Morecambe & Wise Billy Marsh Associates are proud and honoured to have represented the late Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise throughout their careers and our Agency remains actively responsible for their ever popular ongoing television repeats and legendary recorded archive work. During their forty three year long relationship, this truly iconic comic pair has brought endless sunshine, love and laughter to millions worldwide, predominantly through their many successful television series. Following on from their earliest days with numerous appearances in Variety Theatres where they perfected their craft, came their first series for the BBC in 1954, “Running Wild”. With the unique Morecambe & Wise comedy routines continuously honed and appreciated on stage, radio and television, in 1961 impresario Lou Grade offered Eric and Ernie their own television series for ITV written by Sid Green and Dick Hills; the first of “The Morecambe & Wise Shows” which ran to great acclaim for six series. With their ever increasing popularity, they also starred in full length feature films “The Intelligence Men”, “That Riveria Touch”, “The Magnificent Two” during the sixties and later “Night Train to Murder”. Resulting from successful negotiations between Michael Grade and Bill Cotton, in 1968 Eric and Ernie moved to the BBC and into colour television with a new writer Eddie Braben. “The Morecambe & Wise Show” recorded ten hugely popular series, together with their memorable Christmas Specials, attracting record breaking viewing audiences, which peaked on Christmas Day in 1977 at a massive 28 million – the biggest audience ever recorded for a Light Entertainment Show. Numerous famous guest stars queued to appear on the Morecambe & Wise programmes, including The Beatles, Glenda Jackson, Elton John, Andre Previn, Tom Jones, Peter Cushing, Diana Rigg and Shirley Bassey. In 1977 they returned to ITV making a further four series and four Morecambe & Wise Specials for Thames Television, ending with a Special broadcast on 26 December 1983. Sadly, this was to be Eric and Ernie’s final show together due to Eric’s premature death at the age of just 58 following his performance in a Charity Concert on 28 May 1984. Ernie passed away fifteen years later on 21 March 1999, but Morecambe & Wise remain as popular as ever. This was further confirmed in 2006 following a nationwide ITV Special poll being taken from tens of thousands of people, who voted for Eric & Ernie, as ‘TV’s Greatest Stars’. An accolade of ongoing sincerity by the nation for two great artistes who, with their theme song “Bring Me Sunshine” are still regarded as the best comedy double act ever to grace our screens Billy Marsh Associates Homepage
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