Dick Hills and Sid Green

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Richard Michael Hills, (17 January 1926 – 6 June 1996), and Sidney Green, (24 January 1928 – 15 March 1999), were a British partnership of comedy writers, most notable for their work on TV in the 1960's. They wrote for such performers as Anthony Newley, Roy Castle, and Frankie Howerd; but their best-remembered collaboration was with the UK's most loved comedy double act, Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, on the ATV show Two of a Kind, 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 motion pictures made by Morecambe and Wise in the 1960s: 'The Intelligence Men' (1965), 'That Riviera Touch' (1966), and 'The Magnificent Two' (1967). After Eric Morecambe's first heart attack in 1968, however, Hills and Green announced they would stop writing for the Morecambe and Wise Show and move into other fields. (Writing duties were subsequently taken over by Eddie Braben). Eric and Ernie were apparently unhappy at the way they were informed by the move (by third parties), although Hills and Green did eventually work on the last major show the two comics produced, a 1983 Christmas Special for Thames Television.

Sid and Dick also wrote and starred in their own show, Those Two Fellers, made in 1967.