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Dick Hills and Sid Green
Dick Hills, (
1926 -
1996), and
Sid Green, (
1928 -
1999), were a
British partnership of
comedy writers, most notable for their work on
TV in the
1960's. They wrote for such performers as
Anthony Newley,
Roy Castle, and
Frankie Howerd; but their best-remembered collaboration was with the
UK's most loved comedy double act,
Eric Morecambe and
Ernie Wise, on the
ATV show
Two of a Kind, and the comedians' first colour
BBC series in
1968. Hills and Green also played supporting roles in various sketches in the series.
Hills and Green were involved in the writing of the three motion pictures made by Morecambe and Wise in the 1960s: 'The Intelligence Men' (1965), '
That Riviera Touch' (1966), and 'The Magnificent Two' (1967). After Eric Morecambe's first heart attack in 1968, however, Hills and Green announced they would stop writing for the Morecambe and Wise Show and move into other fields. (Writing duties were subsequently taken over by
Eddie Braben). Eric and Ernie were apparently unhappy at the way they were informed by the move (by third parties), although Hills and Green did eventually work on the last major show the two comics produced, a
1983 Christmas Special for
Thames Television.
Sid and Dick also wrote and starred in their own show,
Those Two Fellers, made in
1967.
Category:British comedy writers