Sykes and a Big, Big Show is a British

United Kingdom

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 sitcom

Situation comedy

A situation comedy, often shortened to sitcom, is a genre of comedy that features characters sharing the same common environment, such as a home or workplace, accompanied with jokes as part of the dialogue...

-sketch show

Sketch comedy

A sketch comedy consists of a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches," commonly between one and ten minutes long. Such sketches are performed by a group of comic actors or comedians, either on stage or through an audio and/or visual medium such as broadcasting...

 that aired on BBC1

BBC One

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 in 1971. Starring Eric Sykes

Eric Sykes

Eric Sykes, CBE is an English radio, television and film writer, actor and director whose performing career has spanned more than 50 years. He frequently wrote for and/or performed with many other leading comedy performers and writers of the period, including Tony Hancock, Spike Milligan, Peter...

 and Hattie Jacques

Hattie Jacques

Josephine Edwina Jaques was an English comedy actress, known as Hattie Jacques.Starting her career in the 1940s, Jacques first gained attention through her radio appearances with Tommy Handley on ITMA and later with Tony Hancock on Hancock's Half Hour...

, it was written by Eric Sykes

Eric Sykes

Eric Sykes, CBE is an English radio, television and film writer, actor and director whose performing career has spanned more than 50 years. He frequently wrote for and/or performed with many other leading comedy performers and writers of the period, including Tony Hancock, Spike Milligan, Peter...

 and directed by Harold Snoad

Harold Snoad

Harold Edward Snoad is a British television producer and director.Beginning his career in the 1960s, he has worked on many comedy shows for the BBC, including the sitcoms Dad's Army, Are You Being Served?, Ever Decreasing Circles and Keeping Up Appearances...

 and Douglas Argent

Douglas Argent

Douglas George Charles Argent was a British television producer and director.Raised in Ilford, Essex, Argent served as a navigator during World War II with 84 Squadron, but his plane was shot down and he was held as a Japanese prisoner-of-war at Osaka's POW Following a career as an actor, he had a...

. Sykes and Jacques had previously starred together in Sykes and A...

Sykes and A...

Sykes and a... is a black-and-white British sitcom starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques that aired on BBC1 from 1960 to 1965. It was written by Eric Sykes, Johnny Speight, John Antrobus and Spike Milligan...

(1960-65) and from 1972 to 1979 starred in Sykes

Sykes

Sykes is a British sitcom that aired on BBC1 from 1972 to 1979. Starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques, it was written by Eric Sykes, who had previously starred with Jacques in Sykes and A... and Sykes and a Big, Big Show ....

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Plot

Sykes and a Big, Big Show features situation sketches and musical numbers, performed by the singer Ian Wallace.

Episodes

1. "Shipwreck" (26 February 1971)
2. "Concorde" (5 March 1971)
3. "Guest" (12 March 1971)
4. "Submarine" (19 March 1971)
5. "Western" (26 March 1971)
6. "Britain's First Moon Shot" (2 April 1971)

Missing episodes

Out of the six episodes, 4 episodes have been wiped

Wiping

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, the first 'Shipwreck' still exists as a b/w telerecording and the third episode 'Guest' still exists on original 625 line PAL

PAL

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colour videotape.