Features four vintage episodes of the Goon Show: "The Fireball of Milton Street" (22 February 1955), "The End, or Confessions of a Secret Senna-Pod Drinker", (22 March 1955), "The Terrible Revenge of Fred Fu-Manchu" (6 December 1955) and "The Saga of the Internal Mountain" (29 March 1954).
A collection of tender(ish) moments. It consists of three individual volumes now collected together ("Small Dreams Of A Scorpion", "Open Heart University" and "The Mirror Running") as well as a number of previously unpublished poems.
Spike Milligan (Author) Born in India in April 1918, Terence Alan ¿Spike¿ Milligan was a comedy writer and performer who created The Goon Show which ran from 1951 to 1960. Milligan soon established his own fresh style of comedy. A poet and a campaigning humanitarian, Milligan was universally acclaimed for his published war memoirs. Amongst his radio series were The Omar Khayam Show and The Milligan Papers as well as his television series such ...
For years Spike Milligan has lovingly collected and collated over a dozen volumes of family photographs and memorabilia, stretching from army life in India in 1869, through his birth in 1918 and his childhood, to his career as an entertainer and the arrival of his own family.Spike has carefully selected scores of these delightful photographs to illustrate the story of his life. Notes in diary form are expanded into anecdotes and reminiscences ...
A collection of the best BBC radio programmes about Spike, his life and his career, published to celebrate the centenary of his birth. New material will be included alongside never before published archive programmes featuring interviews with the man himself that provide a unique insight into his comedy.
Foiled by President Fred - Series 6, Episode 7 (1 November 1955)Personal Narrative - Series 7, Episode 8 (22 November 1956)Round the World in Eighty Days - Series 7, Episode 21 (21 February 1957)The Missing Boa Constrictor - Series 7, Episode 25 (21 March 1957)Goon but not forgotten!
Spike Milligan, the much-loved entertainer, broadcaster and writer, was widely regarded as the most influential British comedian of the 20th Century. He was awarded the CBE, an honorary knighthood plus two Lifetime Achievement His published works include poetry, scripts, novels, letters and general humour including his much-loved and very funny According To... series.
I never felt more like kicking so I kicked him in the goolies and they swelled up like melons. He had to put the harness on me while balancing his balls with one hand and could only move very slowly. In time I got used to everything (and he got used to swollen balls) and I could do my work as well as my mother. I used to wash up after dinner.
Using scripts by Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens, The Goon Show was recreated at the Playhouse Theatre in London for one extra-special celebratory night, with Andrew Secombe (standing in for his father Harry), Jon Glover (as Spike Milligan) and Jeffrey Holland (as Peter Sellers). Together, the team performed two missing episodes of the show - The Story of Civilisation and The Plymouth Ho Armada. It also featured announcements by Christopher ...
Goon but not forgotten. From 1951 to 1960 the Goons ruled the airwaves, the most celebrated and influential clowns in the history of radio. GO ON - and savour some of the special guests as Dick Emery, Kenneth Connor, Graham Stark and George Chisholm get in on the Goonery. Follow their fortunes as they trace the dreaded Spon, go bagpipe playing in the South Pole, march off to war ('Name your weapon.' 'I name my weapon Basil.') and attempt to fi...
This is the 7th volume of a major, ongoing series. Contains 14 episodes from series 8 in chronological order, plus a pdf script of the missing episode. 7hrs approx.
Spike Milligan was one of the greatest and most influential comedians of the twentieth century. Born in India in 1918, he served in the Royal Artillery during WWII in North Africa and Italy. At the end of the war, he forged a career as a jazz musician, sketch-show writer and performer, before joining forces with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe to form the legendary Goon Show. Until his death in 2002, he had success as on stage and screen and a...
Spike Milligan was one of the greatest and most influential comedians of the twentieth century. Born in India in 1918, he served in the Royal Artillery during WWII in North Africa and Italy. At the end of the war, he forged a career as a jazz musician, sketch-show writer and performer, before joining forces with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe to form the legendary Goon Show. Until his death in 2002, he had success as on stage and screen and a...
Spike Milligan was one of the greatest and most influential comedians of the twentieth century. Born in India in 1918, he served in the Royal Artillery during WWII in North Africa and Italy. At the end of the war, he forged a career as a jazz musician, sketch-show writer and performer, before joining forces with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe to form the legendary Goon Show. Until his death in 2002, he had success as on stage and screen and a...
Adolf Hitler: My Part on His Downfall is volume One of Spike Milligan's outrageous, hilarious, legendary War Memoirs.'At Victoria station the R.T.O. gave me a travel warrant, a white feather and a picture of Hitler marked "This is your enemy". I searched every compartment, but he wasn't on the train . . .'In this, the first of Spike Milligan's uproarious recollections of life in the army, our hero takes us from the outbreak of war in 1939 ('it...
