The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d
- TV sketch show
- ITV1
- 1956
- 5 episodes (1 series)
The first attempt at bringing Goon Show humour to TV, this mix of sketches and sitcom-esque formulae was set around Victorian paper, The Idiot Weekly. Stars Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Eric Sykes, Valentine Dyall, Kenneth Connor and more.
Key details
- Genre
- Sketch Show
- Broadcast
- 1956
- Channel
- ITV
- Episodes
- 5 (1 series)
- Stars
- Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Eric Sykes, Valentine Dyall, Kenneth Connor, Graham Stark, June Whitfield, Patti Lewis and Max Geldray
- Writers
- Spike Milligan, Dave Freeman, John Junkin and Terry Nation
- Director
- Richard Lester
- Producer
- Richard Lester
- Company
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Additional details
- Production setting
- Studio
- Picture
- Black and white
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Friday 24th February 1956 at 10pm on ITV1