Cult TV Blog

The introduction to this series of posts can be found  here . Confusion has become the signature feeling associated with orphan TV episodes for me. Apparently There's a Lot of It About is not the final series of Spike Milligan's seminal series with the confusing name of Q with a numeral for the series. Which doesn't start at number one. And which I have merely touched on here before although I'm delighted to see I called the post  Spike Milligan, Boobs and Custard Pies . This is not that series but has the same theme music. You know what has the same theme music as one TV series? Only that series. This one also has some of the same sketches, including the idiot scouts. I see there is a show titled in the titles  Q Spike Milligan  (without a numeral) on YouTube which the uploader has called Q1 and is described in the comments as the pilot for the show. It isn't on Simply Media's  box set  of Q which claims to have all the surviving episodes, and  IMDb ...

Mitchell Hadley kindly mentioned me once more in his last weekly review of the cult TV blogosphere. Thank you. I doubt that he will feature this post because it is mostly about boobs and custard pies! I have been watching some comedy programmes while unwell recently. The Golden Girls make me roar with laughter. I have also been watching the BBC comedy classics DVDs that I have. Personally I think their one - disc selection of Milligan superior to the boxed set of his series Q. Milligan's humour is truly anarchic. You won't like him if you can't ignore the fact that some of his jokes would now not be considered suitable for polite society. Oh, and if you don't like gags about boobs you won't like it either. My absolute favourite sketch on the disc is a spoof game show in which the contestant, a housewife, is overjoyed to lose everything in her house as a result of being unable to answer the questions, ultimately being evicted. We see the furniture and even the bat...