what happened. I have always been a fan of Peter Cushing from the Hammer Horror movies of the 1960s and 1970s. As well, of course, as Star Wars, and the Dr Who movies.
@@Trev359 Judging by your screen name, you're also a fan of 'Only Fools and Horses', too....people have made the comment that American movies use English actors as villains a lot of the time. Cushing in Star Wars, Stamp and Douglas in Superman II, etc. etc.
E-War- Woo-war-. Yey hey! Arsenal!!
Peter Cushing 😊
Great stuff. Who plays the maid? She's lovely!
Her name's Anne Hamilton
Ann Hamilton, she appeared in most of their series, usually as a supporting character. For example in Robin Hood she played Maid Marian.
Who remembers clipies?
What famous bus conductors are there? Andre Previn..? ;)
After he slaps him in the face I will go get the Tea Erin.....................Funniest Comedy ever made.
I don't think I've ever seen Edward Woodward as a young man on film.
You haven’t seen the wicker man?!? There is literally no excuse for that I’m sorry
@@fatty_owls I have a good idea of the ending... so 'no' absolutely not!
Who owned a grandfather's clock.
Eric was a hoot!
WHATS EWAR WOOWAR DOING HERE
It's a pity people don't appreciate the comments what I write.
You can't replace genius can you? ha haha ha
Who could make you laugh just by using curtains?
2nd only to the
2 ronnies
I'd abdicate if i were you 😅😅😅😅😅
edward woodward?
Edward Woodward would!
No, he would not!
Yes he would.. it's just a shame Brian Cant
@@callithowiseeit5806 - perhaps Richard Mabey ?
@@lordeden2732 Oh yes he did!
E.M. - decent chap no doubt but . . . .
but what?
I wonder how much he earns
Morecombe and Wise the comedians with the hair and buckets of water on their head?
Then Ant and Dec came along?
Never compared Morecambe and Wise to Alcoholic and Smiler.
Ah - yes. Ant and Dec have an almost uncanny physical resemblance to Morecambe and Wise. I suspect that this accounts for much of their popularity. You might think that there was too great a time-lapse between the two for this to appy, but of course Morecambe and Wise are so legendary that their faces have never left the public consciousness.
Different Universe !
@@martm216 Are you mad?
:
Never got into them.
I prefer The Two Ronnies myself. M & W were just too idiotic. Especially Morecambe.
Yeah. They weren't very much liked. (Rolls eyes).
Eric could become very tedious at times, but Morecambe and Wise were very good most of the time. For me, their career took a nose dive in 1978 when they moved to Thames. In fact from 1980-1983 my family stopped watching them when they were on Thames Television.
@@johnking5174 Ronnie Corbert was the tedious one (sorry)
Absolutely nothing funny with them. I don't see what you see in them! Are You Being Served is 10,000 times better!!!
There's no accounting for taste.
(Especially with those who are missing half their brain).
.
I don’t see how you can compare a series like Are you being served with Morecambe and Wise, 2 totally different comedy formats. Morecambe and Wise is my childhood and growing up. It is difficult now to imagine now how anticipated their shows, particularly their Christmas specials were. 20 million viewers was not uncommon for those specials, and not all of those viewers could be wrong. Broadcasting companies would kill for the viewing figures they had. They have given me some of my fondest and funniest memories from TV, and I thank them for it.
@@vincentharriman3283: It has nothing to do with two different types! No no no!
@@Bodragon: Similarly for you who has only 1/4 of a brain!!!
only now, do I realise, just how irritating eric morecambe is. ater 45 years.
you miserable sod.
Not as irritating as people who try to wind people up by making stupid remarks like that
Twat
He’s not funny either.
Perhaps you'd prefer Benny Hill, then....