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- Private Eye first appears in the episode, Her Wacky Highness, when he passes by Babs and Gogo, looking through a magnifying glass. He can later be seen in the throne room when Babs is decreed the Queen of Wackyland. Private Eye makes a brief appearance in the Night Ghoulery sketch, Night of the Living Dull, where he, along with Gogo, Sphinx, The Elephant, Pen Pal, and a Plunger hide out in a haunted mansion to escape from dull people.
- Among Peel's contemporaries at Shrewsbury were Richard Ingrams, Christopher Booker, William Rushton and the much more left-wing Paul Foot, all of whom played important parts in the development of Private Eye, particularly Ingrams, who served as editor for many years. While Peel had a high regard for the magazine's investigative journalism, at one point calling it "as close to a newspaper of record as we have", his relationships with the magazine's founders (at least excepting Foot) were more complicated, as can be seen in his comments in Margrave of the Marshes on an encounter with Ingrams at the BBC:
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- Among Peel's contemporaries at Shrewsbury were Richard Ingrams, Christopher Booker, William Rushton and the much more left-wing Paul Foot, all of whom played important parts in the development of Private Eye, particularly Ingrams, who served as editor for many years. While Peel had a high regard for the magazine's investigative journalism, at one point calling it "as close to a newspaper of record as we have", his relationships with the magazine's founders (at least excepting Foot) were more complicated, as can be seen in his comments in Margrave of the Marshes on an encounter with Ingrams at the BBC: "Ingrams I found cold, even hostile, and when I once discovered him looking for a studio in the basement of Broadcasting House and led him to it, felt that he still regarded me, then in my fifties, with the lordly disdain that he would certainly have shown in that sanatorium had I been in a position to speak to him." This could have derived from Peel's school experiences, but may also have been an indication that he did not have much in common with his former schoolmates. Despite Private Eye's willingness to take on the establishment, it was (and is) not a magazine of the Left, being equally scathing about politicians of all parties. What is more, some contributors like Ingrams (who called himself a "Tory anarchist", the same position espoused by long-time Eye diarist Auberon Waugh) and Christopher Booker were cultural conservatives; Booker took a decidedly critical view of pop culture in his book on the 1960s, The Neophiliacs. Peel's generation of Eye contributors have long since departed (although he claimed to have been a regular reader from 1967 onward), but the magazine has retained its unique format. There are many regular features, one of which, Colemanballs (verbal sporting slip-ups) was chosen by JP for It Makes Me Laugh in 1980. The magazine is willing to be as rude about itself as those it lampoons, and also features serious investigative journalism. One of their book reviews heavily criticised Mick Wall's Peel biography. [1]
- Private Eye first appears in the episode, Her Wacky Highness, when he passes by Babs and Gogo, looking through a magnifying glass. He can later be seen in the throne room when Babs is decreed the Queen of Wackyland. Private Eye makes a brief appearance in the Night Ghoulery sketch, Night of the Living Dull, where he, along with Gogo, Sphinx, The Elephant, Pen Pal, and a Plunger hide out in a haunted mansion to escape from dull people.
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