Eric Sykes the 1977 Yorkshire Television adaptation of "Charley's Aunt" and appeared in the role of Brassett. The third version of "The Plank" was made in 1979 for Thames TV as a half-hour TV special. Sykes was the subject of Thames Television's "This Is Your Life", broadcast on 25 December 1979. Sykes wrote and appeared in two Thames Television specials broadcast during 1980 – "The Likes of Sykes" and "Rhubarb Rhubarb". The latter special, a remake of his 1969 short film "Rhubarb" which Sykes also directed, featured many of his old friends including Jimmy Edwards, Bob Todd, Charlie Drake, Bill Fraser, Roy
Hattie Jacques on stage, radio, screen and record made her film debut in an uncredited role in "Green for Danger" in 1946, before working in a number of minor roles in a series of Dickens adaptations. From 1958 to 1974 she appeared in fourteen "Carry On" films, where she was "usually cast as formidable hospital matrons (at least four) or man-devouring predators". Jacques had a long professional partnership with Eric Sykes, with whom she co-starred in two long-running television series, "Sykes and a..." and "Sykes". The couple also produced an album and a single in 1962; a stage show followed between 1976 and 1979, "A Hatful of Sykes".