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In the later and most successful part of their career, which spanned the 1970s, they were joined behind the scenes by Eddie Braben, a script writer who generated almost all their material ( Morecambe and Wise were also sometimes credited as supplying " additional material ") and defined what is now thought of as typical Morecambe and Wise humour.
The front room of the flat and also the bedroom were used frequently throughout the show episodes, although Braben would also transplant the duo into various external situations, such as a health-food shop or a bank.
Braben also cites the works of Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert L. Forward, Isaac Asimov and Orson Scott Card as influences.
Braben and Bell also checked that none of the system names were profane-removing an entire galaxy after finding a planet named " Arse ".
Braben also worked on Round the Horne.
The following year saw a second series, also written by and starring Braben, which aired under the revised title ' The New Improved Show with Ten Legs ', broadcast in January 1979.
From 1982 to 1984 Braben joined Eli Woods and Alison Steadman for 13 episodes of the BBC radio series The Show with No Name, all of which he also wrote.

Braben and made
The humour had always been largely derived from their on-stage relationship, but whereas Hills and Green had cast Morecambe as the comic and Wise as the straight man, Braben inverted the relationship ; as theatre critic Kenneth Tynan noted, Braben made Wise's character a comic who was not funny, while Morecambe became a straight man who was funny.
Braben made them less hostile to one another, even depicting them as sharing a bed.
Eddie Braben, however, opted to remain at the BBC ( signing an exclusive contract with the corporation shortly thereafter ); Barry Cryer and John Junkin were brought in to contribute to the early Thames shows ( Braben eventually made the switch when his BBC contract expired ).
When Eddie Braben took over as writer, he made the relationship considerably deeper and more complex.

Braben and Wise
With Braben as chief writer, Morecambe and Wise became the most successful comedy duo the country had ever seen.
Originally Morecambe and Wise objected to sharing a bed ( which would become one of their most popular and fondly remembered character traits ), but Braben countered that if it was good enough for Laurel and Hardy it was surely good enough for Morecambe and Wise.
Together Morecambe, Wise and Braben were known as " The Golden Triangle ".
The critic Kenneth Tynan noted that, with Braben as writer, Morecambe and Wise had a unique dynamic — Ernie was a comedian who wasn ’ t funny, while Eric was a straight man who was funny.
Braben would comment that people judged the quality of their Christmas experience on the quality of the Morecambe and Wise Christmas Special.
football manager, whose house overlooked Bellefield ; Carla Lane the scriptwriter lived close by, as did Eddie Braben, the scriptwriter for Morecambe and Wise, Bessie Braddock the famous Liverpool Exchange Division MP.
Eddie Braben ( born 31 October 1930 ) is a comedy writer and performer who has provided material for such figures as David Frost and Ronnie Corbett, and who is most famous for having written for Ken Dodd and Morecambe and Wise.
Braben had seen Morecambe and Wise some years previously in music hall and thought they were terrible.
They had ended up with on-stage personas Braben says he did not like-Morecambe was " gormless " ( a northern England phrase meaning stupid and unworldly ), whereas Wise was tight-fisted with money, smart and hard-edged ( they were not dissimilar from their older contemporaries Abbott and Costello in this respect ).
Braben found writing for Morecambe and Wise stressful, particularly with pressure to produce the high-profile Christmas Specials, each of which took months to rehearse and film.
In 1978 Morecambe and Wise were lured back to ITV-but Braben did not go with them because he was still under contract with the BBC.
In 2001, Braben collaborated with Hamish McColl and Sean Foley to write The Play What I Wrote, a stage play and tribute to Morecambe, Wise and Braben, which opened in London's West End.
Morecambe, Wise and Braben formed what came to be known in the television industry as " The Golden Triangle ".
When Morecambe and Wise teamed up with writer Eddie Braben, they began to redefine what was meant by a double act, with Wise, the straight man, being developed into a comic character in his own right.

Braben and writer
When Eddie Braben took over as their chief writer, he enriched Wise's persona by making him pompous and naive.
They had a series of shows that spanned over twenty years, during which time they developed and honed their act, most notably after moving to the BBC in 1968, where they were to be teamed with their long-term writer Eddie Braben.
* Eddie Braben, comedy writer and performer.
Bill Cotton, then in charge of Light Entertainment at the BBC, was looking for a writer and asked Braben if he would like to try.

Braben and their
After meeting the duo, Braben noticed their friendship and aimed to bring this out at the same time as adding enough jokes to make it funny.
Also at the event, Braben, during an interview about courses teaching game development in the UK, revealed that Frontier Developments is recruiting staff to work on their current projects, including Elite 4.
On July 30 2008 Develop magazine posted details from the Develop conference during which David Braben confirmed a release of Elite 4 will occur following their upcoming title The Outsider.

Braben and BBC
Braben wrote and appeared in various radio comedy shows for the BBC, including the well-remembered Show With Ten Legs.
Elite 4 will be the third sequel to 1984's Elite, a game that Braben and his former associate, Ian Bell, wrote for the BBC Micro computer, and which was ported to most other platforms of the day.
In an interview with the BBC to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the original game, Braben confirmed that the game was still in development, saying, " We'd be mad not to go back to the world of Elite and I'm very excited about it ," and adding that it would be released only " when its ready.

Braben and shows
Another concept of the shows during the ' Braben era ' was Ernie's utterly confident presentation of amateurishly inept plays.
Their leading scriptwriter, Eddie Braben, did not initially move to ITV with them, and with Eric Morecambe's failing health, the shows never repeated the audiences they once had.

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# David Braben and Ian Bell have released no such images into the public domain, and a replacement image could not be created that would adequately provide the same information.
When asked if the game would ever be released, Braben responded " We will do Elite 4 after Outsider, so it will benefit from everything we've done in Outsider.
At the 2008 Game Developers Conference in Germany, David Braben hinted that an announcement regarding the game's release would come in 2008.
Braben stated that the new version " would certainly need a better interface, or at least one which is easier to use for modern gamers.
# David Braben and Ian Bell have released no such images into the public domain, and a replacement image could not be created that would adequately provide the same information.

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