Morecambe & Wise : Encore!

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article does not cite any references or sources. (November 2007)
Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed.

This article may not meet the general notability guideline or one of the following specific guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines. If you are familiar with the subject matter, please expand or rewrite the article to establish its notability. The best way to address this concern is to reference published, third-party sources about the subject. If notability cannot be established, the article is more likely to be considered for redirection, merge or ultimately deletion, per Wikipedia:Guide to deletion.
This article has been tagged since November 2007.

Morecambe & Wise: Encore! was a series of four shows compiling the best of Morecambe and Wise's work produced for Thames Television between 1978 and 1983 and marked the first time that any of this footage had been repeated since original broadcast. The consultant for the material was Eric's son Gary Morecambe who selected the strongest material from the later shows in order to dispel the myth that their work after the BBC era was not as good. The shows aired at irregular times.

New opening titles were created, featuring the partnership as star-shaped cartoon figures of themselves that ultimately turn into "M" and "W" shapes whilst the remaining letters appear around them, and the word "encore" appears as if stamped over the top.

The music for the programs is an arrangement of their old Two Of A Kind theme, but works in aspects of the later Bring Me Sunshine motif with which the pair were best associated. It is assumed that the new sequences were made up as the original ones are somewhat dated, but lack of repeats and/or DVD releases of their later work makes this difficult to summise. To date these shows remain the only repeat of the post-1977 work of the double act.