Morecambe and Wise Starsky and Hutch Parody

[minislayer2010]

LMAO. minis just aren't that roomy.

EXCELLENT

[245sillybilly]

end of an era, 1977 was the last xmas show M+W did for the BBC

[TIMMEH19991]

Brilliant! M&W were soooo funny!

[megginick07]

Big S&H fan aswell as a big M&W fan! Love it, very funny!!

[mrceq]

This is much better thant the movie made some years ago!!

[Cool2BCeltic]

A great 1970s twosome sends up another famous 1970s twosome.

[VinnieFavalesnutsack]

I love this! I wonder how they would look if they reversed the roles (considering their hair color)

[hutchnsoulfan]

lol.....awesome!

[westfield90]

God Bless them. They were the best

[niceone1100]

Good old Morecambe & Wise they were really truly great and sadly missed. I'm S&H fan and i love this sketch.

[pussbuketnott06]

what year was that,cuz it was hallarious for its time XDDDD

[enednoviel]

I'm not 100% sure, it's either 1976 or 1977.

[willomax4]

Its the 1977 xmas show

[davinarudie]

never seen before, hilarious....genius

[snarfcat555]

Has to be the funniest opening scene ever ...they were genius

[spacefan1962]

They were the best. I was talking to my 10 year old daughter about Morecambe and Wise, and she just didn't get why they were so popular. Once she's seen this clip and the Andre Preview one, she will!

[thevintagekid]

YAY! brings my two favourite shows together!!!!!!

[jakmaxmog]

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!! this is soooooooooo funny XD! never seen it before

[selectiveinspiration]

One of my all time favourite M&W sketches!

[seven2off]

really really funny...

never seen that before.

almost sureal seeing eric morecambe walking down the street dressed like that and holding a magnum....

chuckle

[KerreyTheBitterSugar]

0:38 -the guy's face expression is perfectly the same as Benny Hill's :D

[BeckhamBoston]

Looks exactly like the original. Are these guys like today's version of Benny Hill?

[wmcginty]

Not at all. This show is from the late 70s early 80s. Eric Morecambe (Hutch) died in 1984, and Ernie Wise (Starsky) died about 5 or 6 years ago. For 20 years they were arguably the biggest thing on British Television history. Comedy geniuses, so much so that they are even held in high regard by audiences today, despite vast changes in taste. Check out as much as you can of theirs...

[joolsnik]

brilliantly funny as they always were!

[esomary]

hey! well done, boys!this is the best Sturch parody I've ever seen!

[stickym12]

Brilliant. Used to watch this before I'd even seen any of the Starsky and Hutch episodes and it still made me giggle, even though I didnt really understand what it was about. Now I have actually seen some episodes its spot on!!

[TubeGunner]

LOLOL! This is great. I like these guys. Even the Beatles did their show back in the day.

[TubeGunner]

I'm in America by the way and have loved S&H since the beginning, and this parody of the opening is spot on.

[starskyhutchfan]

Very funny, love to know where the mini is now? anyone know.

[basicskil]

Haven't seen since it was first shown 30 years ago. Cheers mate.

[hhwatkinson]

A classic parody from a classic double act from the Christmas show 1977

[footballgeorgiebest]

Brillant! True Comic Genius and the attention to detail is amazing.

[westfield90]

They were the best!!!!!!

[ooeyb]

excellent clip!

[Wingdoss]

I never saw this sketch as a kid and thought I'd seen most of their shows. Superb.

[gamerlovesscifi]

This is pure class, I pissed meself when I first saw this!

[DaveBond21]

Fantastic stuff, Morecambe and Wise were brilliant.

[rigel5]

Great sketch! Very funny! All the more so because I never saw it before. I love Ernie's wig and cardigan. Classic!

[Voxac100b]

The walkalong bit with Eric getting the gun taken off him is great. Very funny sketch.

[westfield90]

Love this. This is the Bes. I remember watching this as a kid

[Speedwaymad]

people actually did their Capri's and Avenger's red with the stripe back then :-D

I can remember watching this as a kid- the neighbour said they heard me laughing!

[tyronemartin59]

CLASSIC

[kungfudoggie]

loved starsky running scene!

[Deeperpurple1952]

Hey balesy1974 is quick..well spotted Sherlock.

[CursedPirates]

Nobody can overule these two! They were classics in their own special way. I am from Barrow, not far from Morecambe and I saw the statue of Eric! A spitting image of him!

[DHP2]

OMG the hat...

[irwinsteve]

ha ha! Have you seen MR LONELY - Adapting the novel by Eric Morecambe copy and paste it into the search on youtube! It's excellent! :0)

[wmbrown6]

In a way, it showed how the late Benny Hill was behind the times on that score - his "Starsky & Hutch" parody (though highly enjoyable and a laff riot) used Lalo Schifrin's first-season theme, whereas here Tom Scott's second-season "Gotcha!" was used. B.T.W., from which Xmas special did this emanate?

[enednoviel]

I think it was the Christmas Special from 1976 if I remember correctly.

[wmbrown6]

If it was 1976 . . . then Mr. Hill really was behind the curve on the theme, as his takeoff was from March of 1977.

[novphin]

That was hilarious! I even cried a little...

[nikteacher]

How did they find such similar locations to the real thing in England?!

[hart2316]

thank you for this clip.hadnt seen it in years but always remembered how funny it was and still is.

[Neliana]

Hey, I didn't know you were on here :) Thanks for the clip I love it!

[flabigguy2]

As shaming as it is to admit, my dad owned a sweater like that . . .

[Deeperpurple1952]

My cousin is 43, he has one and stil wears it..I don't visit him much !!

[HippyKillerz]

lol

[bistokidsfan]

Oh, Gawd, this is hilarious! M&W are a treasure.

[redgirl5]

Apologies! yeh smilies or punctuation lol.

[redgirl5]

No, we aren't connecting Messers Morecambe and Wise with just a parody....Jeez it's a link to a fan site etc etc etc. M&W are a classic duo in their own right

[femaleanimal]

Um, it wasn`t a criticism! It was an observation that the breadth of their talent is underrated. Guess I should have put some smilies in or something.

[femaleanimal]

You seem to have misunderstood me....

[femaleanimal]

People don`t connect M&W with parody. This is a forgotten gem.

[Voxac100b]

Yep there were many sketches and this was an excellent one but it didnt seem to stick in the public mind as much as some of their other work.

[redgirl5]

That is absolutely spot on. What a great parody ;)

[ikinmoore]

Good that was very funny !!! S&H fan !! I was in stitches laughing at it !!

[balesy1974]

Its Morcome and Wise as Starsky and Hutch.

[enednoviel]

Ah, thank you!

[BassistinBlue]

Haha WTF?!

Would be funnier without the laughing tho.

Funny still.

[Cool2BCeltic]

Yes, I agree absolutely. It's a hilarious sketch but the audience laughter is annoying and spoils it. But TV audiences in the 1970s seemed to laugh at anything.

[GoldenLioness100]

Thats not an actual audience - thats canned laughter

[cylon6]

No it's a real audience filmed in Studio 8 of BBC Televsion Centre in 1977 that went out on Christmas night 1977.