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
Tweedledum and Tweedledee the most celebrated and most frequently quoted (and sometimes misquoted) epigrams", satirising the disagreements between George Frideric Handel and Giovanni Bononcini, written by John Byrom (1692–1763): Although Byrom is clearly the author of the epigram, the last two lines have also been attributed to Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope. While the familiar form of the rhyme was not printed until around 1805, when it appeared in "Original Ditties for the Nursery", it is possible that Byrom was drawing on an existing rhyme. The characters are perhaps best known from Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice Found There" (1871).