Spike Milligan – TV Cream

Show Called Fred, A

IT WAS the moment that changed British TV comedy forever: 10pm, February 24th 1956, when Associated-Rediffusion, in all their independent majesty, let...

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Magic Christian, The

A GREAT big, sprawling, ill-disciplined countercultural satire adapted by Terry Southern and Joe McGrath from Southern’s own novel, this is possibly the...

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Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins, The

Look out chaps, it's one of those portmanteau comedy jobbies.

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What a Whopper!

Adam Faith searches for the Loch Ness monster (and, yes, sings the eponymous theme song) in the sort of fantasy comedy only...

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Three Musketeers, The

The Salkind brothers made this version starring Michael ‘Logan’ York as D’Artagnan, Richard ‘Island Son’ Chamberlain as Aramis, Frank ‘turkeys’ Finlay as...

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Monty Python’s Life of Brian

We were going to use this billing to witter on about how Graham Chapman’s A Liar’s Autobiography seems to have snuck back...

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Invasion Quartet

Rum, stand-alone wartime comedy about a bunch of convalescents – colonel John Le Mesurier, one-handed Frenchman Gregoire ‘Crooks in Cloisters’ Aslan, romantic...