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Matt7924

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1980 film Rubbish Tips with The Two Ronnies

I can imagine The Two Ronnies and Eric and Ernie appearing separately as I would never have expected both duos to appear together


Why not? People didn't expect Bugs Bunny to appear in the same cartoon/film as Mickey Mouse. But it happened. Once.

Here's a picture of Morecambe & Wise with Ronnie Barker:
https://www.windsorexpress.co.uk/gallery/maidenhead/103472/remember-when-ronnie-barker-and-morecambe-and-wise-bring-sunshine-to-maidenhead.html labelled as "for a BBC programme press conference [in 1976] in Maidenhead". I don't know what the programme was, unless it was one of those "announcing the new seasons of programmes on the BBC" sort of things.


Thanks for the link. I had read Ronnie Barker and Eric Morecambe were good friends. I watched The Two Ronnies in the late 80s, although it's the 22 years of The Two Ronnies compilations I remember better. Morecambe and Wise were before my time, I personally don't think they were as funny.

Whenever the BBC show Morecambe and Wise it's always the same old sketches like those with famous actors, Eric and Ernie in bed and Eric making fun of Des O'Connor. I looked on YouTube out of curiosity to see if there were any different Morecambe and Wise sketches and there was one where they were taking off Starsky and Hutch. It seems these compilation programmes don't represent all the types of sketches they did.

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The BBC 1 COW Globe's first day in February 1985

The reason was, the old globe was burnt onto the London Plus titles, so the new globe resulted in slightly different London Plus titles the next day!


The updated title sequence was introduced on the Monday - I distinctly remember it following straight on from the final showing of the mirror globe.

The decision to launch the new globe at 7pm must have been made fairly late on, because the Radio Times that week stated that it would make its first appearance on Monday morning.


I always got the impression the new globe was launched at 7.00 PM so it would coincide with the launch of Wogan as part of the new weeknight schedule