Hi Folks!
Here we are again with yet another of our occasional specials.
This time we start with…
Spike Milligan
Milligan fans should watch out for a new documentary. Under the umbrella title of Lost and Found, the programme, made by Yeti Television for broadcast by Sky Arts, will feature Spike’s own Home Movies. Other programmes in the series will feature Gary Numan, Nina Simone, Laurie Lee and Dame Cleo Laine.
https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/lost-and-found-spike-milligan/
Spike had many series of his own, but rarely appeared in other people’s comedy shows. One of the exceptions was…
The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine – All 15 parts include Spike Milligan!
This had been scheduled for a legitimate 4 disc DVD release a few years ago but it never happened. (possibly for copyright reasons)
Here are many of the episodes
1 – 1 Oct. 1971 (50 mins)
2 – 8 Oct. 1971
3 – 15 Oct. 1971
Unknown edition – Part 1 (11 mins)
Unknown edition – Part 2 (12 mins)
4 – 22 Oct. 1971 (50 mins)
5 – 29 Oct. 1971
6 – 5 Nov. 1971 (50 mins – German subtitles)
7 – 12 Nov. 1971 (edited 36 mins)
8 – 19 Nov. 1971 (49 mins German subtitles)
9 – 26 Nov. 1971 (42 mins German dubbed)
10 – 3 Dec. 1971 (39 mins German dubbed)
11 – 10 Dec. 1971
12 – 17 Dec. 1971 (39 mins German subtitles)
(48 mins German subtitles)
13 – 7 Jan. 1972 (38 mins German subtitles)
(48 mins German subtitles)
14 – 14 Jan. 1972 (50 mins German subtitles)
15 – 15 Feb. 1972 The Best of the Comedy Machine
Peter Sellers
The Ghost of Peter Sellers: Livestream Movie Discussion with Jeff Yanc
Interesting website and a homemade documentary on Peter Sellers
https://allaboutheaven.org/sources/sellers-peter/190
Clouseau: The Greatest Bungler – Behind The scenes of The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Seldom seen, this short “There’s a Girl in my Soup” documentary “This is my Wife or Life with Goldie” (1970) was made by Gus Trikonis on the making of the 1970 movie “There’s a Girl in my Soup” with Peter Sellers and Goldie Hawn
A lengthy talk about “There’s A Girl In My Soup“
A nice selection of photos
Michael Bentine
Voice artist, actor and Goons fan Richard Usher provides his tribute to Michael Bentine
Dr Elliot Bentine – Michael Bentine’s grandson
https://insidequantum.org/episodes/episode_elliotbentine/
Madabout – 6 January 1982
Orphaned Episodes. It’s a Square World
http://culttvblog.blogspot.com/2022/03/orphaned-episodes-its-square-world.html
The Sandwich Man – now released on Blu Ray
Harry Secombe
Dandy Sandy – Des O’Connor, Harry Secombe and Britt Ekland in a sketch from Des’ 1970s TV series. Available from Network.
https://www.facebook.com/televisionheaven.co.uk/videos/dandy-sandy/367198494534171/
The Goon Show
The BBC’s own webpage on The Goon Show
https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/anniversaries/may/the-goon-show/
and
https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/bbc-100/100-faces/the-goons/
Goon Show characters
https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/2355679
The Goons and the East Acton Stick Dance
http://www.anonymousmorris.co.uk/about-eastacton.html
The Goon Show – All the tropes
https://allthetropes.org/wiki/The_Goon_Show
The Goon Show Preservation Society 