SYKES - SERIES FIVE

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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.