Morecambe & Wise: Season 11
Season 11 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Morecambe & Wise Season 10.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 11 Progress Shield
Episode 1
Apr 8, 1971 · 50 min
Sketches: Piano: sixty seconds, Employment office, Shoes, Impressing Flora Robson, Flora Robson, Queen Elizabeth The First Of England part one, Draughts, Talking doll
Episode 2
Apr 22, 1971 · 50 min
Sketches: Arthur Lowe meets Janet Webb, Marriage guidance, Ernie Wise sings, Going up to the flat, The facts of life, Out with baby, Piano: whizzing creature, Pulpit: accordion, Pl
Episode 3
May 6, 1971 · 50 min
Sketches: Eric’s replacement, Monks; no talking, The Connoisseurs: antiques, Milk, Falling dream, Coming-and-going illness, Jewellery shop, Boarding ramp, The fellow writer
Episode 4
May 20, 1971 · 50 min
Sketches: Modelling Ern's body, Wind, Record shop, Love letters, Dracula books a room, Goodbye, Harmonicas and Arthur Tolcher, The Invisible Man, Nasty thing flu
Episode 5
Jun 3, 1971 · 50 min
Sketches: Ernie’s retirement, Train compartment full of vicars, No more lettuce, Glenda Jackson visits the flat, Felling safe, Antony & Cleopatra
Episode 6
Jun 17, 1971 · 50 min
Sketches: Ernie’s education - 23 A levels, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Wig shop, Fed-up and listless, Police visit, Hands across the table, Jake The Peg, Ian Carmichael introduc
Episode 7
Jul 15, 1971 · 50 min
Sketches: Newspaper review, Piano: explodes, Multilingual Hotel, Pulpit: personal prayer, Fishing, The reversals, Going to Hollywood - Bobe Hope's scriptwriter