The Two Ronnies

The Two Ronnies

1971
★★★★☆ 7.6/10
📺 12 Seasons
🎬 95 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 50 min/episode
Comedy
The Two Ronnies is a British sketch show which aired on BBC1 from 1971 to 1987. It featured the double act of Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett, the "Two Ronnies" of the title.

Seasons

Season 1
1971 • 9 Episodes
The main sketches are the news report put together in a hurry, unable to control himself at a party, a doctor with a cure for saying things twice, Hampton Wick episode 1, sending flowers through Interpol, Paris, getting a hearing aid. Big Jim Jehosophat and Fat-Belly Jones draw the show to a conclusion with their blue-grass performance. The musical guests are Tina Charles and New World, and Alfredo does a vaudeville act.
Season 2
1972 • 8 Episodes
There's a mishap at a wedding ceremony and Ronnie Corbett weaves a story about a neighbour. Spoof gumshoe serial Done to Death kicks off with Piggy Malone and Charlie Farley investigating a wealthy woman's murder. Georgie Fame, Alan Price and Elaine Delmar provide the music.
Season 3
1973 • 9 Episodes
Sketches include about shouting in a library, going for a driving test, we find out how to care for the sick, Ronnie tells us how things are going on the home front, and we see the main production, which is called Colditz. The performances in this episode are by Pan's People, who perform a dance routine, and the singer Dana.
Season 4
1975 • 8 Episodes
Sketches include The Watchmaker, Spokesman from the Ministry of Information, the first instalment of Death Can Be Fatal and a musical version of Coronation Street. Music by Swingle 11.
Season 5
1976 • 8 Episodes
Sketches include The Cockney Rhyming Slang Sermon, The New Butler and Dr Death. There's the first part of The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town (written by Spike Milligan) and a Native Indian musical number.
Season 6
1977 • 8 Episodes
Sketches include 'The Optician' and 'The Pub'. There's the first instalment of a new Piggy Malone and Charlie Farley serial, 'Stop, You're Killing Me', and music from The Nolan Sisters and Pete Cutters & the Boggers.
Season 7
1978 • 8 Episodes
A man gets more than he bargained for when he goes in search of McCleary's Gold, and a shopkeeper boasts that his store stocks every kind of bean imaginable. Manhattan Transfer provide the music.
Season 8
1980 • 8 Episodes
Sketches include an episode of Mastermind where the contestant answers the question before last, there is a public service message by the local policeman, we get a simple explanation of why we're living longer, there is the first part of "The Worm that Turned", we get a simple explanation how doctor shopping can help, finishing other people's sentences in the local, Ronnie decides to change his approach and tells us a new joke, and the musical finale is Broadway Malady. The musical guest is Elkie Brooks.
Season 9
1981 • 9 Episodes
Sketches include a club where everybody is named after where they were conceived, where about the government white paper on equality, why snuff can be a problem, Piggy Malone and Charley Farley are on the case in the first episode of Band of Slaves, when two telephone conversations become crossed, a problem with body hair, Ronnie tells us about Dagenham, and in the musical finale we head to an Oxford University residential college. The musical guest is Kiki Dee.
Season 10
1983 • 7 Episodes
Sketches include in the change rooms after a very one-sided game of squash, Godfrey and Humphrey share with us some advice from the club, Melvin Pegg introduces the book programme with a scene from Henry VI with additional television show placements, two street cleaners entertain us with a work song, one day in an outback Australian pub they record an advertisement for the Cootamundra Travel Agency, 'Boy George' performs, there is a song from a tropical paradise, Ronnie story is interrupted by some background noises and is dedicated to his agent, and we see David O. Renwick's film "Raiders of the Last Auk".
Season 11
1985 • 5 Episodes
Sketches include some homespun philosophy by two yokels, there is a musical sermon about sin, two tramps are deep in discussion, a doctor's surgery becomes automated, the only two man one-man band entertains us with a musical number, Ronnie tells us how he went about getting a pay rise, and the final drama is called 'Sunshine Boulevard'. The musical performer is Elaine Paige.
Season 12
1985 • 8 Episodes
Sketches include a visit to the doctor by a short-sighted man with a tortoise, two tramps discuss their lives, a party with some party-goers wearing wigs and hair is big topic of conversation, we go to The Pink Rupee for a bit of rap, we see the documentary Little Big Shot set in America during prohibition and which is about the gangster Rockie Stallone, Ronnie tells his joke with a packing case on stage with him, there's hearing problems in the trenches in WWI, and the final musical is based on Alice in Wonderland. The musical performer is Phil Collins.

Crew

Writer
Ronnie Barker
Producer
Terry Hughes

Network

BBC One

Keywords

sketch comedydouble act