British Comedy Guide

The Best Of Fred (1963)

  • TV sketch show
  • ITV1
  • 1963
  • 1 episode

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

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Key details

Genre
Sketch Show
Broadcast
1963
Channel
ITV1
Episodes
1
Stars
Spike Milligan and Valentine Dyall
Writer
Spike Milligan
Director
Robert Fleming
Company

First broadcast in the 1950s, Spike Milligan's absurdist sketch shows for ITV - The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d, A Show Called Fred and its sequel Son Of Fred - were considered ahead of their time by many. In 1963 this compilation was made in the hope that the public had now caught up with this anarchic brand of humour.

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