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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 (tk-hq) | 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 [VG11] | 54-08-31~s04esp~The Starlings | 54-09-28~s05e01~The Whistling Spy Enigma (tk-hq) | 54-10-05 - The Lost Gold Mine Of Charlotte | 54-10-12~s05e03~The Dreaded Batter-Pudding Hurler (tk-hq) | 54-10-19~s05e04~The Phantom Head Shaver (tk-hq) | 54-10-26~s05e05~The Affair of the Lone Banana (tk-hq) | 54-11-02 - The Canal | 54-11-09~s05e07~Lurgi Strikes Britain (tk-hq) | 54-11-16~s05e08~The Mystery of the Marie Celeste (tk-hq) | 54-11-23~s05e09~The Last Tram (tk-hq) | 54-11-30 - The Booted Gorilla Found | 54-12-07~s05e11~The Spanish Suitcase (tk-hq) | 54-12-14 - Dishonoured, or the Fall of Neddie Seagoo | 54-12-21 - Forog | 54-12-28~s05e14~Ye Bandit of Sherwood Forest (tk-hq) | 55-01-04~s05e15~1985 (tk-hq) | 55-01-11 - The Case Of The Missing Heir | 55-01-18 - China Story | 55-01-25~s05e18~Under Two Floorboards (tk-hq) | 55-02-01 - The Missing Scroll (The Lost Music Of Purdom) | 55-02-15~s05e21~The Sinking of Westminster Pier (tk-hq) | 55-02-22 - The Fireball of Milton Street | 55-03-01 - The Six Ingots Of Leadenhall Street | 55-03-08~s05e24~Yehti (tk-hq) | 55-03-15~s05e25~The White Box of Great Barfield (tk-hq) | 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 (tk-hq) | 55-10-11~s06e04~Napoleon's Piano (tk-hq) | 55-10-18~s06e05~The Case of the Missing CD Plates (tk-hq) | 55-10-25~s06e06~Rommel's Treasure (tk-hq) | 55-11-01 - Foiled By President Fred (In Honour Bound) | 55-11-08~s06e08~Shangri La Again! (tk-hq) | 55-11-15~s06e09~The International Christmas Pudding (tk-hq) | 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 (tk-hq) | 55-12-27 - The Hastings Flyer - Robbed | 56-01-03~s06e16~The Mighty Wurlitzer (tk-hq) | 56-01-10 The Raid Of The International Christmas Pudding | 56-01-17 - Tales of Montmartre (Different) | 56-01-17~s06e18~Tales of Montmatre (tk-hq) | 56-01-24~s06e19~The Jet-Propelled Guided NAAFI (tk-hq) | 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 (tk-hq) | 56-02-28 - The Treasure in the Lake (Different) | 56-02-28~s06e24~The Treasure of Loch Lomond (tk-hq) | 56-03-01 - The Goons Hit Wales | 56-03-06 - The Fear Of Wages | 56-03-13 - Scradje | 56-03-13~s06e26~Scradge (tk-hq) | 56-03-20 - The Man Who Never Was | 56-04-03 - The Pevensy Bay Disaster (Different) | 56-04-03~s06e10~The Pevensey Bay Disaster (tk-hq) | 56-08-29 - China Story | 56-10-04~s07e01~The Nasty Affair at the Burami Oasis (tk-hq) | 56-10-11~s07e02~Drums Along The Mersey (tk-hq) | 56-10-18 - The [Great] Nadger Plague | 56-10-25~s07e04~The Macreekie Rising of '74 (hq) | 56-11-01~s07e05~The Spectre of Tintagel (tk-hq) | 56-11-15~s07e07~The Great Bank Robbery (tk-hq) | 56-11-22 - Personal Narrative (Of Captain Neddie Seagoon, RN) | 56-11-29~s07e09~Mystery of the Fake Neddie Seagoons (tk-hq) | 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 (tk-hq) | 56-12-22 - Robin Hood | 56-12-24~s07esp~Operation Christmas Duff (tk-hq) | 56-12-26 - Six Charlies in Search of an Author | 57-01-03 - Emperor of the Universe | 57-01-10~s07e15~Wings Over Dagenham (tk-hq) | 57-01-17~s07e16~The Rent Collectors (tk-hq) | 57-01-24~s07e17~Shifting Sands (tk-hq) | 57-01-31 - The Moon Show | 57-02-07~s07e19~The Mysterious Punch-Up-The-Conker (tk-hq) | 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 (tk-hq) | 57-03-21 - The Missing Boa Constrictor | 57-03-28~s07e25~The Histories of Pliny the Elder (tk-hq) | 57-08-22~s07eSP~The Reason Why (tk-hq) | 57-09-30~s08e01~Spon (tk-hq) | 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 (tk-hq) | 57-10-14~s08e03~The Burning Embassy (tk-hq) | 57-10-21~s08e04~The Great Regents Park Swim (hq) | 57-10-28 - The Treasure In The Tower (Altogether different) | 57-10-28~s08e05~The Treasure In The Tower (tk-hq) | 57-11-03 - The Missing Ten Downing Street [VG03] | 57-11-04 The Space Age (Different) | 57-11-04~s08e06~The Space Age (hq) | 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 (tk-hq) | 57-11-25 - The Policy (Different, beginning cut, overlong) | 57-11-25 The Policy (has KERA intro) | 57-12-01 - The Kippered Herring Gang | 57-12-02~s08e10~King Solomon's Mines (tk-hq) | 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 (tk-hq) | 57-12-29 The Ink Shortage | 57-12-30~s08e14~African Incident (tk-hq) | 58-01-06 The Thing On The Mountain | 58-01-12 - The Mustard And Cress Shortage [VG08] | 58-01-13~s08e16~The String Robberies (tk-hq) | 58-01-20~s08e17~The Moriarity Murder Mystery (tk-hq) | 58-01-27~s08e18~The Curse of Frankenstein (tk-hq) | 58-02-03~s08e19~The White Neddie Trade (tk-hq) | 58-02-10 - Ten Snowballs That Shook The World (Different) | 58-02-10~s08e20~Ten Snowballs That Shook The World (tk-hq) | 58-02-16 - The Internal Mountain (VGE 09 remake 54-03-29) | 58-02-17~s08e21~The Man Who Never Was (tk-hq) | 58-02-23~svge10~The Silent Bugler (tk-hq) | 58-02-24~s08e22~World War One (tk-hq) | 58-03-02 - The Great Bank Of England Robbery | 58-03-03~s08e23~The Spon Plague (tk-hq) | 58-03-09~svge12~The Dreaded Piano Clubber (hq) | 58-03-10 - The Vanishing Room (VGE 06 remake 54-02-15) | 58-03-10 - Tiddleywinks (Different) | 58-03-10~s08e24~Tiddleywinks (tk-hq) | 58-03-16~svge13~The Siege of Fort Night (hq) | 58-03-17~s08e25~The Evils of Bushey Spon (tk-hq) | 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 (tk-hq) | 58-10-06~svge04~The Giant Bombardon (bh) (tk-hq) | 58-10-13~svge06~The Vanishing Room (tk-hq) | 58-11-01~s09e02~I Was Monty's Treble (tk-hq) | 58-11-03 - The Sahara Desert Statue | 58-11-17~s09e03~The £1,000,000 Penny (tk-hq) | 58-11-24 - Pams Paper Insurance Policy | 58-12-01~s09e05~The Mountain Eaters (tk-hq) | 58-12-08~s09e06~The Childe Harolde Rewarde (tk-hq) | 58-12-15~s09e07~The Seagoon Memoirs (tk-hq) | 58-12-22~s09e08~Queen Anne's Rain (tk-hq) | 58-12-29~s09e09~The Battle of Spion Kop (tk-hq) | 59-01-05~s09e10~Ned's Atomic Dustbin (tk-hq) | 59-01-12~s09e11~Who Is Pink Oboe (tk-hq) | 59-01-20~s09e12~Call of the West (tk-hq) | 59-01-26~s09e13~Dishonoured---Again (BBC7) | 59-02-02 - Quatermass OBE (The Scarlet Capsule) (Yet another one) | 59-02-02~s09e14~Quatermass O.B.E (different beginning!) | 59-02-02~s09e14~Quatermass O.B.E (not tk) | 59-02-09~s09e15~The Tay Bridge (tk-hq) | 59-02-16~s09e16~The Gold Plate Robbery (tk-hq) | 59-02-23~s09e17~The £50 Cure (tk-hq) | 59-02-29 - The £50 Cure | 59-12-24~s10e01~A Christmas Carol (tk-hq) | 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 (tk-hq) | 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 (tk-hq) | 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.
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 (tk-hq) | 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 [VG11] | 54-08-31~s04esp~The Starlings | 54-09-28~s05e01~The Whistling Spy Enigma (tk-hq) | 54-10-05 - The Lost Gold Mine Of Charlotte | 54-10-12~s05e03~The Dreaded Batter-Pudding Hurler (tk-hq) | 54-10-19~s05e04~The Phantom Head Shaver (tk-hq) | 54-10-26~s05e05~The Affair of the Lone Banana (tk-hq) | 54-11-02 - The Canal | 54-11-09~s05e07~Lurgi Strikes Britain (tk-hq) | 54-11-16~s05e08~The Mystery of the Marie Celeste (tk-hq) | 54-11-23~s05e09~The Last Tram (tk-hq) | 54-11-30 - The Booted Gorilla Found | 54-12-07~s05e11~The Spanish Suitcase (tk-hq) | 54-12-14 - Dishonoured, or the Fall of Neddie Seagoo | 54-12-21 - Forog | 54-12-28~s05e14~Ye Bandit of Sherwood Forest (tk-hq) | 55-01-04~s05e15~1985 (tk-hq) | 55-01-11 - The Case Of The Missing Heir | 55-01-18 - China Story | 55-01-25~s05e18~Under Two Floorboards (tk-hq) | 55-02-01 - The Missing Scroll (The Lost Music Of Purdom) | 55-02-15~s05e21~The Sinking of Westminster Pier (tk-hq) | 55-02-22 - The Fireball of Milton Street | 55-03-01 - The Six Ingots Of Leadenhall Street | 55-03-08~s05e24~Yehti (tk-hq) | 55-03-15~s05e25~The White Box of Great Barfield (tk-hq) | 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 (tk-hq) | 55-10-11~s06e04~Napoleon's Piano (tk-hq) | 55-10-18~s06e05~The Case of the Missing CD Plates (tk-hq) | 55-10-25~s06e06~Rommel's Treasure (tk-hq) | 55-11-01 - Foiled By President Fred (In Honour Bound) | 55-11-08~s06e08~Shangri La Again! (tk-hq) | 55-11-15~s06e09~The International Christmas Pudding (tk-hq) | 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 (tk-hq) | 55-12-27 - The Hastings Flyer - Robbed | 56-01-03~s06e16~The Mighty Wurlitzer (tk-hq) | 56-01-10 The Raid Of The International Christmas Pudding | 56-01-17 - Tales of Montmartre (Different) | 56-01-17~s06e18~Tales of Montmatre (tk-hq) | 56-01-24~s06e19~The Jet-Propelled Guided NAAFI (tk-hq) | 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 (tk-hq) | 56-02-28 - The Treasure in the Lake (Different) | 56-02-28~s06e24~The Treasure of Loch Lomond (tk-hq) | 56-03-01 - The Goons Hit Wales | 56-03-06 - The Fear Of Wages | 56-03-13 - Scradje | 56-03-13~s06e26~Scradge (tk-hq) | 56-03-20 - The Man Who Never Was | 56-04-03 - The Pevensy Bay Disaster (Different) | 56-04-03~s06e10~The Pevensey Bay Disaster (tk-hq) | 56-08-29 - China Story | 56-10-04~s07e01~The Nasty Affair at the Burami Oasis (tk-hq) | 56-10-11~s07e02~Drums Along The Mersey (tk-hq) | 56-10-18 - The [Great] Nadger Plague | 56-10-25~s07e04~The Macreekie Rising of '74 (hq) | 56-11-01~s07e05~The Spectre of Tintagel (tk-hq) | 56-11-15~s07e07~The Great Bank Robbery (tk-hq) | 56-11-22 - Personal Narrative (Of Captain Neddie Seagoon, RN) | 56-11-29~s07e09~Mystery of the Fake Neddie Seagoons (tk-hq) | 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 (tk-hq) | 56-12-22 - Robin Hood | 56-12-24~s07esp~Operation Christmas Duff (tk-hq) | 56-12-26 - Six Charlies in Search of an Author | 57-01-03 - Emperor of the Universe | 57-01-10~s07e15~Wings Over Dagenham (tk-hq) | 57-01-17~s07e16~The Rent Collectors (tk-hq) | 57-01-24~s07e17~Shifting Sands (tk-hq) | 57-01-31 - The Moon Show | 57-02-07~s07e19~The Mysterious Punch-Up-The-Conker (tk-hq) | 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 (tk-hq) | 57-03-21 - The Missing Boa Constrictor | 57-03-28~s07e25~The Histories of Pliny the Elder (tk-hq) | 57-08-22~s07eSP~The Reason Why (tk-hq) | 57-09-30~s08e01~Spon (tk-hq) | 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 (tk-hq) | 57-10-14~s08e03~The Burning Embassy (tk-hq) | 57-10-21~s08e04~The Great Regents Park Swim (hq) | 57-10-28 - The Treasure In The Tower (Altogether different) | 57-10-28~s08e05~The Treasure In The Tower (tk-hq) | 57-11-03 - The Missing Ten Downing Street [VG03] | 57-11-04 The Space Age (Different) | 57-11-04~s08e06~The Space Age (hq) | 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 (tk-hq) | 57-11-25 - The Policy (Different, beginning cut, overlong) | 57-11-25 The Policy (has KERA intro) | 57-12-01 - The Kippered Herring Gang | 57-12-02~s08e10~King Solomon's Mines (tk-hq) | 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 (tk-hq) | 57-12-29 The Ink Shortage | 57-12-30~s08e14~African Incident (tk-hq) | 58-01-06 The Thing On The Mountain | 58-01-12 - The Mustard And Cress Shortage [VG08] | 58-01-13~s08e16~The String Robberies (tk-hq) | 58-01-20~s08e17~The Moriarity Murder Mystery (tk-hq) | 58-01-27~s08e18~The Curse of Frankenstein (tk-hq) | 58-02-03~s08e19~The White Neddie Trade (tk-hq) | 58-02-10 - Ten Snowballs That Shook The World (Different) | 58-02-10~s08e20~Ten Snowballs That Shook The World (tk-hq) | 58-02-16 - The Internal Mountain (VGE 09 remake 54-03-29) | 58-02-17~s08e21~The Man Who Never Was (tk-hq) | 58-02-23~svge10~The Silent Bugler (tk-hq) | 58-02-24~s08e22~World War One (tk-hq) | 58-03-02 - The Great Bank Of England Robbery | 58-03-03~s08e23~The Spon Plague (tk-hq) | 58-03-09~svge12~The Dreaded Piano Clubber (hq) | 58-03-10 - The Vanishing Room (VGE 06 remake 54-02-15) | 58-03-10 - Tiddleywinks (Different) | 58-03-10~s08e24~Tiddleywinks (tk-hq) | 58-03-16~svge13~The Siege of Fort Night (hq) | 58-03-17~s08e25~The Evils of Bushey Spon (tk-hq) | 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 (tk-hq) | 58-10-06~svge04~The Giant Bombardon (bh) (tk-hq) | 58-10-13~svge06~The Vanishing Room (tk-hq) | 58-11-01~s09e02~I Was Monty's Treble (tk-hq) | 58-11-03 - The Sahara Desert Statue | 58-11-17~s09e03~The £1,000,000 Penny (tk-hq) | 58-11-24 - Pams Paper Insurance Policy | 58-12-01~s09e05~The Mountain Eaters (tk-hq) | 58-12-08~s09e06~The Childe Harolde Rewarde (tk-hq) | 58-12-15~s09e07~The Seagoon Memoirs (tk-hq) | 58-12-22~s09e08~Queen Anne's Rain (tk-hq) | 58-12-29~s09e09~The Battle of Spion Kop (tk-hq) | 59-01-05~s09e10~Ned's Atomic Dustbin (tk-hq) | 59-01-12~s09e11~Who Is Pink Oboe (tk-hq) | 59-01-20~s09e12~Call of the West (tk-hq) | 59-01-26~s09e13~Dishonoured---Again (BBC7) | 59-02-02 - Quatermass OBE (The Scarlet Capsule) (Yet another one) | 59-02-02~s09e14~Quatermass O.B.E (different beginning!) | 59-02-02~s09e14~Quatermass O.B.E (not tk) | 59-02-09~s09e15~The Tay Bridge (tk-hq) | 59-02-16~s09e16~The Gold Plate Robbery (tk-hq) | 59-02-23~s09e17~The £50 Cure (tk-hq) | 59-02-29 - The £50 Cure | 59-12-24~s10e01~A Christmas Carol (tk-hq) | 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 (tk-hq) | 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 (tk-hq) | 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.