Michael Bentine co-founded The Goon Show radio show with Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe, but appeared in only the first 38 shows on the BBC Light Programme from 1951–53. He also appeared in The Goon Show film Down Among the Z Men, and at the time seemed perhaps the most comfortable of the cast in working in a visual medium. He parted amicably with his partners and remained very close to Secombe and Sellers for the rest of his life. In 1972, Secombe and Sellers told Michael Parkinson that he was "always calling everyone a genius" and, since he was the only one of the four with a "proper education", they always believed him.
He left the Goons to work on his own radio series. Bentine spent two years in Australia (1954–55).
In 1954, he began as a television presenter with a BBC children's series, The Bumblies. These were three small creatures from outer space who slept on 'Professor' Bentine's ceiling and who had come to our planet to learn the ways of Earthling children. He also made a guest appearance in the film comedy "Raising a Riot" starring Kenneth More which featured his five year old daughter "Fusty". He always joked that she got better billing.
During 1959, he worked on the radio series Round the Bend in 30 Minutes. From 1960 to 1964, he had a television series It's a Square World, which won a BAFTA award in 1962 and Grand Prix de la Presse at Montreux in 1963. A prominent feature of the series was the imaginary flea circus where plays were enacted on tiny sets using nothing but special effects to show the movement of things too small to see and sounds with Bentine's commentary. The plays were anything but serious with one titled The Beast of the Black Bog Tarn which was set in a (miniature) haunted house.
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