Great to find this superb interview , must be 50 years ago . Spike Milligan , forever my greatest hero of comedy .

A true legend, one of the funniest ever,if you can laugh and giggle at Spike you are on the right road.

Spike Milligan talks so much sense. I agree 100% about children, and animals, and Western Society.The guy was ahead of his times.

one of the great human beings sadly missed

Dimbleby makes a subtle nuanced job of this, keeps Spike on track without making him defensive. So incisive and gently illuminating. Shows the roots of an absolute genius.

I've seen many of Spike's interviews before but I think this is the closest that we have ever gotten to the real Spike Milligan. No funny voices, larking about, playing to the cameras, just Spike as Terrance (Spike) Milligan, human being.

real happiness is getting up opening your window and seeing rain - beautiful

A wonderful interview. Milligan is so open and honest. And for once, serious ... ! It isn't a performance. And Dimbo - he was so much softer then. Now he's an old cross-patch on Question Time. He really coaxed something marvellous out of Spike.

Enjoyable and very interesting interview. Thank you.

I think Spike explained in a nutshell how ex army vets end up on the streets because they didn’t manage to adapt to civvy street.

I must agree with several other commentators here in that Dimbelby was the wrong interviewer. Someone with an ounce of empathy, and a sense of humour, could have relaxed Spike and produced a better interview, but hat off to Spike for being so tolerant with this amateur. Would his interviewing career even have started had it not been for the influence of his famous father?

He was an amazing funny, witty GENIUS ! xxx. ( who got an Irish Passport, ☘️. 🤗😂. ☘️

I love him As all Brilliant men. He is his own man. Not many of them either !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Been an ardent Goon fan for decaded. Wonderful sharing by Spike in this interview. Got tired of interviewer pushing the "look how difficult you are to work with" line. Not surprised Peter Sellers didn't understand Spike - Peter was a thoroughly mixed-up guy. The woman who deceived the understudy by senting a telegram as if it were from Spike had no right to be upset when Spike shone a light on her deception. I was very impressed by what appeared to me to be Spike straining to answer every question, even the many intrusive ones, with openness and sincerity.

“If you get nice, then people walk all over you.” 17:27

Wonderful insight into Spike Milligan.

Really very interesting. Honest answers.

Hello, Id like to purchase a Spike Milligan please. Sorry, they dont make them anymore. ✌🏽

Amazing wonderful man RIP.

What a man!

That interviewer should be relegated to a leftest panel where everyone wants to talk at the same time and ignore anyone that makes sense with their answers because they're not as biased as the BBC. ...Sorry Mr. Milligan. Thank you for brightening my life.

...what a brilliant genius...and a serious interviewer

Wonderful & true Human . Rip

What a cruel paradox that someone who gave us so much laughter and joy didn’t feel happiness himself.

Really enjoyed this Gazzaka thanks, never heard of him, but was just browsing your channel. cheers

one of the greats!

One of my heroes!

Truth teller rare to find nowadays...

An honest interview. I understand Spike a little bit more.

Forever Goon but never forgotten.

Legend.. put him in the curry!

Wot a wonderful man

Marvelous.

love this interview....so funny as usual

4:10 Spike: And I liked it because they had a sung mass in Latin. And there was also an Indian priest who said the mass in Tamil. And I used to get the giggles because it sounded just like this: iggidybuggery, iggidybuggery

My hero when I was growing up. I don't think I have at the age of 70.

For all those criticising Dimbleby: no, his questions aren't scripted; he reacts to what Spike says, and as you can see sometimes that's difficult. I'm guessing those commentors are not from the UK and don't pick up in the nuances. As for Spike himself - lovely man, means well, comic and writing genius but clearly a high-functioning sociopath. I'm a huge fan of his work, but (maybe due to his childhood, or the army experiences) he doesn't see himself as part of our current society. In my opinion, a good decision. I'm with him in terms of not wanting to be part of this awful western materialistic culture, the truth lies not in Twitter, Instagram and Facebook but in the spring bloom, the birds nesting, the rain falling, the sun setting

We of average IQ would be back in the stone age if it wasn't for the individual of 120 IQ or above. Spike is right.

Whenever I watch Spike being interviewed I always wonder how much of a influence Spike had on Robin Williams, not only do I think Williams shared the same manouuresms as Spike I also think he looks like Spike.

Thank you Gaza . ..!

wow that was amazing i think the same about the world

what a geezer, a real geezer - of coursse because he had suffered. no escape from that one - everyone suffers. Could makeus stronger or destroy us -Hello something more starlighty

Type in Spike Milligan Room 101

Sad I am 36 with the mental illness as he had. Like him on Lithium. There doesn't seem to be much improvement for the illness since Spike's lifetime. My partner says I can be a nightmare to live with. But also super. I throw myself into things- at times. But I don't like people- clinical only. Wish I had his way with humour. I struggle and my only desire is a shiort life.

Any info? What year,, David Dimbleby looks really young? BBC or ITV?

im not feeling too good myself

Will we ever see his like again, or, that of his contemporaries: Sykes, Sellers, Secombe and Arthur Haynes, Dick Emery, Morcambe and Wise. I suppose present society is incapable of producing anything but telly trash, Twitter twatter, etc., where poor beahaviour masquerades as wit...no stage or Music Hall training, years on the road and of course WWII created the foundation of personality, milieu and experience that shaped these guys' characters..

It was quite a harsh interview.

Very interesting that Seller’s said Spike was a woman hater when it was Sellers who was not only a domestic abuser but definitely a woman hater. Talk about projecting your own faults onto somebody else.

It was Michael Bentine who drove people Potty in the 70's as I remember not this bloke?

Living proof that the line between madness and genius is often just a line.

'Genius' is a word that's applied far too liberally.

Ffs Poor man.

Why does the interviewer use the word Pommies for soldiers, as though he's not British himself?

He was my cousin

Seems such a mean-spirited format. Like a psychotherapy session, something that should be very private.

what year is this from?

David Dumbbellby, still as wooden and totally lacking in any actual interview skills as ever - reading the scripted questions as flatly as possible has always been his limit. Even his rare observations are obvious to all, three weeks before they dawn on him

What an embarrassing appalling interview. Why Spike dignified some of the questions with an answer is beyond me.