These two are the best loved double act in British TV history yet hardly known in America. Does anyone here know them? Have an opinion about them?

British comedy of that vintage sometimes found an audience in America via PBS, but I don't believe that Morecambe and Wise were ever brought over. (Canada might have seen them.) Here they just seem to be "those comedians the Beatles appeared with".

Are they the best loved? Not the Two Ronnies?

Yes for sure. The Two Ronnies are great, but it's not even really a contest.

I've heard of them, mostly because of the Beatles connection. If they'd been on US TV, I'm sure I would've watched them back then.

Like Jimbo, I only know of them from The Beatles.

I have a vague recollection of seeing them when I was a lot younger. Maybe on PBS? Channel 9 in L.A.used to run a lot of British shows as well. (Dave Allen, Randall and Hopkirk, The Goodies, etc.) so maybe they had some episodes in the package they were using. This was in the pre-Benny Hill days. After he came over, there was another wave of British comedies (Bernard Cribbins, Terry Cooper, etc)

Don't get that humor at all.
Guess I'll stick with the low brow stuff,like Monty Python.

Monty Python is considered high brow in comparison to these guys (or most mainstream humour of those times) M&W were a vaudeville act who made it big on TV. The Pythons were all university graduates. I love both. Morecambe and Wise as an act have the warmth of Stan and Ollie. Don't know why they never made the US when inferior stuff like Benny Hill did.

Benny Hill had girls with big tits running around in skimpy outfits. Americans tend to respond to that sort of thing.

Fixed.

I never cared about Benny Hill either and I'm usually into all sorts of Brit stuff. I loved the theme song though, that's a damn good comedy song, a friend of mine used it for his wedding when he took his new wifes garter off and threw it into the crowd, it was damned near perfect. That's about the only think I liked about it though, it was one of the few britcoms I really had very little interest in.

As for Morcomb and Wise, I don't think they made it to Canada either and we sometimes get stuff before the Americans, I tend to be so immersed in that stuff that I sometimes forget the stuff I watch is virtually unkown to those around me and I hadn't heard of them until I found them on a related links on youtube one day (Can't remember what it was but it did seem entertaining) and even then, didn't grasp how popular they were over there. So yeah I'm thinking they didn't have it here anywhere. I LOVED the Two Ronnies when I was a kid, still do, but that was when they were actually playing it here.

No memory associated with these guys.

Found a clip of the Small Faces on their show:

This is perhaps their most famous clip. They used to have top notch guests on their show. Previn was (and is) one of the most respected figures in the world of classical music. I remember seeing this when it first aired (I was seven) and the whole country was watching it. Genius.

Did I mention that one of my friends is Alana Lane, daughter of Ronnie?

Does she work with you?

She used to yeah. She is an art teacher - Alana.

Don't post a photo, but ... does she look like her father?

I don't think so! I don't think she'd mind me posting a photo - I'll ask her. This is the one she has got on her facebook page - I love it!

She is very attractive, doesn't really have his ears or nose. similar around the eyes perhaps. I didn't know anything about her dad for years - it's only recently I've realised how famous he is/was. She never made a big deal about him, but did talk about coming down to breakfast with people like Rod Stewart in the kitchen!

That's amazing.