Gary Morecambe, who now lives in Ernie Wise's home city of Leeds, said Eric would always watch the Christmas specials ... their career for a show that ran between 1978 and 1983.

It will be preceded at 19:00 GMT by the pair's 1971 Christmas show ... of their career for a show that ran between 1978 and 1983. Eric Morecambe died in 1984 and Ernie Wise in 1999.

Replete with unrivalled access to the archive of classic Morecambe and Wise moments, the show revisits the legendary ... of families and without which no Christmas would have been complete.