The Melting Pot (television programme)
The Melting Pot was an ill-fated television situation comedy on BBC in 1975.
It starred Spike Milligan, and was written by him and Neil Shand.
Milligan played Mr. Van Gogh, one of two Asian illegal immigrants shown as landing on a beach in Britain, and making it to a district of London known as "the melting pot" in the first episode.
It was supposed to be a series of six episodes, but was cancelled after the screening of the first episode and the remaining five have never been broadcast. It was considered by some to handle racial issues in an insensitive way.
Cast
- Spike Milligan as Mr Van Gogh: an illegal Pakistani immigrant
- John Bird as Mr Rembrandt: Van Gogh's son, also an illegal immigrant
- Frank Carson as Paddy O'Brien: an Irish Republican landlord and coalman
- Alexandra Dane as Nefertiti Skupinski: O'Brien's voluptuous, South African-bred daughter
- Wayne Brown as Luigi O'Reilly: a black Yorkshireman
- Harry Fowler as Eric Lee Fung: a Chinese cockney spiv
- John Bluthal as Richard Armitage: an Orthodox London Jew
- Anthony Brothers as Sheik Yamani: an Orthodox Arab who speaks with a Scots accent as he's been learning banking at the Bank of Scotland, Peckham
- Robert Dorning as Colonel Grope: an ex-Indian Army, alcoholic racialist
- Bill Kerr as Bluey Notts: an Australian bookie's clerk, a crude racialist
See also
References
- Lewisohn, Mark (1998). The Radio Times Guide To TV Comedy. ISBN 0-563-36977-9.
- Milligan, Spike; Shand, Neil (1983). The Melting Pot. London: Robson Books. ISBN 0-86051-195-2.
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