When Eric Morecambe died in 1984, after a long battle with heart disease, he and his stage partner Ernie Wise were the undisputed kings of the British comedy scene, at one point achieving a record ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gary Morecambe with his father, Eric, in 1978 - Clifford Ling/ANL/Shutterstock It wasn’t until I turned five that I discovered ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eric Morecambe (left) and Ernie Wise defined the TV-presenting double-act - PA It happened with Doctor Who a month ago and now ...

The newly unearthed lost episode of The Morecambe & Wise Show is to be screened next month to mark what would have been Eric’s 100th birthday. Chortle last week reported how the show was found by ...

Previously unseen photographs of entertainers Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise with their wives and celebrities including Sir Elton John have been released to mark 50 years of the comedy duo. To ...