Every season of Morecambe & Wise ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best seasons of Morecambe & Wise!

12 October 1961

Acker Bilk

2 November 1961

9 November 1961

16 November 1961

14 July 1962

21 July 1962

The King Brothers (20 July 1963)

The King Brothers (27 July 1963)

31 August 1963

The Raindrops

--The Beatles - ""I Want To Hold Your Hand,"" ""All My Loving"" & ""This Boy""    --In a comedy segment, the Beatles sing ""Moonlight Bay"" with Morecambe and Wise.

The Viscounts

Acker Bilk / Jackie Trent

20 June 1964

Susan Maughan / The Migil Five

Lulu / Paul and Barry Ryan

The Shadows

--Herman's Hermits - ""This Door Swings Both Ways""

Music:    --The Kinks - ""Dandy"" & ""Well-Respected Man""    --Engelbert Humperdinck - ""Release Me"" and ""Country Girl""    --Millicent Martin - ""Call Me""

Comedy:    --Morecambe and Wise take a flight in a model airplane.    --Morecambe and Wise do a ventriloquist act.

Aired 29-Jul-1967 (US - ""Piccadilly Palace"" ABC-TV, colour)    Aired 1-Oct-1967 (UK - ""The Morecambe & Wise Show"" ATV,   b/w)

Music:    --The Small Faces - ""I Can't Make It"" & ""All or Nothing""    --Bobby Rydell - ""The Impossible Dream"" & ""The Joker""    --Millicent Martin - ""The Day the Circus Left Town"" (with the Paddy Stone Dancers)

Morecambe and Wise comedy sketches:   --A parody of Adagio dancers    --A spoof of a popular soap opera

Aired 03-Jun-1967 (US - ""Piccadilly Palace"" ABC, colour)    Aired 22-Oct-1967 (UK - ""The Morecambe & Wise Show"" ATV,    b/w)

Music:    --The Hollies - ""On a Carousel"" & ""Stop, Stop, Stop""    --Tom Jones - ""That Old Black Magic"" and ""Detroit City""    --Millicent Martin - ""Fever"" and ""Eleanor Rigby""

Morecambe and Wise comedy sketches:    --A pie throwing demonstration    --The problems of the nearsighted

Aired 27-May-1967 (US - ""Piccadilly Palace"" ABC-TV, colour)    Aired 12-Nov-1967 (UK - ""The Morecambe & Wise Show"" ATV,    b/w)

Music:    --Manfred Mann - ""Ha Ha, Said the Clown"" & ""Just Like a Woman""    --George Maharis - ""Baby Has Gone Bye-Bye"" & ""All Right, OK, You Win""    --Millicent Martin - ""Singin' in the Rain"" & ""Make It Easy on Yourself""

Morecambe and Wise comedy sketches:   --The duo play figures on a Greek vase   --A look at English village life

Aired 01-Jul-1967 (US - ""Piccadilly Palace"" ABC-TV, colour)   Aired 10-Dec-1967 (UK - ""The Morecambe & Wise Show"" ATV,    b/w)

Music:    --Frankie Avalon - ""I Could Write a Book"" & ""What Is This Thing Called Love?""    --The New Vaudeville Band - ""If I Had a Talking Picture of You"" and ""Finchley Central""    --Millicent Martin - ""Window Wishin'""

Morecambe and Wise comedy segments:    --A version of Grieg's Concerto in A Minor    --Impressions of Samson and Delilah, Julius Caesar

Aired 15-Jul-1967 (US - ""Piccadilly Palace"" ABC-TV, colour)    Aired 31-Dec-1967 (UK - ""The Morecambe & Wise Show"" ATV,    b/w)

Music:    --The Moody Blues - ""Fly Me High"" & ""Really Haven't Got the Time""    --Tommy Leonetti - ""Once Upon A Time"" and ""This is the Life""    --Millicent Martin - ""Light Another Cigarette""

Comedy:    --Morecambe and Wise spoof Hollywood westerns and musicals.

Aired 22-Jul-1967 (US - ""Piccadilly Palace"" ABC-TV, colour)    Aired 14-Jan-1968 (UK - ""The Morecambe & Wise Show"" ATV,    b/w)

Music:    --Peter Nero (pianist) - ""A Walk in the Black Forest"" & ""Variations on a Theme""    --The Tremeloes - ""Silence Is Golden"" & ""Here Comes My Baby""    --Millicent Martin - ""How Insensitive"" & ""Coronet Man""

Comedy:    --Morecambe & Wise parody silent films    --Eric Morecambe joins Peter Nero for a piano duet.

Aired 12-Aug-1967 (US - ""Piccadilly Palace"" ABC-TV, colour)    Aired 4-Feb-1968 (UK - ""The Morecambe & Wise Show"" ATV,    b/w)

Music:    --Eric Burdon & the Animals - ""When I Was Young"" & ""Good Times""    --Gene Pitney - ""Town without Pity"" & ""On the Street Where You Live""    --Millicent Martin - ""Something Missing Now""    --Millicent Martin (with the Paddy Stone Dancers) - ""Running Wild""

Comedy:    --Gladys Whitred joins Morecambe and Wise for a selection of arias.    --Millicent Martin does an apache dance with Morecambe and Wise

Aired 5-Aug-1967 (US - ""Piccadilly Palace"" ABC-TV, colour)    Aired 25-Feb-1968 (UK - ""The Morecambe & Wise Show"" ATV,    b/w)

Music:    --Georgie Fame - ""Sweet Thing"" & ""Funny How Time Slips Away""    --Bobby Vinton - ""Mr. Lonely,"" ""To Life"" and ""Sunrise, Sunset""    --Millicent Martin - ""You're Gonna Hear from Me""

Morecambe and Wise comedy:    --An Arabian sheik's first impressions of London.    --A parody of pop singing groups (with Morecambe & Wise and the show's writers)

Aired 24-Jun-1967 (US - ""Piccadilly Palace"" ABC-TV, colour)    Aired 17-Mar-1968 (UK - ""The Morecambe & Wise Show"" ATV,    b/w)

Cliff Richard / The Dave Clark Five

Georgia Brown / Los Zafiros

Acker Bilk / Roy Budd

Skit: The stag night, Eric wants to play shadow-grams on his stag night. The performance is Desert Song. Singing performers are Edmund Hockridge, Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen,

The musical guests are Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen, Bobbie Gentry and Vince Hill. Ernie is sick and then Eric and Ernie play tortoises. Peter Cushing stars as King Arthur in the final sketch "King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table".

Episode 1

Musical guests are Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen, Malcolm Roberts and Trio Athenee. Ernie reads some poetry and then Eric disrupts Ernie's sleep. They go bird watching but Ernie has an ulterior motive. Finally, Eric remembers D-day.

Episode 2

Musical guests are Kennyball & His Jazzmen, The Pattersons and Moira Anderson. Juliet Mills is the guest actor. The sketches include Eric reading Ernie's body, Ernie has an au pair, and Ernie's play is called "The Tea Planter's Wife".

Episode 3

In the opening, Eric has brought an Incan talisman from Peru to show Ernie. Kennyball and His Jazzman perform "I Wan'na Be Like You". Eric is bored again at home and reminisces with Ernie about their school days. The Pattersons sing "What Would You Do If You Married A Soldier?". Peter Cushing makes a cameo asking for his payment for his last appearance. Kenneth McKellar performs "I Will Wait for You". Edward Woodward is the guest actor and is in the role of a policeman in Ernie's play called "Murder at the Grange".

Episode 4

Guests: Frankie Vaughan, Nina, The Pattersons, Fenella Fielding, Sacha Distel

Christmas Special

Ern the baggy pants comic Ticket clipper In bed: the secret of long life Monks smoking The world’s strongest man Lost voice Record shop Ernie is getting married

Ernie’s award, Ernie leaves, Passing the joke, Buskers, Monks: the epilogue, Routine with Nina, Ian Carmichael introduction, Frankenstein’s Monster

Ernie gets with it Playing in the park Ernie takes a bath Window-cleaning See you at seven Visiting Fenella Fielding Monks: feeding the birds Bowling Fenella Fielding stars in the Ernie Wise play "Nelson And Lady Hamilton"

Eric’s wig Meeting Diane Cilento for dinner At the cinema Soaking feet Play introduction Diane Cilento starts in the Ernie Wise play "The Barrats Of Wimpole Street"

The permissive show, Edward Chapman introduction, Trouble At Mill, A Shot In The Dark, Whistling at bus stop, Monks: shopping, Princess Anne

Episode 5

This episode was entered for the Golden Rose Of Montreaux. The opening spot see the duo attempting to exchange trousers, then Nina performs the Banana Boat Song with some backing and percussion from the duo; a powerful binoculars skit is followed by Eric's enormous ventriloquist doll "Oggy" closing the show with Bring Me Sunshine.

Episode 6

Ernie the scout The Nose Blowers Trying to sleep/Richard Greene Love In A Mist Pocket radio Monks: dancing Richard Greene introduction Richard Greene stars in the Ernie Wise play "The Lost Valley"

Episode 7

This Is Your Life, Moon landing, It’s over between us, Eric Porter’s dressing room, Tarzan’s last adventure, Six weeks to live, Bill-posting, The glove puppet, Monks: 007, Wuthering Heights

Fox hunting, Record shop: bird calls, Visiting Eric’s parents, Three in a bed, Boarding house, In the park with baby, Telephone clock, Barbers shop, Frankie Vaughan’s son, Monks: sign posts, Pregnant lady calls for Ernie

Health food, Contagious disease, Underwear shop, Miss Holiday resort, Nina’s cake, Monks: pay day, Writing in bed

Ernie’s ballet Accident, Christening, Fenella Fielding comes to the flat, Directions from a policeman, The big record, Monks: dice, Sing Something Simple, I’ll See You Again

The stool, The diet, Messing up Ernie’s plays/famous guest stars, Ticket collector, The drama critic, Monks: the organ, Barbara Murray introduction, There’s No Business Like Big Business, Politicians

Moustache seeds, Ernie in hospital, Ear specialist, Honeymoon couple next door.

This episode of The Morecambe and Wise Show, had been considered lost for over 50 years. Eric’s son Gary Morecambe discovered the programme in an unmarked film can last year, and now it has been lovely restored and was broadcast on 25th December 2021 for the first time since its original broadcast in 1970.

The show, written by the legendary Eddie Braben, was episode one of Eric and Ernie’s first series to appear on BBC1, and was originally watched by over 14 million viewers. As well as some classic sketches from Eric and Ernie, the show also features songs and music from Paul Anka, Patricia Lambert, Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen, and the boys themselves rounding things off with a burst of Bring Me Sunshine

Special (8 October 1970)

The second seasonal offering saw the return of recurring guest star Peter Cushing who still hadn't been paid (a joke that was to continue well into their Thames Television days); also starring was William Franklyn who, at the time, fronted an advertising campaign for Schweppes lemonade with his "Shhh, You Know Who..." tagline. Much comedy was drawn from this, especially in light of the fact that the BBC was forbidden to advertise products. He appears in one of the duo's legendary plays at the end of the show in which the Three Musketeers are parodied. Well-known actor Edward Woodward also sang The Way You Look Tonight rather than appearing within a sketch has he had done in previous appearances.

1970 Christmas Special

Sketches: Piano: sixty seconds, Employment office, Shoes, Impressing Flora Robson, Flora Robson, Queen Elizabeth The First Of England part one, Draughts, Talking doll

Sketches: Arthur Lowe meets Janet Webb, Marriage guidance, Ernie Wise sings, Going up to the flat, The facts of life, Out with baby, Piano: whizzing creature, Pulpit: accordion, Play introduction, Monty On The Bonty

Sketches: Eric’s replacement, Monks; no talking, The Connoisseurs: antiques, Milk, Falling dream, Coming-and-going illness, Jewellery shop, Boarding ramp, The fellow writer

Sketches: Modelling Ern's body, Wind, Record shop, Love letters, Dracula books a room, Goodbye, Harmonicas and Arthur Tolcher, The Invisible Man, Nasty thing flu

Sketches: Ernie’s retirement, Train compartment full of vicars, No more lettuce, Glenda Jackson visits the flat, Felling safe, Antony & Cleopatra

Sketches: Ernie’s education - 23 A levels, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Wig shop, Fed-up and listless, Police visit, Hands across the table, Jake The Peg, Ian Carmichael introduction, Murder In Mayfair

The Morecambe & Wise Show is the third TV series by English comedy double-act Morecambe and Wise. It began airing in 1968 on BBC2, specifically because it was then the only channel broadcasting in colour, following the duo's move to the BBC from ATV, where they had made Two of a Kind since 1961. The series was popular enough to be moved to BBC1, with its Christmas specials garnering prime-time audiences in excess of 20 million, some of the largest in British television history. After their 1977 Christmas special, retaining its title, the show moved over to ITV.

The Best Seasons of Morecambe & Wise

The Best Seasons of Morecambe & Wise

Season 9

Season 7

Season 4

Season 2

Season 8

Season 1

Season 3

Season 5

Season 6

Season 10

Season 11

Season 12

Season 13

Season 14

Season 15

Season 16

Season 17

Season 18

Season 19