Steve Lawrence Rickles hosted ABC's "Foul-Ups, Bleeps & Blunders". In 1985, Steve and Eydie Gorme played Tweedledee (Gorme) and Tweedledum (Lawrence) in Irwin Allen's film adaptation of "Alice in Wonderland". He played Mark McCormick's father, Sonny Daye, in two episodes of "Hardcastle and McCormick". In 1999, he appeared as the much-talked about, but never really seen, Morty Fine, father of Fran Fine in a few of the final episodes of "The Nanny". In 2011, he portrayed Jack, a wealthy love interest of Betty White's character, Elka Ostrovsky, on "Hot in Cleveland". In 2014, he guest-starred in an episode of "Two and a
Ian Hislop "Gush", a satire based on the first Gulf War, in the style of Jeffrey Archer. With Newman he also wrote the family-friendly satirical sitcom "My Dad's the Prime Minister" and in the early nineties for the Dawn French vehicle "Murder Most Horrid". Hislop and Newman wrote the Radio 4 series "The News at Bedtime", a satire on fairy tales which aired over the 2009 Christmas season. The series starred Jack Dee as 'John Tweedledum' and Peter Capaldi as 'Jim Tweedledee'; the two present the "news of the day" in the world of fairy tales, while arguing with each other as