New newsgroup devoted to the absurd comedy duo DEREK AND CLIVE (Peter Cook & Dudley Moore) both of which worked frequently with Spike...all are welcome... : ) ...
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Keir Giles
onelist@...
Jan 2, 2001 2:07 pm
"worked frequently with Spike"... pardon my ignorance, but when and on what? Serious question. Thanks for letting us know and string. ... This e-mail, and any...
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downsman@...
Jan 3, 2001 4:22 am
Although "The Hound of the Baskervilles" which Pete and Dud made in the 1970s (1978??)generally rates about one star in movie guides, I thought it was...
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roger stevenson
roger@...
Jan 5, 2001 2:45 pm
One other connection between Spike and Peter Cook is "The Bridge over the River Wye". This was not quite a Goon Show as it featured Spike, Peter Sellers...
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Peter Gordon
peter@...
Jan 5, 2001 3:11 pm
... was ... OK, I'll finally stick my oar in. Spike and Cook were in quite a few things together. After the above album (actually an adaptation of a Goon Show ...
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roger stevenson
roger@...
Jan 5, 2001 11:00 pm
Thank you Peter. Now please get your oar out. Harm can come to a young man like that. Roger the Saurus ... From: Peter Gordon <peter@...> To:...
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Art Neale
art.neale@...
Jan 7, 2001 1:49 am
I have to agree whole heartedly with Roger. Spike would be brilliant in Blackadder! And as all of us who have read Spike's booksknow, he freely acknowledges...
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lamees.nuseibeh@...
Jan 12, 2001 5:42 pm
Hello, I was wondering if any of you could help me. We are currently working on the new series of the BBC's 'Never Mind the Buzzcocks' and are researching...
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Thomas H. Stern
sternth@...
Jan 12, 2001 6:35 pm
Don't know the Milligan sketch, but this subject also goes back to a song written in the 40s? by Earl Robinson (composer of Ballad for Americans, The House I...
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Peter Gordon
peter@...
Jan 13, 2001 12:16 pm
... Actually, I think this comes up in a Peter Cook and Dudley Moore sketch from their BBC series Not Only... But Also... called "The Music Teacher". Moore ...
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Matthew Jarron
m.h.jarron@...
Jan 25, 2001 12:35 pm
Hello folks of world. On behalf of all in the Catford Dinner Ladies Sewing Circle, I thank you for allowing me to join this superfluous, er - superb, mailing ...
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roger stevenson
roger@...
Jan 25, 2001 8:58 pm
I can hear you loud and clear but I haven't a clue what you're talking about. Fish and Milligan? He was in Curry and Chips. Tony Hancock? Stone me! You are...
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Art Neale
art.neale@...
Jan 26, 2001 12:58 am
I hear you also. I have no idea about Spike being on Hancock.. as for a bent thing with a lump on the end of it, I had no idea you could see me! Art in Canada...
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Alan West
downsman@...
Jan 26, 2001 3:56 am
I had no idea there actually was any `art in Canada.' Even Spike would find the millions spent on buying three stripes on a board --"Voice of Fire"--too...
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Matthew Jarron
m.h.jarron@...
Jan 26, 2001 9:08 am
I too find it extremely doubtful that Spike was on Hancock's Half Hour. The biography also claims that Eric Sykes did an episode as well. Goodness knows where...
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Alan West
downsman@...
Jan 26, 2001 6:25 pm
... Obviously "McGonagall" is enjoyable on a number of levels, but one of its strengths seems to me to be that it does what Puckoon, and the Goon Shows, did,...
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Bluebottle
bluebottle@...
Jan 28, 2001 4:53 pm
yer all mad...... as far as i know... spike worked with eric sykes... who !!! surprise surprise was also working on some of the episodes of hancocks half...
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Matthew Jarron
m.h.jarron@...
Jan 29, 2001 10:24 am
Regarding your analysis of The Great McGonagall... ... It goes further than that. Both McGonagall and Wood were eternal optimists, totally convinced of their...
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Dagny Scott
parsleyfirefly@...
Jan 29, 2001 3:21 pm
... Here in America people have neither heard of Spike or of Ionesco, dammit. Beckett, though, we have... so maybe I'm glad Spike's not considered literary......
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Matthew Jarron
m.h.jarron@...
Jan 29, 2001 3:29 pm
... Yes, there is that problem. Mind you, we studied Spike's correspondence with the Pope at school and it never did me any harm. [Exits left to take a cold...
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Alan West
downsman@...
Jan 29, 2001 4:41 pm
... I understand what you mean -- that sometimes the swine don't appreciate the pearls, or perhaps that dissection may involve murdering a text. And one is...
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Alan West
downsman@...
Jan 29, 2001 5:00 pm
... Which all goes toward reminding me that I taped "The Bedsitting Room" from the old idiot box and have to get my American buddy Lee -- an Ionesco fan and...
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roger stevenson
roger@...
Jan 29, 2001 5:46 pm
... From: Alan West <downsman@...> To: <spikemilligan@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 5:05 PM Subject: [spikemilligan] Ionesco -- free...
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dibleyroad@...
Jan 30, 2001 4:49 am
... I was in that play. I was Lucky. I had to memorize that entire dialogue in the middle. It was hell. Not that this has to do with much. But I've been quiet...
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Bluebottle
bluebottle@...
Jan 30, 2001 9:56 am
Personally im very glad that the Americans have no appreciation of Spike .If they did i think it would cheapen the fase value...... what would then happen when...
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chris, emma and dunca...
baron@...
Jan 30, 2001 1:22 pm
If the americans found out and poaid more attention, they might have Jim Carrey playing eccles in a film. would they understand the humour? I think not. leave...
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Dagny Scott
parsleyfirefly@...
Jan 30, 2001 2:03 pm
... Not as hellish as putting up with Dark Schneider. Oh, and everyone mispronounced Pozzo. They said "Po" (like the teletubby) - "Zo" (rhyming). ===== Dagny ...
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Melanie Brown
melbrown@...
Jan 31, 2001 12:45 am
I'd rather see Jim Carrey playing Jim Thadcrock, as he's only clever with his feet. Moariaty...
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Alan West
downsman@...
Jan 31, 2001 4:16 am
... Does anyone remember Professor Stanley Unwin? I saw him in an old b&w "Carry On" movie the other day. Joy, joy, to hear the spoken of the Queenly...
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Matthew Jarron
m.h.jarron@...
Jan 31, 2001 8:42 am
... Of course Spike and Stanley Unwin appeared (or rather were heard) together in the Channel 4 children's series The Great Bong in 1996, also featuring Mike...
