"Actor: Michael Bentine"

• Michael Bentine's Potty Time - Series 1 | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £8.28   |  Saving you £6.71 (81.04%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Long awaited release of the famous Thames children's series featuring Michael Bentine and his potty hand puppets.

• Michael Bentine's Potty Time - The Complete Third Series | DVD | (22/08/2011) from £12.67   |  Saving you £7.32 (57.77%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The pages of the great Potty Encyclopaedia are opened once again with thirteen classic episodes of this marvellously madcap puppet series a favourite of children and adults alike. Created written and presented by the multi-talented ex-Goon Michael Bentine Potty Time ran for seven years and was voted into 71st place in Channel 4's 100 Greatest Kids TV Shows poll. Watch re-enactments of some of the world's greatest historical events with a unique Potty slant and learn little-known facts from the venerable Professor Potsworthy the source of all Potty knowledge. Discover how the Potties of Ancient Britain defended themselves against Viking raiders... revisit the Age of Chivalry when Knights were bold and battled for a good Potty cause... hear stirring tales from the Potty Pilgrim Fathers who sailed to a new life on the April-Flower... find out why the Great Wall of China was really built... and a great deal more besides!

• The Sandwich Man | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £15.99   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Performed mostly in mime this comical tale relates the daily life of a Sandwich Man and his encounters with many of his very eccentric acquaintances.

• Michael Bentine's Potty Time - The Complete Second Series | DVD | (07/02/2011) from £8.59   |  Saving you £7.40 (86.15%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The pages of the great Potty Encyclopaedia are opened once more with 13 classic episodes of this marvellously madcap puppet series - a favourite of children and adults alike. Created written and presented by the multi-talented Michael Bentine (The Goons) Potty Time ran for a total of seven years between 1973 and 1980 and was voted into 71st place in Channel 4's 100 Greatest Kids' TV Shows poll of 2001. Watch re-enactments of some of the world's greatest historical events with a unique Potty slant and learn little-known facts from the venerable Professor Potsworthy - the source of all Potty knowledge. Who really won the Battle of Waterloo? Why was Troy rebuilt thirteen times? Who made the first attempts at flight? And who was Viva Zapotti? Enter the parallel Potty universe and all will be revealed!

• Michael Bentine's Potty Time - The Complete Fourth Series | DVD | (07/11/2011) from £7.92   |  Saving you £5.07 (64.02%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Created, written and presented by the multi-talented Michael Bentine (The Goons), this marvellously madcap puppet series re-enacted some of the world s greatest historical events and shed new light on mysteries ancient and modern all with a unique Potty slant. Running for a total of seven years between 1973 and 1980 and becoming a favourite of children and adults alike, Michael Bentine's Potty Time was voted into 71st place in Channel 4's 100 Greatest Kids TV Show poll of 2001. In this fourth series, we find out why Francis Drake s global circumnavigation took quite as long as it did, discover how America really won its independence, marvel at the grandeur and excitement of the Potty Roman Games, learn of the ingenious escapes from Warmditz by the Potty prisoners of war... and much, much more!

• Down Among The Z Men | DVD | (24/06/2002) from £7.29   |  Saving you £8.70 (119.34%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Although they made their name in the medium of radio, the legendary Goons also made brief forays into the world of television and, with Down Among the Z Men, film. It captures the team at a very early stage in their career, with Michael Bentine still in the fold, and with their unique, anarchic brand of humour still in its infancy. Sadly, the style and feel of the film does little to suit their comedy style. While radio offered an opportunity for their imaginations to run riot, here the four find themselves tied to a few stock characters, most of whom would make a more animated appearances later in their career. The plot--with its tale of eccentric professors and evil spies--sees a series of musical numbers and a variety performance crow barred into the proceedings. Those who wish to add to an already existing Goons collection may want to consider this, but anyone wondering what all the fuss is about should head straight for the many radio collections available and hear the sound of true genius at work. On The DVD: Down Among the Z Men offers little to recommend, with the DVD lacking in any extras whatsoever. Being taken from an original fifties print, the black and white picture is of reasonable quality yet cannot help but look extremely dated. At best it is the sort of curio that would pass time on a Sunday afternoon but it is hard to consider this a particularly essential DVD release. –-Phil Udell

• The Sandwich Man | Blu Ray | (29/08/2022) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Original Goon Michael Bentine co-writes and gives a memorable performance as an amiable 'Sandwich Man' in this gentle, whimsical comedy that features a Who's Who? of British talent, including Norman Wisdom, Diana Dors, Harry H. Corbett, Dora Bryan, Bernard Cribbins and Terry-Thomas. The Sandwich Man is featured here as a brand-new remaster from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. Horace Quilby treads a perpetual odyssey through the London streets on behalf of Finklebaum and O'Casey - dealers in 'misfit clothing'. Resplendent in top hat, tails and sandwich board his is a unique angle from which to observe life. Today, however, he is preoccupied - Esmerelda, his racing pigeon, is taking part in the race of her life!

• I Only Arsked | DVD | (12/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  An Arab King who finds oil in his country faces civil unrest. He recruits the services of a crack British Army Brigade.... Well at least the services of seven men from Army Stores!

• Forces Sweetheart | DVD | (01/11/2010) from £6.94   |  Saving you £6.05 (87.18%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Favourite Hy Hazell plays Judy James a performer with ENTA the British equivalent of USO. Three goofy soldiers played by Harry Secombe Michael Bentine and Freddie Frinton vie for the affections of the lovely Judy.