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	Eric Sykes - The Memorable TV Hall of Fame
		Eric Sykes, who cultivated his talent for comedy whilst serving in the Army in World War II, worked as a writer on radio and a writer/performer on television all through the 1950s before having his greatest success, the long running BBC sitcom SykesVersus TV which debuted in 1960.
		Sykes became the longest running sitcom of its time, continuing, with one notable seven year break between 1965 and 1972, for 127 episodes until Hattie Jacques' death in 1980.
		During the run of the sitcom Sykes also made a series of short, dialogue-free films for the cinema, utilising the same structure as the TV show: that is one idea exploited to the limit, comedically.
	www.memorabletv.com /halloffame/ericsykes.htm (707 words)

	Sykes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sykes was a long-running BBC television sitcom of the 1960s and 1970s, starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques.
		Eric and Hattie are both unmarried, and live together at 24 Sebastopol Terrace, in the London suburb of Acton.
		Eric Sykes has always claimed to be proud of the fact that his show made audiences laugh without ever resorting to profanity or crude sexual innuendoes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sykes (1136 words)

	Eric Sykes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eric Sykes, CBE (born May 4, 1923 in Oldham, Lancashire) is a British comedic writer and actor.
		Sykes became partially deaf due to illness as an adult.
		Eric Sykes as Frank Bryce in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eric_Sykes (671 words)

	Sykes, Eric
		Eric Sykes, who cultivated his talent for comedy whilst serving in the Army in World War II, worked as a writer on radio and a writer/performer on television all through the 1950s before having his greatest success, the long running BBC sitcom SykesVersus TV which debuted in 1960.
		Sykes became the longest running sitcom of its time, continuing, with one notable seven year break between 1965 and 1972, for 127 episodes until Hattie Jacques' death in 1980.
		During the run of the sitcom Sykes also made a series of short, dialogue-free films for the cinema, utilising the same structure as the TV show: that is one idea exploited to the limit, comedically.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/S/htmlS/sykeseric/sykeseric.htm (698 words)

	Eric Sykes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Eric Sykes (May 4 1923 -) Oldham, Lancashire, is a British comedic writer and actor, who helped Spike Milligan with The Goon Show after Milligan's depression.
		One of the running jokes of the series was that the extremely large Hattie and the very skinny Eric were supposed to be twins.
		it is Eric who says the word "Teletubbies!" at the end of the Teletubbies title sequence.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/e/er/eric_sykes.html (173 words)

	Saga Magazine - Eric Sykes: the great survivor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sykes was uppity, cunning and work-shy, while Hattie — magnificent in stature — was timid and trusting by nature, and easily suckered into her brother’s misbegotten schemes.
		Eric’s survival in showbusiness is as much a testament to his toughness as his talent.
		Sykes reveres performers like Jimmy “Whacko” Edwards, a decorated RAF pilot and Cambridge University graduate, whose trademark handlebar moustache was grown to conceal war wounds, Bill Fraser and, of course, Tommy Cooper, whose customary fez was acquired during a troop show in Egypt.
	www.saga.co.uk /magazine/article/CA998E9B-E519-11D7-B8C5-00508BAEC55C.asp?bhjs=0 (1912 words)

	Comedian: Eric Sykes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Eric Sykes has got to be the most under rated comic genius in the history of English comedy.
		Dear Eric Sykes always comes across to me as a gentle, kind and lovable man. His wit belongs to the old school of masters and, with The Plank there for posterity, Eric's warm brand of humour is surely guaranteed a long shelf-life.
		Eric Sykes style of comedy is funny, what more can I say, he creates situations and involves his whole body as well as facial expressions.
	www.chortle.co.uk /comics/esykes.html (2151 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| Books \| Tales from a national treasure
		The only time I saw Sykes on stage was a few years later at the Sheffield Lyceum Theatre next door, where he was appearing in a theatrical spin-off of Johnny Speight's golfing sitcom, The Nineteenth Hole.
		Sykes, then in his mid-70s, was almost completely deaf and registered blind, but had made a valiant effort to learn his lines, though possibly not the precise order they came in.
		The way Sykes tells it, one moment he was admiring the great Frankie Howerd on Variety Bandbox, the next Frankie himself phoned out of the blue to request a few gags.
	education.guardian.co.uk /higher/books/story/0,10595,1675608,00.html (725 words)

	Manchester Broadcasters, Television and Film Actors including Brian Rredhead, Joan Bakewell, Les Dawson, Roy Kinnear, ...
		Sykes has great comedic wit, and apart from being a comedian in his own right, is a prodigious script and gag writer for other comics.
		Sykes had early ambitions to be a comedian, which were thwarted by war service, though it provided him the opportunity to meet other aspiring comedians like Tony Hancock, Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe.
		Eric Morecambe died of a heart attack in 1984 after several earlier attacks, and his death provoked virtual national mourning.
	www.manchester2002-uk.com /celebs/broadcasters2.html (2758 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: If I Don't Write It Nobody Else Will: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Eric Sykes writes his life story in such a warm and witty style, you turn each page with a smile on your face.
		Eric Sykes is undoubtedly one of the giants of post-war light entertainment, and whilst this book serves as a useful reminder of the scope and breadth of his contribution, it is possibly this very factor that makes it essentially somewhat unrewarding.
		Where Sykes deals with his subsequent career, which constitutes the bulk of the book, the lack of self-analysis or contextualisation of events runs rampant and is accompanied by a puzzling choice of balance in discussing different subjects.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0007177844 (1036 words)

	Eric Sykes News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		VETERAN comic Eric Sykes may be deaf and blind but his memoirs prove he can still see the funny...
		The funniest comedians tend to be strange and distant figures, but Eric Sykes is the kind of comic who makes you smile rather than shriek with laughter.
		Eric Sykes, who is often called on for cameo roles in London's West End, is made a CBE, while his fellow comic actor, Hugh Lloyd, gets an MBE.
	www.topix.net /who/eric-sykes (455 words)

	Television Heaven
		Eric and writer Johnny Speight originally devised the series, although it was Eric's idea to have Jacques play his sister rather than his wife in order to break the mould of the usual domestic sitcom scenario.
		Eric took over writing from series two onwards, although John Antrobus and Spike Milligan scripted some, and Speight continued to work on the storylines until the end of series three, when it became Eric's sole responsibility.
		Eric and Hattie also became the proud owners of a cuckoo clock, naming the temperamental bird inside, Peter.
	www.televisionheaven.co.uk /sykes.htm (547 words)

	Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter / Barsuk Records
		The song the air is thin, from Jesse Sykes and The Sweet Hereafter's latest release, like, love, lust & the open halls of the soul, has been chosen to be NPR's Song of the Day — follow the link to hear the song and read what NPR has to say about it.
		Jesse Sykes and her sublime band The Sweet Hereafter recently did a performance on premiere Santa Monica radio station KCRW.
		The new album from Jesse Sykes and The Sweet Hereafter, like, love, lust & the open halls of the soul, will be out February 6th, but you can listen to all twelve beautiful tracks by visiting the new e-card here.
	www.barsuk.com /bands/jessesykes (678 words)

	Sykes - Nostalgia Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A classic British comedy in which the irrepressible Eric Sykes constantly got himself in a mess with all manner of new technology in order to improve his life-style.
		Brown, Eric and 'Hat' managed to get themselves into all sorts of difficulty, including episodes which found them handcuffed together, running a bus route minus the bus, and unwittingly harbouring an escaped convict, played by Peter Sellers.
		Some of the Sykes episodes were remakes of earlier Eric Sykes episodes - including, for example, the golfing episode (now with Tony Jacklin instead of Peter Alliss) and Stranger (with Peter Sellers in place of Leo McKern).
	www.nostalgiacentral.com /tv/comedy/sykes.htm (427 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| TV and Radio \| Comic Sykes receives CBE honour
		The veteran actor and writer is best known for his TV sitcom Sykes with Hattie Jacques, which attracted up to 20m viewers during the 1960s and 70s.
		Sykes is deaf, has failing eyesight, has suffered a stroke and undergone a heart bypass operation.
		Sykes suffered tragedy in his early life - his mother died giving birth to him.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4070012.stm (280 words)

	Eric Sykes
		One of the most respected of all British comedians, born in Oldham on 4th May 1923, Eric Sykes was one of many comedians to get smitten by the entertainment bug whilst serving in the Army, during the Second World War.
		The instant rapport that Eric and Hattie formed, as brother and sister, was the basis for one of Britain's best loved comedy series partnerships and one that endured for two decades and 128 episodes, until it came to a close when Hattie died in 1980.
		One of the episodes from the series Sykes and a Plank was later re-made for cinema in 1967, co-starring Tommy Cooper, and again as a TV special in 1979.
	www.prideofmanchester.com /comedy/ericsykes.htm (532 words)

	Television Heaven (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Eric began providing scripts for both Bill Fraser and Frankie Howerd, and within a short space of time he found himself in demand as a writer of comedy material, and began contributing to the BBC for their phenomenally successful radio series Educating Archie, as well as Variety Bandbox.
		The instant rapport that Eric and Hattie formed was the basis for one of Britain's best loved comedy series partnerships and one that endured for the next 20 years, up until the untimely death of Hattie Jacques in 1980.
		In this series Eric played the part of Arthur, a liberal minded factory worker who more often than not sprung to the defence of his co-worker, Milligan, who, with fl makeup on, played the part of 'Paki-Paddy' Kevin O'Grady who claimed to be half Irish (on his father's side).
	www.televisionheaven.co.uk /hissykes.htm (1275 words)

	Bristol Silents > Eric Sykes Double Bill
		Sykes is in charge of a team of undertakers moving a coffin from a home to the church.
		The home is on the 26th floor of a skyscraper; the stairs are narrow; the lift is small and prone to breaking down.
		A newly married couple move into their first house, then the removal men (led by Sykes) arrive, bringing the house and the whole street into chaos.
	www.bristolsilents.org.uk /previous.php?eventname=Eric-Sykes-Double-Bill (90 words)

	British Sitcom Guide - Sykes and A... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques play twins living together at 24 Sebeastapol Terrace.
		Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques had marvelous chemistry on screen, in fact so much so that some viewers thought they were twins in real life.
		This series was revived in 1972 seven years after the last episode, it was entitled "Sykes".
	www.british-sitcom.co.uk /sykes_and_a/index.shtml (138 words)

	Eric's long life of laughter
		ERIC Sykes loosens his tie on a warm day in Soho.
		Oldham-born Eric is one of the last survivors of a golden generation of comedians.
		Eric later became one of the nation's best loved performers, particularly in the classic BBC TV sitcom Sykes, with Hattie Jacques, the Dawn French of her day.
	www.manchesteronline.co.uk /entertainment/filmandtv/tv/s/173/173583_erics_long_life_of_laughter.html (1311 words)

	The Spike Milligan Tribute Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In these 60 episodes Eric played 'Eric', a gaunt, accident-prone, eternal child, and Hattie played 'Hattie' (often shortened to 'Hat'), a likeable soul who tended to view the world with wonderment, and put up with Eric's exuberance and erratic behaviour because, improbably, he was her twin brother.
		Both characters were unmarried (and rarely seemed to work) and the episodes were set in a house they shared at 24 Sebastopol Terrace in East Acton (an area of west London near to the equally fictitious Steptoe And Son yard).
		This allowed Sykes to exploit the show's wonderfully simple premise - each programme had a different subject, around which he could create half an hour of comedy, exploring the idea to its comic limits.
	www.spikemilligan.co.uk /165132/165225.html?sessionidkey=sessionidval (418 words)

	The Stage Online :: Features :: Wealth of wit and wisdom - Eric Sykes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Registered blind and nearly totally deaf, Eric Sykes may be among the last of his generation of comic talent but he has lost none of his sparkle.
		Probably best loved for his BBC sitcom Sykes, in which he starred alongside Hattie Jacques for 20 years until her death in 1980, the performer says that there isn’t much more for him to do.
		In recent years Sykes has starred in Hollywood hit The Others with Nicole Kidman and will be seen later this year in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
	www.thestage.co.uk /features/feature.php/9837 (888 words)

	The Eric Sykes Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sykes also co-wrote 24 episodes of the milestone radio show The Goon Show with Spike Milligan.
		Eric and Hattie revamped the winning formula again seven years later with a series called Sykes, which also ran for five years.
		The Eric Sykes Collection is an excellent DVD presentation of four of the short films he made for Thames Television, with the inclusion of The Big Freeze as an extra.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ReviewID=6378&SID=2&PID=781027 (1465 words)

	Scotsman.com Living - Books - Old ones are the best ones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Before meeting Sykes I'd been practising good enunciation, in case he couldn't understand me, seeing as I've come all the way from Scotland, but while frail in a favourite blue cardigan, he makes for extremely sprightly company.
		Sykes' father was a lowly labourer at an Oldham cotton mill so Sykes' two-year-old brother Vernon was farmed out to their grandmother but she refused to take him.
		His dad had remarried and Sykes was no longer the baby of the family: he now had a half-brother, John.
	living.scotsman.com /books.cfm?id=2094292005 (1706 words)

	Eric Sykes
		Eric holds a Bachelors degree in Music Theory from the University of North Texas and has played, performed, and taught guitar for 20 years in the Dallas area.
		As well as being an accomplished professional musician, Eric is also
		Eric is available as musical entertainment for your party or event!
	www.ericsykes.com (92 words)

	British Sitcom Guide - Sykes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques play twins living together at 24 Sebastapol Terrace.
		Many of these episodes were colour remakes of the 1960s series of "Sykes And A...
		'Sykes' was good, clean fun and its actors, Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques were so well paired that many viewers believed them to be brother and sister in real life.
	www.british-sitcom.co.uk /sykes/index.shtml (136 words)

	BBC News \| SHOWBIZ \| Eric Sykes wins Oldie award
		Actor and comedian Eric Sykes has been awarded the Oldie of the Year title.
		Sykes was presented with the award on Tuesday in London and joins the list of previous winners including Richard, Wilson, Spike Milligan and cricketer David Gower.
		He is best-known for his role alongside the late actress Hattie Jacques in the long running 1970s TV series, Sykes.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/1802157.stm (245 words)

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