SYKES - SERIES TWO

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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.