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Eric Sykes (4 May 1923 – 4 July 2012) was an English ... was shared from around 1953 by Spike Milligan. (Sykes and Milligan later jointly formed Associated London ...
Curry and Chips is a British television sitcom broadcast in 1969 which was produced by London Weekend Television for the ITV network.. Set on a factory floor of 'Lillicrap Ltd', it starred a browned up Spike Milligan as an Irishman of Pakistani heritage named Kevin O'Grady, who also featured in episode 7 of the fifth series of Speight's Till Death Us Do Part.
Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002) was an Irish [a] comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright and actor. The son of an English mother and Irish father, he was born in British India, where he spent his childhood before relocating in 1931 to England, where he lived and worked for the majority of his life.
Associated London Scripts (ALS) was a writers' agency organised as a co-operative which involved many leading comedy and television writers of the 1950s and 1960s. [1]In the early 1950s, as The Goon Show was gaining popularity, its main writer Spike Milligan accepted an invitation from Eric Sykes to share his small office above a grocer's shop at 130 Uxbridge Road, Shepherd's Bush.
The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d was a 1956 British television series produced and directed by Richard Lester. [1] Although written mainly by Spike Milligan, there were many contributions from members of Associated London Scripts, the writers' co-operative, including Dave Freeman, John Junkin and Terry Nation.
Sykes and a... is a black-and-white British sitcom starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques that aired on BBC1 from 1960 to 1965. [1] It was written by Eric Sykes , Johnny Speight , John Antrobus and Spike Milligan .
The series was devised and written by Spike Milligan with the regular collaboration of other writers including Larry Stephens (contributing to around 140 episodes), Eric Sykes (who co-wrote most of the episodes in Series 5), Maurice Wiltshire and John Antrobus, initially under the supervision of Jimmy Grafton.
The Big Freeze is a 1993 featurette-length film written and directed by Eric Sykes.The action centres on mishaps involving a father and son plumbing team attending to business in sub-zero temperatures at a retirement home in Finland.