Was Mrs Whitehouse right?

One of my boyhood heroes was the comic Spike Milligan, a manic-depressive eccentric who consistently broke the rules of TV comedy, and came to exert a powerful influence on successive generations of "alternative" comedians, from Monty Python onwards.

My favourites of his shows were the Q-series on BBC2, which began in 1969 with Q5. The shows were brilliantly anarchic compilations of (sometimes unfinished) sketches featuring memorable creations such as The First Irish Rocket to the Moon, the Pakistani Daleks, the Cock-A-knees (cockneys) and Adolph Hitler doing an impression of George Formby.