The web site launch

Kerry Sunderland, who produced and wrote the Spike Milligan Legacy web site, gave Edward Borland at RUCC (the company that hosts the site) the green light to 'go live' over a mobile phone in the back of Nina Angelo's car at 11.15pm on Sunday 20 February 2005, while Spike's eldest daughter Laura joined Nina and her friend Trish (who worked as a sound recordist on the Woy Woy shoot) in celebrating. It was a suitably 'virtual' and madcap moment all at once because, while Kerry was on the phone, there was some confusion about which way to turn and the Milligan clan got themselves lost. One hour later, Nina pulled into a petrol station and discovered the group was about 70kms north of where they wanted to end up. Dressed uniformly in Spike Milligan Legacy t-shirts, the petrol station attendant enquired whether we were members of a religious group. The Cult of Latter-Day Milligans was officially born.

The launch of the web site, despite a few early morning hiccups, was a success. In its first week, it attracted almost one thousand unique visitors.

Special thanks must go to Murray Debus, who created the wonderful animations, and the team at Katalyst Web Design (Jason Sidoryn, Chris Joyner, Kipp Brady, Malte Wiegand and Oli) who provided art direction, created the special applications like the quiz and News of the Galaxy and undertook all Flash programming.