SYKES - SERIES ONE

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Sykes is a British sitcom that aired on BBC 1 from 1972 to 1979.
Starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques, it was written by Sykes,
who had previously starred with Jacques in Sykes and A... (1960–1965)
and Sykes and a Big, Big Show (1971). Forty-three of the 1970s colour
episodes were remakes of scripts for the 1960s black and white series,
such as "Bus" based on 'Sykes and a Following' from 1964 and the
episode "Stranger" with guest star Peter Sellers based on 'Sykes and a
Stranger' from 1961.

Sykes had the same premise as Sykes and A... with Sykes, Jacques,
Richard Wattis and Deryck Guyler reprising their former identical
roles. The series was brought to an end by the death of Hattie Jacques
of a heart attack on 6 October 1980.With the same premise as Sykes and A..., unmarried twins Eric and Harriet (Hat) Sykes are now living at an
end of terrace house, 28 Sebastopol Terrace, East Acton, two doors down
from their house in the previous programme. As before, Eric is childish
and accident-prone while Hattie is patient. Their neighbour is the
snobbish unmarried Charles Fulbright-Brown, and PC Corky Turnbull is
the local policeman. Corky's wife, Elsie, is unseen, except for one
episode, Caravan, in which she appears with her face covered in
porridge during a food fight between Corky and Eric. Deryck Guyler also
played Corky's brother Wilfred Turnbull, a train attendant on the
Glasgow to London sleeper train, in the episode Journey. Following the
death of Richard Wattis in 1975 a new neighbour, Melody Rumbelow, moves
in. The local baker is the widowed Madge Kettlewell (Joan Sims), who
appears occasionally, and who fancies Eric - she is first seen in the
episode Football. Eric and Hattie are also the owners of a cuckoo
clock, naming the very temperamental bird inside Peter. Both speak to
it as if it were a real bird, and a great deal of comedy derives from the antagonistic and sarcastic 'conversations' between Eric and Peter.