British Comedy Guide

The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d

  • TV sketch show
  • ITV1
  • 1956
  • 5 episodes (1 series)

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. Stars Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Eric Sykes, Valentine Dyall, Kenneth Connor and more.

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Key details

Genre
Sketch Show
Broadcast
1956
Channel
ITV
Episodes
5 (1 series)
Stars
Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Eric Sykes, Valentine Dyall, Kenneth Connor, Graham Stark, June Whitfield, Patti Lewis and Max Geldray
Writers
Spike Milligan, Dave Freeman, John Junkin and Terry Nation
Director
Richard Lester
Producer
Richard Lester
Company

Additional details

Production
Studio
Picture
Black and white

Broadcast details

First broadcast
Friday 24th February 1956 at 10pm on ITV1

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