The Interviews
- TV documentary
- U&Gold
- 2015 - 2016
- 12 episodes (2 series)
A series profiling comedians via their chat show appearances. Features Dawn French and Tamsin Greig.
Episode menu
Series 1, Episode 6 - Spike Milligan
Further details
Spike Milligan was a truly unique comic genius who broke new ground with his brand of eccentric humour.
Thanks to legendary series like The Goon Show on radio and Q on television, Spike became one of the country's most surreal, influential and beloved comedy performers. But away from the camera or microphone, life was a different story and a combination of his career-spanning chat show appearances, interviews and performance archive tells his story in his words.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Wednesday 29th July 2015
- Time
- 9pm
- Channel
- U&Gold
- Length
- 60 minutes
Cast & crew
| Dawn French | Narrator |
| Spike Milligan | Self (Archive Material) |
| Michael Parkinson | Self (Archive Material) |
| Russell Harty | Self (Archive Material) |
| Terry Wogan | Self (Archive Material) |
| Des O'Connor | Self (Archive Material) |
| Cliff Michelmore | Self (Archive Material) |
| Joanna Lumley | Self (Archive Material) |
| James Whale | Self (Archive Material) |
| Huw Wheldon | Self (Archive Material) |
| Michael Barrymore | Self (Archive Material) |
| Clive James | Self (Archive Material) |
| Mike Williams | Series Producer |
| John Quinn | Executive Producer |
| Iain Coyle | Executive Producer |
| Sean Doherty | Executive Producer |
| Nigel Alred | Edit Producer |
| Dan Ablett | Editor |
Press
A compilation of Spike Milligan chatshow clips provides a fine end to this series on comic personalities. While Spike's mould-breaking surrealism is rarely afforded an audience these days, this retrospective shows just why he was considered an icon among the comedy illuminati, despite material occasionally at odds with post-PC society. Were proof needed of his innovative armoury, the classic Russian play Oblomov was routinely reinterpreted on the fly by Milligan, with one performance even incorporating a real TV interview.
Mark Jones, The Guardian, 29th July 2015