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 5 repeated Tuesday at 7:30am on Radio 4 Extra

The Goon Show - Compendium Volume Two - Series 5 - Part 2

The second half of the fifth series of The Goon Show.

This second volume includes: Ye Bandit Of Sherwood Forest, Nineteen Eighty-Five, The Case Of The Missing Heir, Under Two Floorboards, The Missing Scroll, Nineteen Eighty-Five (Remake), The Sinking Of Westminster Pier, The Fireball Of Milton Street, The Six Ingots Of Leadenhall Street, Yehti, The White Box Of Great Bardfield and The End.

Also featured are some rare archive bonus items, including the unbroadcast and previously unreleased version of The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler (Of Bexhill-on-Sea).

Two illustrated booklets tell the story of the show's development with reference to original archive paperwork, plus the history of the recordings themselves.

First released: Wednesday 8th April 2009

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