Biography - Television Shows

The Patterson with Eric Morecambe

The Pattersons are today best remembered for their appearances on the Morecambe & Wise Show. They appeared on 11 shows and 2 of them are losted. 

They also appearances on The Nana Mouskouri Show and The Val Doonican Show aswell as have there own Tv Series called "Pattersons People" on the BBC (NI) in 1969.

In July 1970 the band featured every week on the RTE series "A Handful of Songs" which also stared Danny Doyle and Anna McGoldrick.


Their appearances on the Morecambe & Wise Show lead to concert dates with 2 supporting acts, Val Doonican and Rolf Harris which were two of the UK's greatest easy listening stars at the time. They toured all over the UK and still remained based in their home town of Letterkenny, County Donegal in Ireland and continued to gain favour with the TV producers at home and abroad.

Here are some images from the tv shows