"Actor: Spike Jones"

• Q. - The Almost Complete Q | DVD | (20/11/2017) from £29.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Comedic madness in Spike Milligan's ground-breaking, wild, subversive and nonsensical BBC sketch comedy series from 1969 1980. Simply Media are delighted to announce release of Q: The Almost Complete Collection on DVD 20th November 2017, containing all surviving episodes from Qs 5-9 in this 5-disc set, on DVD together for the very first time. Originally shown by the BBC from 1969-1980, this BAFTA-nominated series is considered a landmark in British Comedy. The fast-paced, anarchic sketch comedy will delight fans of the series and Spike Milligan's work. Written by and starring BAFTA-winner Spike Milligan in a variety of silly outfits and outlandish situations involving idiot Boy Scouts, Adolf Hitler, and the Royal Family. The original Q5 of 1969 was heralded as the inspiration behind Monty Python's Flying Circus, which debuted a few months later. It's also one of the best showcases of Spike's surreal and eccentric humour. Sketches come in thick and fast, and jump from one plot point or location to another with no explanation, and sometimes no apparent conclusion. Bizarre, yes. Funny, most definitely! Terry Jones and I adored the Q... shows , recalled Michael Palin for Spike's biography, [Milligan] was the first writer to play with the conventions of television. The BBC initially delayed re-commissioning the ground-breaking Q series until the Monty Python series ended, despite the impact Q had already had on the world of alternative comedy, and at a time when Kenny Everett and Not the Nine O'clock News were further testing the limits of TV Comedy. However, the popular Q returned over 6 years later for four further series. It is clear to see Monty Python in Spike's work, with Life of Brian's Chris Langham on the writing team and Monty Python's Flying Circus director Ian MacNaughton directing some episodes. For Q8 and Q9, direction was taken over by the talented BAFTA-winning Ray Butt (Only Fools and Horses). Spike leads a fantastic cast of co-performers including John Bluthal (The Vicar of Dibley), Bob Todd (Superman III), John D. Collins (˜Allo ˜Allo), Peter Jones (The Rag Trade), and Margaret Nolan (Goldfinger), Alan Clare (Rising Damp) and a self-parodying David Lodge in yet more surreal, outrageous and determinedly under-prepared sketches and musical interludes. Enjoy all the madness and mayhem of Spike Milligan's Q again with this landmark DVD collection.

• The Best Of Spike Milligan | DVD | (17/05/2004) from £5.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Some remember him from the Goons some through his army autobiographies or his poems but it is his work on television that has stamped Spike Milligan's surreal chaotic and devastatingly funny humour on the nations imagination. This compilation features classic moments such as The Lost Forever in the Bermuda Triangle Holiday the Eurovision Joke Contest Michael Parkinson at the Soldierama Massage Parlour Spike as the singing Viking Maiden and loads more assorted lunacy from the

• The Great McGonagall | DVD | (09/02/2004) from £4.96   |  Saving you £8.03 (161.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  William Topaz McGonagall (Milligan) is an unemployed Scottish weaver who decides to devote his life to poetry. Falling in love with Queen Victoria (here played by Peter Sellers) he donates his major poetic works to her and despite many rejections dreams of one day becoming Poet Laureate...

• The Swing Years - Elmer's Tune | DVD | (22/11/2004) from £5.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (183.64%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Track List: 1. Sheik Of The Araby 2. Five Salted Peanuts 3. My Great Great Grandfather 4. Poet And Peasant 5. Cuban Pete 6. Cherokee 7. Ding-A-Lay-O 8. Surrender 9. Sillhouettes 10. I Want A Girl 11. Breeze & I 12. Cielito Lindo 13. Elmer's Tune 14. Little Dutch Mill 15. Whistler & His Dog 16. I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire 17. Rhumba Serenade 18. That Wonderful Worrisome Feeling Billie Joyce 19. Amor 20. K.P. Serenade 21. I D

• Spike Jones Story | DVD | (28/08/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

• The Swing Years - Lullaby Of Broadway | DVD | (22/11/2004) from £21.02   |  Saving you £-4.03 (-23.70%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Track List: 1. Click! Click! Another Drink 2. Do I Love You 3. Dixie 4. Honeysuckle Rose 5. Isn't That Just Like Love 6. Fantasia 7. Hot In The Groove 8. I Don't Walk Without You 9. The Boogie Woogie Man 10. Love Turns Winter To Spring 11. Dancing On Air 12. On To Victory (Notre Dame Flight Song) 13. My Lost Horizon 14. Sleepy Time Gal 15. My Gal Sal 16. This Love Of Mine 17. Let's Get Lost 18. Singing Hills 19. Doin' The Hot Foot 20. T

• Soundies: The Ultimate Collection | Blu Ray | (25/07/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A