The Strange World of Gurney Slade (1960)

Name: The Strange World of Gurney Slade
Rating: 8.3

Rating: 8.3

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Synopsis

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.

First Air Date: 1960-10-22

Last Air Date: 1960-11-26

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 6

Created By: Anthony Newley

Networks: ITV1

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Top Cast

Anthony Newley as Gurney Slade
Edwin Richfield as Father
John Bosh as TV viewers - boy
Margaret Cox as Little girl
Bernie Winters as Albert
Una Stubbs as Klean-o girl
Geoffrey Palmer as Floor manager
Hugh Paddick as Fairy
Anneke Wills as Girl on Airfield (as Annika Wills)
Joy Stewart as Mother

Seasons

None (1960)

No overview available for this season.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Episode 1 (1960-10-22)

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.
Ep. 2: Episode 2 (1960-10-29)

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.
Ep. 3: Episode 3 (1960-11-05)

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.
Ep. 4: Episode 4 (1960-11-12)

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?
Ep. 5: Episode 5 (1960-11-19)

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.
Ep. 6: Episode 6 (1960-11-26)

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.