The Strange World of Gurney Slade (1960)

Name: The Strange World of Gurney Slade
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Released: 1960-10-22
Rating: 8.3
Cast: Anthony Newley, Bernie Winters

8.3/ 10

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24 min

Episode

22 Oct 1960

First Aired

Comedy

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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.

Keywords

surreal

surrealism

fantasy world

sitcom

absurdist

Cast

Anthony Newley

Bernie Winters

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BrownSTHLM

@brwnSTHLM

May 3, 2026

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 fol…

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