The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine - The Complete Series
One of the premiere comic performers from the second half of the 20th century, Marty Feldman struck a high water mark with his ATV series from the early 1970s: The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine.
The brainchild of M*A*S*H producer Larry Gelbart and co-starring anarchic comedy genius Spike Milligan, these fourteen episodes of mirth and mayhem won the Golden Rose at the 1972 Montreux Festival and features typically Pythonesque graphics by Terry Gilliam.
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Oiling the cogs of Marty's machine is an astounding roll-call of regular players and special guests, including co-writer Milligan, Groucho Marx, Orson Welles, Roger Moore, Yutte Stensgaard, John Junkin and Patricia Hayes, and musical stars Dusty Springfield, Randy Newman, Marsha Hunt and Alan Price.
- Distributor: Network
- Region: 2
- Discs: 4
- Catalogue: 7954360
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The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine | |
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Genre | Comedy |
Written by | Marty Feldman Spike Milligan Barry Levinson Larry Gelbart Rudy De Luca Tim Brooke-Taylor |
Starring | Marty Feldman Spike Milligan John Junkin Hugh Paddick Frances de la Tour Barry Levinson |
Composer | Jack Parnell |
Country of origin | United Kingdom United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 14 |
Production | |
Producer | Larry Gelbart |
Running time | 60 mins (UK) 30 mins (USA) |
Production companies | ATV ABC TV |
Distributor | ITC Entertainment |
Release | |
Original network | ITV (ATV Production) ABC TV |
First shown in | 1 October 1971 (UK) 12 April 1972 (USA) |
The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine is a 1971 comedy-variety sketch series, starring British comedian Marty Feldman.
Co-produced by ATV in the UK and ABC TV in the United States, it was recorded at ATV's Elstree Studios. It features opening and closing credits animated by Terry Gilliam, as well as featuring guest appearances by Spike Milligan, John Junkin and Frances de la Tour. It also featured sketches written by Barry Levinson and Larry Gelbart.
Long unavailable, the complete series was to be released on DVD in the UK through Network on 6 June 2016.[1] However, the release has been postponed indefinitely for unspecified reasons.
References[edit]
- ^'Marty Feldman Comedy Machine (The): The Complete Series'. Network ON AIR. 2015-11-01. Archived from the original on 4 May 2015.
External links[edit]
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- The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine on IMDb