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The Landmark 1950s British Radio Comedy Series Featuring Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe & Michael Bentine That Inspired Generations Of English Speaking Comedians Worldwide! 189 Half Hour Shows Packed Into 1 MP3 DVD PLUS 12 Bonus Half Hour Michael Bentine Shows! *Presented As An Archival Quality MP3 DVD, MP3 Audio Download Or USB Flash Drive! #GoonShow #TheGoonShow #Goons #SpikeMilligan #PeterSellers #HarrySecombe #MichaelBentine #Q8 #GeorgeMartin #Beatles #TheBeatles #MontyPython #MontyPythonsFlyingCircus #SpikeJones #SpikeJonesAndHisCitySlickers #RadioLuxembourg #BBC #BBCRadio #Radio #OldTimeRadio #OTR #TV #Television #TVShows #TelevisionShows #TVInTheUS #TelevisionInTheUS #Comedians #Writers #MP3 #DVD #AudioDownload #USBFlashDrive
Contents:
52-01-22 - Untitled Goon Show (ser 2, ep 1)
52-02-05 - U.G.S. (The Crystal Palace Project), Epis
53-10-02 The Dreaded Piano Clubber
53-10-09 - The Man Who Tried to Destroy London's Mon
53-10-16 - The Ghastly Experiments of Dr. Hans Eidel
53-12-26 - The Giant Bombardon
54-01-08 The Missing Prime Minister
54-01-29 - The History of Communications
54-03-01 s04e23 The Greatest Mountain In The World
54-03-08 - The Collapse of The B.R. Sandwich System
54-03-15 The Silent Bugler
54-04-12 - The Great Bank of England Robbery
54-08-31 s04esp The Starlings
54-09-28 s05e01 The Whistling Spy Enigma
54-10-05 - The Lost Gold Mine Of Charlotte
54-10-12 s05e03 The Dreaded Batter-Pudding Hurler
54-10-19 s05e04 The Phantom Head Shaver
54-10-26 s05e05 The Affair of the Lone Banana
54-11-02 - The Canal
54-11-09 s05e07 Lurgi Strikes Britain
54-11-16 s05e08 The Mystery of the Marie Celeste
54-11-23 s05e09 The Last Tram
54-11-30 - The Booted Gorilla Found
54-12-07 s05e11 The Spanish Suitcase
54-12-14 - Dishonoured, or the Fall of Neddie Seagoo
54-12-21 - Forog
54-12-28 s05e14 Ye Bandit of Sherwood Forest
55-01-04 s05e15 1985
55-01-11 - The Case Of The Missing Heir
55-01-18 - China Story
55-01-25 s05e18 Under Two Floorboards
55-02-01 - The Missing Scroll (The Lost Music Of Purdom)
55-02-15 s05e21 The Sinking of Westminster Pier
55-02-22 - The Fireball of Milton Street
55-03-01 - The Six Ingots Of Leadenhall Street
55-03-08 s05e24 Yehti
55-03-15 s05e25 The White Box of Great Barfield
55-03-22 - The End (The Confessions Of A Secret Senna-Pod Drinker)
55-09-20 - The Man Who Won The War (Seagoon MCC)
55-09-27 - Secret Escritoire
55-10-04 s06e03 The Lost Emperor
55-10-11 s06e04 Napoleon's Piano
55-10-18 s06e05 The Case of the Missing CD Plates
55-10-25 s06e06 Rommel's Treasure
55-11-01 - Foiled By President Fred (In Honour Bound)
55-11-08 s06e08 Shangri La Again!
55-11-15 s06e09 The International Christmas Pudding
55-11-29 - The Lost Colony (The Sale Of Manhattan)
55-11-29 The Sale of Manhattan (The Lost Colony)
55-12-06 - The Terrible Revenge of Fred Fu-Manchu
55-12-13 - The Lost Year
55-12-20 s06e14 The Greenslade Story
55-12-27 - The Hastings Flyer - Robbed
56-01-03 s06e16 The Mighty Wurlitzer
56-01-10 The Raid Of The International Christmas Pudding
56-01-17 - Tales of Montmartre (Different)
56-01-17 s06e18 Tales of Montmatre
56-01-24 s06e19 The Jet-Propelled Guided NAAFI
56-01-31 - The House of Teeth
56-02-07 - Tales of Old Dartmoor
56-02-14 - The Choking Horror (Edited)
56-02-14 - The Choking Horror
56-02-21 s06e23 The Great Tuscan Salami Scandal
56-02-28 - The Treasure in the Lake (Different)
56-02-28 s06e24 The Treasure of Loch Lomond
56-03-01 - The Goons Hit Wales
56-03-06 - The Fear Of Wages
56-03-13 - Scradje
56-03-13 s06e26 Scradge
56-03-20 - The Man Who Never Was
56-04-03 - The Pevensy Bay Disaster (Different)
56-04-03 s06e10 The Pevensey Bay Disaster
56-08-29 - China Story
56-10-04 s07e01 The Nasty Affair at the Burami Oasis
56-10-11 s07e02 Drums Along The Mersey
56-10-18 - The [Great] Nadger Plague
56-10-25 s07e04 The Macreekie Rising of '74
56-11-01 s07e05 The Spectre of Tintagel
56-11-15 s07e07 The Great Bank Robbery
56-11-22 - Personal Narrative (Of Captain Neddie Seagoon, RN)
56-11-29 s07e09 Mystery of the Fake Neddie Seagoons
56-12-02 - Robin Hood
56-12-05 - What's My Line (Different)
56-12-05 What's My Line
56-12-09 Operation Christmas Duff
56-12-13 - The Telephone
56-12-20 s07e12 The Flea
56-12-22 - Robin Hood
56-12-24 s07esp Operation Christmas Duff
56-12-26 - Six Charlies in Search of an Author
57-01-03 - Emperor of the Universe
57-01-10 s07e15 Wings Over Dagenham
57-01-17 s07e16 The Rent Collectors
57-01-24 s07e17 Shifting Sands
57-01-31 - The Moon Show
57-02-07 s07e19 The Mysterious Punch-Up-The-Conker
57-02-14 - The Sleeping Prince (Different)
57-02-14 - The Sleeping Prince
57-02-21 - Round The World in Eighty Days
57-02-28 - Insurance, The White Man's Burden (Different)
57-02-28 - Insurance, the White Man's Burden
57-03-07 - The Africa Ship Canal
57-03-14 s07e23 Ill Met By Goonlight
57-03-21 - The Missing Boa Constrictor
57-03-28 s07e25 The Histories of Pliny the Elder
57-08-22 s07eSP The Reason Why
57-09-30 s08e01 Spon
57-10-06 - The Mummified Priest (VGE 01 remake 54-01-22)
57-10-07 - The Junk Affair (Different)
57-10-07 s08e02 The Junk Affair
57-10-14 s08e03 The Burning Embassy
57-10-21 s08e04 The Great Regents Park Swim
57-10-28 - The Treasure In The Tower (Altogether different)
57-10-28 s08e05 The Treasure In The Tower
57-11-03 - The Missing Ten Downing Street [VG03]
57-11-04 The Space Age (Different)
57-11-04 s08e06 The Space Age
57-11-11 - The Red Fort [A Tale of India]
57-11-17 - The Giant Bombardon (VGE 04 remake 53-12-26)
57-11-17 - The Giant Bombardon
57-11-18 s08e08 The Missing Battleship
57-11-25 - The Policy (Different)
57-11-25 The Policy (has KERA intro)
57-12-01 - The Kippered Herring Gang
57-12-02 s08e10 King Solomon's Mines
57-12-09 - The Stolen Postman
57-12-15 - The Vanishing Room [VG06]
57-12-16 The Great British Revolution
57-12-23 s08e13 The Plasticine Man
57-12-29 The Ink Shortage
57-12-30 s08e14 African Incident
58-01-06 The Thing On The Mountain
58-01-12 - The Mustard And Cress Shortage [VG08]
58-01-13 s08e16 The String Robberies
58-01-20 s08e17 The Moriarity Murder Mystery
58-01-27 s08e18 The Curse of Frankenstein
58-02-03 s08e19 The White Neddie Trade
58-02-10 - Ten Snowballs That Shook The World (Different)
58-02-10 s08e20 Ten Snowballs That Shook The World
58-02-16 - The Internal Mountain (VGE 09 remake 54-03-29)
58-02-17 s08e21 The Man Who Never Was
58-02-23 svge10 The Silent Bugler
58-02-24 s08e22 World War One
58-03-02 - The Great Bank Of England Robbery
58-03-03 s08e23 The Spon Plague
58-03-09 svge12 The Dreaded Piano Clubber
58-03-10 - The Vanishing Room (VGE 06 remake 54-02-15)
58-03-10 - Tiddleywinks (Different)
58-03-10 s08e24 Tiddleywinks
58-03-16 svge13 The Siege of Fort Night
58-03-17 s08e25 The Evils of Bushey Spon
58-03-23 - The First Albert Memorial To The Moon (VGE 14 remake 53-11-01)
58-03-24 The Great Statue Debate
58-09-22 svge01 The Mummified Priest
58-10-06 svge04 The Giant Bombardon
58-10-13 svge06 The Vanishing Room
58-11-01 s09e02 I Was Monty's Treble
58-11-03 - The Sahara Desert Statue
58-11-17 s09e03 The £1,000,000 Penny
58-11-24 - Pams Paper Insurance Policy
58-12-01 s09e05 The Mountain Eaters
58-12-08 s09e06 The Childe Harolde Rewarde
58-12-15 s09e07 The Seagoon Memoirs
58-12-22 s09e08 Queen Anne's Rain
58-12-29 s09e09 The Battle of Spion Kop
59-01-05 s09e10 Ned's Atomic Dustbin
59-01-12 s09e11 Who Is Pink Oboe
59-01-20 s09e12 Call of the West
59-01-26 s09e13 Dishonoured - Again (BBC7)
59-02-02 - Quatermass OBE (The Scarlet Capsule)
59-02-02 s09e14 Quatermass O.B.E (different beginning)
59-02-02 s09e14 Quatermass O.B.E
59-02-09 s09e15 The Tay Bridge
59-02-16 s09e16 The Gold Plate Robbery
59-02-23 s09e17 The £50 Cure
59-02-29 - The £50 Cure (Different)
59-12-24 s10e01 A Christmas Carol
59-12-31 s10e02 The Tale of Men's Shirts
60-01-07 - The Chinese Legs
60-01-14 - Robin's Post [The Story Of Lord Seagoon]
60-01-21 s10e05 The Silver Doubloons
60-01-28 - The Last Smoking Seagoon (Different)
60-01-28 s10e06 The Last Smoking Seagoon
62-11-00 - The Bridge on the River Wye
64-12-25 - The GPO Show
65-06-16 - The Army Show
65-12-25 - The Naughty Navy Show
72-04-30 The Last Goon Show Of All
Misc - Pre-broadcast Warmup
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Bentine-19840429-B3-7
Bentine-19840506-B4-7
The British radio comedy program The Goon Show was broadcast on the BBC for the first time on May 28, 1951. It was originally produced and broadcast by the BBC Home Service from 1951 to 1960, with occasional repeats on the BBC Light Programme. The first series broadcast from May 28 to September 20, 1951, was titled Crazy People; subsequent series had the title The Goon Show, a title inspired, according to Spike Milligan, by the Popeye character Alice the Goon (when The Goon Show was brought to television in the form of a puppet show in 1963, the puppet of The Goon Show character Eccles was modeled on Alice the Goon). The show's chief creator and main writer was Terence Alan Milligan, who named himself Spike Milligan after hearing on Radio Luxembourg the great American novelty song band Spike Jones and his City Slickers. It starred Spike Milligan (British-Irish comedian, writer, poet, playwright and actor.), Harry Secombe (Welsh comedian, actor and singer), Peter Sellers (English film actor, comedian and singer) and from 1951-1953 Michael Mentine (Peruvian-English comedian, comic actor and founding member of the Goons). The scripts mixed ludicrous plots with surreal humour, puns, catchphrases and an array of bizarre sound effects. Some of the later episodes feature electronic effects devised by the fledgling BBC Radiophonic Workshop, many of which were reused by other shows for decades. Many elements of the show satirised contemporary life in Britain, parodying aspects of show business, commerce, industry, art, politics, diplomacy, the police, the military, education, class structure, literature and film. The show was released internationally through the BBC Transcription Services (TS). It was heard regularly from the 1950s in Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, India and Canada, although these TS versions were frequently edited to avoid controversial subjects. NBC began broadcasting the programme on its radio network from the mid-1950s. The programme exercised a considerable influence on the development of British and American comedy and popular culture. It was cited as a major influence by The Beatles and the American comedy team The Firesign Theatre as well as Monty Python and many others.
The Landmark 1950s British Radio Comedy Series Featuring Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe & Michael Bentine That Inspired Generations Of English Speaking Comedians Worldwide! 189 Half Hour Shows Packed Into 1 MP3 DVD PLUS 12 Bonus Half Hour Michael Bentine Shows! *Presented As An Archival Quality MP3 DVD, MP3 Audio Download Or USB Flash Drive! #GoonShow #TheGoonShow #Goons #SpikeMilligan #PeterSellers #HarrySecombe #MichaelBentine #Q8 #GeorgeMartin #Beatles #TheBeatles #MontyPython #MontyPythonsFlyingCircus #SpikeJones #SpikeJonesAndHisCitySlickers #RadioLuxembourg #BBC #BBCRadio #Radio #OldTimeRadio #OTR #TV #Television #TVShows #TelevisionShows #TVInTheUS #TelevisionInTheUS #Comedians #Writers #MP3 #DVD #AudioDownload #USBFlashDrive
Contents:
52-01-22 - Untitled Goon Show (ser 2, ep 1)
52-02-05 - U.G.S. (The Crystal Palace Project), Epis
53-10-02 The Dreaded Piano Clubber
53-10-09 - The Man Who Tried to Destroy London's Mon
53-10-16 - The Ghastly Experiments of Dr. Hans Eidel
53-12-26 - The Giant Bombardon
54-01-08 The Missing Prime Minister
54-01-29 - The History of Communications
54-03-01 s04e23 The Greatest Mountain In The World
54-03-08 - The Collapse of The B.R. Sandwich System
54-03-15 The Silent Bugler
54-04-12 - The Great Bank of England Robbery
54-08-31 s04esp The Starlings
54-09-28 s05e01 The Whistling Spy Enigma
54-10-05 - The Lost Gold Mine Of Charlotte
54-10-12 s05e03 The Dreaded Batter-Pudding Hurler
54-10-19 s05e04 The Phantom Head Shaver
54-10-26 s05e05 The Affair of the Lone Banana
54-11-02 - The Canal
54-11-09 s05e07 Lurgi Strikes Britain
54-11-16 s05e08 The Mystery of the Marie Celeste
54-11-23 s05e09 The Last Tram
54-11-30 - The Booted Gorilla Found
54-12-07 s05e11 The Spanish Suitcase
54-12-14 - Dishonoured, or the Fall of Neddie Seagoo
54-12-21 - Forog
54-12-28 s05e14 Ye Bandit of Sherwood Forest
55-01-04 s05e15 1985
55-01-11 - The Case Of The Missing Heir
55-01-18 - China Story
55-01-25 s05e18 Under Two Floorboards
55-02-01 - The Missing Scroll (The Lost Music Of Purdom)
55-02-15 s05e21 The Sinking of Westminster Pier
55-02-22 - The Fireball of Milton Street
55-03-01 - The Six Ingots Of Leadenhall Street
55-03-08 s05e24 Yehti
55-03-15 s05e25 The White Box of Great Barfield
55-03-22 - The End (The Confessions Of A Secret Senna-Pod Drinker)
55-09-20 - The Man Who Won The War (Seagoon MCC)
55-09-27 - Secret Escritoire
55-10-04 s06e03 The Lost Emperor
55-10-11 s06e04 Napoleon's Piano
55-10-18 s06e05 The Case of the Missing CD Plates
55-10-25 s06e06 Rommel's Treasure
55-11-01 - Foiled By President Fred (In Honour Bound)
55-11-08 s06e08 Shangri La Again!
55-11-15 s06e09 The International Christmas Pudding
55-11-29 - The Lost Colony (The Sale Of Manhattan)
55-11-29 The Sale of Manhattan (The Lost Colony)
55-12-06 - The Terrible Revenge of Fred Fu-Manchu
55-12-13 - The Lost Year
55-12-20 s06e14 The Greenslade Story
55-12-27 - The Hastings Flyer - Robbed
56-01-03 s06e16 The Mighty Wurlitzer
56-01-10 The Raid Of The International Christmas Pudding
56-01-17 - Tales of Montmartre (Different)
56-01-17 s06e18 Tales of Montmatre
56-01-24 s06e19 The Jet-Propelled Guided NAAFI
56-01-31 - The House of Teeth
56-02-07 - Tales of Old Dartmoor
56-02-14 - The Choking Horror (Edited)
56-02-14 - The Choking Horror
56-02-21 s06e23 The Great Tuscan Salami Scandal
56-02-28 - The Treasure in the Lake (Different)
56-02-28 s06e24 The Treasure of Loch Lomond
56-03-01 - The Goons Hit Wales
56-03-06 - The Fear Of Wages
56-03-13 - Scradje
56-03-13 s06e26 Scradge
56-03-20 - The Man Who Never Was
56-04-03 - The Pevensy Bay Disaster (Different)
56-04-03 s06e10 The Pevensey Bay Disaster
56-08-29 - China Story
56-10-04 s07e01 The Nasty Affair at the Burami Oasis
56-10-11 s07e02 Drums Along The Mersey
56-10-18 - The [Great] Nadger Plague
56-10-25 s07e04 The Macreekie Rising of '74
56-11-01 s07e05 The Spectre of Tintagel
56-11-15 s07e07 The Great Bank Robbery
56-11-22 - Personal Narrative (Of Captain Neddie Seagoon, RN)
56-11-29 s07e09 Mystery of the Fake Neddie Seagoons
56-12-02 - Robin Hood
56-12-05 - What's My Line (Different)
56-12-05 What's My Line
56-12-09 Operation Christmas Duff
56-12-13 - The Telephone
56-12-20 s07e12 The Flea
56-12-22 - Robin Hood
56-12-24 s07esp Operation Christmas Duff
56-12-26 - Six Charlies in Search of an Author
57-01-03 - Emperor of the Universe
57-01-10 s07e15 Wings Over Dagenham
57-01-17 s07e16 The Rent Collectors
57-01-24 s07e17 Shifting Sands
57-01-31 - The Moon Show
57-02-07 s07e19 The Mysterious Punch-Up-The-Conker
57-02-14 - The Sleeping Prince (Different)
57-02-14 - The Sleeping Prince
57-02-21 - Round The World in Eighty Days
57-02-28 - Insurance, The White Man's Burden (Different)
57-02-28 - Insurance, the White Man's Burden
57-03-07 - The Africa Ship Canal
57-03-14 s07e23 Ill Met By Goonlight
57-03-21 - The Missing Boa Constrictor
57-03-28 s07e25 The Histories of Pliny the Elder
57-08-22 s07eSP The Reason Why
57-09-30 s08e01 Spon
57-10-06 - The Mummified Priest (VGE 01 remake 54-01-22)
57-10-07 - The Junk Affair (Different)
57-10-07 s08e02 The Junk Affair
57-10-14 s08e03 The Burning Embassy
57-10-21 s08e04 The Great Regents Park Swim
57-10-28 - The Treasure In The Tower (Altogether different)
57-10-28 s08e05 The Treasure In The Tower
57-11-03 - The Missing Ten Downing Street [VG03]
57-11-04 The Space Age (Different)
57-11-04 s08e06 The Space Age
57-11-11 - The Red Fort [A Tale of India]
57-11-17 - The Giant Bombardon (VGE 04 remake 53-12-26)
57-11-17 - The Giant Bombardon
57-11-18 s08e08 The Missing Battleship
57-11-25 - The Policy (Different)
57-11-25 The Policy (has KERA intro)
57-12-01 - The Kippered Herring Gang
57-12-02 s08e10 King Solomon's Mines
57-12-09 - The Stolen Postman
57-12-15 - The Vanishing Room [VG06]
57-12-16 The Great British Revolution
57-12-23 s08e13 The Plasticine Man
57-12-29 The Ink Shortage
57-12-30 s08e14 African Incident
58-01-06 The Thing On The Mountain
58-01-12 - The Mustard And Cress Shortage [VG08]
58-01-13 s08e16 The String Robberies
58-01-20 s08e17 The Moriarity Murder Mystery
58-01-27 s08e18 The Curse of Frankenstein
58-02-03 s08e19 The White Neddie Trade
58-02-10 - Ten Snowballs That Shook The World (Different)
58-02-10 s08e20 Ten Snowballs That Shook The World
58-02-16 - The Internal Mountain (VGE 09 remake 54-03-29)
58-02-17 s08e21 The Man Who Never Was
58-02-23 svge10 The Silent Bugler
58-02-24 s08e22 World War One
58-03-02 - The Great Bank Of England Robbery
58-03-03 s08e23 The Spon Plague
58-03-09 svge12 The Dreaded Piano Clubber
58-03-10 - The Vanishing Room (VGE 06 remake 54-02-15)
58-03-10 - Tiddleywinks (Different)
58-03-10 s08e24 Tiddleywinks
58-03-16 svge13 The Siege of Fort Night
58-03-17 s08e25 The Evils of Bushey Spon
58-03-23 - The First Albert Memorial To The Moon (VGE 14 remake 53-11-01)
58-03-24 The Great Statue Debate
58-09-22 svge01 The Mummified Priest
58-10-06 svge04 The Giant Bombardon
58-10-13 svge06 The Vanishing Room
58-11-01 s09e02 I Was Monty's Treble
58-11-03 - The Sahara Desert Statue
58-11-17 s09e03 The £1,000,000 Penny
58-11-24 - Pams Paper Insurance Policy
58-12-01 s09e05 The Mountain Eaters
58-12-08 s09e06 The Childe Harolde Rewarde
58-12-15 s09e07 The Seagoon Memoirs
58-12-22 s09e08 Queen Anne's Rain
58-12-29 s09e09 The Battle of Spion Kop
59-01-05 s09e10 Ned's Atomic Dustbin
59-01-12 s09e11 Who Is Pink Oboe
59-01-20 s09e12 Call of the West
59-01-26 s09e13 Dishonoured - Again (BBC7)
59-02-02 - Quatermass OBE (The Scarlet Capsule)
59-02-02 s09e14 Quatermass O.B.E (different beginning)
59-02-02 s09e14 Quatermass O.B.E
59-02-09 s09e15 The Tay Bridge
59-02-16 s09e16 The Gold Plate Robbery
59-02-23 s09e17 The £50 Cure
59-02-29 - The £50 Cure (Different)
59-12-24 s10e01 A Christmas Carol
59-12-31 s10e02 The Tale of Men's Shirts
60-01-07 - The Chinese Legs
60-01-14 - Robin's Post [The Story Of Lord Seagoon]
60-01-21 s10e05 The Silver Doubloons
60-01-28 - The Last Smoking Seagoon (Different)
60-01-28 s10e06 The Last Smoking Seagoon
62-11-00 - The Bridge on the River Wye
64-12-25 - The GPO Show
65-06-16 - The Army Show
65-12-25 - The Naughty Navy Show
72-04-30 The Last Goon Show Of All
Misc - Pre-broadcast Warmup
Bentine-19840122-A1-7
Bentine-19840129-A2-7
Bentine-19840205-A3-7
Bentine-19840212-A4-7
Bentine-19840219-A5-7
Bentine-19840226-A6-7
Bentine-19840415-B1-7
Bentine-19840422-B2-7
Bentine-19840429-B3-7
Bentine-19840506-B4-7
The British radio comedy program The Goon Show was broadcast on the BBC for the first time on May 28, 1951. It was originally produced and broadcast by the BBC Home Service from 1951 to 1960, with occasional repeats on the BBC Light Programme. The first series broadcast from May 28 to September 20, 1951, was titled Crazy People; subsequent series had the title The Goon Show, a title inspired, according to Spike Milligan, by the Popeye character Alice the Goon (when The Goon Show was brought to television in the form of a puppet show in 1963, the puppet of The Goon Show character Eccles was modeled on Alice the Goon). The show's chief creator and main writer was Terence Alan Milligan, who named himself Spike Milligan after hearing on Radio Luxembourg the great American novelty song band Spike Jones and his City Slickers. It starred Spike Milligan (British-Irish comedian, writer, poet, playwright and actor.), Harry Secombe (Welsh comedian, actor and singer), Peter Sellers (English film actor, comedian and singer) and from 1951-1953 Michael Mentine (Peruvian-English comedian, comic actor and founding member of the Goons). The scripts mixed ludicrous plots with surreal humour, puns, catchphrases and an array of bizarre sound effects. Some of the later episodes feature electronic effects devised by the fledgling BBC Radiophonic Workshop, many of which were reused by other shows for decades. Many elements of the show satirised contemporary life in Britain, parodying aspects of show business, commerce, industry, art, politics, diplomacy, the police, the military, education, class structure, literature and film. The show was released internationally through the BBC Transcription Services (TS). It was heard regularly from the 1950s in Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, India and Canada, although these TS versions were frequently edited to avoid controversial subjects. NBC began broadcasting the programme on its radio network from the mid-1950s. The programme exercised a considerable influence on the development of British and American comedy and popular culture. It was cited as a major influence by The Beatles and the American comedy team The Firesign Theatre as well as Monty Python and many others.