Talk:Morecambe and Wise

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Contents 1 Christmas Shows 2 ITV website 3 Films 4 Fair use rationale for Image:Morecambe-amd-Wise Bring-Me-Sunshine.jpg 5 Janet Webb 6 The Stripper 7 Andre Previn sketch

[edit] Christmas Shows

After recent resaerch, I think an amendment is required to this sub-catagorie. Linked is a page of Christmas Day television listings as printed for the relevant years Christmas Radio Times. Note 1974. No Morecambe And Wise Christmas Show. Eric and Ernies only appearance that year, way down the listings at 11.25. Here is the Link [1]

Here is the Christmas '74 line up from 4.05

4.05 FILM: True Grit

6.10 News

6.15 Bruce Forsyth and the Generation Game

7.15 Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em Jessica's First Christmas

8.05 The Mike Yarwood Christmas Show

8.45 FILM: Bridge on the River Kwai

11.20 News

• 11.25 Parkinson Takes a Christmas Look at Morecambe and Wise*

12.40am-12.45 Weather

So despite not producing material that year and therefore not producing a Christmas show as stated, no amendment is to be made? 1974 was not a Christmas show, it was highlights of past Christmas and regular series shows, mereley, as the show title suggests, put together for Christmas and presented by Michael Parkinson. Futhermore 11.25pm until 12.40am can hardly be described as a viewing time where ".....few British families would dream of missing them".

[edit] ITV website

I have removed the link to the ITV website, because the page the link went to is an advertisement page for ITV. The page had nothing, whatsoever, to do with "Morecambe and Wise". Although I attempted to find a page, or pages, devoted to "Morecambe and Wise" on the website, I could not find any (even though a page about their Christmas shows was supposed to be on the website). Figaro 08:37, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Films

They were actually in four films! Night Train To Murder being the last, I don't know when this was though, what do you guys think? Help plz 14:14, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Morecambe-amd-Wise Bring-Me-Sunshine.jpg

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[edit] Janet Webb

The article says that Janet Webb only ever appeared at the end of the shows. That is not correct. She actually appeared during the show in which Arthur Lowe appeared - she appeared in a part in dialogue with AL, and M&W, and also in the "play" later on. 82.29.215.250 10:35, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

She also appeared in the 1972 Christmas show, giving the line "I worked with Morecambe and Wise, and look what happened to me" before being revealed to live in a mansion and have a chauffeured Rolls Royce. Sam Blacketer (talk) 16:03, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The Stripper

I'll have to verify the reference but according to Graham McCann's biography of M&W, the 'Stripper' sketch was not an Eddie Braben idea. It was something they came up with in rehearsal which was seized upon and developed by their then producer Ernest Maxin, who had a background in song and dance. Lexo 13:39, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

In the 1/1/08 documentary, Morecambe said it was Wise's idea. Apepper (talk) 17:10, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Andre Previn sketch

When the ATV series was repeated recently, I was surprised to see the "original" version of this sketch - largely the same except that Wise was the conductor; it explains why Ernie has so little to do in the Previn version. Presumably, Sid and Dick actually wrote the sketch and it was revised by Eddie Braben - AFAIK this was the only "classic" BBC sketch that was written by Sid & Dick - is this worth a note in the article? Apepper (talk) 17:16, 2 January 2008 (UTC)