Spike Milligan - Other Notable TV Involvement

Other Notable TV Involvement

  • Six-Five Special, first aired on 31 August 1957. Spike Milligan plays an inventor, Mr. Pym, and acts as a butcher in a sketch.
  • The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine, Milligan co-wrote and performed in some sketches.
  • This is Your Life, 11 April 1973. With Sellers, Bentine, and many others. Secombe spoke via a TV recording, as did his great friend Robert Graves.
  • In 1975 Milligan co-wrote (with Neil Shand) and co-starred in a BBC TV sitcom called The Melting Pot. Its cast of characters included two illegal immigrants, an Irish landlord, a Chinese Cockney, a Scottish Arab and numerous other racial stereotypes; Milligan himself took the part of Mr Van Gogh, described as "an illegal Pakistani immigrant". After screening the pilot, the series was deemed to be too offensive for transmission. Five episodes remain unseen. Some of the characters and situations were reused in Milligan's novel, The Looney.
  • Tiswas - 1981 edition.
  • Guest appearing along with Peter Cook in Kenny Everett's Christmas Show in 1985.
  • Playing a moaning stranger in an episode from 1987 of In Sickness and in Health.
  • Narrator of The Ratties (1987), a children's cartoon series written by Mike Wallis and Laura Milligan, Spike's daughter.
  • The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town ran as a serial in The Two Ronnies in the 1970s.
  • Special guest star of 18 January 1979 edition of The Muppet Show
  • Guest star in the 3rd episode of the award-winning BBC Scotland drama series Takin' Over the Asylum (1994)
  • Narrated the 1995 TV show Wolves, Witches and Giants. A cartoon based on the book of the same name, it retold classic tales such as Little Red Riding Hood and Cinderella, but with a twist. The programme won the 1995 Royal Television Society award for Best Children's Entertainment, and was nominated for the same award again in 1997.
  • Guest on Series 4, Episode 3 of Room 101 in 1999

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