Spike Milligan's 'Q' was a surreal television comedy sketch show which ran from 1969 to 1982 on BBC Two. The first and third series ran for seven episodes, with the remainder running for six episodes, each of which was 30 minutes long. Each series was numbered, starting with Q5 — possibly because the project to construct the Cunard liner QE2, launched in September 1967, was dubbed Q4 — and continuing in ascending order, through to Q9. The final series was renamed There's a Lot of It About, after, according to Milligan's autobiography, the BBC felt the public might find Q10 too confusing. Though many found it to be more "hit and miss" than Milligan's earlier work, especially The Goon Show, it is considered by many to be one of the landmarks in British comedy, in particular Q5, which preceded Monty Python's Flying Circus. Q5 first aired on 24 March 1969 — a matter of months before Flying Circus — and is seen by many as a forerunner to it. The Pythons themselves remember that, having seen... more