Gerald McRaney

biography:
Gerald Lee McRaney (born August 19, 1947) is an American television and film actor. McRaney is best known as one of the stars of the television shows Simon & Simon, Major Dad, Promised Land and House of Cards. He most recently starred as Admiral Hollace Kilbride on NCIS: Los Angeles. He was a series regular in the first season of Jericho and the final season of Deadwood. He appeared in a recurring role as main antagonist Mason Wood in season eight of Castle. Recently, he played Barlow Connally in the A&E series Longmire and had a recurring role in the NBC series This Is Us as Dr. Nathan Katowski, a role which earned him the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series.

McRaney has been married to actress Delta Burke since 1989.

CHiPs

overview: Lighthearted look at the adventures of two Highway Patrol officers in Los Angeles. The main characters are Jon Baker and Frank Poncherello, two motorcycle officers always on the street to save lives.

character: Demick

original_name: CHiPs

Deadwood

overview: The story of the early days of Deadwood, South Dakota; woven around actual historic events with most of the main characters based on real people. Deadwood starts as a gold mining camp and gradually turns from a lawless wild-west community into an organized wild-west civilized town. The story focuses on the real-life characters Seth Bullock and Al Swearengen.

character: George Hearst

original_name: Deadwood

Jericho

overview: Jericho is an American action/drama series that centers on the residents of the fictional town of Jericho, Kansas, in the aftermath of nuclear attacks on 23 major cities in the contiguous United States.

character: Johnston Green

original_name: Jericho

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

overview: A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery.

character: Eli Schindler

original_name: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Simon & Simon

overview: A.J. Simon is a polished fellow with a taste for classic cars and tailored suits. Rick Simon is his less refined (but still pleasant) older brother who has a taste for cowboy boots and four-wheel drive pickups. The two of them live in San Diego, where they own a private detective agency.

character: Rick Simon

original_name: Simon & Simon

Central Park West

overview: The glamorous and exciting life for the staff of trendy magazine 'Communique', owned by Allen Rush, "the Darth Vader of publishing".

character: Adam Brock

original_name: Central Park West

NCIS: Los Angeles

overview: The exploits of the Los Angeles–based Office of Special Projects (OSP), an elite division of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service that specializes in undercover assignments.

character: Hollace Kilbride

original_name: NCIS: Los Angeles

Major Dad

overview: Major Dad is an American sitcom created by Richard C. Okie and John G. Stephens, developed by Earl Pomerantz, that originally ran from 1989 to 1993 on CBS, starring Gerald McRaney as Major John D. MacGillis and Shanna Reed as his wife Polly. The cast also includes Beverly Archer, Matt Mulhern, Jon Cypher, Marisa Ryan, Nicole Dubuc and Chelsea Hertford.

character: John D. MacGillis

original_name: Major Dad

Gunsmoke

overview: Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.

character: Gentry

original_name: Gunsmoke

The Rockford Files

overview: Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con sent to the slammer for a crime he didn't commit, Rockford takes on cases others don't want, aided by his tough old man, his lawyer girlfriend and some shady associates from his past.

character: Jerryl

original_name: The Rockford Files

Magnum, P.I.

overview: A private investigator who works when he wants, lives in a beachfront estate in Hawaii, drives a posh Ferrari, runs up an unlimited tab at a swank bar, and charms attractive women in peril - that's the lifestyle of Thomas Magnum, aka Magnum, P.I.

original_name: Magnum, P.I.

JAG

overview: Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. is a former pilot turned lawyer working for the military's JAG (Judge Advocate General) division, the elite legal wing of officers that prosecutes and defends those accused of military-related crimes. He works closely with Lt. Col. Sarah Mackenzie, and together they do what needs to be done to find the truth.

character: Sergeant Major Charvis Krohn

original_name: JAG

Promised Land

overview: Promised Land is an American drama series which aired on CBS from 1996 to 1999. It is a spin-off from another series, Touched by an Angel.

character: Russell Greene

original_name: Promised Land

D-Day: The Total Story

overview: This is the ultimate chronicle of the largest amphibious invasion in history. The momentous decisions and tragic losses, pitched battles and desperate strategies come alive with extensive footage from both Allied and Axis government vaults and revealing interviews with soldiers, commanders and civilians. Trace the development of D-Day from the initial plans and strategies to the final breakthrough that sent Allied troops roaring to Paris. Follow the strategies of Eisenhower, Montgomery, Marshall and Bradley and the counter-attacks and defenses of their German opponents. See how the heroism and valor of individual men was vital to salvaging success from plans that went awry in the first few minutes. And get an incredible, front-line view of the pitched battles that sent so many men to their grave.

character: Host

original_name: D-Day: The Total Story

Undercovers

overview: Five years after leaving the CIA to open a catering company, Steven and Samantha Bloom are recruited back into the agency by Carlton Shaw. They take on special missions the average agent cannot handle. Having made a pact to never discuss their pasts with each other, the Blooms find surprising new things about their spouse in the course of each mission.

character: Carlton Shaw

original_name: Undercovers

Manhattan

overview: Set against the backdrop of the greatest clandestine race against time in the history of science with the mission to build the world's first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Flawed scientists and their families attempt to co-exist in a world where secrets and lies infiltrate every aspect of their lives.

character: Sec. Hentry Stimson

original_name: Manhattan

The West Wing

overview: The West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells the stories of the members of a fictional presidential administration. These interesting characters have humor and dedication that touches the heart while the politics that they discuss touch on everyday life.

character: Alan Adamle

original_name: The West Wing

One Tree Hill

overview: In Tree Hill, North Carolina two half brothers share a last name and nothing else. Brooding, blue-collar Lucas is a talented street-side basketball player, but his skills are appreciated only by his friends at the river court. Popular, affluent Nathan basks in the hero-worship of the town, as the star of his high school team. And both boys are the son of former college ball player Dan Scott whose long ago choice to abandon Lucas and his mother Karen, will haunt him long into his life with wife Deb and their son Nathan.

character: Royal Scott

original_name: One Tree Hill

Castle

overview: After a serial killer imitates the plots of his novels, successful mystery novelist Richard "Rick" Castle receives permission from the Mayor of New York City to tag along with an NYPD homicide investigation team for research purposes.

character: Mason Wood

original_name: Castle

Gunsmoke

character: Lonnie Colby

character: Pete Murphy

This Is Us

overview: Follows the lives and families of three adults living and growing up in the United States of America in present and past times. As their paths cross and their life stories intertwine in curious ways, we find that several of them share the same birthday - and so much more than anyone would expect.

character: Nathan Katowski

original_name: This Is Us

Hawaii Five-O

overview: Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".

character: Tim Ryder

original_name: Hawaii Five-O

24: Legacy

overview: The story of  military hero Eric Carter's return to the U.S. and the trouble that follows him back – compelling him to ask CTU for help in saving his life, and stopping what potentially could be one of the largest-scale terror attacks on American soil.

character: Henry Donovan

original_name: 24: Legacy

Duncanville

overview: Like most 15-year-olds, Duncan can see adulthood on the horizon: money, freedom, cars and girls; but the reality is more like: always being broke, driving with one's mom sitting shotgun and babysitting one's sister. He's not exceptional, but he has a wild imagination in which he's never anything less than amazing.

character: Dick Harris (voice)

original_name: Duncanville

Justified

overview: A character drama based on the 2001 Elmore Leonard short story "Fire in the Hole." Leonard's tale centers around U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens of Kentucky, a quiet but strong-willed official of the law. The tale covers his high-stakes job, as well as his strained relationships with his ex-wife and father.

character: Josiah Cairn

original_name: Justified

Diagnosis: Murder

overview: Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders.

character: Det. Andy Ruggio

original_name: Diagnosis: Murder

The Six Million Dollar Man

overview: Follow the adventures of Steve Austin, cybernetically enhanced astronaut turned secret agent, employed by the OSI, under the command of Oscar Goldman and supervised by the scientist who created his cybernetics, Rudy Wells. Steve uses the superior strength and speed provided by his bionic arm and legs, and the enhanced vision provided by his artificial eye, to fight enemy agents, aliens, mad scientists, and a wide variety of other villains.

character: Bob Marsh

original_name: The Six Million Dollar Man

Touched by an Angel

overview: Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives.

original_name: Touched by an Angel

character: Joe Patcherik

The Rockford Files

character: Irv

character: Manager

Fairly Legal

overview: Kate Reed is a firm believer that justice can always be found – even if it's not always in the courtroom. Once a lawyer at her family's esteemed San Francisco firm, Kate's frustration with the legal system led her to a new career as a mediator. Thanks to her innate understanding of human nature, thorough legal knowledge, and wry sense of humor, Kate is a natural when it comes to dispute resolution. Except, it seems, when it comes to conflicts in her own life.

character: Judge David Nicastro

original_name: Fairly Legal

The Rockford Files

character: John Pleasance

Santa Clarita Diet

overview: They're ordinary husband and wife realtors until she undergoes a dramatic change that sends them down a road of death and destruction. In a good way.

Burke's Law

overview: Burke's Law, a revival of the 1960s cop television series of the same name, aired on CBS from 1994 to 1995. The series centers on Amos Burke, a senior Los Angeles police officer and millionaire, and his son, Peter, who is a detective under his command.

House of Cards

overview: Betrayed by the White House, Congressman Frank Underwood embarks on a ruthless rise to power. Blackmail, seduction and ambition are his weapons.

A Million Little Things

overview: A group of friends from Boston who feel stuck in life experience an unexpected wake-up call after one of their friends dies unexpectedly.

Women of the House

overview: Women of the House is an American situation comedy television series. It is a spin-off of Designing Women and stars Delta Burke, who had reconciled with producers after a bitter, highly publicized, off-screen battle.

Shooter

overview: Bob Lee Swagger is an expert marksman living in exile who is coaxed back into action after learning of a plot to kill the president.

Women in White

overview: Soap opera set in a big-city hospital where dedication and professionalism vie with jealousy, romance and rivalry among staff members, and the newly appointed Chief of Staff attempts to run the place despite her personal problems.

The Incredible Hulk

overview: During an experiment gone bad, radiation turns a scientist into a raging green behemoth whenever he becomes agitated. Unable to control his transformations, David Banner searches for a cure as he crosses the country, fugitive-style, with a dogged tabloid reporter on his trail.

Dolly Parton's Heartstrings

overview: Eight stories celebrating family, faith, love and forgiveness come to life in this series inspired by Dolly Parton's iconic country music catalog.

Family Guy

overview: Sick, twisted, politically incorrect and Freakin' Sweet animated series featuring the adventures of the dysfunctional Griffin family. Bumbling Peter and long-suffering Lois have three kids. Stewie (a brilliant but sadistic baby bent on killing his mother and taking over the world), Meg (the oldest, and is the most unpopular girl in town) and Chris (the middle kid, he's not very bright but has a passion for movies). The final member of the family is Brian - a talking dog and much more than a pet, he keeps Stewie in check whilst sipping Martinis and sorting through his own life issues.

Longmire

overview: A Wyoming sheriff rebuilds his life and career following the death of his wife. Based on the “Walt Longmire” series of mystery novels written by best-selling author Craig Johnson.

Murder, She Wrote

overview: An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

Filthy Rich

overview: When the patriarch of a mega-rich Southern family, famed for creating a wildly successful Christian television network, dies in a plane crash, his wife and family are stunned to learn that he fathered three illegitimate children, all of whom are written into his will, threatening their family name and fortune.

Coach

overview: Hayden Fox, the curmudgeonly coach of Minnesota State University's Screaming Eagles football team, tries to navigate his way through the sports world, fatherhood and family life without dropping the ball.

Designing Women

overview: Julia Sugarbaker, Mary Jo Shively, Charlene Frazier-Stillfield and Suzanne Sugarbaker are associates at their design firm, Sugarbaker and Associates. Julia is the owner and is very outspoken and strong-willed. Mary Jo is a divorced single-parent whom is just as strong-willed as Julia, but isn't as self-confident. Charlene is the naive and trusting farm girl from Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Suzanne is the self-centered ex-beauty queen whom has a number of wealthy ex-husbands.

Third Watch

overview: The exploits of a group of men and women who serve the City of New York as police officers, firemen, and paramedics, all working the same fictional 55th precinct during the 3pm to 11pm shift - the 'Third Watch'.

name: Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story

overview: A group of high school friends starts a rock band during the 1950's.

original_name: Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story

The Dead Zone

overview: Johnny Smith discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma.

Paradise

overview: The tranquility in a serene, wealthy community inhabited by some of the world's most prominent individuals explodes when a shocking murder occurs and a high stakes investigation unfolds.

The Fantastic Journey

overview: The Fantastic Journey was an American science fiction television series that was originally aired on NBC from February 3 through June 17, 1977.

Murdaugh: Death in the Family

overview: Maggie and Alex enjoy a lavish life of privilege as members of one of South Carolina's most powerful legal dynasties. But when their son Paul is involved in a deadly boat crash, the family is faced with a test unlike any they've ever encountered. As details come to light and new challenges emerge, the family's connections to several mysterious deaths raise questions which threaten everything Maggie and Alex hold dear.

Logan's Run

overview: In a futuristic society where reaching the age of 30 is a death sentence, a rebellious law enforcement agent goes on the run in search of Sanctuary.

Roots: The Next Generations

overview:
Roots: The Next Generations is a television miniseries, introduced in 1979, continuing, from 1882 to the 1960s, the fictionalized story of the family of Alex Haley and their life in Henning, Lauderdale County, Tennessee, USA. This sequel to the 1977 miniseries is based on the last seven chapters of Haley's novel entitled Roots: The Saga of an American Family plus additional material by Haley.

Roots: The Next Generations was produced with a budget of $16.6 million, nearly three times as large as that of the original.

Mister Sterling

overview:
Mister Sterling is an American television serial drama created by Lawrence O'Donnell that ran from January to March in 2003. It starred Josh Brolin as an idealistic United States Senator, and featured Audra McDonald, William Russ, David Noroña, and James Whitmore as members of his staff. Despite mostly positive reviews, the show, which aired on NBC on Friday nights, was cancelled after 10 episodes after the show only ranked 58th in the yearly ratings

Although it had numerous similarities to The West Wing in style and tone, it was not set in the same universe as O'Donnell's other political show. It is unknown if a cross-over would have ever occurred had Mister Sterling not been cancelled; however Steven Culp played presidential aspirant Sen. Ron Garland on Mister Sterling and House Speaker Jeff Haffley on The West Wing, and Democrats appeared to be in the majority in the US Senate on Mr Sterling, while in The West Wing consistent Republican control of both Houses of Congress was a key plot point.

James Whitmore was nominated for a 2003 Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for playing former Governor Bill Sterling, the senator's father.

Rebel Highway

overview:
Rebel Highway is a 1994 revival of American International Pictures, created and produced by Lou Arkoff, the son of Samuel Z. Arkoff, and Debra Hill for the Showtime network. The concept was a ten-week series of 1950s "drive-in classic" B-movies remade "with a '90s edge". Each episode shares a title with a late 1950s-early 1960s-era AIP film. However, they are not remakes; each installment is a different story from that which they are titled.

The impetus for the series, according to Arkoff was, 'what it would be like if you made Rebel Without a Cause today. It would be more lurid, sexier, and much more dangerous, and you definitely would have had Natalie Wood's top off'.

Police Woman

overview: Sergeant “Pepper"” Anderson, an undercover cop for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, poses undercover from mob girl to prostitute.

Español

biography: Gerald Lee "Mac" McRaney es un actor de cine y televisión estadounidense. McRaney es conocido por sus papeles en series como Simon & Simon, Major Dad, House of Cards y Promised Land. Apareció como personaje regular en la primera temporada de Jericho, y en la temporada final de Deadwood.

Polski

biography:
W Polsce znany jest głównie z popularnego w latach 90. serialu komediowego Tata major oraz innych produkcji telewizyjnych. Grał również główną rolę w serialu Podróż do Ziemi Obiecanej, a także w serialach Deadwood i Jerycho.

Jego trzecią żoną jest od 1989 jest aktorka Delta Burke.

Português

biography: Gerald McRaney é um ator americano de cinema e televisão, mais conhecido por interpretar Rick Simon na série de televisão da CBS "Simon & Simon", bem como o Major John D. MacGillis nas redes "Major Dad".

also_known_as:
Gerald Lee "Mac" McRaney
Gerald Lee McRaney

title: Ike: Countdown to D-Day

overview: The story of the senior-level preparations for the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944 from the time of Dwight D. Eisenhower's appointment as the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, to the establishment of the beachhead in Normandy.

title: Danger Beneath the Sea

overview: Following a nuclear weapons testing accident in North Korea, the crew of a US Navy submarine experiences a communications breakdown. Believing that a nuclear war has started, the senior officers prepare for retaliation, but one man is not so sure.

title: The A-Team

overview: A man who loves when a plan comes together, Col. Hannibal Smith leads a close-knit team of elite operatives and Iraq War veterans. Framed for a crime they didn't commit, Smith and his men, Capt. H.M. ‘Howling Mad’ Murdock , Sgt. Bosco ‘B.A.’ Baracus, and Lt. Templeton ‘Faceman’ Peck, break out and go rogue, using their special talents to clear their names and find the perpetrator. Hot on their trail is Capt. Charissa Sosa, who was once involved with a member of Smith's team and has sworn to capture them, no matter what it takes.

title: The NeverEnding Story

title: Get Low

overview: A movie spun out of equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend about the mysterious, 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicking funeral party... while he was still alive.

title: Hansel & Gretel

overview: Hansel and Gretel is a 2002 film adaptation of the Brothers Grimm children's story. It stars Jacob Smith and Taylor Momsen as the eponymous characters. It includes the Sandman, played by Howie Mandel and Sinbad as a raven.

title: Saving Shiloh

overview: In this third movie about Shiloh, Judd Travers is accused of killing a man he once fought in a bar. Everyone in the town consider Judd to be guilty except Marty Preston, but even him has some doubts. Trying to clear Judd's name Marty and his friend searches the woods to find the criminal.

title: A Woman's Guide to Firearms

overview: Host Gerald McRaney, star of television's "Simon and Simon", leads you through an entertaining, step-by-step, easily understood program, providing a full understanding in the fundamentals of firearms for the beginner as well as the more experienced shooter.

title: The Night of Bloody Horror

overview: Wesley goes on a killing spree while experiencing the nightmares of his brother who was killed thirteen years earlier.

title: The Brain Machine

overview: Several people volunteer for a scientific experiment about mind-reading and memory, but the experiment goes horribly wrong.

title: Heart of the Country

overview: With her husband jailed for Wall Street-based fraud, Faith has to leave behind her luxury life in New York to return home to North Carolina and the widower father and dutiful older sister she left behind.  Together, they have to deal with the buried emotions of sudden death of Faith’s mother years ago, and learn to be a family again.

title: Armed and Innocent

overview: Based on a true story, an eleven year old boy left home alone, kills two intruders in self defense. He and his family then try to cope with the boy's anguish and the dead intruders' friends who want revenge.

title: Easy Prey

overview: Based on a true story, a serial killer abducts his latest victim from a mall and assaults her. Confused by her atypical reaction, he doesn't kill her, but instead takes her along as he continues on his killing spree. Meanwhile, the authorities debate whether she's a victim or a willing participant.

title: A Hobo's Christmas

overview: A hobo played by Barnard Hughes decides it's time to go home. Drifting from place to place, Hughes finds himself in his hometown of Salt Lake City at Christmas time. Here he hopes to close old wounds and be reunited with his unforgiving son played by Gerald McRaney, and get to know the grandchildren he has never met. McRaney, still resenting the fact that Hughes ran out on his family 25 years earlier, gives his father only one day with his grandkids; after that, he's expected to leave and never come back. All the while Hughes' friends warn him that his son and the past are memories that are best left alone, and should leave, but he has to find out for himself.

title: Nothing Lasts Forever

overview: Story of the personal lives and careers of three female doctors, from different backgrounds and walks of life, who work at a San Francisco county hospital.

title: A Thousand Men and a Baby

overview: An American soldier finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster. The aircraft's crew welcomed him enthusiastically to provide necessary medical care, but the Korean authorities want to avoid calling the commander to let him in an orphanage. Telefilm based on a true story that occurred in 1953.

title: Tornado Warning

overview: A scientist (Gerald McRaney) perfects a tornado-warning system and tries to convince residents of a nearby town that a deadly twister is approaching.

title: Motorcycle Gang

overview: On their way to California, the biggest decision Leann Morris and her family have to make is where to stop and sightsee. But their ill-fated fortune brings them face-to-face with a ruthless motorcycle gang and its rebellious but irresistible leader Jake. From there, Leann's trip turns into a wild journey down a dangerous road as Jake acts on his attraction and kidnaps her.

title: Going for Broke

overview: With the innocent dropping of a few coins into a video poker machine, Laura Bancroft's world is about to change forever. Inspired by true events, Going for Broke is the compelling, hard-hitting story of one woman's overwhelming addiction to gambling.

title: Simon & Simon: In Trouble Again

overview: En route to delivering an expensive yacht, Rick stops off in Seattle to visit A.J., who works there as an attorney. However, their reunion is disrupted and their investigative skills called into service when the yacht is hijacked--with mom on board.

title: The Aliens Are Coming

overview: A young astrophysicist searches for sinister extraterrestrials looking for sanctuary for their comrades by possessing the bodies of humans.

title: Jackals

overview: Cops in a small town near the Mexican border find themselves caught up in a scheme that smuggles illegal aliens into the country.

title: Deadly Vows

overview: Tom Weston is a short-tempered truck driver who has always aspired to live big. He begins dating Bobbi Gilbert, who is half his age, and plans on marrying her, which is a problem since he's already married to Nancy. Now to achieve the life he's always wanted, Tom begins to concoct a web of lies that lead to betrayal, deceit, arson, and murder. Based on a shocking true story.

title: Someone She Knows

overview: A desperate mother becomes detective to solve her 5 year-old daughter's death. The authorities suspect that the girl has been killed by a well-known person of the family.

title: The Return of the Incredible Hulk

overview: Continuing his solitary flight, David Banner arrives in a small town where he saves the life of a young heiress, the target of a deadly conspiracy orchestrated by her stepmother and a corrupt physician. While working undercover to protect the girl and dismantle the plot, Banner must struggle to contain the beast within, especially when the arrival of reporter Jack McGee threatens to expose his secret to the world.

title: Focus

overview: Nicky, an accomplished con artist, gets romantically involved with his disciple Jess but later ends their relationship. Years later, she returns as a femme fatale to spoil his plans.

title: Vestige of Honor

overview: A hospital administrator and a former Green Beret join forces to try to aid a group of Montagnards, a pro-American people who were trapped in Thailand following the Vietnam War.

title: The Best of Me

overview: A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.

title: Love and Curses... and All That Jazz

overview: A private investigator and her husband, who is a doctor, investigate rumors of a dead woman who was brought back to life by a voodoo spell.

title: City Killer

overview: An attractive young girl is being watched closely by her ex-lover, but matters soon start to escalate and run out of control.

title: Where the Hell's That Gold?!!?

overview: A pair of thieves are pursued by the U.S. Army, the Mexican federales and Apaches in this made-for-TV Western.

title: Blind Vengeance

overview: A man seeks revenge on the white supremacists acquitted in the murder of his son

title: Where the Ladies Go

overview: A small-town bar, open only from 9AM to 3PM and owned by Buck (Earl Holliman), is the setting where bored housewives and wandering husbands go to find some adventure in their miserable lives.

title: Fatal Friendship

overview: A man begins suspecting that his best friend may be involved in an international crime ring.

title: Red Tails

overview: The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.

title: The Disappointments Room

overview: A mother and her young son release unimaginable horrors from the attic of their rural dream home.

title: The Haunting Passion

overview: Dan and Julie Evans are looking for a fresh start after Dan is cut from his pro football team due to age. They move into a palatial, coastal house and Dan starts a new career as a sportscaster, but the loss of his career has stirred up a deep vulnerability and it has spilled over into his sex life with his wife. With no outlet for her desires, Julie begins to fantasize, but it seems alarmingly real. Soon, the fantasy man is haunting her every waking moment and coming between her and Dan, and Julie comes to fear that their home may be haunted.

title: The People Across the Lake

overview: In an effort to get away from the city and all its crime, Chuck Yoman and his family move to a big old house in a peaceful lakeside town. The discovery of a mutilated corpse in the lake and another body in the woods, however, suggests that the Yomans would have been safer if they had stayed put...

title: Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors

overview: "Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors" is based on the inspiring true story of living legend Dolly Parton's remarkable upbringing. This once-in-a-lifetime movie special takes place inside the tight-knit Parton family as they struggle to overcome devastating tragedy and discover the healing power of love, faith and a raggedy patchwork coat that helped make Parton who she is today.  The film is set in the Tennessee Great Smoky Mountains in 1955. It is neither a biopic nor a musical about Dolly's whole life and performing career, but rather a family-oriented faith-based story about the incidents in her and her family's life around the time she was nine years old.

title: A Nightmare Come True

overview: Eerie dreams that haunt a young nurse heighten the mystery surrounding her mother's sudden disappearance.

title: Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case

overview: Based on the well-publicized Oregon criminal case of the late 1970s, this film dramatizes the unique dispute in which Greta Rideout instigated the prosecution of her husband, John, charging him with raping her.

title: Murder on the Moon

overview: After a nuclear war on Earth, the Soviet Union and the U.S. both establish outposts on the moon. When a murder occurs on the outpost, both U.S. and Soviet investigators are forced to work on the case together.

title: Comanche

overview: The heart warming true story of the only U.S. survivor of The Battle of Little Big Horn... the horse named Comanche.

title: Dolly Parton's Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of Love

overview: An unexpected blizzard threatens the Parton family, while at the same time Dolly's father (and his kids) make sacrifices to raise enough money to finally buy his wife the wedding ring he could never afford to give her. Meanwhile, an important person in little Dolly's life begins to see that her amazing voice and musical gift might just be made for something bigger than rural Tennessee.

original_title: Dolly Parton's Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of Love

title: The Designing Women Reunion

overview: This five principal original cast members (plus a handful of recurring guests) from the popular sitcom Designing Women (1986) reunite for the first time since 1991 to reminisce and discuss the show.

title: Scattered Dreams

overview: It is about a loving couple which trying to make a living in 1951 Florida. When they are arrested, for a crime they didn't commit. The pair are given long jail terms and ripped from their children, so they begin a stunning fight for justice that has them facing the ruthless sheriff responsible for their incarceration.

title: The Stranger Beside Me

overview: When Jennifer marries Chris, it seems she can finally let go of her tragic past. But behind the perfect facade lies a violent, possessive dark side--and a past filled with secrets. As she begins to suspect his involvement with a string of rapes, Jennifer sets out to expose the horrifying truth about her husband...before he strikes again.

title: His Wife's Habit

overview: A promiscuous woman, Darcy, has affairs with every man she meets, including her daughter's boy friend. She is terrorized by a motel parking attendant, Grapes, who chases her and one of her lovers on his motorcycle. The lover is killed but Darcy lives. Grapes and his psychotic friend, Anthony, continue harassing Darcy and her daughter, Hart.

title: Keep Off My Grass!

overview: A group of merchants convinces the hippies who crowd the sidewalks of their town to start their own Utopian community in a nearby ghost town. Micky Dolenz appears as a sweet kid with a dream, tending to a single pot plant. This ill-fated comedy, which was filmed in 1971 but not released until four years later, was both the first and last directorial credit for comedian Shelley Berman. Only seen by a few in its limited theatrical run, the film has also never been released on video or DVD.

title: Not Our Son

overview: A Seattle household secretly cooperates with police in a case that links a family member to widespread arson.

title: Take Me Home: The John Denver Story

overview: John Denver achieved fame, fortune, and acclaim for his iconic country-pop music, but his sunny personality masked private pain and dark secrets that his celebrity could never heal.

title: A Violent Separation

overview: 1983. In a quiet Midwestern town, a young deputy covers up a murder at the hands of his brother triggering a series of events that sends them and the victim's family towards a shattering climax.

title: Memories Never Die

overview: When her husband becomes ill with heart problems, Joanne Tilford reluctantly returns to her family after a six-year stay in a mental institution. Her children are strangers to her and the woman who has been raising them is hostile to Joanne's presence.

title: A Holiday Romance

overview: A superintendent, trying to save his high school's troubled finances, falls in love with a teacher whose music program he must cut.

title: Deadwood: The Movie

overview: Follow the 10-year reunion of the Deadwood camp to celebrate South Dakota's statehood. Former rivalries are reignited, alliances are tested and old wounds are reopened, as all are left to navigate the inevitable changes that modernity and time have wrought.

title: The Jordan Chance

overview: Jordan Chance was wrongfully imprisoned for ten years. Upon release, he becomes a lawyer and investigates the case of a Mexican woman convicted of murder. The local police give him every reason to believe she was railroaded to ease a tense racial status quo, and they will stop at almost nothing to prevent the case from being reopened.

title: Jake Lassiter: Justice on the Bayou

overview: Gerald McRaney stars as Jake Lassiter, a colorful ex-football player turned top defense attorney who is hired to defend Dr. Roger Salisbury, a surgeon charged with malpractice in the mysterious death of a wealthy patient, Phillip Corrigan.

title: The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One

overview: J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI go after notorious bank robber and kidnapper Alvin Karpis and his gang.

original_title: The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One

title: The Making of Comanche

overview: Welcome to the behind-the-scenes journey of "Comanche," the true story of the only U.S. survivor of The Battle of Little Big Horn. This captivating documentary delves deep into the making of the film directed by Burt Kennedy.

title: Fast Forward

overview: A teen travels to the future to see how his life turned out, and is stunned to see how alcohol has controlled it.

title: The A-Team

title: Blind Vengeance

title: Love and Curses... and All That Jazz

True Colors

overview: A dandy arrives by stage coach and immediately begins exploring how to bring culture to the camp, Alma and Hearst negotiate business, and Hearst's Aunt Lou comes to camp.

Full Faith and Credit

overview: Alma presides over the bank's grand opening, the feud over the livery between Steve and Hostetler tests Bullock's patience, Swearengen taps Adams to negotiate with Hearst, and Joanie has reservations about Langrishe's offer to buy her place.

A Two-Headed Beast

overview: Tolliver looks for a representative, the Captain calls Dan out, Swearengen continues to be perplexed by Hearst's moves, and Alma and Ellsworth's relationship takes a turn.

A Rich Find

overview: Hearst's feathers are ruffled, Aunt Lou's son comes to town, and Bullock and Swearengen make a decision.

Amateur Night

overview: An Amateur Night is organized by the new theater troupe, Pinkertons hit town, the students move to their new school, and Hearst makes another move regarding the elections.

title: Ike: Countdown to D-Day

title: Danger Beneath the Sea

title: The A-Team

title: The NeverEnding Story

title: Get Low

title: Hansel & Gretel

title: Saving Shiloh

title: A Woman's Guide to Firearms

title: The Night of Bloody Horror

title: The Brain Machine

title: Heart of the Country

title: Armed and Innocent

title: Easy Prey

title: A Hobo's Christmas

title: Nothing Lasts Forever

title: A Thousand Men and a Baby

title: Tornado Warning

title: Motorcycle Gang

title: Going for Broke

title: Simon & Simon: In Trouble Again

title: The Aliens Are Coming

title: Jackals

title: Deadly Vows

title: Someone She Knows

title: The Return of the Incredible Hulk

title: Focus

title: Vestige of Honor

title: The Best of Me

title: Love and Curses... and All That Jazz

title: City Killer

title: Where the Hell's That Gold?!!?

title: Blind Vengeance

title: Where the Ladies Go

title: Fatal Friendship

title: Red Tails

title: The Disappointments Room

title: The Haunting Passion

title: The People Across the Lake

title: Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors

title: A Nightmare Come True

title: Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case

title: Murder on the Moon

title: Comanche

title: The Designing Women Reunion

title: Scattered Dreams

title: The Stranger Beside Me

title: His Wife's Habit

title: Keep Off My Grass!

title: Not Our Son

title: Take Me Home: The John Denver Story

title: A Violent Separation

title: Memories Never Die

title: A Holiday Romance

title: Deadwood: The Movie

title: The Jordan Chance

title: Jake Lassiter: Justice on the Bayou

title: The Making of Comanche

title: Fast Forward

title: The A-Team

title: Blind Vengeance

title: Love and Curses... and All That Jazz


Spike Milligan

biography:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Terence Alan Patrick Seán "Spike" Milligan KBE (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002) was a comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright, soldier, and actor. Milligan's early life was spent in India, where he was born, but the majority of his working life was spent in the United Kingdom. He became an Irish citizen in 1962 after the British government declared him stateless. He was the co-creator, main writer and a principal cast member of The Goon Show, performing a range of roles including the popular Eccles.

Milligan wrote and edited many books, including Puckoon and his seven-volume autobiographical account of his time serving during the Second World War, beginning with Adolf Hitler: My part in his downfall. He is also noted as a popular writer of comical verse, much of his poetry was written for children, including Silly Verse for Kids (1959). After success with the ground-breaking British radio programme, The Goon Show, Milligan translated this success to television with Q5, a surreal sketch show which is credited as a major influence on the members of Monty Python's Flying Circus.

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Q...

overview:
Q... was a surreal television comedy sketch show from Spike Milligan which ran from 1969 to 1982 on BBC2. There were six series in all, the first five numbered from Q5 to Q9, and a final series titled There's a Lot of It About. The first and third series ran for seven episodes, and the others for six episodes, each of which was 30 minutes long.

Various reasons have been suggested for the title. One possibility is that it was inspired by the project to construct the Cunard liner QE2, launched in September 1967, which was dubbed Q4. Another theory is that Milligan was inspired by the BBC 6-point technical quality scale of the time, where "Q5" was severe degradation to picture or sound, and "Q6" was complete loss of sound or vision. This was extended by some engineering departments to a 9-point scale, finishing at "Q9". According to Milligan's autobiography, the final series was renamed There's a Lot of It About after the BBC felt the public might find Q10 too confusing.

original_language: en

Room 101

overview: Fast-moving game show meets talk show, which sees Frank Skinner refereeing three celebrities each week as they compete to banish their top peeve or worst nightmare to the depths of Room 101.

character: Self

original_name: Room 101

You Bet!

overview: You Bet! is a British game show based around the format of the German show Wetten, dass..? developed by Frank Elstner. You Bet! ran on ITV, mostly on Saturday nights but sometimes on Fridays, between 20 February 1988 and 12 April 1997, initially hosted by Bruce Forsyth from 1988 to 1990, then by Matthew Kelly from 1991 to 1995 and finally by Darren Day from 1996 to 1997. It was replaced the following year by Don't Try This At Home!, which emulated the challenges of You Bet!, but were considerably more risky and dangerous.

original_name: You Bet!

The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d

overview:
The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d was the first serious attempt to translate the humour of The Goon Show to television. It was made by Associated-Rediffusion during 1956 and was broadcast only in the London area.

It combined elements of a sitcom and sketch comedy with Peter Sellers as the editor of a tatty Victorian newspaper, The Idiot Weekly. The headlines of the paper were used as links to comedy sketches.

Although written mainly by Spike Milligan, there were many contributions from members of the writers' co-operative Associated London Scripts, including Dave Freeman and Terry Nation, with Eric Sykes credited as the script editor. The series was produced and directed by Richard Lester.

It was followed by A Show Called Fred and Son of Fred.

The title was revived by Spike Milligan for the Australian radio series The Idiot Weekly.

original_name: The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d

Son of Fred

overview:
Son of Fred was the successor series to The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d and A Show Called Fred. It was made by Associated-Rediffusion and broadcast only in the London area, Midlands and Northern England.

It was the third and final in a series of sketch comedy shows attempting to translate the humour of The Goon Show to television. Spike Milligan concentrated on writing and only made small walk on appearances, leaving the lead acting to Peter Sellers. The series was produced and directed by Richard Lester.

original_name: Son of Fred

The Telegoons

overview: The Telegoons is a comedy puppet show, adapted from the highly successful BBC radio comedy show of the 1950s.

original_name: The Telegoons

A Show Called Fred

overview:
A Show Called Fred was the successor series to The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d. It was made by Associated-Rediffusion and broadcast only in London area. It was 25 minutes plus adverts.

It was predominantly a sketch comedy attempting to translate the audio antics of the The Goon Show into visual antics in bizarre and often surreal comedy sketches which just suddenly ended with a new sketch beginning. Many performers played small parts in the shows like Ernest Clark, Jon Jon Keefe, Patricia Driscoll, etc. Famous people of the day like Hans and Lotte Hass were parodied. Canadian star, Patti Lewis had a singing spot about the middle of the show, and Max Geldray a music spot later on. There were few taboos with sketches showing people in various states of undress, cameramen, behind the scenes workers and the studios. The Ying Tong song was sung for no apparent reason at various times.

The series was written by Spike Milligan and produced and directed by Richard Lester.

It was followed by Son of Fred later in 1956.

A half hour special Best of Fred was broadcast on 18 September 1963 combining surviving sketches from A Show Called Fred and Son of Fred.

The 1995 convention of the Goon Show Preservation Society was billed as A Weekend Called Fred.

original_name: A Show Called Fred

The Muppet Show

overview: Go behind the curtains as Kermit the Frog and his muppet friends struggle to put on a weekly variety show.

character: Self - Special Guest Star

original_name: The Muppet Show

Curry and Chips

overview:
Curry and Chips is a British sitcom broadcast in 1969 which was produced by London Weekend Television for the ITV network.

Set on a factory floor of 'Lillicrap Ltd', it starred a blacked up Spike Milligan as an Asian immigrant who went by the name of Kevin O'Grady. It also featured Eric Sykes as the foreman, Norman Rossington as the shop steward, and other regulars were Kenny Lynch, and Sam Kydd. The series was written by Till Death Us Do Part writer Johnny Speight, but based on idea by Milligan.

It was the first LWT sitcom to be made in colour, and all episodes still exist.

original_name: Curry and Chips

Plunder

overview: Emma Freud invites celebrity guests to unlock the film and video vaults.

original_name: Plunder

Wogan

overview: Chat show hosted by Terry Wogan, featuring live studio interviews with famous and notable personalities.

original_name: Wogan

There's A Lot Of It About

overview: Spike Milligan sketch series created after the BBC apparently thought another 'Q' would confuse people - continues in the same anarchic & often politically incorrect vein.

original_name: There's A Lot Of It About

Milligan's Wake

original_name: Milligan's Wake

Oh In Colour

overview: A 1970s comedy television sketch programme, written by and featured Spike Milligan, who was accompanied by different stars every week. It was shown after the thoroughly more popular Q5, also written by Milligan and Neil Shand. It is likely the programme was written to bridge the long production gap between Q5 and the next series, Q6, which did not appear on TV screens until 1975.

original_name: Oh In Colour

Wolves, Witches and Giants

overview: Wolves, Withches and Giants gives a twisted and humorous take on classic fairy tales, narrated by Spike Milligan and adapted by Ed Welch.

character: Narrator

original_name: Wolves, Witches and Giants

The Kenny Everett Television Show

overview: Sketch comedy show starring Kenny Everett.

character: The Ghost of Marley

original_name: The Kenny Everett Television Show

Blankety Blank

overview:
Blankety Blank is a British comedy game show based on the 1977–1979 Australian game show Blankety Blanks.

The British version ran from 18 January 1979 to 12 March 1990 on BBC One, hosted first by Terry Wogan and later by Les Dawson. Regular members of the celebrity panel on this version included Kenny Everett, Lorraine Chase, Gareth Hunt, Gary Davies, and Cheryl Baker.

A revival fronted by Lily Savage was produced by the BBC from 26 December 1997 to 28 December 1999, followed by ITV from 7 January 2001 to 10 August 2002. This version was produced by Grundy, then Thames.

original_name: Blankety Blank

Super Gran

overview: Adapted from Forrest Wilson's books, the children's programme revolves around a grandmother with super powers and her arch nemesis, The Scunner Campbell.

character: Zoo Keeper

original_name: Super Gran

The Sooty Show

overview: The Sooty Show is a British children's Puppet series which aired on the BBC from 1955 to 1967 and ITV from 1968 to 1992. It follows the adventures and comedic day to day life of puppets Sooty, Sweep and Soo with their owner Harry Corbett, and in later years, his son Matthew.

character: Himself

original_name: The Sooty Show

The Marti Caine Show

overview: Marti Caine presents a star studded variety show in which she performs comedy material, sings and dances alongside special guests.

original_name: The Marti Caine Show

Till Death Us Do Part

overview: This English follows the East End working-class Garnett family, headed by patriarch Alf, a reactionary working-class man who wields racist and anti-Socialist views. His long-suffering wife Else manages to keep things in control... for the most part. Their progressive daughter Rita lives with them, as does her Irish husband Mike, who, with an array of liberal worldviews, often quarrels with his father-in-law. It inspired the American show "All In The Family" and several other international variations on the same theme.

character: Paki-Paddy

original_name: Till Death Us Do Part

Takin' Over the Asylum

overview: A salesman starts to run a hospital radio station inside a facility for people with mental heath needs.

original_name: Takin' Over the Asylum

The Dick Cavett Show

overview: The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.

character: Self - Guest

original_name: The Dick Cavett Show

The Ratties

overview:
The Ratties is a British cartoon series that ran in 1987 with 26 episodes.

It is about a family of rats that live in a country house. The rats try to emulate the human owners of their house. The show was created by Mike Wallis and Laura Milligan, and is narrated by Spike Milligan. F Productions and UK Finance3 funded the show, while it was animated by cel animation.

The series attracted a cult following in the UK, although no further episodes were made after 1987; however, the series was repeated in 1993 and 1994.

character: Narrator (voice)

original_name: The Ratties

name: The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything

overview: Comedic British History

original_name: The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything

Hancock's Half Hour

overview:
Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC television comedy series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock with Sid James. The final series, renamed simply Hancock, starred Hancock alone.

Comedian Tony Hancock starred in the show, playing an exaggerated and much poorer version of his own character and lifestyle, Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in East Cheam.

The series was influential in the development of the situation comedy, with its move away from radio variety towards a focus on character development.

original_name: Hancock's Half Hour

Tell Me Another

overview: Personal anecdotes as told to Dick Hills.

original_name: Tell Me Another

The World of Beachcomber

overview: The World of Beachcomber was a surreal television comedy show produced by the BBC, inspired by the Beachcomber column in the Daily Express newspaper. The show, like the column, consisted of a series of unrelated pieces of humour. Links between the items were provided by Spike Milligan, dressed in a smoking jacket and cap, as in the cartoon logo above the newspaper column. The other actors were a Who's Who of British comedy of the time, encompassing almost every supporting player seen or heard in comedy, not excluding people of diminutive stature.

character: Various Roles

original_name: The World of Beachcomber

Have I Got News for You

overview: Hilarious, totally-irreverent, near-slanderous political quiz show, based mainly on news stories from the last week or so, that leaves no party, personality or action unscathed in pursuit of laughs.

original_name: Have I Got News for You

In Sickness and in Health

overview: This final follow-up to 'Till Death Us Do Part' follows an aged Alf Garnett, now dealing with his wife Else's declining health and mobility, as well as the challenges of navigating the social security system and other everyday situations.

character: Fancy Fred

original_name: In Sickness and in Health

Till Death Us Do Part

character: Indian Train Passenger

Gormenghast

overview: At the Castle of Gormenghast, the Groan family has ruled with dusty ceremony for more than seventy generations. A clever and ambitious new kitchen boy, Steerpike, begins to insinuate himself into the affections of Lady Fuchsia Groan and to murder his way to power.

character: De'Ath

original_name: Gormenghast

One Pair of Eyes

overview: A monthly series of highly personal documentary films in which individuals are given a platform to discuss issues close to their heart.

original_name: One Pair of Eyes

World in Action

overview: World in Action was Granada Television’s flagship ITV current affairs series, running from 7 Jan 1963 to 7 Dec 1998, and built a reputation for film-led investigative reporting and a forceful editorial stance. Its journalism produced major public and political repercussions—including investigations associated with miscarriages of justice such as the Birmingham Six—and it also served as a platform for landmark documentary projects, including the first broadcast of “Seven Up!” as part of the strand in 1964.

original_name: World in Action

Television

overview: Exhaustive 13-part survey of the television medium from its hesitant beginnings in the 1920s to the multi-million dollar extravaganzas of today and the cable and satellite technologies of the future [relative to 1985]. Tackling the medium as a worldwide phenomenon, the series examines each of the principal areas of programming - news, drama, documentaries, and light entertainment - and the unique impact of "live" coverage.

original_name: Television

Badjelly

job: Book

overview: A fresh reimagining of Spike Milligan's Badjelly the Witch, the classic tale of a lost cow, a mysterious forest and a sinister sorceress. Featuring the voices of Miriam Margolyes, Rhys Darby & Rose Matafeo.

department: Writing

original_name: Badjelly

The World of Beachcomber

job: Additional Writing

department: Crew

Six Dates with Barker

job: Writer

overview:
Six Dates with Barker is a 1971 ITV series of six one-off, half-hour situation comedies showcasing the talents of Ronnie Barker.

Three of the stories were further developed:  The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town was made into a serial as part of the 1976 sketch comedy programme The Two Ronnies; The Odd Job Man was adapted as a feature film, titled The Odd Job; and The Removals Person became Barker's final programme Clarence.

original_name: Six Dates with Barker

Q...

job: Creator

Oh In Colour

overview:
Oh In Colour was a comedy television sketch programme broadcast on BBC TV in 1970. It ran for one six-episode series from September to November 1970. It was written by and featured Spike Milligan, who was accompanied by different stars every week. It was shown after the thoroughly more popular Q5, also written by Milligan and Neil Shand. It is likely the programme was written to bridge the long production gap between Q5 and the next series, Q6, which did not appear on TV screens until 1975.

Due to the BBC's then-policy of deleting old programmes to save film, only one episode is currently known to exist, which, ironically, given the programme's title, exists only in black-and-white.

The Melting Pot

overview:
The Melting Pot is a British television situation comedy starring Spike Milligan. It was written by Milligan and his regular collaborator Neil Shand. The pilot episode was broadcast only once on BBC1 in June 1976, with a full series recorded the following August but never broadcast.

Milligan played Mr. Van Gogh (in brownface) alongside John Bird as Mr. Rembrandt, father and son illegal Asian immigrants who are first seen being rowed ashore in England, having been told that the beach is in fact Piccadilly Circus. They hitch a ride to London in a lorry advertising Italian-made Yorkshire puddings, and find themselves at a boarding house in the fictional Piles Road, London WC2, run by Irish coalman Paddy O'Brien (Frank Carson) and his voluptuous daughter Nefertiti. The rest of the tenants include a black Yorkshireman, a Chinese cockney and a Scottish Arab. The "Melting Pot" of the title refers to the district of London where they have arrived.

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Spike Milligan

biography:
Terence Alan Patrick Seán „Spike“ Milligan KBE (16. April 1918 – 27. Februar 2002) war Komiker, Schriftsteller, Musiker, Dichter, Dramatiker, Soldat und Schauspieler. Milligan verbrachte seine Kindheit in Indien, wo er geboren wurde, den Großteil seines Berufslebens jedoch in Großbritannien. 1962 erhielt er die irische Staatsbürgerschaft, nachdem die britische Regierung ihn für staatenlos erklärt hatte. Er war Mitbegründer, Hauptautor und festes Mitglied der Goon Show und verkörperte dort verschiedene Rollen, darunter die beliebte Figur Eccles.

Milligan schrieb und bearbeitete zahlreiche Bücher, darunter „Puckoon“ und seine siebenbändige Autobiografie über seine Zeit im Zweiten Weltkrieg, beginnend mit „Adolf Hitler: Mein Anteil an seinem Untergang“. Er war auch als Autor humorvoller Verse bekannt; viele seiner Gedichte schrieb er für Kinder, darunter „Silly Verse for Kids“ (1959). Nach dem Erfolg mit der bahnbrechenden britischen Radiosendung „The Goon Show“ übertrug Milligan diesen Erfolg auf das Fernsehen mit „Q5“, einer surrealen Sketch-Show, die als wichtiger Einfluss auf die Mitglieder von Monty Python's Flying Circus gilt.

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biography: Terence Alan Patrick Seán "Spike" Milligan (Ahmadnagar, Índia, 16 d’abril de 1918 - Rye, East Sussex, 27 de febrer de 2002) va ser un còmic, escriptor, músic, poeta, dramaturg i actor irlandès.

also_known_as: Спайк Миллиган

also_known_as: Terence Alan Patrick Seán "Spike" Milligan

title: The Three Musketeers

overview: In 17th century France, young D'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends three legendary musketeers—Athos, Porthos, and Aramis—and together, they become embroiled in the political intrigue surrounding King Louis XIII and his adversaries, particularly the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.

title: Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall

overview: London, 1940. Aspiring jazz musician and future comedy legend Terence 'Spike' Milligan reluctantly obeys his call-up and joins the Royal Artillery regiment at Bexhill, where he begins training to take part in the War. But along the way Spike and his friends get involved in many amusing — and some not-so amusing — scrapes.

title: Yellowbeard

overview: For years Yellowbeard had looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their hearts. Caught and convicted for tax evasion, he's sentenced to 20 years in St. Victim's Prison for the Extremely Naughty. In a scheme to confiscate his fabulous treasure, the Royal Navy allows him to escape and follows him, where saucy tarts, lisping demigods and some awful puns and punishments await.

title: The Magic Christian

overview: Sir Guy Grand, the richest man in the world, adopts a homeless man, Youngman. Together, they set out to prove that anyone--and anything--can be bought.

title: The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn

overview: Supposedly filmed in 'Schizophrenoscope', it concerns Inspector Quilt of Scotland Yard's attempts to retrieve a 'Mukkinese Battlehorn' stolen from a London museum. Along the way he meets characters not dissimilar to Eccles, Henry Crun and Minnie Bannister from The Goon Show. This attempt to adapt Goon humour to the big screen was written by Harry Booth, Jon Penington and regular Goon show co-writer Larry Stephens. It was then heavily rewritten on the filmset by Sellers and Milligan.

title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

overview: An all-star cast highlights this vibrant musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll's immortal tale. One day, plucky young Alice follows a white rabbit down a hole and discovers a world of bizarre characters.

title: Labour's Old Romantic: A Film Portrait of Michael Foot

overview: A profile of Michael Foot, the former leader of the Labour Party, which included footage of him on the night of Tony Blair’s historic 1997 victory, and interviews with his wife, the filmmaker Jill Cragie, and some of his old colleagues and friends, including Barbara Castle, Spike Milligan and Salman Rushdie.

original_title: Labour's Old Romantic: A Film Portrait of Michael Foot

title: Penny Points to Paradise

overview: When Harry and Spike visit Bristol to spend the winnings from Harry's latest Pools win, the boys are soon targeted by a gang of local counterfeiters.

title: The Hound of the Baskervilles

overview: When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.

title: Hitler: The Comedy Years

overview: A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture.

character: Adolf Hitler / Pakistani Dalek (archive footage) (uncredited)

title: Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World

overview: Digby consumes a bowl of Project X, a liquid growth formula. Soon, he becomes a sheepdog of gigantic size!

title: Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here

overview: On John's 31st birthday, Yoko held an art exhibit, "This Is Not Here", at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, N.Y.. The show was taped and aired on U.S. TV on May 11, 1972 as "John and Yoko in Syracuse, New York.

title: Let's Go Crazy

overview: Let's Go Crazy is a 1951 comedy film marking an early appearance of Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers playing multiple roles.

title: The Great McGonagall

overview: In this high-camp farce, Goons legend Spike Milligan stars as William Topaz McGonagall, an unemployed Scottish weaver and aspiring poet laureate who falls in love with Queen Victoria - a brilliant cameo by Peter Sellers - and thereafter devotes his banal poetry to her. Though McGonagall's solicitations are rejected by the Queen, it doesn't stop the turgid prose, and pathos, from overflowing as McGonagall hilariously attempts to become the greatest poet in the land. The image of the bad poet, trapped by his romanticism and inspired by a muse with a tin ear, appealed mightily to Spike Milligan, and this cult British spoof features the Goons show maestro at his ridiculous, genre-defying best.

title: Watch Your Stern

overview: When the details of a secret torpedo are destroyed by an incompetent seaman, the crew of the ship rally round, when the Admiral needs the plans to show to a visiting scientist.

title: Down Among the Z Men

overview: The Goon Show hits the big screen.  Professor Pure Heart absent-mindedly loses the top secret formula in Harry Jones' Grocery Shop. "Bats of the Yard", as Harry calls himself, finds it and attempts to return it to the Professor.

title: The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film

overview: A short film without any direct action designed more as an experiment, with disjointed comic scenes with no common thread.

original_title: The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film

title: Postman's Knock

overview: Likeable country postman Harold Petts gets transferred from his village to London, where on his arrival he unwittingly foils a mail train robbery. Innocent in the ways of the big city, he is thought to be a member of another gang by both the train robbers and the police, who all suspect him of trying to rob the post office where he works.

title: Sellers' Best

overview: One of the all-time greatest comedians, Peter Sellers’ mimicry, timing, instinct and ability to decimate an audience with laughter made him absolutely unforgettable.  Combining comedy and acting like no one before, or since, Sellers starred in legendary cult films such as Dr Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb and The Return of the Pink Panther.  Sellers’ Best explores not only his comedic talent but goes beneath to examine the man himself and features interviews with those who knew him best, such as Spike Milligan, Beryl Reid and John Sessions

title: Rentadick

overview: Armitage runs a chemical company that is on the verge of producing a gas that causes temporary disability. Clearly the military want it but it is also sought by a group of Japanese. Both Armitage and Madam Greenfly hire different people in the same detective agency to guard the gas and steal it respectively... confusion, double crosses and hilarity ensue...

title: Moonshadow

overview: The animation begins with a still frame of Teaser and his pet Firecat, pictured as they appear on the cover of the album bearing their names. The picture comes to life, and in the course of the animation, they find the fallen Moon, ride on it as it flies, and find a way to replace it in the sky. The beginning and ending story portions were written by Cat Stevens and narrated by Spike Milligan

title: The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins

overview: A septet of satirical vignettes based on the Seven Deadly Sins.

title: Suspect

overview: A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list. One of their number is so incensed by this that he lets the maimed and jealous companion of a female colleague draw him into what, technically, could be a treasonable act.

title: The Last Goon Show of All

overview: Sellers, Secombe and Milligan reunite for one last show.

title: The Big Freeze

overview: A silent comedy. Two accident-prone plumbers go to fix the plumbing at a home for retired gentle-folk on the coldest day of the year in Finland. Everything that can go wrong for these plumbers goes wrong.

title: Spike Milligan: The Unseen Archive

overview: Delve into a treasure trove of recently unearthed archives to tell a brand new story of Spike Milligan as film, scripts, letters, objects, photographs, recordings, and art all come together to paint a portrait of a comic genius.

title: Ghost in the Noonday Sun

overview: A pirate crewman kills his captain after learning where he has hidden his buried treasure. However, as he begins to lose his memory, he relies more and more on the ghost of the man he just murdered to help him find the loot.

title: Wilton's: The Handsomest Hall in Town

overview: An evening at Wilton's Music-Hall, Grace's Alley, Wellclose Square, London, 1860  starring Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Keith Michell, Pat Kirkwood, Warren Mitchell, Ronnie Barker, Bill Fraser, Gina Astralita, Eric Robinson. Introduced by Billy Russell.  Tonight, 90 years after it closed, this famous Music-Hall opens again to bring you a picture of the stars, the singers, the dancers, and the people who once went there.

title: Invasion Quartet

overview: This British men-on-a-mission spoof set during World War II finds intrepid officer Bill Travers leading three colorful compatriots into Nazi-occupied France to destroy an obnoxiously large, loud, and destructive enemy gun. See if this fearless foursome can stomp their Fascist foes and get back to their game of cricket! Spike Milligan, Gregoire Aslan, and Thorley Walters co-star.

title: Mr. H Is Late

overview: A team of inept undertakers attempt to get a coffin to a funeral on time. An undertaker is in charge of moving a coffin from a home to the church. The home is on the 26th floor of a skyscraper; the stairs are narrow; the lift is small and prone to stop working. Chaos ensues.

title: Eric Sykes: One of the Great Troupers

overview: With film clips and photos, Eric Sykes gives a tongue-in-cheek account of his follies and fortunes as an actor, gag writer, and comedian in a long and successful career in the theatre, on radio and television. He pays tribute to his friends in showbusiness and in particular to Hattie Jacques, Richard Wattis and the team of his long-running Sykes series.

title: Cucumber Castle

overview: On his death bed, The King orders his kingdom divided into two halves, the Kingdom of Jelly and the Kingdom of Cucumbers. Before the king even dies, Prince Frederick declares himself "King of Cucumbers" and Prince Marmaduke becomes the “King of Jelly”.

title: Just Like That!

overview: Just Like That! is a celebration of the comic genius of Tommy Cooper - just like that! But nobody could do it just like that apart from the unique Mr Cooper himself, and despite his claim never to have used those words. Was Tommy really Henry Coper's brother? Can Tommy's performance as Hamlet, clown prince, compare with the greats? Was Tommy a ventriloquist at heart? Rare and classic routines and contributions from famous fans help solve the mystery.  The friends and fans who take part (many of them confirming that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery) include Adrian Edmondson, Lenny Henry, Henry Cooper, former Goons Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan, writer Dick Hills, Tommy's brother David Cooper (who has himself sadly since died), alternative comedian Steve Murray, The Wow Show and magician Paul Scott. A title montage sequence features further impersonations of the great man from Alexei Sayle, Bob Todd, Patricia Hayes, and Jess Conrad.

title: The Very Best of Spike Milligan

overview: Extensive extracts from the finest comedy moments of the late, great and sadly missed Spike Milligan, including hilarious highlights from the unforgettable show that bought him to the world; The Goon Show.  Featuring rare archive interviews with the man himself and archive footage from throughout his career, we get the benefit of the insights of a leading team of comedians and critics, including Alexei Sayle, Tom Binns, Ian Stone and Neil Innes.

title: The Paranormal Peter Sellers

overview: This documentary revealed Peter Sellers obsession with the occult. Sellers was a highly superstitious man who consulted fortune tellers, clairvoyants and mediums to help him make key decisions in his life and work. Many of Sellers important decisions were influenced by Maurice Woodruff - a clairvoyant and astrologer based in London. Advice from the other side was taken on his marriage to Britt Ekland, accepting film roles such as Inspector Clouseau and dealing with his near fatal heart attack.

title: Fantastic Animation Festival

overview: A collection of fourteen award winning animated short films including "Moonshadow," "The Last Cartoon Man," "Closed Mondays," and "Cosmic Cartoon".

title: Calling All Cars

overview: Comedy documentary centring on the Dover Harbour car terminal.

title: Spike Milligan: Love, Light and Peace

overview: A very personal portrait of the truly unique comedy genius of Spike Milligan, as told in his own words and featuring exclusive home movie footage. With contributions from those who worked with him, lived with him and were inspired by him.

title: What a Whopper

overview: A writer attempts to raise some cash by writing a book about the Loch Ness Monster. No publisher will take it because they all think there isn't really a monster. The writer and some of his friends make a fake monster and take photographs and then travel to Scotland to see if they can convince the locals.

title: Spike Milligan I told you I was ill... A live tribute

overview: One of many tributes following the death of Spike Milligan. Comedians, actors and musicians join forces to present a live tribute featuring a selection of comic highlights from Spike's life. From recreations of his most famous sketches to readings of Milligan's own poems and extracts from his controversial wartime memoirs, these are all interspersed with archive film clips of the great man himself, showcasing his inimitable comic genius.

original_title: Spike Milligan I told you I was ill... A live tribute

title: Kenny Everett's Christmas Carol

overview: Kenny gives us his rendition of Charles Dickens story A Christmas Carol, "with apologies to C. Dickens, Esquire"

title: The Bed Sitting Room

overview: In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into a bed sitting room.

title: Alice Through the Looking Box

overview: A Christmas TV special in which Alice does not go through a looking glass, but through a TV set.

title: The Cherry Picker

overview: American V.I.P James Burn II finds his son James Burn III (Bob Sherman) leading a giant "sleep-in" that has taken over Windsor Castle. He hires Nancy (Lulu) to get him out of the castle and into work. With the help of her crazy eccentric father, (Wilfred Hyde-White) who believes in working day and night and producing nothing and uses a fantastic astro-telescope for casual bird watching, she does just that !

title: I Told You I Was Ill: The Life and Legacy of Spike Milligan

overview: A mixture of remembrances from friends and family, home movies, clips from Spikes work, and several interviews with Spike this tries to set the record straight and portray Spike as a person and not the "Godfather of Comedy".

original_title: I Told You I Was Ill: The Life and Legacy of Spike Milligan

title: Comic Roots: Michael Palin

overview: Short biographical documentary about comedian Michael Palin and his early interest in acting and comedy. Includes his education at the Shrewsbury School and Oxford.

title: Spike Milligan: A Series of Unrelated Incidents at Current Market Value

overview: Spike stars with Bob Todd, Bill Kerr, Graham Stark, Valentine Dyall, and Sheree Winton & a final TV outing for moustachioed 'token Italian' comedy actor Mario Fabrizi, who died 18 months later, aged just 38.

original_title: Spike Milligan: A Series of Unrelated Incidents at Current Market Value

title: Man About the House

overview: An unscrupulous property developer wants to flatten the street to make way for new buildings. Householder George Roper is happy to take the offered money and run but his wife Mildred and their lodgers join with other residents to take a stand and keep things as they are.

title: Right to Work March

overview: They're young, unemployed and on the march - from Glasgow, Liverpool and Swansea to London.

title: History of the World: Part I

overview: An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.

character: Monsieur Rimbaud - The French Revolution

title: The Pythons: Somewhere in Tunisia, Circa A.D. 1979

overview:
Ten years ago exactly, more or less, give or take a day or two, six young men sat down, or maybe stood, or perhaps some of them just lounged, and wrote the first episode of a new series called Owl Stretching Time. They were called Graham Chapman , John Cleese, Terry Gilliam , Eric Idle,Terry Jones and Michael Palin and later both they and the series became known as Monty Python 's Flying Circus .  Today they are the best known British comedy group in the world, famous from Cathay to Kathmandu, from Sydney to Sidcup (except in Japan where the programme is called The Gay Boys' Dragon Show ... say no more).
 To commemorate their tenth anniversary a BBC team tracked them down in the deserts of Tunisia where they were filming their Life of Brian and almost persuaded them to examine the genesis, the genius and the gender of Monty Python.

original_title: The Pythons: Somewhere in Tunisia, Circa A.D. 1979

title: The Adventures of Barry McKenzie

overview: Barry McKenzie sets off for England with his aunt, Edna Everage, to advance his cultural education. Bazza is an innocent abroad, fond of beer, Bondi and beautiful sheilas, but he soon settles into the Australian ghetto in Earls Court, where his old mate Curly has a flat.

title: Group Madness

overview: A behind-the-scenes documentary of the making of 1983's Yellowbeard

title: The Unknown Peter Sellers

overview: Documentary about the life and career of a comic genius, Peter Sellers.

title: Life of Brian

overview: Brian Cohen is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah. When he's not dodging his followers or being scolded by his shrill mother, the hapless Brian has to contend with the pompous Pontius Pilate and acronym-obsessed members of a separatist movement. Rife with Monty Python's signature absurdity, the tale finds Brian's life paralleling Biblical lore, albeit with many more laughs.

title: The Ghost of Peter Sellers

overview: A documentary about Peter Medak's unreleased film 'Ghost in the Noonday Sun', starring Peter Sellers and filmed in Cyprus in 1973.

title: The Unforgettable Harry Secombe

overview: A celebration of the life and career of Sir Harry Secombe, one of Britain's best-loved entertainers.

title: Spike Milligan: Return of a Legend

overview: Filmed in Australia 1984, this rare previously unreleased live performance shows comic genius Spike Milligan at his best. Bizarre, surreal, inspired.

title: The Unforgettable Spike Milligan

overview: A documentary about comedian Spike Milligan.

title: An Evening with Spike Milligan

overview: Spike recalls his exploits in the army, setting up a jazz band and other sources of his comic inspiration. He patiently answers impertinent questions from Harry Secombe, Peter O'Toole, Lynsey de Paul, Roy Hudd and Denis Norden with often amusing answers.

title: Spike

overview: Spike personally tells the story of his life from India, World War II to The Goons and his Q series

title: Omnibus - Cuckoo: A Celebration of Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy

overview: Narrated by Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, this documentary is about "Laurel and Hardy", one of the most popular and critically acclaimed comedy double acts of the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema. It features interviews with Jerry Lewis, Dick Van Dyke, Babe London, Marcel Marceau, Lucille Hardy (Ollie's wife), Bob Monkhouse, Hal Roach, Marvin T Hatley, Jack McCabe and many more.

original_title: Omnibus - Cuckoo: A Celebration of Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy

title: The Last Remake of Beau Geste

overview: Brothers Beau, John and Digby Geste join the Foreign Legion, where they fall under the rule of tyrannical Sergeant Markoff. Beau and John are assigned to Fort Zinderneuf, where Markoff tries to break their spirit, aware of a dark family secret concerning a fabulous jewel one of them carries. As tensions rise, Arabs attack the fort and rivalries must be thrown aside in a desperate battle for life.

title: Portrait of a Goon

overview: Portrait of Spike Milligan, then part of The Goon Show examining his views on comedy,

title: Barney

overview: A twelve year old boy and a common criminal are being transported in the same ship from England to Australia in the last century. When the ship wrecked they happen to be the only survivors of the catastrophe. Now they have to get along with each other and finally become friends.

title: A Kid for Two Farthings

overview: Joe is a young boy who lives with his mother, Joanna, in working-class London. The two reside above the tailor shop of Mr. Kandinsky, who likes to tell Joe stories. When Kandinsky informs Joe that a unicorn can grant wishes, the hopeful lad ends up buying a baby goat with one tiny horn, believing it to be a real unicorn. Undaunted by his rough surroundings, Joe sets about to prove that wishes can come true.

title: Dot and the Kangaroo

overview: An Australian girl gets lost in the Outback, but she's befriended by a kangaroo who gives her a ride in her pouch as they search for the girl's home. Aiding the pair are musically gifted koalas, platypuses, and kookaburras in this film based on Ethel Pedley's 1899 children's book, with animated humans and animals superimposed upon a live-action background.

title: Spike Milligan on Treasure Island WC2

overview: Treasure Island WC2 is Tin Pan Alley where pop songs are launched on their brief but glorious careers.

title: Badjelly the Witch

overview: This imaginative tale was written by Spike Milligan for his own children in 1973. It is a classic fairytale full of weird and wonderful surprises about good triumphing over evil and defeating BadJelly the Witch - ‘the baddest witch in the world’.  The exciting new style of animated characters directly interact with Spike as he draws and tells their story. Tim and Rose live with their Mummy and Daddy and Lucy their cow, who provides them with milk for breakfast.  When Lucy disappears one day, the children decide to look for her and so begins their adventure.. On their journey they meet all sorts of weird and wonderful creatures, such as Binklebonk the Goblin, Dinglemouse, Dulboot the Giant and BadJelly the Witch herself who captures the children and imprisons them in her castle. Like all fairy stories, BadJelly the Witch does eventually have a happy ending and the children and Lucy are returned home safe and sound.

title: Badjelly the Witch

title: Thank You and Goodnight

overview: Starring Spike Milligan, John Laurie, and Mike Harding. This has music, comedy, tricks, and storytelling.

title: Will the Real Mr Sellers.....?

overview: Banned by the BBC in 1971, director Tony Palmer's profile of the late Peter Sellers was, in the words of the film's subject himself, "the only portrait which really understood me." Sellers was an icon of comedy and a true innovator, but a look inside reveals a tragic figure. How could one of the world's most beloved comic talents have such a morbidly distorted opinion of himself? In this documentary, interviews with such friends, fans, and colleagues as Raquel Welch, Yul Brenner, Spike Milligan, Laurence Harvey, and others reveal the true personality behind the man who was loved by everyone, but still viewed himself as entirely alone.

title: The Best of Spike Milligan

overview: Widely regarded as the greatest post-war British comedian, Spike Milligan transitioned from the groundbreaking radio comedy The Goons to television without losing any of his anarchic, surreal humor. His series Q (1968–1980) and There’s A Lot Of It About (1982) shattered comedy conventions with sketch after sketch of absurd brilliance.  This compilation features classic moments like The Eurovision Joke Contest, Spike as a singing Viking maiden, and insects auditioning for a David Attenborough documentary. Interwoven with these are unique interstitials featuring Bruce Hammal at Milligan’s home—but in true Spike fashion, the interviews become sketches themselves, complete with his long-suffering comedy butler, Piles.  This release is a slightly re-edited, repackaged version of the 1995 BBC VHS Spike Milligan: One Man and His Ideas.

title: Gaybo Laughs Back

overview: Gaybo Laughs Back is an hour-long special, hosted by Gay Byrne who introduces some of the comedy highlights from his thirty-seven years at the helm of the long-running television series.

title: In the Best Possible Taste: A Tribute to Kenny Everett

overview: A tribute to Kenny Everett broadcast after his death from AIDS in 1995. Comprising of many of his classic sketches from his 1980s BBC TV series, this tribute also features recollections from those who knew him.

original_title: In the Best Possible Taste: A Tribute to Kenny Everett

title: The Banana

overview: The Velvet Underground's John Cale tells the story behind Andy Warhol's famous LP cover, Auberon Waugh and John Walters recall their first encounters with the fruit after the war, and footballer Brendan Batson considers how they became a symbol of racism hurled from the terraces

title: The Last Impresario

overview: Michael White might just be the most famous person you’ve never heard of. A notorious London theatre and film impresario, he produced over 300 shows and movies over the last 50 years. Bringing to the stage the risqué productions of Oh! Calcutta!, The Rocky Horror Show and to the screen Monty Python and the Holy Grail, as well as introducing Merce Cunningham, Pina Bausch and Yoko Ono to London audiences, he irrevocably shaped the cultural scene of the 1970s London.

title: The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn

title: The Bed Sitting Room

title: Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall

title: Puckoon

overview: Spike Milligan's book about the divided Irish village of Puckoon comes to the big screen.

title: The Great McGonagall

title: The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins

title: The Last Goon Show of All

title: The Best of Spike Milligan

title: Penny Points to Paradise

title: Let's Go Crazy

title: Badjelly the Witch

title: The Super Secret Service

overview: Burlesque comedy dealing with "MI-15", the Super Secret Service, on the trail of a mysterious foreign spy named Q.

title: The Three Musketeers

title: Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall

title: Yellowbeard

title: The Magic Christian

title: The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn

title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

title: Penny Points to Paradise

title: The Hound of the Baskervilles

title: Hitler: The Comedy Years

title: Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World

title: Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here

title: Let's Go Crazy

title: The Great McGonagall

title: Watch Your Stern

title: Down Among the Z Men

title: Postman's Knock

title: Sellers' Best

title: Rentadick

title: Moonshadow

title: The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins

title: Suspect

title: The Last Goon Show of All

title: The Big Freeze

title: Spike Milligan: The Unseen Archive

title: Ghost in the Noonday Sun

title: Wilton's: The Handsomest Hall in Town

title: Invasion Quartet

title: Mr. H Is Late

title: Eric Sykes: One of the Great Troupers

title: Cucumber Castle

title: Just Like That!

title: The Very Best of Spike Milligan

title: The Paranormal Peter Sellers

title: Fantastic Animation Festival

title: Calling All Cars

title: Spike Milligan: Love, Light and Peace

title: What a Whopper

title: Kenny Everett's Christmas Carol

title: The Bed Sitting Room

title: Alice Through the Looking Box

title: The Cherry Picker

title: Comic Roots: Michael Palin

title: Man About the House

title: Right to Work March

title: History of the World: Part I

title: The Adventures of Barry McKenzie

title: Group Madness

title: The Unknown Peter Sellers

title: Life of Brian

title: The Ghost of Peter Sellers

title: The Unforgettable Harry Secombe

title: Spike Milligan: Return of a Legend

title: The Unforgettable Spike Milligan

title: An Evening with Spike Milligan

title: Spike

title: The Last Remake of Beau Geste

title: Portrait of a Goon

title: Barney

title: A Kid for Two Farthings

title: Dot and the Kangaroo

title: Spike Milligan on Treasure Island WC2

title: Badjelly the Witch

title: Badjelly the Witch

title: Thank You and Goodnight

title: Will the Real Mr Sellers.....?

title: The Best of Spike Milligan

title: Gaybo Laughs Back

title: The Banana

title: The Last Impresario

title: The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn

title: The Bed Sitting Room

title: Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall

title: Puckoon

title: The Great McGonagall

title: The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins

title: The Last Goon Show of All

title: The Best of Spike Milligan

title: Penny Points to Paradise

title: Let's Go Crazy

title: Badjelly the Witch

title: The Super Secret Service