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, who died yesterday at the age of 74, made his name as one of the Goons in the mould-breaking radio comedy show which ran from 1949-60, appearing with Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and ...

Michael Bentine's Potty Time was a long-running British children's show, starring Michael Bentine, and directed and produced by Leon Thau for Thames Television on ITV. It ran from 1973 to 1980. The ...

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,” ...

The widow of Goons star Michael Bentine is suing their daughter in a bitter row over two buy-to-let flats. Clementina, the comedian’s wife of more than 50 years, has accused her daughter Serena of ...

Fans of Monty Python and Benny Hill can now download some of their classic TV moments on the internet, thanks to the son of former Goon Show star Michael Bentine. More than 70 clips, most of them free ...

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 ...

Bentine, one of the four original members of The Goon Show, died Tuesday in London. He was 72. He had prostate cancer. Bentine starred with Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe in Crazy ...

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 ...