Morecambe and Wise

Men and women, young and old, lowbrows and highbrows - everybody used to watch The Morecambe & Wise Show. When the masses settled down to watch Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, the masses were, for once, massively entertained. This is not just a biography of Britain's best-loved double-act, it is also the biography of one of British television's best-loved shows. Morecambe and Wise worked together for more than forty years, honing skills drawn from the music-hall, Variety, radio, movies and television and then combining them to produce an award-winning show that became the jewel in the crown of BBC's light entertainment output. Graham McCann's meticulous biography includes previously unpublished material from the BBC archives, as well as innumerable insights gleaned from interviews with many of the people who knew and worked with Morecambe and Wise.