The Goon Show. Image shows from L to R: Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe. Copyright: BBC
The Goon Show

The Goon Show

  • Radio sitcom / sketch show
  • BBC Home Service
  • 1951 - 1960
  • 231 episodes (10 series)

Highly surreal radio adventures that helped take British comedy into a new age. Starring Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe. Also features Michael Bentine.

  • Series 5, Episode 9 repeated Tuesday at 7:30am on Radio 4 Extra

The Goon Show - Compendium Volume One - Series 5 - Part 1

A seven-disc set of the first half of the fifth series of The Goon Show.

Consists of 13 episodes: The Whistling Spy Enigma, The Lost Gold Mine (Of Charlotte), The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler (Of Bexhill-on-Sea), The Phantom Head Shaver Of Brighton, The Affair Of The Lone Banana, The Canal, Lurgi Strikes Britain!, The Mystery Of The Marie Celeste (Solved), The Last Tram (From Clapham), The Booted Gorilla, The Spanish Suitcase, Dishonoured Or The Fall Of Neddie Seagoon and Forog.

Also includes bonus items such as out-takes, the Peter Sellers edition of impresisonism programme Me And My Shadows, and two booklets.

First released: Saturday 5th April 2008

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