Morecambe And Wise - Two Of A Kind: The Complete Series [DVD]

There is a myth, nurtured through several of those documentary-cum-clip shows centred of Eric and Ernie, which holds that the boys needed Eddie Braben to come along and write for them in order to become masters of their craft. This set of shows, made between 1961 and 1968, lays that myth to rest.The writing, by Dick Hills and Sid Green is consistent and inventive, and there are several prototypes of sketches that were reworked in the BBC years, including the legendary piano sketch. The classic relationship between Eric and Ernie, where there is no real straight man and both feed the comedy, is also there, if in subtly different forms. For instance, Eric is more of a Jack The Lad character (mild sexism alert for the hyper-sensitive) and pre-"Plays what I wrote" Ernie shows his self delusion in youthful big-headedness. They were, of course, young men, not the domesticated dressing gown wearers of their latter years, and played themselves as such.Image quality on the DVDs is good, and the absence of celebrity cameos is offset more than adequately by appearances of music and variety acts from the period - often a delight in themselves, and showing how quickly show business and fashion changed during the '60s.In the end, if you love Eric and Ernie I think you'll love this.

This product is absolutely brilliant it’s just a shame that the indexing of the episodes is not terribly clear as series one is completely missing from the archives so that’s the DVDs label slightly confusingky therefore easier to follow the episodes from Wikipedia entry All good it’s just a shame network haven’t tidied up some of the footage just need a little bit of recovery but generally speaking very very watchable In regard to this we are spoilt with the Doctor Who releases that always have the film elements and audio massively tided up from the Doctor Who restoration team The extra a TV variety footage on the last disk is absolutely fantastic and just makes you wonder why we’ve not got variety on television now even though it’s obviously dated in terms of some of the stage settings the quality of it is absolutely stupendous and so fast moving - great - buy it 😀

Some how they’ve managed to number the series wrong it’s out by one series as the first series is recorded as missing tapes but if that doesn’t bother you then this is the box set for you really funny as you’d expect from who a lot of people claim are the best comedy duo of all time

The series where they honed their skills and created the format that would make them megastars. If you love Morecambe and wise you have to see this series.

Morecambe and wise undoubtedly the best loved double act that Britain has ever produced comedy showcasing at the top with a rare early performance

iwas glad to have the beatles appearence on dvd

Very funny programme good for a laugh thank you

Morecambe and Wise, enough said