- For other meanings of the name, see Eccles
Eccles is the name of a comedy character, created and performed by Spike Milligan, from the 1950s United Kingdom radio comedy series The Goon Show. Terence Alan Patrick Seán Milligan KBE ( 16 April, 1918 &ndash 27 February 2002) known as Spike Milligan, was an Anglo The 1950s Decade refers to the years of 1950 to 1959 inclusive The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Radio is the transmission of signals by Modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible Light. Comedy (from the Greek κωμωδίαkomodia has a popular meaning (any discourse generally intended to amuse especially in Television, Film, and The Goon Show was a British Radio comedy programme originally produced and broadcast by the BBC Home Service from 1951 to 1960 Very occasionally he was referred to as 'Mad Dan' Eccles.
Eccles was one of the show's secondary characters, but like his counterpart Bluebottle (portrayed by Peter Sellers), Eccles became extremely popular and he is regarded as epitomising the show's humour. Bluebottle is a comedy character from the Goon Show, a 1950s British Comedy Radio show. Richard Henry Sellers, CBE, commonly known as Peter Sellers ( 8 September 1925 &ndash 24 July 1980) was a British
Milligan visualised Eccles as a tall, lanky, amiable, well-meaning, but incredibly stupid teenager who often found himself involved — usually alongside Bluebottle — in one of the nefarious schemes created by arch-villain Hercules Grytpype-Thynne. Stupidity (also called fatuity) is the property a Person, action or Belief instantiates by virtue of having or being indicative Hercules Grytpype-Thynne was a character from the British 1950's comedy radio programme The Goon Show.
Physique
Eccles was often referred to as being something other than an ordinary human. Seagoon says of him "He was the nearest thing I had seen to a human being without actually being one" ("The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler (of Bexhill-On-Sea)". In "Lurgi Strikes Britain", in a conversation about how Lurgi could easily kill every human in England, Eccles quips, "Then I'm okay, fellers!" In "The Greenslade Story", Grytpype-Thynne mentions that Eccles is colour-blind, and in another show, Seagoon says of Eccles: "He was living proof that the Piltdown Skull was not a hoax. The "Piltdown Man" is a famous hoax consisting of fragments of a skull and jawbone collected in 1912 from a gravel pit at Piltdown a village near Uckfield "
The Eccles character and his distinctive voicing were strongly influenced by Milligan's childhood love for the classic Walt Disney cartoons and specifically Disney's anthropomorphic buffoon dog character Goofy. Walter Elias Disney (December 5 1901 – December 15 1966 was a multiple Academy Award -winning American Film producer, director, Screenwriter Anthropomorphism is the attribution of uniquely Human characteristics to non-human creatures and beings natural and supernatural phenomena material states and objects A jester, joker, jokester, fool, wit-cracker, prankster, or buffoon is a member of a profession that came into popularity Goofy is an Animated cartoon character from Walt Disney 's Mickey Mouse universe. However Eccles transcended the denseness of Goofy, being instead more like a small child with adult impulses, which may explain his friendship with Bluebottle. His special talent is for taking things he hears literally, with humorous and occasionally insightful results.
Thus:
- Seagoon (finding Eccles in a coal cellar): What are you doing here?
- Eccles: Everybody's gotta be somewhere.
and in the same conversation (from "The Last Goon Show of All"):
- Seagoon: After you deliver the coal, you're supposed to go back to the cart!
- Eccles: You mean I should let go of the sack?
- Seagoon: Yes!
- Eccles: But they said they was givin' me the sack!
During an arctic expedition in "Scradge":
- Seagoon: Now then Dr. The Last Goon Show of All, broadcast on 5 October 1972, was a special edition of the famous BBC Radio show The Goon Show, commissioned as part Eccles, any cases of frozen feet?
- Eccles: You didn't order any cases of frozen feet!
Early cameo at the beginning of "The Great Art Mystery/The Case Of The Fake Neddie Seagoons":
- Eccles: What's going on here!?
- Grytpype-Thynne: Nothing.
- Eccles: Oh I'd better go then.
- Bill: The part of the mysterious stranger was played by Eccles. The rest of him was played by Rawicz and Landauer.
When Milligan wrote The Idiot Weekly, an Australian version of The Goon Show, Eccles often made appearances in the script. The Idiot Weekly ( 1958 - 1962) was a Radio programme made by the Australian Broadcasting Commission. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. The Goon Show was a British Radio comedy programme originally produced and broadcast by the BBC Home Service from 1951 to 1960
Eccles also possessed remarkable stupidity when dealing with physical objects; in "The Greatest Mountain in the World" he describes two sticks of dynamite as "What luck! Two big cigars and they're both lit!"
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