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Pioneering, imaginative TV comedy
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(Series Cast Summary - 2 of 4) | Anthony Newley | ... | Gurney Slade (5 episodes, 1960) |
| Bernie Winters | (5 episodes, 1960) |
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30 min (6 Episodes)
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Anthony Newley insisted that his childhood friend Bernie Winters be cast as the only other regular performer on the show
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A pioneering comedy series, postmodernist before there was such a thing, and a wonderful demonstration of Anthony Newley's genius in the art of self-mockery.
The Newley character, playing the lead in a ghastly domestic soap opera, suddenly walks off the set in disgust, but to his horror finds he can't escape the cameras.
A slight, pathetic figure in a shabby raincoat, he wanders about London - seen and unseen - talking to himself, a dog, a dustbin, dancing with a girl who's come down from an advertising poster... He's looking for some answers, but finds the world is surreal, absurd, trivial and bewildering. Like Alice.
The theme tune - wistful but jaunty - (which Newley summons up with a piano-playing action of the hand) - expresses his character unforgettably.
The series probably altered the history of comedy, and forty years on we still get allusions to it in advertisements.