Spike Milligan takes a young look at Australia (1971) | RetroFocus

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This program was produced during one of Spike Milligan's many visits to Australia. ABC reporter Jeune Pritchard accompanies Milligan on a rambling, free-wheeling conversation that centres on his ideas on environmental conservation and activism and his writing. Shot in various locations doing different activities including bushwalking, playing piano, reading to school kids, visiting his books in a book shop, feeding kangaroos, riding on the big dipper at Luna Park and performing a surrealist piece on the steps of the Sydney Opera House.
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13 июл 2024

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@alankenney 3 года назад

I'm in my mid seventies, English and a lover of comedy. I have just seen a side of Spike I never knew existed. A hero in my eyes.

@stevetilbrook3402 Год назад

Alf Garnet down under would have been a good one "Where's your bloody Royalty then ? Cant have a country without a bleeding Queeeeen !

@davidfildes9826 5 лет назад

Crazy guy..my dad (gunner Fildes) was in the same band and gunnery battery....both gone but not forgotten.

@LiveDonkeyDeadLion 5 лет назад

David Fildes just seeing your dad’s name made my jaw drop as I was trying to work out which book he was writing and realised it was probably the first war memoir

@TheDavephillips 5 лет назад

What a lovely surprise to hear from Alf Fildes son. It's a delight to read a comment from a descendant of one of Spike's mates. My family for generations have been gunners, including my dad and me, and have always loved the antics of Spike and his mates. I met Spike many years ago in Ronnie Scott's, I used to go there often. I wish I'd had the chance to meet your dad too. The whole battery, it seems to me, were an incredible bunch and come across in Spike's books to be bloody marvellous. How I would have loved to serve with them! Cheers mate and thanks for commenting.

@Elitist20 2 года назад

Fildes! Remember your dad's name from Spike's war autobiographies.

@rjkral 3 года назад

GOLD!!! Love the rides on the Big Dipper Rollercoaster!! Rare footage of that beauty and its setting, and the hilarious Milligan hamming it up. Kudos to the interviewer and camera crew hanging on for dear life too!

@yerbaristo 2 года назад

Spike was a truly unique & amazing person!!! ❤️

@middlecovemotors2474 5 лет назад

Philosopher, Genius and Madman in no particular order. Oh my he's in Woy Woy, the worlds only above ground cemetery.

@anEyePhil 4 года назад

Thanks for uploading. Great to see and hear Spike in the Central Coast bush with bellbirds, and the University of Sydney. His time with the school kids is pure gold.

@issyjas3309 3 года назад

He was an undoubtedly great man and conservationist. He’d no doubt be desperately sad at the state of today’s world.

@ZiddersRooFurry 3 года назад

I never knew he fought for roo conservation. I love him even more now.

@deanpd3402 Год назад

Now we have bloody roos all over the place!

@ZiddersRooFurry Год назад

@@deanpd3402 Not so much since all the fires. Also, while red roos are certainly commonplace there are more than one species of large marsupial in Australia. There are over 20 different species of roo and wallaby, and many of them are becoming threatened due to ranching and humans taking up more and more of what little livable land Australia has.

@merekat2k12 5 лет назад

God bless Spike Milligan such a good man xxx

@zwarst 5 лет назад

Entertaining guy with a kind soul, loved his books as a kid

@parisd0g729 4 года назад

Why aren't we making Spike Milligan 's anymore?

@synthonaplinth5980 4 месяца назад

The mold may have broken. No one knows how to repair it.

@BradGryphonn 2 года назад

Spike Milligan was a legend. I am old enough to have been introduced to his earlier comedy, and had read his books in my early teens. In the late 70s, I auditioned for what was to be an environmentally focussed Kids TV series in Australia that was going to be hosted by Spike. I'm not sure if they made a pilot episode but I didn't get a part. I seem to recall the pilot being shown though. Any Aussies remember something like that in the late 70s?