The Melting Pot
- TV sitcom
- BBC One
- 1975
- 7 episodes (1 series)
Controversial comedy set in a guest house inhabited by immigrants from far and wide. Stars Spike Milligan, John Bird, Frank Carson, Alexandra Dane, Robert Dorning and more.
Press clippings
A one-off called The Melting Pot (BBC1), written by Spike Milligan and Neil Shand and performed with a copious admixture of improvisation by Spike Milligan and John Bird, was the worst thing to have happened to race relations since Pharaoh went sour on the Israelites. I ought to have hated it, but was left so panic-stricken with laughter that I don't know where I stand. It was in such bad taste it was coming back the other way. Objecting to it was like debating against an attack of flatulence: it was a fart accompli.
Clive James, The Observer, 15th June 1975