This Is Your Life: Mike and Bernie Winters

Mike (1926-2013) and Bernie WINTERS (1932-1991)

Mike and Bernie Winters This Is Your Life

THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Mike and Bernie Winters, comedy double act, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews.

Mike and his younger brother Bernie were born in London. Mike studied the clarinet at the Royal Academy of Music, while Bernie played the ukulele and performed as a comedian at the Regency Club in Soho. After serving with the Canadian Legion during the Second World War, the brothers formed a double act playing musical instruments and doing impressions.

They made their first television appearance in June 1955 on the BBC's Variety Parade programme, which was a huge success, and they stayed with the programme for three years. More television variety performances followed throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, and in 1965 they were given their own television show.

programme details...

Edition No: 287
Subject Nos: 288-289
Broadcast date: Wed 16 Dec 1970
Broadcast time: 7.00-7.30pm
Recorded: Wed 9 Dec 1970
Venue: Euston Road Studios
Series: 11
Edition: 5

on the guest list...

Joe Mercer
John Dankworth

production team...

Researcher: unknown
Writer: unknown
Director: Margery Baker
Producer: Robert Tyrrell

names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life

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Eamonn Andrews surprises Mike and Bernie Winters for This Is Your Life

Series 11 subjects

Bob Hope | Vidal Sassoon | Talbot Rothwell | Mike and Bernie Winters | Joe Brown | Patrick Campbell | Bobby Moore
Robert Soutter | Graham Hill | Sandy Powell | Edward Woodward | Moira Lister | Dickie Henderson | Wilfred Pickles
Kenny Ball | Marjorie Proops | Basil D'Oliveira | Clive Dunn | Peter Noone | Monica Dickens | Jon Pertwee
Lionel Jeffries | Adam Faith | Googie Withers | Matt Busby