British Comedy Guide
British Comedy Guide
Q. Spike Milligan. Copyright: BBC
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  • TV sketch show
  • BBC Two
  • 1969 - 1982
  • 38 episodes (6 series)

Highly surreal, subversive and offbeat sketch show written by and starring Spike Milligan. Also features Ed Welch, John Bluthal, Alan Clare, David Lodge, Keith Smith and more.

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Spike Milligan TV

Spike Milligan: Love, Light And Peace

Feature length documentary profiling the career of Spike Milligan.

Q Milligan. Spike Milligan TV

Spike Milligan: Assorted Q

Highlights from Spike Milligan's surreal and controversial sketch series Q.

Q Milligan. Copyright: BBC TV

Q Milligan

Five-part series comprised of the best bits of Spike Milligan's long-running sketch show, Q.

Spike Milligan Offers A Series Of Unrelated Incidents At Current Market Value. Spike Milligan. Copyright: BBC TV

Spike Milligan Offers A Series Of Unrelated Incidents At Current Market Value

Sketch show starring Spike Milligan, in his first solo vehicle for British TV.

A Show Called Fred. Copyright: Associated-Rediffusion Television TV

A Show Called Fred

Sketch show starring Peter Sellers, from the pen of Spike Milligan, translating trademark Goon lunacy to the small screen.

Son Of Fred. Peter Sellers. Copyright: Associated-Rediffusion Television TV

Son Of Fred

Sequel to the hit A Show Called Fred, starring Peter Sellers.

ITV1 logo. Credit: ITV TV

The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d

The first attempt at bringing Goon Show humour to TV, this mix of sketches and sitcom-esque formulae was set around Victorian paper, The Idiot Weekly.

BBC One. Copyright: BBC TV

Spike Milligan

Spike Milligan tells the story of his long, extraordinary and sometimes achingly unhappy life.

The Goon Show. Image shows from L to R: Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe. Copyright: BBC Radio

The Goon Show

Highly surreal radio adventures that helped take British comedy into a new age. Starring Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe.

BBC One. Copyright: BBC TV

The Telegoons

BBC Radio's world-famous Goons in a new puppet series for television.

BBC Two TV

Oh In Colour

Sketch show starring Spike Milligan.

ITV1 logo. Credit: ITV TV

Milligan's Wake

Spike Milligan-led sketch show.

Milligan In... TV

Milligan In...

Four seasonal specials from the mind of Spike Milligan.

Alexei Sayle's Stuff. Credit: BBC TV

Alexei Sayle's Stuff

Anarchic and often satirical sketch show starring then-Marxist stand-up comedian Alexei Sayle.

Monty Python's Flying Circus. Image shows from L to R: Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, John Cleese, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam. Copyright: BBC TV

Monty Python's Flying Circus

Highly influential off-the-wall 1970s sketch series, starring John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman and Terry Jones.

The Pall Bearer's Revue. Image shows from L to R: Jerry Sadowitz, Dreenagh Darrell. Copyright: BBC TV

The Pall Bearer's Revue

One of the most controversal comedy series ever broadcast on British TV, starring the most foul-mouthed comedian in the country: Jerry Sadowitz.

BBC Two TV

The Last Turkey In The Shop Show

A seasonal special from Spike Milligan.

ITV1 logo. Credit: ITV TV

The Best Of Fred

Spike Milligan and Valentine Dyall present a compilation of sketches from Spike's early shows for ITV.

Channel 4 logo. Copyright: Channel 4 Television Corporation TV

The Last Laugh Before TV-am

One-off sketch show starring and written by Spike Milligan.

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