🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast

Duncan Lamont, Spike Milligan & Elaine Delmar:
🎵 An English Folk Song

#DuncanLamont #SpikeMilligan #ElaineDelmar

[1969] Q5 - Spike Milligan's groundbreaking yet largely unknown surreal comedy sketch series that inspired Monty Python's Flying Circus. This is the only known surviving colour episode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hNZAMoBTwA

#OldBritishTelly #SpikeMilligan #Q5

[1971] The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine - A variety show with a typical mix of comedy routines and musical performances. It was given an extra flair by the zany antics of Marty Feldman and regular cast member Spike Milligan who were also the writers along with Barry Levinson and Tim Brooke-Taylor.

E02: With guest Roger Moore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRQ2_BJv2Ws

#OldBritishTelly #MartyFeldman #SpikeMilligan #BarryLevinson #TimBrookeTaylor #RogerMoore

[1993] The Big Freeze - Two accident-prone plumbers go to fix the plumbing at a home for retired gentle-folk on the coldest day of the year in Finland. Starring Bob Hoskins, Eric Sykes, Donald Pleasence, John Mills and Spike Milligan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB7TiWOzXtc

#OldBritishTelly #BobHoskins #EricSykes #DonaldPleasence #JohnMills #SpikeMilligan

[1961] Spike Milligan Presents - Broadcast as part of the MISSING, BELIEVED WIPED night on BBC4 in 2003, this shows how outré Spike was over 60 years ago and where he went without anyone keeping an eye on him.

https://youtu.be/kF5vQl2mHug

#OldBritishTelly #SpikeMilligan

[1971] The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine - A variety show with a typical mix of comedy routines and musical performances. It was given an extra flair by the zany antics of Marty Feldman and regular cast member Spike Milligan who were also the writers along with Barry Levinson and Tim Brooke-Taylor.

https://youtu.be/HBTGPypXcNw

#OldBritishTelly #MartyFeldman #SpikeMilligan #BarryLevinson #TimBrookeTaylor

[1956] A Show Called Fred - Sketch comedy attempting to translate the audio antics of The Goon Show into visual antics in bizarre and often surreal comedy sketches which just suddenly ended with a new sketch beginning. Starring Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Kenneth Connor.

https://youtu.be/HbWbz1Z0q3M

#OldBritishTelly #PeterSellers #SpikeMilligan #KennethConnor

What a treat to have such an archive. Documentary opens up Spike Milligan’s ‘treasure trove’ of scripts and footage https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/dec/01/documentary-opens-up-spike-milligans-treasure-trove-of-scripts-and-footage?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other #spikemilligan #goons #ianhislop

Fortunate to have come into possession of this original 16mm slide from the movie #Yellowbeard with #ericidle and #SpikeMilligan

[1975] Face Your Image - David Dimbleby invites a public figure to see themselves as others see them and to respond to the views of others. Here, David interviews Spike Milligan.

https://youtu.be/Ke04t3ITU3c

#OldBritishTelly #SpikeMilligan

#MyTopShelf contains just some of the books dotted around the house. Featured are #SpikeMilligan #JohnLeCarre #GrahamGreene and #Tolkien . I have signed copies of #StephenFry (he kindly signed the lot when I met him once at the BBC) and #ColinDexter #Morse novels on a lower shelf.