Richard Briers - Morecambe and Wise - Thames Television 

So many jokes cramped into 11 minutes, Pure Genius.

Super to see again! Especially seeing Richard Briers, who had a great career on the stage in Shakespearean roles, as well as his TV sitcoms, almost losing it when the great Eric Morecambe pulls his gags !

What a great comic actor Richard Briers was.

Absolutely brilliant. “What’s that? The ship’s cat. Where’s the parrot? Inside the cat.”

"there's a bounty on my head" "there's a mars bar in my back pocket but you're not getting any."

Best comedy duo ever, sadly gone now.

Richard Briers trying not to corpse is brilliant

This is more comedy in this tv show than a year on todays tv and more educational...A Bloody good laugh clears out the cobwebs on my chuckle muscle...instead of the tv today systematically turning us into PCorrect Puritans...we don't laugh like this today a dark cloud has descended on msm and tv...Morecambe and Wise Comedy Masterclass essential viewing if you want to be entertained and never gets old.

Comedy genius can never be replaced

Eric Morecambe always know how to make an entrance!!

Real family entertainment 💯 %. Laughs galore !😆😆😆 Laughs guaranteed 🤣 😂!

They were so endearing.

Wonderful comedy perfection

They were so funny. I still miss them❤

Absolutely brilliant!! 👍😂😂😂

Richard was a great actor, it was good of him to plat along and try make the skit funny

Don't want to appear macabre but this seems like yesterday to me yet all in this sketch are no longer with us which is pretty frightening to think how short a time we have and many of us often, not by choice, waste it not living but existing. Loved these entertainers, all household names in the UK.

Both Diana Dors and Eric Morecambe died in the same month in 1984 - Diana died on May 4th 1984, and Eric died on May 28th 1984. 1984 saw the loss of other great British comedy performers Leonard Rossiter, Tommy Cooper, Arnold Ridley and Lennard Pearce.

"Don't stand like that, ya look like a pair 'o' scissors when ya stand like that!" LOL

We will never see the like again they were comedy geniuses

Never to be replaced

💜💜💜 Especially the ad libs!

The Richard Briers series referred to was The Good Life I think or possibly Ever Decreasing Circles.

"They don't make 'em like that anymore!!"...a joke every minute....and funny ones at that !!

Very sadly, Diana Dors died just 18 months later in Windsor, of ovarian cancer. Her husband Alan Lake, shot himself in the head just a few months later due to depression.

That mole joke was great !

Genius like this is so very rare in comedy! Often it is not truly seen for what it is, until that person is gone? very few comedians today even come close to the talent of the past.

RIP to all of them

Great sketch with the UKs best double act ever All 4 are now not with us anymore but their comedy will live on

The mole joke . Brilliant

where's the comedy now! sad in this day and age, Saturday evenings, TV is full of crap not worth watching v

those were the days my friends

Hilarious! This is proper comedy it's funny

They broke the mould after they made eric

Brilliant.. prefer this version over the Arthur Lowe one even!

Classic comedy

Diana Dors 9.50 point.

They did an extremely similar sketch with Arthur Lowe if I remember right.

Huge difference between M&W on Thames TV and BBC. Why?

En thames televisión no supieron cuidarlos 'o darles el tiempo y paciencia que requieren los genios. Los ejecutivos de la TV privada son como aves rapiña en vez de invertir desgastan a los artistas y los queman y se pierde calidad. Hay una gran diferencia entre la bbc y thames TV. I' am very sorry for morecanbe and wise I love them. I watch the first 70; s shows

RIP

How did they keep straight faces

Funny!

Wow, that's a lot of innuendo for an 11 minute sketch! Does 'let's amuse ourselves' mean what I think it means?

Diana Dors died in 1984 from ovarian cancer. Her then husband Alan Lake burnt all of her clothes fell into a deep depression and soon afterwards put a gun in his mouth and shot himself.

It's just a remake of the one with Arthur Lowe but changed for ITV

The Thames versions were nowhere near as good as BBC.

Km

Who did they get for their captain, Liberace? XD

They reused a lot of the jokes from the Arthur Lowe episode

all dead. sad.

Such a shame the duo were starting to falter at Thames by 1982. By 1982 their shows seemed to be somewhat dated as a new wave of alternative comedians were starting to become popular. The recycling of BBC material also did not help. Eric's poor health caused them to have shorter series and shorter Christmas Shows. The previous year the duo who always had their Christmas Show aired on Christmas Night had their show shifted from Christmas Night to 23rd December. They would never regain Christmas Night again as 1982 Christmas Special would air on 27th December, and their final Christmas Show in 1983 on Boxing Day. They were starting to become unprofitable for Thames by 1982, even though they still pulled in good ratings, but nothing compared to their BBC shows.

PATHETIC !!!!!!!!