o/t Eric & Ernie the True Story on BBC2 Now

[marky No.1]

Some nice view across Morecambe Bay. Eee the good old days, times were so very hard and simple.

Bartholomew & Wise doesn't sound right (while reading local rag)
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So you are going to call them Visitor & Wise?

[George Dawes]

Some nice view across Morecambe Bay. Eee the good old days, times were so very hard and simple.

Bartholomew & Wise doesn't sound right (while reading local rag)
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So you are going to call them Visitor & Wise?

know where you're coming from..

[Keith]

Excellent, as was the 'making of' documentary afterwards. Wonder where the pier & sand-dunes were?

[Christies Child]

Excellent, as was the 'making of' documentary afterwards. Wonder where the pier & sand-dunes were?

Lytham St Annes.

Best programme on TV this Christmas and New Year. Remember many of the sketches. Laughed till I cried then also.

Probably not funny to a lot of 'younger' types, but for oldies like me, excellent harmless entertainment.

Must get myself some M&W dvds.

[Seasider9601]

Fantastic drama, and a superb documentary afterwards also.

The actors playing Eric and Ernie had the voices spot on !!

"Not now, Arthur !!"

[mrpotatohead]

totally fantastic, unlike 3-5 today

[Keith]

Probably not funny to a lot of 'younger' types, but for oldies like me, excellent harmless entertainment.

Not sure I agree with you, I think their humour is timeless. While some of the jokes may be lost by not appreciating how big the starts were at the time, the lines are still funny.

[Plain Peter]

The Xmas special is timeless.
Daniel Rigby was superb and carried the drama, too much Victoria Wood with a fag in her mouth, no need for the titilation, and some of those outside locations were a bit odd.

[Keith]

too much Victoria Wood with a fag in her mouth, no need for the titilation, and some of those outside locations were a bit odd.

Which bit of "titillation"? The only bit I can think of was the stripper asking for a fag when she came off stage. I think that was very relevant to the story, reinforcing the young age and their not being 'worldly wise' as well as the type of shows they were playing too, ie an audience that had come to see female flesh not comedians.

I think the outside locations were odd because we no longer have a pier to use. Sand dunes was pushing it a bit though! The sunset scene and his dad fishing (with the tide out?!?) was around the Stone Jetty I think. I'd always thought he'd grown up around Christie Avenue? Was the house 'poetic licence' or did he grow up somewhere else?

[Sammy h]

There was a scene where one of them was fishing and there was no water there, just sand

[Plain Peter]

Which bit of "titillation"? The only bit I can think of was the stripper asking for a fag when she came off stage. I think that was very relevant to the story, reinforcing the young age and their not being 'worldly wise' as well as the type of shows they were playing too, ie an audience that had come to see female flesh not comedians.

You're right.

I'd always thought he'd grown up around Christie Avenue? Was the house 'poetic licence' or did he grow up somewhere else?

Christie Avenue.
42 Buxton Street (near Trimpell sports ground).
Peacock Lane (parents house near Hest Bank Hotel). Doris and her mate went carol singing there one night, and got invited in. He was wearing sky-blue socks and no slippers apparently

[Freez]

Yes he was born at Buxton Street moved to Christie Avenue in one of the houses that backed onto Crusty Pie, which you can now see from the superstore car park, he then bought his parents a semi on Low Lane before eventually buying them the larger house in Hest Bank.

[Keith]

Probably not funny to a lot of 'younger' types, but for oldies like me, excellent harmless entertainment.

Force some youngsters to watch BBC2 right now and see if they laugh!

Elton John wanted £35 and two Luton players as appearance fee The entire Luton squad isn't worth £35 now!

[Plain Peter]

"Hello, my name's Eric, and I'm from Morecambe and Heysham!"
A one-liner not lost on us, but would be on most of the population.