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Old 26-12-2016, 00:13
daisydee
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Is it just me or is it difficult to find some of these sketches on YouTube ?

I was trying to find the one which I think was a parody of South Pacific where the TV newsreaders and suchlike do acrobatic tumbles at the end

the Singing in The Rain one......... all I can find is a clip from one of those '100 best' type shows with talking heads

Glenda Jackson as Cleopatra
Loved Ernie's plays where he mangles English grammar.
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Old 26-12-2016, 09:18
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''If you're lucky you get to stand on Everest, and you can see the world below you at your feet. That's what it was like when we had The Morecambe and Wise Show - it felt like we were standing on Everest''

- Bill Cotton, former Controller BBC1,1997
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Old 26-12-2016, 09:22
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Well i dont think anything can beat the Andre Previn sketch with Eric trying to play the piano and then saying Im playing all he right notes. But not necessarily in the right order
Why wont they show the last few shows. I know Eric was ill but they still havent been released on dvd.
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Old 26-12-2016, 09:34
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Why wont they show the last few shows. I know Eric was ill but they still havent been released on dvd.
The very last show was produced by Thames and shown on December 26,1983. The guests included Derek Jacobi, Nigel Hawthorne, Burt Kwouk. Fulton Mackay and Gemma Craven
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Old 26-12-2016, 14:43
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On last night's show there was a sketch which was based during WW1 with Eric dressed as a German soldier. So he was wearing puttees on his legs which were thigh high rather than knee high and a German helmet with the usual spike on the top, but of course he had a candle stuck on the end of the spike, he was so funny!
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Old 27-12-2016, 10:08
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The very last show was produced by Thames and shown on December 26,1983. The guests included Derek Jacobi, Nigel Hawthorne, Burt Kwouk. Fulton Mackay and Gemma Craven
So what did they last DVD that had thames stuff have. Everything up to 1980?
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Old 27-12-2016, 10:36
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The Thames shows ran from October 1978 to December 1983 but never achieved the success of their programmes on the BBC.
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