It must have been a contractual obligation for Thames Television to give Eric Sykes another comedy special. The Likes Of Sykes from 1979 was pretty awful.
This was just as bad. Sykes returns as the stage door manager who has drunk the bottle of spirit left behind by ex boxer Henry Cooper.
The concept of the show is set in 1990 with guests having to pay Thames Television money to get on the show. Tommy Cooper is the guest who appear in black and white unless he pays extra.
The sketches are overlong. The one with the head of light entertainment who keeps confusing Tommy Cooper with Henry Cooper then Gary Cooper. Then the card trick which perplexes the head of light entertainment is not that funny.
There was a sketch on a battleship which again was not funny. The only interesting aspect was the presence of Leslie Mitchell, one of the original announcers when the BBC started in the 1920s.
By this time Sykes had simply ran out of any creativity with a new generation of comedians coming up.
This was just as bad. Sykes returns as the stage door manager who has drunk the bottle of spirit left behind by ex boxer Henry Cooper.
The concept of the show is set in 1990 with guests having to pay Thames Television money to get on the show. Tommy Cooper is the guest who appear in black and white unless he pays extra.
The sketches are overlong. The one with the head of light entertainment who keeps confusing Tommy Cooper with Henry Cooper then Gary Cooper. Then the card trick which perplexes the head of light entertainment is not that funny.
There was a sketch on a battleship which again was not funny. The only interesting aspect was the presence of Leslie Mitchell, one of the original announcers when the BBC started in the 1920s.
By this time Sykes had simply ran out of any creativity with a new generation of comedians coming up.