The Play What I Wrote, Sunday, 20.00, BBC4

In Morecambe and Wise’s day it was Flanagan and Allen who got the stage tribute treatment, with Leslie Crowther and Bernie Winters appearing as them on every variety show, and now Eric and Ern themselves have that honour. And in a few decades time, we dunno, maybe it’ll be The Mighty Boosh or something. Actually this tribute to the pair has been on stage, off and on, for some twenty years now but this is the first time it’s been on TV, recorded live earlier this year with Dennis Herdman and Thom Tuck in the starring roles, and a proper famous guest star. Then it’s the lads themselves, with the pretty much annual screening of Christmas 1971.






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