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THE GOONS
A night at the Goon Show – on this website…
Some mixed Goon film from a mixed source
on The Goon Show group on Facebook
The page to lend support to our favourite weekly podcast:
www.patreon.com/GoonPod
John Lennon’s Goon Show Tapes! I wonder whether we’ll ever hear them!
at www.gottahaverockandroll.com
HARRY SECOMBE
Sitting down to get my regular fix of Talking Pictures TV – The Footage Detectives we were treated to a short film on traffic wardens from the 1960s. Making a fleeting appearance in his Roller was none other than Harry Secombe! On-screen for 12 seconds… his car was on for a little more. Mark C
at www.tptvencore.co.uk
Variety Bandbox, 1950 – thanks to Roger Wilmut
PETER SELLERS
Some photographs of Peter Sellers, No Britt, no…
at www.masonandsons.com
Peter Sellers and boats… and Britt
at www.barcheamotore.com
More photographs … don’t know about Britt didn’t pay much attention – sorry,…
at www.gawby.com
The original closing credits for Being There. Director Hal Ashby changed this and added some bloopers. Sellers was upset, and the film failed to win the Oscar.
The new edition of The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
at Amazon.co.uk – audiobook – hardcover – paperback – eBook
SPIKE MILLIGAN
More about Muckpuddy and Badjelly
at www.thespinoff.co.nz
Badjelly the animation… bit more about it
at www.tvguide.com
‘I was away in New Zealand… on my search for nuclear stuff related to Spike I found these rather nice anti nuclear power videos filmed in NZ.’ John O’Hara, who is investigating Spike Milligan’s involvement in anti-nuclear campaigns, not solely the ‘bomb’, but the many other aspects as well:
at www.nzonscreen.com
The Little Fly – a Poem by Spike Milligan (1995)
Thank you to whoever sent me this one. I actually saw Spike perform this onstage at Knebworth in the days when you could rock up on the Saturday morning, stroll in and pay on the gate. John Cleese also did a ‘between the bands fill’. He did a little song about a cuckoo. Pink Floyd were okay too. (Ed)
You’re welcome. (Webmaster)
An advert for the English Tourist Board from 1981
Yellowbeard, a movie with Spike in it, but not much
A letter by Spike
Spike Milligan Productions on Instagram. Always worth keeping an eye or two on…
www.instagram.com/spikemilliganproductions/
The Goon Show Preservation Society 