{"id":14751,"date":"2022-05-03T14:45:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T12:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1636573"},"modified":"2022-05-03T14:50:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T12:50:39","slug":"morecambe-and-wise-lost-episodes-restored-and-released-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/morecambe-and-wise-lost-episodes-restored-and-released-for-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Morecambe and Wise lost episodes restored and released for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Lauren Morris\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 03 May 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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The first episodes of The Morecambe and Wise Show, which were previously thought to have been lost, have been restored, BBC Studios has announced.<\/p>\n

Originally broadcast on BBC Two in 1968, the episodes are from the show\u2019s first run and will be available to watch as part of Morecambe and Wise: The Lost Tapes DVD<\/a>, set for release in June.<\/p>\n

The eight lost episodes, which featured guest appearances from Sir Bruce Forsyth and Matt Monro, were never archived at the time of their broadcast and were disposed of in the 1970s to make space in the BBC\u2019s archives.<\/p>\n

However, film copies of four episodes and audio copies of the others were found after years of research and restoration.<\/p>

\u201cAll episodes have undergone extensive sound and picture restoration, with \u2018colour recovery\u2019 software having been used to restore all bar one of the episodes to their original full colour for the first time since they were originally screened by BBC Two in 1968,\u201d the BBC has said.<\/p>\n

After a seven-year-long restoration project by the BBC and Queen Mary University in London, images from badly decayed film, rediscovered in a West African film vault, were recovered from one of the episodes.<\/p>\n

All eight episodes will be released in DVD form, along with a previously lost one-off special from October 1970 and never-before-released special features, including an original trailer, interviews from the 1960s and deleted scenes.<\/p>\n

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Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise<\/span><\/figcaption> Getty<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

The Morecambe and Wise Show aired for nine seasons from 1968 to 1977, winning five BAFTAs during its run on BBC Two and BBC One.<\/p>\n

Late this month, the BFI & Radio Times Television Festival<\/a> will also reveal lost footage from the earliest episode of The Morecambe and Wise Show as part of a BBC 100 Missing Believed Wiped screening \u2013 get tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can pre-order Morecambe and Wise: The Lost Tapes DVD<\/a> on Amazon, with the DVD set for release on 6th June.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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