Heroes Of Comedy (1995)
- TV documentary
- Channel 4
- 1995 - 2003
- 33 episodes (6 series)
Long-running documentary series looking at some of the greatest and most famous names in British comedy.
Episode menu
Series 2, Episode 4 - The Goons
Further details
Celebration of Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Michael Bentine, and Harry Secombe, the ground-breaking comics whose wacky radio programme The Goon Show changed the course of British humour and won them a place in the nation's cultural landscape. With contributions by John Cleese and Eric Sykes.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Wednesday 7th May 1997
- Time
- 9pm
- Channel
- Channel 4
- Length
- 60 minutes
Cast & crew
| Eric Sykes | Self |
| John Cleese | Self |
| Michael Palin | Self |
| Rory Bremner | Self |
| Eddie Izzard | Self |
| Jonathan Miller | Self |
| Harry Secombe | Self |
| Denis Norden | Self |
| Denis Healey (as Lord Healey) | Self |
| Spike Milligan | Self |
| John Browell | Self |
| Richard Lester | Self |
| Janet Brown | Self |
| Ruxton Hayward | Self |
| Terry Pratchett | Self |
| Dennis Main Wilson | Self (Archive Material) |
| Jimmy Grafton | Self (Archive Material) |
| Peter Sellers | Self (Archive Material) |
| Michael Bentine | Self (Archive Material) |
| John Fisher | Writer |
| Larry Stephens | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Eric Sykes | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Thomas Atkinson (as Tom Atkinson) | Director |
| John Fisher | Producer |
| Norma Farnes | Associate Producer |
| Mark Sangster | Editor |
| Brian Larkin | Animation |
Press
Goon, and best forgotten
But these moments of incandescent candour were the only high points in a programme that (unlike Peter Lydon's classic three-part biography of Peter Sellers) seemed uncertain whether it wanted to be a documentary, a hagiography, or an analysis and the result was something of a Spruce Goose - superficially imposing, but never really achieving lift-off.
Victor Lewis-Smith, Evening Standard, 8th May 1997