"I am a walking television show."

The Strange World of Gurney Slade

TV Show196024dkstar8.3(3)trending_up2
ComedySci-Fi & Fantasy
Creator:Anthony Newley

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.

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StatusEnded
First AiredOctober 22, 1960
Last AiredNovember 26, 1960
Episode Runtime24dk
Seasons1
Episodes6
TypeScripted
Origin CountryUnited Kingdom
Original LanguageEnglish
Spoken LanguagesEnglish

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ITV1
Episode 6
Last Episode

S1 E611/26/1960

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.

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BrownSTHLM

Anthony Newley was so far ahead of his time in 1960 when he made this show, that it is still boggles the mind 66 years later. The premise of the show at its start was already pretty wacky. An actor in a run of the mill comedy/soap opera style show leaves the show in the middle of shooting and we follow him out of the studio and into his aimless wandering around as he interacts with various charact…

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