Links between the items were provided by Spike Milligan, dressed in a smoking jacket and cap, as in the cartoon logo above the newspaper column.

Likewise the writing staff included Milligan, Barry Took, John Junkin, Neil Shand and others.

BBC2 was a minority-appeal culture channel, and thus allowed greater stretching of the boundaries of the art.

[5] Only one complete episode, on black and white 16mm film now survives of this show in the BBC archives, from the penultimate (20.10.69) edition.

[7] In addition to this, a soundtrack LP featuring excerpts from shows from series one was also released by PYE Records, and rereleased on audio cassette in 1997.