There are some significant figures in British comedy who seem to have been, more by carelessness than calculation, airbrushed out of its history. Michael Bentine is one of those unfortunate people.

The late Michael Bentine recalls the first Goon Show, recorded at Broadcasting House in London on Sunday 27 May 1951. Bentine recalls the first Goon Show. Video, 00:00:57Bentine recalls the first Goon ...

Michael Bentine, 72, one of the four original members of “The Goon Show,” died of prostate cancer Tuesday. Mr. Bentine starred with Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe in “Crazy People,” ...

BBC Radio 4 Extra marks the 20th anniversary of the death of comic Michael Bentine (26 January 1922-26 November 1996), one of the founding members of The Goons, along with Spike Milligan, Harry ...

The Sandwich Man is like a documentary in drag. Michael Bentine, who wrote the screenplay with the director, Robert Hartford-Davis, seeks to give a picture of London and some of the wayout, curious ...

Michael Bentine has died several times but never on stage. Jackie McGlone discovers why the paranormal isn't out of the ordinary. WHO is Michael Bentine, asked a 19-year-old of my acquaintance. Oh, ...

It’s 1995, Peter Sellers is dead, Michael Bentine is dying, Spike Milligan says no but one Goon steps into the breach… As a jobbing freelance writer in the autumn of 1995 I was commissioned by Radio 4 ...

Bringing Goons-style humour down to infant level (but without diluting a certain spark of bonkers genius), Michael Bentine s Thames Television series appears here in its 26-episode entirety. Decked ...

Michael Bentine is one of those unfortunate people. He was a co-founder of The Goons, and yet, when The Goons get mentioned these days, he is usually overlooked. He was an award-winning pioneer of ...

Written by Michael Bentine and produced by Jamie Rix, this was a one man sketch show, first broadcast in 1984 as The Best of Bentine. He played a range of characters from a great Tibetan mystic to the ...