The photo is from the Australian Radio version of the show The Idiot Weekly (price 2d) was a tatty Victorian tabloid run by Peter Sellers and each week its headlines were used as a convenient link for a number of off-the-wall sketches featuring Sellers and Spike Milligan, who also wrote a majority of the scripts. However, Associated London Scripts, a co-operative of talented scriptwriters of whom Milligan was a member, also contributed. The rest of the team was comprised of John Antrobus, Eric Merriman, Brad Ashton, Lew Schwarz, Dick Barry, Dave Freeman, Ray Galton, Alan Simpson, John Junkin, Terry Nation, Johnny Speight and Eric Sykes, although it is unlikely that they all contributed. Sykes appeared in front of the cameras as did Valentine Dyall (radios infamous 'Man in Black'), Kenneth Connor, Graham Stark, June Whitfield, Patti Lewis and Max Geldray. The series ran for five episodes until April 1956. Notes. Associated London Scripts, given a writing credit on the series, was a co-operative based in London W12 that encompassed the writing talents of, at this time, John Antrobus, Brad Ashton, Dick Barry, Dave Freeman, Ray Galton, John Junkin, Eric Merriman, Spike Milligan, Terry Nation, Lew Schwarz, Alan Simpson, Johnny Speight and Eric Sykes. Beryl Vertue, the office manager, also enjoyed a long and distinguished career in TV comedy, producing Men Behaving Badly fully 40 years after becoming involved with ALS. . | ||
