The programme was tracked down by FIF, a charitable trust run by film collectors, cinema lovers, and vintage television enthusiasts.<\/p>\n
Smith, who is professor of cinema and television history at De Montfort University in Leicester, and chair of trustees at FIF, said the episode was “fast-paced” and “witty” with many of the duo’s “trademarks”.<\/p>\n
Gary Morecambe, Eric’s son, described the discovery as “wonderful” and said he thought there was not “anything out there left to find”.<\/p>\n
“I’m so thrilled and surprised by the discovery of a Morecambe and Wise show that hasn’t been seen since 1968,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Hats off to Professor Justin Smith and his team, whose dedication and hard work brought this gem back to us. <\/p>\n
“I’m very excited about seeing it for the first time since I was twelve years of age.”<\/p>\n
The episode will air on BBC Four and BBC iPlayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The programme was tracked down by FIF, a charitable trust run by film collectors, cinema lovers, and vintage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-560191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}