The Strange World of Gurney Slade ambient background
CinebyCineby
The Strange World of Gurney Slade backdrop

The Strange World of Gurney Slade

The Strange World of Gurney Slade
★ 8.3/10•1960•24m•Comedy•Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Similars

I am a walking television show.

Anthony Newley stars as an actor who walks off the set of a banal sit-com and into a fantasy world of his own imagination in this surreal odyssey through one man's personal alternative reality.

Sid Green · Writer

Dick Hills · Writer

Anthony Newley · Writer

Alan Tarrant · Director

StatusEnded
Runtime24m
LanguageEN
First Air DateOct 22, 1960

Episodes

Episode 1 - Episode 1E124m

Episode 1

Gurney Slade breaks the fourth wall and leaves the set during a live broadcast - much to the consternation of the cast and floor manager. He sets off on a wistful odyssey into leafy West London.

Oct 22, 1960

Episode 2 - Episode 2E225m

Episode 2

Gurney gets tongue tied on an airfield, conducts a lineup of prospective amoureuses, breaks up a family, tells a baby there is no such thing as Santa Claus, is granted a wish by a fairy and builds a woman from mannequin parts.

Oct 29, 1960

Episode 3 - Episode 3E326m

Episode 3

In the countryside, Gurney commentates an ant boxing match, spots an interesting signpost, tries to hoodwink a well, has a bone to pick with Bonaparte, sings Greensleeves with a scarecrow, chats to an alluring cow and (almost) witnesses a crime de coeur.

Nov 5, 1960

Episode 4 - Episode 4E429m

Episode 4

Gurney finds himself on trial for having no sense of humour. After releasing his ex-music-hall performer brief, the jury is shown a filmed sequence of Gurney Slade's alleged comedy by the prosecution. Various witnesses are cross-examined before the jury reaches its verdict. Will our hero prevail or lose his head?

Nov 12, 1960

E530m

Episode 5

A group of children are told about a land where people can be their best, a wedding guest is left puzzled when a lady friend has a change of heart, and rubbing a tinker's pot forces Gurney to take a trip into his own mind.

Nov 19, 1960

E630m

Episode 6

Gurney finds that he's seen as nothing more than a performing machine, the characters he's created wonder what's going to become of them, and the cast decide to have a bit of a rave in their last ten minutes together.

Nov 26, 1960

Actors

Anthony Newley

Anthony Newley

Gurney Slade

Recommendations

The Mighty Boosh
Harry Hill's TV Burp
The Goodies
Mork & Mindy
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Now Apocalypse
The Eric Andre Show
The Young Ones
Aunty Donna's Big Ol House of Fun
Red vs. Blue
That's So Raven
Zapped
My Hero
Red Dwarf
Ghosts
Futurama
Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories
I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Big Train

Similars

Jetelín
Legend of Mana -The Teardrop Crystal-
Time of Eve
15 Storeys High
Greg the Bunny
Watching Ellie
PanMáma
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation
Broad City
Mystery Girls
Too Something
FM
American Dreamer
Monty Python's Flying Circus
The John Larroquette Show
Boston Common
Son of the Beach
Flatbush
Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina
The Brady Brides