The spectacles logo from the show's opening. Both performers wore glasses; Barker's are on top, Corbett's underneath.
Created by
Bill Cotton
Starring
Ronnie Barker
Ronnie Corbett
Country of origin
United Kingdom
Original language
English
No. of series
12
No. of episodes
93
Production
Running time
40–58 minutes
Production company
BBC
Original release
Network
BBC1
Release
10 April 1971 (1971-04-10) – 25 December 1987 (1987-12-25)
Related
The Two Ronnies Sketchbook
The One Ronnie
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The Two Ronnies is a British television comedy sketch show starring Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett. It was created by Bill Cotton and aired on BBC1 from 10 April 1971 to 25 December 1987. The usual format included sketches, solo sections, serial stories and musical finales.
known for roles in British comedy television series such as Porridge, TheTwoRonnies, and Open All Hours. Barker began acting in Oxford amateur dramatics...
Barker in the BBC television comedy sketch show TheTwoRonnies. He achieved prominence in David Frost's 1960s satirical comedy programme The Frost Report...
a role in the popular TheTwoRonnies sketch "The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town". In 1978, Michelle starred in the film The Greek Tycoon...
British television (Coronation Street, The Benny Hill Show and TheTwoRonnies). Watling was born Dilys Rhys Jones, the daughter of actor Ion Rhys Jones and...
Four Candles is a sketch from the BBC comedy show TheTwoRonnies, written by Ronnie Barker under the pseudonym of Gerald Wiley and first broadcast on...
film The Comeback. Her other TV credits include The Benny Hill Show, TheTwoRonnies and Hi-de-Hi!, among many others. She was a hostess on the game show...
Adamant Lives!, TheTwoRonnies, Manhunt, Clochemerle, The Persuaders!, The Lotus Eaters, Special Branch, Space: 1999, Tales of the Unexpected and Lame...
in two episodes of the documentary series Comedy Connections, talking about her work in Keeping Up Appearances (2004) and opposite TheTwoRonnies (2005)...
buffoonery), Flanagan and Allen, Morecambe and Wise and TheTwoRonnies. The tradition is also present in the US with acts like Wheeler and Woolsey, Abbott and...
Next of Kin, and the sketch show TheTwoRonnies. She has appeared in Doctor Who on three occasions over three decades; as Jean Rock in The Faceless Ones...
TheTwoRonnies 1987 Christmas Special was first broadcast on BBC1 on Christmas Day 1987 as part of the 12th series of the show starring Ronnie Barker...
Belfridge in the BBC sitcom Are You Being Served? in the final two series from 1983 to 1985. She also appeared in the music video for the ABC song "Poison...
returned to acting in the late sixties with small parts in Dixon of Dock Green, Z-Cars, Doctor Who and guesting in TheTwoRonnies, playing Ronnie Barker's...
Fifty-Five on BBC Two during the same year. She also appeared on Des O'Connor Tonight, Pete Sayers' Electric Music Show, TheTwoRonnies, Wogan, It's Max...
slot on The TwoRonnies show produced by BBC Television, and also appeared on the Morecambe and Wise Show.[citation needed] He recorded the autobiographical...
the Glen, The Brothers, TheTwoRonnies, Take The High Road, Z-Cars, Special Branch, Thriller and Taggart. She also appeared as Barbara Grant in the 1971...
Ronnie Barker for TheTwoRonnies sketch show in 1976. Set in Victorian London, it featured a Jack the Ripper–style madman who stalked the streets and killed...
they wrote the BBC Radio 4 comedy series The Burkiss Way and provided sketches for BBC television shows such as TheTwoRonnies and Not the Nine O'Clock...