Beyond the Fringe of musical items in the show, using Dudley Moore's music, most famously an arrangement of the Colonel Bogey March which resists Moore's repeated attempts to bring it to an end. The show prefigured the Satire Boom of the 1960s. Without it, there might not have been either "That Was the Week That Was" or "Private Eye", the satirical magazine which originated at the same time, that partially survived due to financial support from Peter Cook, and that served as the model for the later American "Spy Magazine". Cook and Moore formed a comedy team and appeared in the popular television
Beyond the Fringe show "Not Only... But Also", and the 1967 film "Bedazzled". Cook also launched his club, The Establishment, around this time. Many of the members of Monty Python recall being inspired by "Beyond the Fringe". The retrospective show "Before the Fringe", broadcast during the early years of BBC 2, took its title from this production. It consisted of performances of material that was popular in theatrical revue before the advent of "Beyond the Fringe". The show's success was not limited to the UK. In 1962, it also opened in South Africa. Next it arrived in the US. First the Broadway Company