323 Q7

First  viewed  : January  1978

I  watched  this  on  the  recommendation  of  a  school  friend  and  found  it  pretty  funny  although  there  were  only  six  episodes  and  I  don't  recall  at  what  point  I  tuned  in.

Q7  was  confusingly  the  third  in  a  row  of  six  series  of  surrealist  sketch  comedy  written  primarily  by  and  starring  Spike  Milligan.  It  was  filmed  in  front  of  a  live  studio  audience  and  included   many  fluffed  lines  and  a  fair  amount  of  corpsing  including  Milligan  himself. It  also  included  an  incongruous  "straight"  musical  interlude  and  regular  appearances  by  the  spectacularly-endowed  Julia  Breck  The  original  series  Q5  was  an  acknowledged  influence  on  Monty  Python's  Flying  Circus.  

I  don't  recall  tuning  in  for  any  of  the  subsequent  series. Probably  by  then  I'd  become  aware  of  the  Goons  and  all  the  hype  around  them  and  consequently  alienated  from  them  as  individuals  ( Secombe  particularly ).