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	Michael Bentine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Michael Bentine (January 26 1922 - November 26 1996) was a comedian, comic actor, and member of the Goons.
		Bentine was born in Watford, of Anglo-Peruvian parentage and grew-up in Folkestone, Kent.
		In World War II he served as an RAF Intelligence officer, and took part in the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
	www.kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Michael_Bentine (222 words)

	Michael Bentine's Potty Time - Nostalgia Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bentine was born in Watford, Hertfordshire, on January 26 1922, the son of a Peruvian immigrant.
		Michael lost the power of speech for 13 years as a child but recovered in time to attend Eton.
		Bentine left after the second series to continue touring in his own show and in 1954 was offered a TV series by the BBC, -a children's puppet series called The Bumblies.
	www.nostalgiacentral.com /tv/kids/pottytime.htm (258 words)

	Television Heaven
		Michael Bentine was born in Watford, Hertfordshire, on 26th January 1922, the son of a Peruvian immigrant who had arrived in Britain at the turn of the century.
		However, Bentine left after the second series to continue touring in his own show and in 1954 was offered a TV series by the BBC, -a children's puppet series called The Bumblies.
		Bentine was supported by what was to become a veritable Who's Who of British TV stars, including Dick Emery, Frank Thornton, Clive Dunn, Deryck Guyler, John Bluthal and Ronnie Barker, all of whom would later become stars in their own right.
	www.televisionheaven.co.uk /square.htm (444 words)

	ROUND THE BEND
		Michael Bentine was one of the original line up of the Goon Show, from the first broadcast in May 1951, until the end of the second series in July 1952.
		Bentine agreed and reused the best bits from the Australian show and wrote the rest with David Nettheim, enlisted to write down his ideas for him, admitting he did not really like doing the typing.
		The cast were Michael Bentine, Benny Lee, David Nettheim, Marie Benson, with announcements made by Ronald Fletcher, music by Nat Temple and his Orchestra, and music arrangement by Ken Thorne.
	www.britishcomedy.org.uk /comedy/rtbend.htm (959 words)

	It's A Square World - Nostalgia Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The latter was the glorious invention of former Goon Michael Bentine and was clearly more acceptable to the BBC than the Goons had been.
		With commendable logic, Bentine stated "Apparently there is a BBC edict that you must show parity to the parties at election time.
		Bentine received a BAFTA award in 1962 for Best Comedy Performance and a compilation show, screened by the BBC in 1963, won the Golden Globe of Montreux.
	www.nostalgiacentral.com /tv/comedy/squareworld.htm (456 words)

	Little Gems - Michael Bentine's Potty time
		Michael Bentine's Potty time was a superbly scripted and produced show about the world of the Potty characters.
		Michael Bentine also starred in and was screen writer on several films, one of which was on the other week - Sandwich Man (1966, also did screenwrite) where he played a wandering advert man called Horace Quilby.
		Sadly Michael Bentine died a short time ago but thankfully we still have access to some his brilliant wit and imagination (outside Radio (where he also became a household name) and Film) in the form of Potty Time.
	www.thechestnut.com /potty.htm (344 words)

	Egobrowser: Michael Bentine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Michael Bentine is Professor Ozric, a scientist who has just invented the bicarbonate bomb.
		Michael Bentine was one of the members of the 'Goons';, which also included Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe.
		Michael Bentine was an English actor and comedy writer.
	blog.outer-court.com /egobrowser/Michael-Bentine.html (98 words)

	Jedi's Paradise - Childrens TV - Michael Bentine's Potty Time
		Michael Bentine was one of the members of the 'Goons', which also included Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe.
		In between the mayhem of the story being told was Michael who would talk to the potties and find out more details of the story.
		Michael did all of the voices of the Potties and one of the most loved Potties was the Invisible Potty.
	www.jedisparadise.co.uk /childrenstv/Potty_Time/Potty_Time.htm (241 words)

	BBC - Comedy Guide - Michael Bentine's Potty Time
		Described by Bentine as 'Mark Two Bumblies', the Pottys embraced the surreal comic's fascination for and with puppets, resulting in 78 truly delightful programmes of entertainment aimed primarily at younger viewers but enjoyed by any adults who happened - whether by misfortune or design - to be around in the daytime.
		They were virtually faceless too, Bentine recognising that, without features, his characters would be free from prejudice since they could be any colour, any nationality, any religion and any age.
		One episode showed the Pottys playing 'drats', described by Bentine as one of Britain's ancient indoor sports, which, with humans in the roles, had been among the highlights of It's A Square World.
	www.bbc.co.uk /comedy/guide/articles/m/michaelbentinesp_7770670.shtml (472 words)

	Michael Bentine -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Michael Bentine -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Michael Bentine (January 26 1922 - November 26 1996) was a comedian, comic actor, and member of the (An aggressive and violent young criminal) Goons.
		He was educated in (A public school for boys founded in 1440; located in Berkshire) Eton College.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mi/michael_bentine.htm (218 words)

	MTV.com - Movies - Michael Bentine
		Along with Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, and Peter Sellers, comedian Michael Bentine was a charter member of the comedy troupe that created the BBC's Crazy People (1951).
		Bentine left the show before the year's end and the following year it became the famous Goon Show, a comedy sketch program that greatly influenced such subsequent sketch series as The Fringe and Monty Python's Flying Circus.
		On his own, Bentine developed a few other television programs and appeared sporadically in British films such as Cookery Nook (1951), Fun at the Movies (1957), and Bachelor of Arts (1969).
	www.mtv.com /movies/person/4891/bio.jhtml (145 words)

	BBC - Comedy Guide - Mike, Phil And Albert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The event owed as much to the heritage of Spike Jones as it did to Bentine's own brand of lunacy, with guns, a pram, a tea-trolley, ping-pong balls and a submarine used along with the more traditional orchestral elements to interpret the works of Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and other composers.
		Along the way Bentine described how Prince Albert had designed the famous hall as the world's largest gasometer, and a fanciful centrepiece had Albert and Queen Victoria duetting on such well-known pieces as 'Tit Willow' and 'The Last Rose Of Summer'.
		Although undoubtedly funny, the event was tinged with a bitter-sweet edge: Bentine conceived the show as a tribute to his son Stuart, who had been killed the previous year in a light aircraft crash.
	www14.thdo.bbc.co.uk /comedy/guide/articles/m/mikephilandalber_1299000271.shtml (219 words)

	The Sandwich Man (1966) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		What marks this day out from the usual routine is that Horace, a pigeon fancier, has a bird due home from a race; hopes and fears for her fuel his peregrinations.
		Michael Bentine is one of the less famous Goons, and there is very little of their absurdist aesthetic here, although a sequence involving a drunken stockbroker running amok in Hyde Park points towards Monty Python.
		This film is less a comedy than an anthology of comedy - each new character Horace meets represents a different kind of comedy, be it verbal, situation, slapstick, farce etc. (perhaps mirroring 'Ulysses'' mode of narration).
	www.imdb.com /Title?0060936 (586 words)

	ClassicComedy.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Our aim is to extend the reach of the comedy we represent into all forms of use outside of the traditional broadcast model to gain new audiences, wider recognition for the artists involved - and generate income for all concerned.
		Michael Bentine’s much-loved Thames TV children’s animation series Michael Bentine’s Potty Time (U) was finally released by Network on 26th January 2004.
		Bentine’s highly imaginative and zany series follows the lives of short, stumpy, virtually faceless and legless people called The Pottys.
	classiccomedy.net (244 words)

	Movie Database - [TV Guide Online] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The two longest stories involve a romance between a car salesman and a model; and the adventures of Bentine as he is about to enter his racing pigeon in an important competition.
		Other players (most lasting only a few minutes apiece) include Holloway as a park gardener; Terry Thomas as a rather inept scout leader; and Chaplin (son of Charlie) as a beatnik artist.
		Bentine, who co-wrote the screenplay with the film's director, was a popular English television comedian of the day.
	online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=19161 (169 words)

	Encyclopedia: Michael Bentine
		The Goon Show was a hugely popular and extremely influential British radio comedy programme, which was originally produced and broadcast by the BBC from 1951 to 1960 on the BBC Home Service.
		Michael Bentines Potty Time was a long-running childrens show made by Themes TV.
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	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Michael-Bentine (836 words)

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	The Bumblies
		Bumbly Two was the fattest and most jovial of the trio, and Bumbly Three was the dim one, who always got things wrong (and was similar to the Eccles character which Michael had already made famous in The Goons).
		In the course of the series Michael played Pirates with them, using a large pirate ship, which they conjured out of thin air by a thought process using their invention, the Bumblescope.
		They also played Cowboys and Indians, with costumes and props conjured up by the same process, and they followed this by playing King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, with jousting Bumblies riding on roller skates.
	www.whirligig-tv.co.uk /tv/children/bumblies/bumblies.htm (1230 words)

	Bluebottle of the Goons
		We were told that he was a very active and enterprising scout leader, one who knew lots of well-known people including Michael Bentine, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan.
		The Michael Parkinson interview of 28 October, 1972 in which Peter Sellers tells of his meeting with the scoutmaster whom he copied for the character Bluebottle is hilarious.
		It was released on vinyl lp as 'Michael Parkinson Meets the Goons' by BBC records and tapes.
	home.no.net /rrpriddy/Nos/Goon.html (600 words)

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	Film Threat - Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1952, the four original stars of "The Goon Show" (Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine) were recruited to appear in a movie.
		Michael Bentine would later recall that director Maclean Rogers would only allow one take per scene, and the threat of wrecking the budget with a blown line or awkward sight gag may explain why these wacky radio comics often seemed so subdued on camera.
		Bentine left the Goons shortly after this film was completed and the level of his participation has never been fully appreciated because the majority of the radio episodes featuring him are believed to be lost.
	www.filmthreat.com /Features.asp?Id=1065 (1293 words)

	Weird Wiltshire - Ghosts Archive
		Florrie the Avebury ghost has put the frighteners on ex-Goon Michael Bentine.
		When Bentine turned up at the Red Lion pub in the High Street, to make a programme of spooky tales for HTV, Florrie left him in no doubt she was displeased.
		When Anne and her husband Pat took over the pub in April, they were told the bearded landlord before last had been shaving when the mirror came off the wall and smashed him in the face.
	www.weirdwiltshire.co.uk /ghosts/201095.html (296 words)

	The Goons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Goon Show starred Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe with Michael Bentine also starring in the first two series (until July 1952).
		Other regulars in the show were Max Geldray, Wallace Greenslade and the Ray Elllington Quartet.
		After the Goons, as well as acting in occasional movies and TV shows, Michael Bentine wrote several books, both fiction and non-fiction.
	www.menziesera.com /people/goons.shtml (634 words)

	BBC - Comedy Guide - Goonreel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A 'Goon' version of a television newsreel, with the famous radio comics bringing their particular brand of surreal mayhem to the small-screen.
		The programme publicity announced, in true Goon style, that the show was 'devised, presented, directed and produced by Mr Claude Boote assisted by Michael Mills'.
		There had been a previous plan to bring the Goons' humour to the small-screen, with a show titled Trial Gallop, scheduled to air on 13 February 1952.
	www14.thdo.bbc.co.uk /comedy/guide/articles/g/goonreel_7774295.shtml (149 words)

	Amazon.ca: Video: Down Among the Z Men [IMPORT] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Although they made their name in the medium of radio, the legendary Goons also made brief forays into the world of television and, with Down Among the Z Men, film.
		Z Men captures the team at a very early stage in their career, with Michael Bentine still in the fold, and with their unique, anarchic brand of humor still in its infancy.
		The plot is pretty meager, concerning two thieves who want to steal an atomic formula from Michael Bentine.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004CIRI (444 words)

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