Milligan returned to jazz in the late 1940s and made a precarious living with the Hall trio and other musical comedy acts.

During a visit to Australia in 1958, a similar special was made for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, " The Gladys Half-Hour ", which also featured local actors Ray Barrett, and John Bluthal, who would appear in several later Milligan projects.

Milligan later complained of the BBC's cold attitude towards the series and stated that he would have made more programs had he been given the opportunity.

" It was not ; in reality he and the Prince were very close friends, and Milligan was made an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( KBE ) ( honorary because of his Irish citizenship ) in 2000.

As a result, Milligan became a regular visitor to Australia and made a number of radio and TV programmes there, including The Idiot Weekly with Bobby Limb.

In 1969 Sykes co-starred with Spike Milligan in the ill-fated television sit-com Curry & Chips, a satire on racial prejudice created and written by Johnny Speight and made for London Weekend Television.

This was targeted at the stand-up comedy VHS market at the time, and the inlay cover made great mention of comic legends ' appearances, such as Spike Milligan, Michael Palin and Bernard Manning.

A short film Lester made with Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers, The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film ( 1960 ), was a favourite of The Beatles, and in particular John Lennon.

The episode, " The Scarlet Capsule ", was written by Spike Milligan, and used the original BBC Radiophonic Workshop sound effects made for the television serial.

When Milligan wrote The Idiot Weekly, an Australian version of The Goon Show, Eccles often made appearances in the script.

The Bed-Sitting Room ( 1963 ) is a satirical play by Spike Milligan and John Antrobus about the aftermath of World War III, later made into a film released in 1969.

Milligan made the stories uniquely surreal, and had a habit of killing Shade off only to bring him back in a changed form.

Milligan lived for several years in Holden Road, Woodside Park and at The Crescent, Barnet, and was a strong supporter of the Finchley Society.

The first 63 issues of Animal Man featuring Bolland's artwork covered the tenures of writers Grant Morrison, Peter Milligan, Tom Veitch and Jamie Delano, with Bolland's images maintaining a continuity of style and imagery while the interior work underwent several changes of style and storyline .< ref name =" vert-ency ">

Other notable strips included Wired World by Philip Bond, Planet Swerve by Glyn Dillon & Alan Martin, Hugo Tate by Nick Abadzis, Cheeky Wee Budgie Boy created & written by Jon Beeston and drawn by Jon Beeston & Philip Bond, Timulo by D ' Israeli, A-Men and Space Boss by Shaky Kane, Johnny Nemo by Peter Milligan, and several early works by Al Columbia.

Vizard studied Law and Philosophy at the University of Melbourne ; he practiced as a lawyer and was a partner in a City Law firm ; he has written for and produced various Logie and AFI award winning television show-from Fast Forward to Kangaroo Palace ; he has hosted his own 5 night a week national Tonight Show, Tonight Live With Steve Vizard for which he was three times nominated for and won a Gold Logie in 1991 ; he has interviewed over two thousand major names, from Audrey Hepburn, Oliver Stone, Mel Gibson, Robin Williams, Sir Bob Geldof, Peter Allen, Patrick Swayze, Bob Hope, Sir Peter Ustinov, Shirley MacLaine, Michael Parkinson, Spike Milligan, Edward de Bono, Robert Ludlum, Sir Harry Secombe, and Prime Ministers and politicians ; he founded one of Australia ’ s largest independent Production houses, Artist Services, which was subsequently sold to Granada ; he has been the President of the National Gallery of Victoria and the Chairman of the Victorian Major Events Company, securing events such as the World Cycling Champioships and the World Gymnastics Championships ; he has appeared on the cover of Time and Rolling Stone ; he was an elected representative to the 1999 Constitutional Convention ; he was Father of the Year in 2001 ; he was embroiled in three highly publicised legal proceedings, involving the theft of moneys by his former accountant from the Vizard Companies, and Vizard's civil penalty in 2005 for breaching directors duties ; he has broadcast on the Austereo, Fairfax and Macquarie Radio Networks and in 2011 was nominated for best Talkback Presenter in Australia ; he was Chairman of the World Swimming Championships ; and he has written several books ranging on topics ranging from humour to Australia's population policy.

He sees an ad for a roommate and talks the reluctant young woman, Connie Milligan ( Jean Arthur ), into letting him sublet half of her apartment.

The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society ( RSCDS ), was founded in 1923 as the Scottish Country Dance Society by Jean Milligan and Ysobel Stewart of Fasnacloich, who wanted to preserve country dancing as performed in Scotland, country dancing having fallen into disuse after the influx of continental ballroom dances such as the waltz or quadrilles and, later on, American-style dances like the One-step or foxtrot.

After M < sup > lle </ sup > Rimbaud and her senile father ( Spike Milligan ) return from the prison, the peasants burst into the room and capture the piss-boy “ king ” and M < sup > lle </ sup > Rimbaud.

True Faith and another proposed strip, Skin by Peter Milligan and Brendan McCarthy, about skinheads and thalidomide, ran into problems with censorship.

In 1969, Spike Milligan based a BBC television series named The World of Beachcomber on the columns.

After success with the ground-breaking British radio programme, The Goon Show, Milligan translated this success to television with Q5, a surreal sketch show which is credited as a major influence on the members of Monty Python's Flying Circus.

In 1967, applying a satirical angle to a fashion for the inclusion of " superman " inspired characters in UK television commercials, Milligan dressed up in a " Bat-Goons " outfit to head up a series of television commercials for British Petroleum.

The Prince of Wales was a fan, and Milligan caused a stir by calling him a " little grovelling bastard " on live television in 1994.

Murder Must Advertise was adapted for television in 1973 as a mini-series starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey, Mark Eden as Chief Inspector Charles Parker, Bridget Armstrong as Dian de Momerie, Peter Bowles as Major Milligan, and Paul Darrow as Mr. Tallboy.

Also during 1967, Stigwood purchased a controlling interest in Associated London Scripts, a writers ' agency co-founded by Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes around 1954, in which many of Britain's best comedy and television scriptwriters had been involved.

Peter Milligan born in London, a British writer, best known for his comic book, film and television work.

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Q ... was a surreal television comedy sketch show from Spike Milligan which ran from 1969 to 1982 on BBC2.

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In addition to Milligan and Randy & Jean-Marc Lofficier, McKeever has collaborated with comics creators Dave Gibbons and writer and singer Lydia Lunch.

In addition, the welcome relief from Latin courses allowed many academic students to intensively study instrumental and vocal music, and some outstanding, notable careers were launched, guided from the outset by the expertise of John P. Murdie ( band and music theory ) and Carman Milligan ( chorus and music theory ).

The addition of Thompson Creek Metal Company's Mount Milligan copper-gold operation is a major new asset to the town.

Milligan wrote and edited many books, including Puckoon and his seven-volume autobiographical account of his time serving during the Second World War, beginning with Adolf Hitler: My part in his downfall.

Spike Milligan, writer of The Goon Show, remarked that a lot of blue innuendo came from serviceman's jokes, which most of the cast understood ( they all had been soldiers ) and many of the audience understood, but which passed over the heads of most of the BBC producers and directors, most of whom were " Officer class.

He frequently wrote for and / or performed with many other leading comedy performers and writers of the period, including Tony Hancock, Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, John Antrobus and Johnny Speight.

Having spearheaded the " British invasion ," by head-hunting such writers as Moore, Gaiman, Delano, Grant Morrison, Garth Ennis and Peter Milligan, Berger was well suited to head up the new line, as she was already editing many of the series which would form the core of the early Vertigo output.

It had many notable writers including Ray Alan, John Cleese, Barry Cryer, Spike Milligan, David Nobbs, David Renwick, John Sullivan, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Laurie Rowley.

Speight was one of many writing talents on that series which also included the star Sykes, John Antrobus and Spike Milligan.

Milligan updated and adapted many of Ditko's concepts, while adding his own ideas to embark upon one of the most bizarre titles published by DC.

This was not well received by some fans of the title, and many wanted " their " X-Force back, a comment Milligan would later parody in the pages of the title.

Maggs directed many leading actors in often award-winning productions, including Rowan Atkinson, Leslie Nielsen, Christian Slater, Stephen Fry, Jonathan Pryce, Robin Williams, Hugh Laurie, Juliet Stevenson, Jim Broadbent, Patricia Hodge, Alison Steadman, Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan.