Eric Morecambe: Difference between revisions

The pair left the BBC for [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] in January 1978, signing a contract with the London station [[Thames Television]].

 

 

Morecambe increasingly wanted to move away from the double act, and into writing and playing other roles. In 1980, he played the "Funny Uncle" in a dramatisation of the [[John Betjeman]] poem "Indoor Games Near Newbury", part of an ITV special titled ''Betjeman's Britain''. Produced and directed by Charles Wallace, it spawned the start of a working relationship that led to a follow-up in 1981 for [[Paramount Pictures]] titled ''Late Flowering Love'' in which Morecambe played an [[Royal Air Force|RAF]] major.{{cn|date=April 2023}} The film was released in the UK with ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]''. In 1981, Morecambe published ''Mr Lonely'', a [[tragicomedy|tragicomic novel]] about a stand-up comedian. He began to focus more on writing.