of the characters and situations were reused in Milligan's novel The Looney. Tiswas – 1981 edition. Guest appearing along with Peter Cook in Kenny Everett's Christmas Show in 1985. Playing a moaning stranger in an episode from 1987 of In Sickness and in Health. Narrator of The Ratties (1987), a children's cartoon series written by Mike Wallis and Laura Milligan, Spike's daughter. The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town ran as a serial in The Two Ronnies in the 1970s. Special guest star of edition of 18 January 1979 of The Muppet Show. Guest star in the 3rd episode of the award-winning BBC Scotland drama series Takin' Over the Asylum (1994). Narrated the 1995 TV show Wolves, Witches and Giants. A cartoon based on the book of the same name, it retold classic tales such as Little Red Riding Hood and Cinderella, but with a twist. The programme won the 1995 Royal Television Society award for Best Children's Entertainment, and was nominated for the same award again in 1997. Guest on Series 4, Episode 3 of Room 101 in 1999. Theatre Treasure Island (1961, 1973–1975) The Bedsitting Room (1963, 1967), written by Milligan and John Antrobus Oblomov opened at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, in 1964. It was based on the Russian classic by Ivan Goncharov, and gave Milligan the opportunity to play most of the title role in bed. Unsure of his material, on the opening night he improvised a great deal, treating the audience as part of the plot almost, and he continued in this manner for the rest of the run, and on tour as 'Son of Oblomov'. The show ran at the Comedy Theatre in London's West End in 1965. Badjelly's Bad Christmas was a play created and performed by the Chickenshed Theatre Company using the works of Spike Milligan and his characters. Filmography Books Goon Show The Goon Show Scripts (1972) More Goon Show Scripts (1973) The Book of the Goons (1974) The Goon Cartoons (1982) (illustrated by Peter Clarke) More Goon Cartoons (1983) (illustrated by Peter Clarke) The Lost Goon Shows (1987) Novels Puckoon (1963) The Looney: An Irish Fantasy (1987) The Murphy (2000) William McGonagall The Great McGonagall Scrapbook (1975) (with Jack Hobbs) William McGonagall: The Truth at Last (1976) (with Jack Hobbs) William McGonagall Meets George Gershwin: A Scottish Fantasy (1988) (with Jack Hobbs) William McGonagall: Freefall (1992) (with Jack Hobbs) "According