British Comedy

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More from Spike Milligan's sketch show, this is listed as Episode 1 on You tube, but checking on the toplessreview site (where I find out a lot of the important info about which actresses have gone nude, or just what TV programme has nudity), the two sketches I have from this video listed them from Ep 3 and 5. So you'll just have to trust You tube for the reference to which episode this is from for now.

The scenes from this episode involve a shadow puppeteer doing hand work on a cinema screen involving an unknown actress, then a doctor's sketch with Val Penny (the sketch before that follows this was only included as I thought it was the same woman and you don't really see the face of the patient), then a sketch involving Linzi Drew and a cash machine, before what I believe is Val Penny again as a police woman in a sketch where Spike's copper turns out the lights so the culprit can return stolen goods, only for them to find their clothes have been stripped instead. Considering how depressing life is at the moment, this offers up some surreal light hearted relief. Enjoy.

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This video comes from Episode 2 of Spike Milligan's There's a Lot of It About (1982), and is a holiday sketch involving Spike as David Attenborough exploring the mysteries of Stonehenge, but holidaying in Hawaii as "it looks better surroundings." It's a great satirical point on the BBC wasting expenses on free trips abroad while doing programmes about England, and a possible dig at David Attenborough's own many excursions while lecturing about the planet years before it's time. However, the most important issue in this video for admirers of the female flesh is the nudity involved, and among the topless girls featured is Linzi Drew, who appears as his secretary and is mostly topless throughout, including on a plane. It would also fall foul of the PC brigade nowadays - some of Spike's material really IS eye raising at times - but for fans of nudity in comedy, it's remarkable to see it so brazen on TV in 1982.

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Finishing off from what I could find of Spike Milligan's There's a Lot of It About series from 1982, this is purportedly from Episode 3, and sketches involving nudity include one about a woman who for every wrong answer has items of her furniture removed - including the bath with her daughter in it! Then a scene involving Spike in bed with a topless dark haired girl who decides to say it with flowers. She is fully naked, but unfortunately it's too dark to see much full frontal of her. It's not the last clip I have from the manic world of Spike Milligan, but it is from the TV series There's a Lot of It About.

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A couple of sketches from Milligan in Autumn from 1972. The quality of the video is sadly not top notch, due to the fact that Spike Milligan is rarely ever repeated, so an old recording. It is also in B&W, but it is how I found it online, and also back in the 1970's the Unions did have a habit of striking, so anytime they were doing that the programmes would be broadcast in B&W, so this could be why Milligan in Summer is in colour and this is not.

The first sketch involves a group of priests in a surreal competition where a naked woman lies in full view of them and whoever resists the most from touching her wins that round. The other sketch is a very dark spoofing of Blue Peter, which involves Madeline Smith as one of the presenters and involves strip poker, bondage and S&M! I'll leave you to just watch the sketch for it's utter strangeness, but it does involve Madeline stripped to just skimpy underwear. This is the last of what I have from Spike Milligan, though I do have another video to add here sometime tomorrow hopefully. And for those who wish to see even more of Madeline, then here are a couple of stills from Up Pompeii (1971), including a rare shot of her bum (as apparently she hated showing her bum for some reason). Enjoy.

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This video comes from The Howerd Confessions (1976), a short lived TV series where each week Frankie Howerd told viewers of an incident that he ended up getting embroiled in. This clip comes from Episode 5, and features a surprisingly revealing showing of former Avengers star Linda Thorson, who plays the wife of Frankie's old Sgt Major. Frankie ends up at the house, only for her to come down and find him there, appearing in a see through negligee that you can clearly see her breasts through. If you can't believe it, neither can Frankie. "Can you see what I think I can see?" he asks, but yes, she is (practically) topless. And it seems that she is a 'neglected wife', as she is more concerned with getting Frankie into bed than calling the police. Unfortunately for Frankie, soon after her husband comes home early...

This is the last that I have in my folder concerning TV comedy, but feel free to add your own to the thread to keep it going. Meanwhile, just enjoy.

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Great stuff from Bounci, thought I'd add a few more Spike Milligan clips I have. First up it's Janet Rossini in a few clips from "Oh In Colour". Which, ironically, now only exists in black & white thanks to the BBC deleting tapes.

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Then from Q6 there's an unidentified guard at a prisoner of war camp, and a better quality version of the Margaret Nolan sketch already posted (though just of Margaret's parts).

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Originally Posted by spooled

Then from Q6 there's an unidentified guard at a prisoner of war camp, and a better quality version of the Margaret Nolan sketch already posted (though just of Margaret's parts).

Thanks Spooled. I'm glad there are members happy to keep this thread going, and nice to see a better quality video of Margaret Nolan. Spike Milligan is certainly an acquired taste at times, but he knew with the amount of nudity he had in his shows, he was always going to pull in the viewers!

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I'll have a look through what I've got and see what else could go in this thread. Firstly here's Candy Davis pretending to be a streaker at a snooker match from an episode of OTT, and then also in Are You Being Served getting her dress blown up.

If you search her name then there's a couple more clips of her on OCC, including her appearance in a miss nude contest (pictured below). She was always worth a look.

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A couple of scenes from the BluRay release of this classic comedy, including the one where Carol's bra is ripped off by a cactus. Sadly shot from behind.

I read an interview where she said she was supposed to be running towards the camera, but that a crowd had formed to watch the filming and she asked them to let her run the other way. Selfish crowd. I've included a picture of her properly topless to try and compensate.