A celebration of Max Miller , comedian and star. Presented by Gerald Scarfe with Max Bygraves Charlie Chester , Doris Hare Jean Kent , Alec McCowen, Tommy Trinder , Max Wall, Bernie Winters and Max Miller 'I'm ready for bed - anybody?' Max Miller , dazzling in chintz and gaudy plus-fours, one foot on the footlights, leering and howling with delight, confronted his audience. Sexual innuendo was his game. He trod a dangerous line, just this side of respectability, across the Music Halls of the 30s and 40s. On the stage of the Hackney Empire, with chorus girls and full supporting acts, Gerald Scarfe re-creates Max Miller 's rise from the back streets of Brighton to the top of the bill. The most outrageous comedian of his day, Max was banned by the BBC, in trouble over the Royal Command Performance, admired and hated by the comics of his age - and ours

Government sponsored film. Arthur Haynes and Charlie Chester in a kitchen: Arthur reads out instructions on the correct way of a cooking a cabbage, which Charlie misinterprets.

Management and staff at Brixton's Savoy Cinema prepare for the premiere of the new sex film "Love In The Undergrowth", which is to be reluctantly attended by the star Gloria Overtones. At a party at a local restaurant following the showing Gloria is about to find out more about her parentage, and cinema usherette Sylvie discovers she has a new career ahead of her.

Documentary feature about the great days of variety.