The Strange World of Gurney Slade

[George the original one]

Gurney Slade (played by Anthony Newly) walks off a sitcom set and into a world where rocks, dogs, cows, garbage cans, babies, & ants speak to consider the topics of life. He's looking for answers, but finds the world is surreal, absurd, trivial and bewildering. Shown in 1960, the series was ahead of its time and, unfortunately, only a mini-series.

Episode 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z9uQZfIYtI - Walking off the sitcom set in middle of performance & enters his strange world
Episode 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp3AL0nl3pw - Love & marriage
Episode 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQN7WTTKWJE - Strength of an ant, lots of eyes watching, farm tour
Episode 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3udIhfV4-c - Charged with no sense of humour in a court of law
Episode 5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDSHthlpMG0 - Telling children a story of a land where people can be their best
Episode 6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-MqYmmxHJQ - Back on stage, Gurney appears as a performing machine(*)

(*) "This particular model is of a new design and, frankly it is presenting its problems... It has a tendency to produce jokes nobody can understand"

[Chris]

Episode 1 is basically how I envision day 0 of FI. Start with a walkoff, make up a language, talk to a dog.... yup, sounds about right.

Thanks for sharing this.