Originally published – June 2022
And now, straight from the success of March issue’s enactment of A Kick up the Archives by Mark Cousins, we bring you June issue’s enactment of A Kick up the Archives by Mark Cousins.
Peter Sellers
Michael Caine on Peter Sellers. [Let it run on to Michael Caine doing Michael Caine]
Peter Medak: The Ghost of Peter Sellers – BelTalks 2020
Complete BBC news on Saturday 26th July 1980. The day of Peter Sellers’ funeral on YouTube
KFMB TV8 (Sept 18, 1972) The New Bill Cosby Show!
Still missing… the other edition of The New Bill Cosby Show featuring Peter Sellers… Do you have a recording of this show? Let me know if you do!
Here’s a bunch of auction items from a recent sale of the possessions of Denis O’Dell, once the manager of both Peter Sellers and George Harrison and a director of Apple. All these items relate to the film, The Magic Christian.
thesaleroom.com
Peter Sellers and The Beatles from the Get Back movie
Sellers aficionados will know that Peter’s first wife Anne was an actress. She’s appeared mostly on stage and also made a couple of television appearances. But did you know that she also made a film?. It’s called Paul Temple’s Triumph (1950) and can be easily viewed for free on Talking Pictures TV Encore.
Cast & Crew on IMDB and a still frame
Peter Sellers: “Anybody seen my shorts?” Some news from Tony Watts, the man behind the restoration of the three lost Sellers shorts…
“Hopefully we shall shortly be moving the shorts to a restoration company associated with ITV. That will help enormously in terms of eventual distribution. I am directly in touch with the restoration team and have chased them for an exact date for the work being concluded.
“…we have been negotiating with a UK broadcaster for use of the scanner they have. There is then a plan under discussion for them to take the broadcast rights for the UK. All the money raised is in a dedicated Sellers Kickstarter restoration account.
“It is still intended for a UK Film Premiere and release this year.”
Ray’s A Laugh – on radioechoes.com
The Pink Panther Final Chapters Collection
on quartetrecords.com – on Amazon
Never Let Go – a good selection of stills on cultfilmfreaks.com
Who Is This Man? on my1960s.com
Longtime stunt man/double/coordinator Joe Dunne passed, aged 86 on 15 January – Telegraph Obituary
There are many films that Sellers was rumoured to make, but never did. It’s interesting to imagine what some of these might have been like. One such film was to be written by Likely Lads writing duo Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, who also wrote Prisoner of Zenda. However, Sellers pulled out of the project. The film was to have been a remake of the 1932 original, Chandu The Magician. Here it is!
on YouTube
Spike Milligan
Idiot Weekly – the Australian radio show, not the UK television show.
on radioechoes.com
The Milligan Papers – on radioechoes.com
on Amazon
From snowy peaks to flowery dell
The laughter rises and larks tell
In songs rapture comic capers
Be sure to read The Milligan Papers.
– Will Shakespeare
on BearManor Media
A glimpse of Spike Milligan on the Six-Five Special
For those of you based in Britain and with access to Talking Pictures TV you might like to know that Talking Pictures TV Encore (via internet), currently has a series called Tell Me Another hosted by Morecambe & Wise writer Dick Hills. A number of the episodes include appearances by Spike Milligan and Michael Bentine – on Talking Pictures TV Encore
Michael Bentine
The Michael Bentine Show on radioechoes.com
1993 interview with Michael Bentine (lots more interviews available from this site!) – audio on acast.com
Fred shows etc
Goon But Not Forgotten – excerpts from Fred Shows etc, and more, written by John Antrobus
on Amazon
The Goon Show Preservation Society 