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Associated London Scripts (ALS) was a writers' agency organised as a co-operative which involved many leading comedy and television writers of the 1950s and 1960s.
Associated British Scripts began life in London's Shepherd's Bush in the mid-1950s, when four young comedy writers - Eric Sykes, Spike Milligan, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson -...
Associated London Scripts (ALS) was a writers' agency organised as a co-operative which involved many leading comedy and television writers of the 1950s and 1960s.
A guide to Associated London Scripts, the 2003 BBC Radio 4 radio documentary. Documentary series celebrating the achievements of the group of writers whose writers' collective went on to dominate TV and radio comedy writing.
Associated London Scripts gave performers a way to avoid the BBC's in-house writers. Performers could take a completed script to the BBC assured of its quality.
Five storeys above a greengrocers on the shabby Uxbridge Road in Shepherds Bush, West London, if you squeezed past the unopened crates of fruit and veg and up the dangerously rickety staircase, you would once have found Associated London Scripts, an ambitious co-operative of talented comedy writers.
Spike founded Associated London scripts with Eric Sykes and set up an office in Shepherds Bush. Sykes and Milligan were lifelong friends and purchased an old Victorian House in Bayswater where they ran ALS and their own business until 1986 when Spike sold up his half of the building to Sykes.
