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The Two Ronnies is a British television comedy sketch show starring Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett. It was created by Bill Cotton and aired on BBC1 from 10 April 1971 to 25 December 1987. The usual format included sketches, solo sections, serial stories and musical finales.
The show was met with approval from audiences - 7.9 million tuning in for the opening episode, with many of them too young to have seen The Two Ronnies when it was first broadcast. [5] Ronnie Corbett later said that Ronnie Barker was "delighted that the Two Ronnies Sketchbook had gone so well, bringing us to a new generation of audiences". [6]
The Four Candles, a pub in Oxford named after the sketch. It was voted 'The Nation's Favourite Two Ronnies Sketch' in a telephone vote on the Two Ronnies Night TV special, broadcast on BBC1 on 16 July 1999. The sketch is widely held to be one of the most iconic sketches of the Two Ronnies.
Title card: The Two Ronnies, 1976. The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town was a 1971 episode of LWT's Six Dates with Barker that was written by Spike Milligan and later adapted by Ronnie Barker for The Two Ronnies sketch show in 1976. [1]
Pages in category "BBC television sketch shows" The following 110 pages are in this category, out of 110 total. ... The Two Ronnies 1987 Christmas Special; The Two ...
No movie or TV show has ever received a perfect 10/10 score. According to the IMDb Top 250, the film that came the closest is The Shawshank Redemption, with a rating of 9.3 and almost 3 million votes.
The Two Ronnies This page was last edited on 8 October 2019, at 03:36 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ... 1970s British television sketch shows.
He first worked with Ronnie Barker in the BBC TV series The Frost Report in 1966, and the two of them were given their own show by the BBC five years later. The Two Ronnies ran as a comedy sketch show from 1971 to 1987, and became Corbett and Barker's most famous work; Corbett became known for his meandering chair monologues.