Parkinson In Australia - Guests: Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, Gough Whitlam (Aired: 6.6.1981)

[@WesternAustraliaNowAndThen]

There will never again be people like Milligan and Secombe. I grew up watching them and they were just magic.

[@Paleos1000]

My sister worked in the hotel industry a while ago. Sir Harry Secombe (also known as Sir Cumference) was staying at the hotel where she worked, and she said he was a wonderful kindly man. He sang for the love of it and indeed sang at the bar for several nights running into the early hours of the morning. Unpaid, just for fun.

[@ErgonBill]

Love how Milligan took his humour to the grave. His epitaph translates from Irish Gaelic to read, 'I told you I was ill'.

[@WesternAustraliaNowAndThen]

Yesterday I had to go into hospital for a colonoscopy. I had wonderful professional service and apart for the Medicare levy that I paid as part of yearly income tax, I was not charged one red cent. That was in large part due to the vision of Gough Whitlam. Medibank transformed into Medicare and has been a life saver over decades for millions of Australians.

[@danrobinson572]

Great Saturday morning now thanks 🙏 Laurie.

[@n0tethe]

What what what what what! Thank you so much for uploading this!

[@diplomamilldoc8562]

Sir Harry Secombe is right up there with excellent tenors. Listen to his Nessun Dorma.

[@richardpentelow5111]

Well, no, but a fine sentiment. 😊😊

[@MERISI001]

Spike and Harry were national treasures. We'll never see anything like them again.

[@larryhaden1706]

“See ya brought the old spittoon then” creased me!

[@me-cq7wv]

Maybe GOON but never forgotten.

[@wadeconnell1493]

I haven't ordered the sausages yet....brilliant.

[@pmkaka]

Brilliant interview -- '' Newspapers overseas ' This leader was like Corbyn- had a bad media

[@barrycuda3769]

I wish politicians still looked like Whitlam.

[@alec1113]

Spike milligan , funny funny man

[@savvasperisanidis]

The great Gough Whitlam

[@keithmitchell3282]

Spike is another very famous Australian

[@63mckenzie]

Australia gave him a home, unlike Britain.

[@andycapp5581]

My god how wooden is Parkinson! Someone call me a lumberjack 😂

[@henrysmith883]

Yeh well you’re very much in the minority, as the huge newspaper coverage after his death shows. He was the best ever.

[@EmmaRiddle543]

He was well loved by just about everybody and is still missed greatly. He was a journalist and incredible interviewer and game show host ( give us a clue). He done proper interviews unlike todays shows which are more like game shows and advertising.

[@63mckenzie]

Absolute disgrace what Britain did to Milligan.

[@nicholasroberts6954]

Whitlam makes a sizeable proportion of todays offerings Worldwide look like midgets.

[@fatso8437]

Spike and Harry together - God bless

[@hamlltonhope8123]

They can't make TV like this today, there is simply not the talent. Basile Faulty may return to our screens if John Cleese plans eventuate, still laughing at the thought the Germans wanted to their version of Faulty Towers.

[@stoneworx09]

the old labor was good once, when it was all about a fair days work, for a fair days pay....now it is jet setting albo and all his cohorts.

[@Andrew-el8xi]

He looked old then !!