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.

Braben also made Wise a would-be writer ; their BBC shows in the 1970s would always climax with an extended sketch, introduced by Wise as " a play what I wrote.

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.

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.

# 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.

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.

# 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ).

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 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.

Braben later said that a large amount of the duo's humour was based on irreverence.

The two projects were sufficiently similar that Braben and Bell compared notes, and after seeing Star Raiders on the Atari 800 they decided to collaborate to produce what eventually became Elite.

Braben was born in Liverpool, England on Halloween 1930.

Braben also worked on Round the Horne.

Some confusion has emerged over Braben's role in the show, as the similarly named Edwin Braden performed on the show while Braben ( more fully named Edwin C Braben ) wrote for it.

Another seminal game written by Braben was Zarch for the Acorn Archimedes ( later released on some other platforms as Virus ), which was one of the first true " solid " 3D games.

After Zarch, Braben went on to found Frontier Developments, a games development company whose first project was a sequel to Elite named Frontier.

Braben is still the Chairman and part owner of the company, whose recent projects have included Kinectimals, RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, games based on the Wallace & Gromit franchise and the platformer LostWinds, which was a launch title on Nintendo's WiiWare download service.

Braben is the second on the left

As of 2006, Braben was working on a game called The Outsider with Frontier Developments.

* David Braben on the future of video games:

During a lecture in June, 2009, Braben confirmed that Elite IV will be available on multiple console platforms, as well as on PC.

During an interview with Computer and Video Games in September 2007, Braben revealed that Frontier Developments is currently working on new technologies required to deliver the game, and has been for two years.

With Braben as chief writer, Morecambe and Wise became the most successful comedy duo the country had ever seen.

Morecambe was appeased and congratulated Braben, saying, " It stays!

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.

Morecambe pointed out that Braben wrote him as " tougher, less gormless, harder towards Ern.

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.

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.