Spike appeared on the stage at various times

  "Treasure Island" at the Mermaid - December 13th 1961 - February 10th 1962 Spike played the part of the halfcrazy Ben Gunn - who knows about the treasure.

Reviewed briefly in the Februry 1962 edition of Theatre World, Spikes performance was described as -  'Suffice to say that Spike Milligan's Benn Gunn delights the children, while Sean Scully is an imperturbable Jim.'

Most of us cut our teeth on the Goons, Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, et al, and have fond memories of that sense of the riduculous that pervaded those sketches which stretched our imaginations to the boundary, when we could say "I can relate to that!" Words crept into our vocabulary which made no sense to those who weren't fans of theirs.

They gave a new horizon to our perspective of how we view life, and for us it has remained to keep us sane! There seems to be a 'safety valve' within us that switches on when things get tough which we turn to, and from which all great comedy seems to spring from.