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The Melting Pot (TV series)

The Melting Pot is a British television situation comedy starring Spike Milligan. It was written by Milligan and his regular collaborator Neil Shand. The pilot episode was broadcast only once by BBC1 in June 1975, with a full series recorded for transmission in August 1976, but never broadcast.

Cast
• Spike Milligan as Mr Van Gogh: an illegal Pakistani immigrant • John Bird as Mr Rembrandt: Van Gogh's son, also an illegal immigrant • Frank Carson as Paddy O'Brien: an Irish Republican landlord and coalman • Alexandra Dane as Nefertiti Skupinski: landlady and O'Brien's voluptuous, South African-bred daughter • Wayne Brown as Luigi O'Reilly: a black Yorkshireman (listed as a Coloured North countryman in the Radio Times) • Harry Fowler as Eric Lee Fung: a Chinese cockney spivJohn Bluthal as Richard Armitage: an Orthodox London Jew • Anthony Brothers as Sheik Yamani: an Orthodox Arab who speaks with a Scots accent as he has been learning banking at the Bank of Scotland, Peckham • Robert Dorning as Colonel Grope: an ex-Indian Army, alcoholic racialist • Bill Kerr as Bluey Notts: an Australian bookie's clerk, a crude racialist • Alister Williamson as the Australian bookie • Freddie Earrle as an Orthodox Jew • Rita Webb as the daily help == See also ==
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