Spike Milligan - Criminal Opportunity Knocks 

John Bluthal was such a brilliant foil to Milligan's madness in everything they did together. His role in holding this brilliant but often erratic comedy all together should not be underestimated. Looking at Milligan's work at the time could be a bit hit and miss with not everything working. It is good to see the best stuff still surviving and this one is hilarious. I notice a lot of the work that has survived seems to have Bluthal in it.

Absolutely hilarious. John Bluthel and Spike are just brilliant.

John Bluthal was a brilliant Hughie Green. The voice was great and the insincerity was spot on!

My kind of humour. 😂😂🙂

And for Americans, a highly simplified version of this sketch - with subtitles and explanantions - will appear later.

love this

Brilliant impression

John Bluthal...the greatest support actor in anything Spike Milligan ever did,

FANTASTIC there is nothing as FUNNY on TV Today.

I love the way he's p!ssing away a huge budget. Class

Hughie green impersonator is great. Another mad crazy show from spike and co.always makes me laugh .

Monster of ceremonies 😂

Absolutely brilliant stuff. I notice though that RU-vid has begun to censor the auto-generated subtitles! In this video, at 3:00.

Genius - Couldn't stop laughing, thank you, and I mean that most sincerely I really do

A great Huge Greeny, and I mean that folks, I really do.

opens raincoat [CALL THAT A LINING]

Youth of today would know the meaning of "John Thomas".

Spike was king never liked python pretentious, spike was down to earth,well he is now love you spike you was the man

Jim Tigernuts😂

Hughie Green was apparently Paula Yates mother. It’s so weird. When she found out she went quite mad.

Black face and throttling a pensioner. I can't see that working out on Xfactor.

You call that a lining!

His take off of an indian is a direct plot, because he was born in india, and live there for many years.

A one off

Black Panthers recruitment film.

vic reeves copied spike slavishly

Some of his sketches didn't make sense, I guess that's why they were so funny

The clapometer

4:04 John Bluthal says 'orthanologist' for 'ornithologist'. It might well have been intentional, but something makes me suspect a mistake... Anyway, a brilliant performance, as always.

I'm shocked that RU-vid has allowed this disgraceful clip to be uploaded. You can clearly hear said out loud that most offensive of terms "traffic warden".

I didn’t realise how naughty this is I wouldn’t have shared if 8 had known 🧐

John Bluthal also did a marvellous impression of Huw Wheldon, who produced and presented arts and other documentaries and became a BBC controller. Bluthal captured the slow, pretentious voice and movements. Despite that, Huw Wheldon produced excellent programmes, far better than the woke, even more pretentious but empty Scheiss of the BBC today.

Insp. Jock Tigernuts McStiffer

Internet no good

When comedy was comedy before the woke offended at everything brigade was even born 😊

dreadful

I did not find that funny it was worst bit of tv ever i seen

They just don't make stuff like this now " Tom Parasite the tap dancing Traffic Warden " brilliant