Bob Monkhouses Mad Movies

[Neil Lambess]

do any episodes of this show still exist?

it was a compilation of old film and tv footage narrated in a humourous vein by Bob Monkhouse and it screened here in new zealand in the late 60,s early 70,s

the reason im asking is its a good source of possible missing clips.... I can recall my first sigting of FIREBALL XL5 footage as been from this show as well as Daleks been made fun of......

any thoughts?

[Gareth R]

There's a good chance that it exists in full as part of the private Monkhouse film collection - it certainly did when he wrote his autobiography in 1993.

I wouldn't get too excited about the prospect of missing footage, however; according to said autobiography, it was almost entirely comprised of clips from silent movies rather than contemporary programmes.

[Laurence Piper]

I remembeer watching this series myself. It was an early independent production, although screened by Rediffusion (in the London area at least). The show featured Bob presenting clips from silent movies almost exclusively (e.g. Buster Keaton, Chaplin etc). I recall that the end titles gave a credit for De Lane Lea post-production, if that's of any use. I have a feeling the Monkhouse collection will include this in it.