John Bluthal as Dr Jacob Bronowski - brilliant! I have loved the Goons since the 1950's and Spike Milligna , well known typing error, his genius from the goons to the Q series. Genius. THanks to UA-cam and the contributors for keeping the humour alive.
He can be hit and miss, but I miss the world where this kind of creative freedom was allowed on TV. We'll never see anything like Spike Milligan again.
@@nethy02 I'll go with Rab C Nesbitt (you forgot the 'C' . . . criminal). It's a fair bet that you're a Lady, a woman if you will. If wrong, then apology is due but if not, Milligan's humour tickled the male sense of humour, anarchic, surreal and occupied the borderline between sanity and madness. Pushing 80 and I've yet to meet a single woman who found him funny.
What a great bunch! They must have had so much fun making these sketches. Still gets me in tears 🤣🤣🤣 All we have these days is stand up comics trying to out-swear each other....!
I choked back a tear when i read she had passed away. Never was there a better built woman on tv. Rest in peace Julia darling. There will never be another godess like you.
This episode sees the welcome return of dear old Major Startling-Grope, both literal and figurative "camp" commandant of Rest Camp "Mad and lonely", Naples, Italy 1943. Hooray!
Today's BBC would completely miss the point. Spike' comedy was frantically chaotic and often hilarious based on his army humour. Now he'd simply not be commissioned.
In the first sketch, Alan Clare plays the first stooge, a role he reprised frequently. He was a very talented jazz pianist and a great friend of Milligan.
She actually got one out for a very old joke - *_"Oh, God! I've left the baby on the bus!"_* This is a fact, but it seems it may have been on one of the lost episodes. It may also be that she simply elected to have the sketch cut when the DVD set was issued....which I shall regret to my dying day.
I first listened to the Goon show in 1959 as an 8 year old and remained a fan of Milligan , Secombe and Sellers and all the cast for the rest of my life . Milligan spawned alternative humour in 1951 , Python in 1968 and unfortunately the course foul language which the comedians in the 80s and 90s sought to exceed Milligan and FAILED dismally
The amount of corpsing that went on around Spike is often as hilarious as the skits, due to his ad-libbing, typified by his cry of alarm, 05:00, when blowing his nose in the labour exchange. Lol.
Ed Welch, and I think it may be from a Milligan/Welch co-written story called The Snow Goose. It may be incidental music from the following... ua-cam.com/video/Bl2BFccAJnY/v-deo.html
Anyone have the clip of Spike on Parkinson telling the story of Jack Hobbs who shit himself and got on the train thinking he'd bought new trousers and it was a pink cardigan? Never forget Spike with tears of laughter. Would love to see it again.
Only he was being intentionally funny whereas the bunch of bone-heads that inhabit the benches are funny, but not intentionally so. Rest in peace Spike
@@michaeld5888 apparently. That’s what I read years ago. The BBC was apparently somewhat disorganized during the conversion to video from filming the late 1970s and some original versions were lost.
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John Bluthal as Dr Jacob Bronowski - brilliant! I have loved the Goons since the 1950's and Spike Milligna , well known typing error, his genius from the goons to the Q series. Genius. THanks to UA-cam and the contributors for keeping the humour alive.
Spine Millington!😂
He can be hit and miss, but I miss the world where this kind of creative freedom was allowed on TV. We'll never see anything like Spike Milligan again.
and good riddance to this utter garbage
@@nethy02 so, what floats your boat?
@@alunlewis3631 mick miller, dave allen, rab nesbitt, there is 3 for a start
@shashin m43 in the word of Capt. Mainwaring, stupid boy
@@nethy02 I'll go with Rab C Nesbitt (you forgot the 'C' . . . criminal). It's a fair bet that you're a Lady, a woman if you will. If wrong, then apology is due but if not, Milligan's humour tickled the male sense of humour, anarchic, surreal and occupied the borderline between sanity and madness. Pushing 80 and I've yet to meet a single woman who found him funny.
What a great bunch! They must have had so much fun making these sketches. Still gets me in tears 🤣🤣🤣
All we have these days is stand up comics trying to out-swear each other....!
Out swear and out vulgarise.
Utterly surreal.Who could , or dare, do this now? Spike did not give a stuff. Brilliant.
Not surprising of Spike to have such a beautiful piece of music amongst all the mayhem.....Loved his jazz!
One of my favourite things about Spike is how he always laughs at his own jokes. 😊
I love the way none of them, not a single one, can keep a straight face through a single sketch.
Brian...
That's because it's not funny!
@@redblade8160
Ever considered a humour implant?
Lmao.
@@billyandrew
I take it you had a "humour implant" after they took your brain out, so that you could laugh your head off when watching Spike Milligan!
@@redblade8160 If you don't like Spike Milligan why the fuck are you here? Fuck off and stop trolling.
@@Trev359
If you don't like someone else's opinion, then why don't you "Fuck Off"?
Julia Breck was the only reason i watched & bought the recent Q dvds.
R.I.P BEAUTIFUL JULIA ❤❤❤
How sad.
The unpredictable genius of Spike lightened up BBC TV in the 1970s and 80s .
The rigorously controlled age we live in now has darkened it.
So safe today
Madness but brilliant. Poor old David Lodge couldn't stop laughing 😁
Rita Webb as Mrs Terrible.
Perfect.
Have a look at Spike’s ‘Oh In Colour’ series on UA-cam....The great Rita plays Queen Victoria in one sketch!!!!
Chaos madness genius ..what r we going to do now what are we going to do now
Those were the day of real comedy and laughter, nowadays is so insipid!!
Love it when Spike blows his nose and David Lodge has hysterics.
Notice that Spike pretended to soil himself, which broke Dave up.
Put logic and sanity aside for 30 minutes and embrace the chaos.
Spike Milligan's comic genius and Ed Welch's "Fritha's Theme" from "The Snow Goose". An unforgettable combination of humour and pathos.
Priceless upload of a bunch of ex WW2 chums mucking about. Thanks for putting it here.
Mr Sandford, thank you for giving me a good laugh today in this awful rotten world............
Love Spike, and also the musical item from "Snowgoose" was beautiful
Just watching Spike's face during the fruit song cracks me up every time.
The Fruit song, the answer to all life's problems. Spike, where are you when we need you ?
The nose blowing gag, absolutely priceless!!
Thanks. The whole series is now on dvd
Great Mike! That's sorted my Christmas present out.
@@tribblebooth1224 yes go to Amazon
Even _he_ corpsed at the ad lib. Lol.
The sketch in the labour exchange is classic. His timing is impeccable. A real genius.
Thanks this was somebody else's upload in witch I downloaded it and uploaded it in my name, the episode and the whole series is on dvd
Is that Alan Clare behind Spike?
@@synthonaplinth5980 It is.
This man was as mad as a hatter! He was also original and very funny.
He once called Peter Sellers Certifiable, so God knows how bad he was.
Julia, Julia, wherefore art thou, come and ease this aching beast...
Alas, she passed away last January.
Stephen Lyons - sad to hear that.
There's a very good reason why the Monty Python crew worshipped the ground he walked on.
What was that ?
Then, now and forever, a comic genius.
I have an awful feeling that we are living in Q2020 . . . . .
But without the funny bits.
Depends on your sense of humour :)
More so in 2023.
Fruit song is just about the most sublime joyous experience in the English speaking world.
Agree ...raspberry
I just cannot stop laughing when I watch the fruit song, I have shown it to my grandchildren who also love it.
100 years ahead of his time. Genius.
A genius at taking the absurd and comical and creating charming nonsense. But some great punch lines.
I choked back a tear when i read she had passed away.
Never was there a better built woman on tv.
Rest in peace Julia darling.
There will never be another godess like you.
@@julianshepherd2038
Didn't Mummy love you?
Lmao.
Carol Wayne on the Carson show weren't 'arf bad...
Who says crossword compilers never get the girl?
Grazina Frame, Margaret Nolan, Valerie Leon.
He was in the film Life of Brian
This episode sees the welcome return of dear old Major Startling-Grope, both literal and figurative "camp" commandant of Rest Camp "Mad and lonely", Naples, Italy 1943. Hooray!
Today's BBC would completely miss the point. Spike' comedy was frantically chaotic and often hilarious based on his army humour. Now he'd simply not be commissioned.
So when do the BBC think they will show the repeats as if
Answer? Is the Pope an agnostic?
Just brilliant. Dear spike, you are well out of it. What a fucking mess we are all in now.
He knew we the human.race was running down the pan . Over population and crass people, think that's why he created his own world . 🌎
Totally genius ! he was clinicaly mad and suferd from depression but still a genius !.
i miss him
In the first sketch, Alan Clare plays the first stooge, a role he reprised frequently. He was a very talented jazz pianist and a great friend of Milligan.
What was that lovely bit of piano music in the middle ?
classic ..... julia breck provided the saucy moments
The Labour Exchange has me on the floor, every time!!
Like 40s old time theatre on acid
02 January 2023. Everyone had a Merry Crisis and are now enjoying a Happy New Fear.
Oh merde, Julia Breck in black leather....
She actually got one out for a very old joke - *_"Oh, God! I've left the baby on the bus!"_*
This is a fact, but it seems it may have been on one of the lost episodes. It may also be that she simply elected to have the sketch cut when the DVD set was issued....which I shall regret to my dying day.
......or even better, NEARLY in black leather!!!
@NowForTheTruth Nope. Def Julia Breck; you don't forget babies bag rations of those proportions!
The q series is on dvd
Fantastic memories
This episode is now on dvd, this was somebody else's upload in witch I downloaded it and uploaded in my name, sorry.
Love Spike... what was the lovely music at 12:42?
spike maligma the well knomn typing error ,yes he was unmatched the biggest goon of them all
Read The Looney and all his other books too - genius of comedy!
I first listened to the Goon show in 1959 as an 8 year old and remained a fan of Milligan , Secombe and Sellers and all the cast for the rest of my life . Milligan spawned alternative humour in 1951 , Python in 1968 and unfortunately the course foul language which the comedians in the 80s and 90s sought to exceed Milligan and FAILED dismally
Wonder if this got FRANK BOUGH into drugs?
@@kevcatnip7589 lmao. Good question
I remember as a school-kid listening to the Goons in my bedroom on my crystal set that one of my classmates had made for me.
LMFAO to prove your point.
I really miss laughing like this.
One of the last things Milligan, Seacombe and Sellers did together was their own version of The Fruit Song, around 1978.
A Brexit Unicorn. Spike Milligan was truly a man before his time.
The amount of corpsing that went on around Spike is often as hilarious as the skits, due to his ad-libbing, typified by his cry of alarm, 05:00, when blowing his nose in the labour exchange.
Lol.
That,and the frantic clutch at the seat of his trousers!🤣
6 o’clock by the jam factory
Used to love this Id forgotten all about it
Joyful utter madness
What was the musical piece at ~12:40? I was going to rewind it, but it was so beautiful.
It's an arrangement from a song in Paul Gallico's 'The Snow Goose'.
I like their beauty spots!!! :D
Completely mad.....I love it.
I need to know whow wrote and played the musical piece at 12:40?
Any ideas anyone please?
Ed Welch, and I think it may be from a Milligan/Welch co-written story called The Snow Goose.
It may be incidental music from the following...
ua-cam.com/video/Bl2BFccAJnY/v-deo.html
@@ginskimpivot753 - Thanks for the reply. It is indeed on there, starting at 5:34.
Wow! Amazing, thanks again!
No probs.
The corpsing kills me.!
Haha insane genius!
Everyone got made fun of regardless..I seem to remember this as life🤔🤔🤔
genius
Good old spike
I have seen the book my part in his downfall
Ronnie Scott.. Lol. Hi brow gone AWOL.
Never really got it but made me laugh all the same! :-))
It's like watching Parliament in session......Order, Order, Order, Order......
Luvverly Spike....
I guess that will go down like the Titanic
They could never show this on TV again in these pc times !
Julia Breck in all her glory would loose the Beeb its licence on her own!!
Copy and paste comment. How boring.
@@arhassoc yes they dont build women like that nowadays, not where i live anyway😂
Totally mad 😂 and bearing in mind that there was only 3 channels.
Julia Breck is the star of the spike Milligan show show showinggggg
Ronnie Scott at 16 minutes ?
Without Spike there would be no monty python 🍺🍻
Pakistani spoken by appointment 😂✌️. I’m a Pakistani 😀
big brother in control
Oh spike I miss u
Anyone have the clip of Spike on Parkinson telling the story of Jack Hobbs who shit himself and got on the train thinking he'd bought new trousers and it was a pink cardigan? Never forget Spike with tears of laughter. Would love to see it again.
If I recall he threw the trousers away then put his legs in each arm of the cardigan put a bowler hat over his private’s and legged it out the station
that was hilarious
Dave Lodge is our hero!
A Cockleshell Hero, no less.
Should be an MP. Spike makes more sense than Parliament at this time.
Only he was being intentionally funny whereas the bunch of bone-heads that inhabit the benches are funny, but not intentionally so. Rest in peace Spike
He was a genius!!!
Who was that buxom lady?! She fuelled some teenage thoughts.....
Julia Breck
@@zaftra Ah thanks
Mmm
I had similar thoughts about the glorious Julia Breck.......and now need Fang, the Guide Dog for the blind......!!
Julia Breck Died Feb 2020 aged 78!
Classic.
Yes a classic, but not to the pc brigade, like my pc snowflaking social worker, some body might be offended ehhhhhhhhhhhhhh
@@michaelsandford1015 TOUGH , POOR LITTLE THINGS, TELL THEM TO GET A LIFE.
The kind of humour which is best taken in small doses.
A dog firing a pistol. I take it this was a 'gun dog'.
a gas man
English and Asian man arguing 🤣
youtube will delete it most likely as well, they always seem to...........
The funniest father figurine in ‘istory
Great to see Ronnie!
6:27 Sketch in thumbnail begins
As a big fan of Spike, I don't think folks of today would laugh. Maybe the King?
not have been let out..............
The Q Series was the template for Monty Python. They had the material but didn't have a format for the show, and this was it.
Check your dates...
@@llwyde1104 first series of Q was released March 1969 and Flying Circus was October 1969. Dates check out.
@@NorrisHistoryCorner fair enough...good research...it's just that I don't remember it that way.
Love seeing these again. Did you have this on an old VCR tape? Unfortunately, the BBC accidentally recorded over the original versions.
They are all on dvd now
Accidently?
@@michaeld5888 apparently. That’s what I read years ago. The BBC was apparently somewhat disorganized during the conversion to video from filming the late 1970s and some original versions were lost.