Originally published – September 2022
This column has been going on for so long, that you’ve probably looked at everything that is available between the covers of the internet. In order to maintain the principles for at least one more month, I present a focus on….
Peter Sellers! With some other stuff at the end.
A guide to the Pink Panther film series – at amazon.co.uk
An interview with the author of the above book – at archive.org
Five Faces Of Sellers (the 8mm home movies based upon clips from The Naked Truth)
Rare Irish television interview with Sellers
Picture Show 1961 tries to find out who is the real Peter Sellers – at my1960s.com
Peter Sellers and Freemasonry – at wellingtonlodge.org.uk
Interesting rehearsal photos prior to a Royal Film Performance in 1961 – at alamy.com and here
Promo pictures of the Telegoons 1964 – at projectswordtoys.blogspot.com
See GSPS Newsletter 160 for the whole set.
Not purely Peter Sellers
Forces Gala Night – I Was Monty’s Treble.
Recorded 1st November 1964, at the British Forces Broadcasting anniversary show
Sky to broadcast lost Spike Milligan footage, as reported in July issue, Goon Show News
at beyondthejoke.co.uk
at chortle.co.uk
EXTRAS
A very respectful summary of Spike’s history and his grave in Winchelsea. The best bit is where the narrator loses it with passing motorbikes and gulls
A definition of Spike Milligan from the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. It even tells you how to pronounce his name, in American as well as English! – at oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com
Spike Milligan talks about life, the universe and the Goons in this interview with Angela Bishop from Film from Australia
Here’s a bunch of still photographs from: Spike Milligan: A Series of Unrelated Incidents at Current Market Value (1961) – on the IMDb website
Memory Lane website is offering this photographic print (below) of Spike Milligan and Eccles in various presentations. They describe the Eccles figure as: a character from the Goon Show, but it is, of course, the Telegoons puppet from 1966. You can buy a 400 piece jigsaw of it for £29.99! – at shop.memorylane.co.uk
The Goons: Jigsaw Puzzle of The Goons, 29th March 1963. Peter Sellers, Spoke(sic) Milligan and Harry Secombe. Memory Lane again.
Badjelly the Witch by Spike Milligan
Adapted for stage by Tim Bray. A kiwi favourite, oozing with comedy. Tim Bray Theatre Company, on tour in Aukland, NZ.
timbray.org.nz
Goon Show – quotes with sound clips on this website! No, it’s true. And there’s 93 of them – at movie-sounds.org
Michael Bentine, pistol marksman and comedian.
Here is a piece of film, The Great Train Robbery, with himself as the train driver on his favourite, the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway. Warning: it’s very silly – on www.aibafs.net
The Horse Show by Michael Bentine – on YouTube
Some random Bentine bits to celebrate his 100th!
www.christies.com – Bumblies
www.bonhams.com – ditto
www.gettyimages.dk – Bumblies photo
www.gettyimages.co.uk – ditto
www.gettyimages.co.nz – ditto
www.toonhound.com/bumblies.htm
http://www.45worlds.com/78rpm/record/r3909 – Dance of the Bumblies
The Goon Show Preservation Society 