U.S. ARCHIVES OF THE GOON SHOW PRESERVATION SOCIETY (updated April 2008) Quality Legend A = excellent B = good C = acceptable D = poor I = incomplete--music edited out # Date BBC Title [Announced Title] Qual. Second Series 1 1-22-52 [no announced title] C-/I* *Opening & Geldray tune are missing. 3 2-5-52 [no announced title] D-C/I* *Opening missing. Fourth Series 2 10-9-53 The Man Who Tried to Destroy London's D-C/I* Monuments *Geldray tune missing. 3 10-16-53 The Ghastly Experiments of Dr. Hans D-C/I Eidelburger [The Adventures of Fearless Harry Secombe] 13 12-26-53 The Giant Bombardon (2 1/4-min excerpt C only) (Note to archives users: For convenience' sake, I'll include this segment with 4/3.) 15 1-8-54 The Missing Prime Minister C- 18 1-29-54 The History of Communications C/I* *Opening missing. 23 3-1-54 The Greatest Mountain in the World A 24 3-8-54 The Collapse of the British Railway A Sandwich System 25 3-15-54 The Silent Bugler C 29 4-12-54 The Great Bank of England Robbery C+ SP 8-31-54 The Starlings. Announcer Andrew A- Timothy; no music or audience. From Radio 4 repeat of Christmas 1989 with introduction by Spike. Fifth Series 1 9-28-54 The Whistling Spy Enigma A 2 10-5-54 The Lost Gold Mine (of Charlotte) A [Death in the Desert] 3 10-12-54 The Dreaded Batter-Pudding Hurler A (of Bexhill-on-Sea) 4 10-19-54 The Phantom Head Shaver (of Brighton) A 5 10-26-54 The Affair of the Lone Banana A 6 11-2-54 The Canal A 7 11-9-54 Lurgi Strikes Britain A (TS Title: Lurgi Strikes Again) 8 11-16-54 The Mystery of the Marie Celeste (Solved) A 9 11-23-54 The Last Tram (from Clapham) A 10 11-30-54 The Booted Gorilla (found?) A 11 12-7-54 The Spanish Suitcase A 12 12-14-54 Dishonoured, or the Fall of Neddie Seagoon B- 13 12-21-54 Forog A 14 12-28-54 Ye Bandit of Sherwood Forest A 15 1-4-55 1985 A 16 1-11-55 The Case of the Missing Heir A [The Greenslade Impressions] 17 1-18-55 China Story A 18 1-25-55 Under Two Floorboards A Story of the Legion A 19 2-1-55 The Missing Scroll [The Lost Music A of Purdom] 20 2-8-55 1985 B-/I* *Opening and both tunes missing. 21 2-15-55 The Sinking of Westminster Pier A 22 2-22-55 The Fireball of Milton Street A 23 3-1-55 The Six Ingots of Leadenhall Street A 24 3-8-55 Yehti A 25 3-15-55 The White Box of Great Bardfield A [Son of Houdini] 26 3-22-55 The End (TS Title: Confessions of a A Secret Senna-Pod Drinker) Sixth Series 1 9-20-55 The Man Who Won the War (TS Title: B+ [Seagoon MCC]) 2 9-27-55 The Secret Escritoire A 3 10-4-55 The Lost Emperor [The Tomb of Ghengis Khan] A 4 10-11-55 Napoleon's Piano A 5 10-18-55 The Case of the Missing CD Plates A [A Strange Case of Diplomatic Immunity] 6 10-25-55 [The Search for] Rommel's Treasure A 7 11-1-55 Foiled by President Fred [In Honour Bound] A 8 11-8-55 Shangri-La Again [Lost Horizon] A 9 11-15-55 The [Great] International Christmas Pudding A 10 4-3-56 The Pevensey Bay Disaster (rec. 11-20-55) A 11 11-29-55 The Sale of Manhattan (TS Title: A The Lost Colony) 12 12-6-55 The Terrible Revenge of Fred Fu-Manchu A [Fred Fu-Manchu and his Bamboo Saxophone] 13 12-13-55 The Lost Year A- 14 12-20-55 The Greenslade Story A 16 1-3-56 The Mighty Wurlitzer B+ 17 1-10-56 The Raid of the International Christmas C Pudding 18 1-17-56 Tales of Montmartre A 19 1-24-56 The Jet-Propelled Guided NAAFI A 20 1-31-56 The House of Teeth A 21 2-7-56 Tales of Old Dartmoor A 22 2-14-56 The Choking Horror A 23 2-21-56 The Great Tuscan Salami Scandal A 24 2-28-56 The Treasure in the Lake [The Treasure A of Loch Lomond] 25 3-6-56 The Fear of Wages A 26 3-13-56 Scradje A 27 3-20-56 The Man Who Never Was A SP 8-29-56 China Story B- Seventh Series 1 10-4-56 The Nasty Affair at the Burami Oasis A 2 10-11-56 Drums Along the Mersey A 3 10-18-56 The [Great] Nadger Plague A 4 10-25-56 The MacReekie Rising of '74 A- 5 11-1-56 The Spectre of Tintagel A 6 2-14-57 The Sleeping Prince (rec. 11-4-56) A 7 11-15-56 The Great Bank Robbery A 8 11-22-56 Personal Narrative [The Personal A Narrative of Captain Neddie Seagoon, R.N.] 9 11-29-56 The Mystery of the Fake Neddie Seagoons A [The Great Art Mystery, or . . . ] 10 12-5-56 What's My Line? A 11 12-13-56 The Telephone B+ 12 12-20-56 The Flea A 13 12-26-56 Six Charlies in Search of an Author A 14 1-3-57 Emperor of the Universe A 15 1-10-57 Wings Over Dagenham A 16 1-17-57 The Rent Collectors A 17 1-24-57 Shifting Sands [India 1902] A 18 1-31-57 The Moon Show A 19 2-7-57 The Mysterious Punch-up-the-Conker A 20 2-21-57 Round the World in Eighty Days A 21 2-28-57 Insurance, the White Man's Burden A 22 3-7-57 The Africa Ship Canal [The Great A Trans-Africa Canal] 23 3-14-57 Ill Met By Goonlight A 24 3-21-57 The Missing Boa Constrictor A 25 3-28-57 The Histories of Pliny the Elder A SP TS only Robin Hood [and his Mirry Mon] (rec. 12-2-56) A SP 12-25-56 Operation Christmas Duff (rec. 12-9-56 A for General Overseas Service broadcast only; not broadcast in UK until 12-25-86) SP 8-22-57 The Reason Why. The Goons plus Greenslade A and Valentine Dyall. No audience. Prod. Jacques Brown. Eighth Series 1 9-30-57 Spon A 2 10-7-57 The Junk Affair A 3 10-14-57 The Burning Embassy A 4 10-21-57 The Great Regent's Park Swim A 5 10-28-57 The Treasure in the Tower A 6 11-4-57 The Space Age A 7 11-11-57 The Red Fort [A Tale of India] B 8 11-18-57 The Missing Battleship A 9 11-25-57 The Policy A 10 12-2-57 King Solomon's Mines A 11 12-9-57 The Stolen Postman A 12 12-16-57 The Great British Revolution A 13 12-23-57 The Plasticine Man A 14 12-30-57 African Incident A 15 1-6-58 The Thing on the Mountain A 16 1-13-58 The [Great] String Robberies A 17 1-20-58 The Moriarty Murder Mystery A 18 1-27-58 The Curse of Frankenstein A [My Heart's in the Highlands] 19 2-3-58 The White Neddie Trade A 20 2-10-58 Ten Snowballs That Shook the World A 21 2-17-58 The Man Who Never Was A 22 2-24-58 World War One (TS and script A title: "______!") 23 3-3-58 The [Great] Spon Plague A 24 3-10-58 Tiddleywinks A 25 3-17-58 The Evils of Bushey Spon A 26 3-24-58 The Great Statue Debate A Vintage Goons (spec. rec. for TS) [rec. date] 1 10-6-57 The Mummified Priest A 2 10-20-57 The Greatest Mountain in the World B 3 11-3-57 The Missing Ten Downing Street A- [The Missing Prime Minister of 1953] 4 11-17-57 The Giant Bombardon A 5 12-1-57 The Kippered Herring Gang A- 6 12-15-57 The Vanishing Room A 7 12-29-57 The Ink Shortage [Hansard Unexpurgated] A 8 1-12-58 The Mustard and Cress Shortage [The A- Collapse of the British Railway Sandwich System] 9 2-16-58 The Internal Mountain A 10 2-23-58 The Silent Bugler A 11 3-2-58 The Great Bank of England Robbery A 12 3-9-58 The Dreaded Piano Clubber A 13 3-16-58 The Siege of Fort Night A- 14 3-23-58 The Albert Memorial [The First Albert B Memorial to the Moon] Ninth Series 1 11-3-58 The Sahara Desert Statue A 2 11-10-58 I Was Monty's Treble A 3 11-17-58 The 1,000,000 Pound Penny [The Story A of a Crime-Type Murder] 4 11-24-58 The Pam's Paper Insurance Policy A- 5 12-1-58 The Mountain Eaters A 6 12-8-58 The Childe Harolde Rewarde A 7 12-15-58 The Seagoon Memoirs A 8 12-22-58 Queen Anne's Rain A 9 12-29-58 The Battle of Spion Kop A 10 1-5-59 Ned's Atomic Dustbin B 10 1-5-59 Ned's Atomic Dustbin (TSO version) C 10 1-5-59 Ned's Atomic Dustbin (combined version*) B+ *In most cases, differences among Original/TSO/TSR versions are modest, but in this case, the Original show has 25 lines not in TSO version, and TSO version has 45 lines not in Original. This combined version runs 33:20. 11 1-12-59 Who Is Pink Oboe? [The Spy] A 12 1-20-59 The Call of the West [Captain Stingo, A or Goon Law, or . . . ] 13 1-26-59 Dishonoured--Again [I Knew Terence Nuke] A 14 2-2-59 The Scarlet Capsule [Quatermass O.B.E.] A 15 2-9-59 The Tay Bridge A 16 2-16-59 The Gold Plate Robbery [The Kleens A of Blenchinghall] 17 2-23-59 The 50 Pound Cure A Tenth Series 1 12-24-59 A Christmas Carol [A Merry Christmas A and Custard] 2 12-31-59 The Tale of Men's Shirts A 3 1-7-60 The Chinese Legs C 4 1-14-60 Robin's Post [The Story of Lord Seagoon] A 5 1-21-60 The Silver Dubloons A 6 1-28-60 The Last Smoking Seagoon A OTHER PERFORMANCES BY THE GOONS Goon-type Shows or Recordings Date Title and Description Time Qual. ??? Prerecording audience warmup. 10:30 B- Greenslade introduces musicians and SM, who jollies audience and intros PS, who jollies audience and intros HS, who sings and jollies audience. 8-31-54 The Starlings see Fourth Series, SP 1955/56 Unused Dreaded Batter-Pudding Hurler 41:15 B- Some time in 6th Series, Spike was sick, so they pulled out Dreaded Batter-Pudding Hurler script from 5/3, with PS taking Spike's voices. Producer Peter Eton rejected it, so it was never edited to length for airplay. This is raw dub of that recording, including the audience warmup by PS & HS. 3-1-56 The Goons Hit Wales 5:00 D-C 8-29-56 China Story--see Sixth Series, SP 9-30-56 Goon Show rehearsal for "The Nasty 21:35 B- Affair at the Burami Oasis." Disorganized, spontaneous foolishness. 12-2-56 Robin Hood--see Seventh Series, SP 12-25-56 Operation Christmas Duff--see Seventh Series, SP 8-22-57 The Reason Why--see Seventh Series, SP The Idiot Weekly (series). Australian Broadcasting Commission production. SM, others; written by SM in Goon Show style: 1958 The Flying Dustbins 20:15 C-B 1958 England Loses the Ashes 23:05 C-B 11-62 Bridge on the River Wye. SM, PS, 33:10 A Jonathan Miller, Peter Cook. Orch. cond. Wally Stott. Based in part on "African Incident" (8/14). The Omar Khayam Show (series). BBC production. SM & various Australian and English comics. Written by SM; prod. Chas. Chilton; music George Chisholm & his Jolly Jazzers. Based on Idiot Weekly series on ABC: 12-27-63 Ned Kelly [Hands Across the Sea] 29:55 B 1-3-64 The Ashes 29:15 C+ 1-10-64 The P.M.'s Trousers 29:05 B 1-17-64 The Flying Dustman 28:55 B 1-24-64 The America Cup 29:40 A- 5-5-64 Waltzing Matilda 29:30 A- 11-8-64 Forces Gala Night (celebrating 21st 7:40 C-B anniversary of British Forces Broadcasting Service). HS, SM & PS (by phone from Paris). Shortened version of "I Was Monty's Treble." 12-25-64 The Grand Piano Orchestra (G.P.O.) 29:40 A Show. SM, HS, others. Written SM, prod. Chas. Chilton. Based on "History of Communications" (4/18). Performed before audience of G.P.O. workers. 6-16-65 The Army Show. As G.P.O. show, but 30:10 B+ without HS. Performed before audience of soldiers. 12-25-65 The Naughty Navy Show. As Army Show. 29:50 B+ Performed before audience of sailors. 8-8-68 The Goon Show--Tales of Men's Shirts. 23:05 C- PS, HS, & SM, with John Cleese (later of Monty Python fame), announcer, prod. Peter Eton. Televised radio production on ITV. 4-30-72 The Last Goon Show of All. For BBC 58:35 A 50th anniversary celebration. BBC Radio Collection ZBBC 2014CD (stereo). Goon Songs Rec. 6-55 Unchained Melody A " Dance with Me, Henry A Pub. 6-56 The Bluebottle Blues A " I'm Walking Backwards for Christmas A 10-56 Bloodnok's Rock 'n' Roll Call A " The Ying Tong Song A 12-56 My September Love A " You Gotta Go OWW! A 4-57 Eeh! Ah! Oh! Ooh! A " I Love You A 10-57 Whistle Your Cares Away A " A Russian Love Song A 4-78 The Raspberry Song (stereo) A " Rhymes (stereo) A -- Goon songs only: 47 minutes -- 1990* Teddy Bears' Picnic - Ray Ellington Quartet A " Slow Coach - Ray Ellington Quartet A " Blues - Max Geldray Quartet B " Sally - Ray Ellington Quartet A " My Melancholy Baby - Max Geldray Quartet A " Little Red Riding Hood - Ray Ellington Quartet B- -- All songs: 64 minutes -- (*Last six from CD The World of the Goons [Eclipse 820 646-2], which also has ten of the Goon Songs.) BEYOND THE GOONS Miscellaneous Performances and Recordings by the Goons Date Title and Description Time Qual. 1-22-50 PS on "Variety Bandbox" 6:50 B 1-22-50 HS on "Variety Bandbox" 6:20 B- May-June '51 PS on "Showtime from the London 10:00 B Palladium," host Wilfred Thomas. 1958 The Best of Sellers 36:10 A 1959 Songs for Swingin' Sellers 56:00 A 1960 Peter and Sophia [Sellers & Loren] 47:00 A 1961 Milligan Preserved 39:55 B- 1962 It's a Square World--Various skits by 33:05 A Michael Bentine 1964 How to Win an Election (or not lose by 45:10 A much) HS, PS, & SM. Written by Leslie Bricusse. 1967 Square Bashing--Various skits by 29:00 A Michael Bentine. 72-73 Milligna, or Your Favourite Spike SM, John Bluthal et al., prod. John Browell. Comedy sketches, music by Alan Clare Quartet and different guest vocalists. Seven consecutive Tuesdays on Radio 4 beginning 12 December 1972. Dates imprecise, shows identified by guest vocalist: With Salena Jones 28:50 C+ With Salena Jones (but her song missing) 23:20 C- With Jeremy Robinson 28:40 C+ With Jeremy Robinson 26:55 B- With Friday Brown (this is the show used in "Goodbye Spike") 30:15 A- 1-23-73 With Ray Ellington (last show of series) 27:50 D 1975 Milligna (or Your Favourite Spike)--SM, 30:15 A- John Bluthal et al. Sketches, music. 1974 He's Innocent of Watergate Or Dick's 37:30 A Last Stand--PS, SM et al.; written by SM et al. 12-12-74 Dinosaurs SM & John Antrobus, written 18:15 B+ by JA, based on play by JA. 1979 Barclays Bank adverts--SM & HS as the 14:50 B- Goons in series of short radio ads given away on flimsy disk as promotion. One side titled "School leavers going to work"; the other "School leavers going to college." 1979 Sellers Market 1:00:00 A 1980 Puckoon--Dramatization of SM's 1963 57:50 A novel with SM & other actors. 1980 Dark Side of the Goon: Solo classics 53:15 A by SM, PS, & HS. The Milligan Papers--Spike's Last Series, Radio 4. Written by John Antrobus. 1-28-87 The Incredible Case of the Vanishing Flying Scotsman 27:05 A 2-4-87 Jonah and the Whale 27:05 A 2-11-87 From Rags to More Rags 26:30 A 2-18-87 That "Cake" Elusive Pimpernel 26:50 A 2-25-87 The Incurables Part I 27:10 A 3-4-87 The Incurables Part II 26:20 A 1990 A Collection of Spikes 2:08:00 A 1990 The World of the Goons. 52:00 A 1993 Michael Bentine: The Original Goon. 1:44:00 A 1995 The Best of Bentine 2:00:45 A 1998 Spike Milligan at the Beeb: two- 1:56:00 A cassette set released to celebrate SM's 80th birthday (see SM at 80 below) 4-13-98 Spike Milligan at 80 radio (BBC2) 57:10 A tribute to Spike on his 80th birthday (distilled from SM at he Beeb above) Interviews with the Goons 5-13-71 Dick Cavett Show--TV broadcast from 21:30 B London with SM, Jonathan Miller, Bernard Levin. 10-28-72 Parkinson Meets the Goons--BBC TV 47:35 A- broadcast; PS & HS, SM taped. 11-9-74 An Evening with Peter Sellers--Edited 48:20 A version of "Parkinson" show (BBC TV), released after Sellers's death in 1980. 1975? Plain Tales from the Raj--"A panorama 44:00 A- of British India, recorded in the voices of those who lived in it. Program 5: Milligan, chota sahib." 2-15-77 90 Minutes Live--SM interviewed by 24:15 B Peter Gzowski on CBC (Canada) TV show. 9-24-77 Parkinson--SM & Woody Herman on BBC1 30:50 A TV Show 9-25-82 In the Psychiatrist's Chair--SM 39:15 A interviewed by Dr. Anthony Clare of the Institute of Psychiatry. 2-87 Terry Wogan Show--SM on BBC TV show. 12:00 A- Documentaries about the Goons 4-5-55 The Lid Off the BBC: No. 4--The 28:35 B- Variety Dept. General review of Variety Dept. programming, with special emphasis on the Goons. 2-8-70 The Secombe Story 38:30 B- 5-30-78 Heroes for a Time--No. 6; presented by 24:35 A- Tony Bilbow, prod. Brian Cook. Retrospective of Goon Show with comments by the Goons and Roger Wilmut. 2-13-79 Laughter in the Air: The Story of Radio 57:25 A- Comedy. Part 7: Goon But Not Forgotten. Presented by Bernard Cribbins; written & compiled by Dennis Gifford; prod. Bobby Jay. An excellent radio history of the Goons, including samples of much earlier British comedy that may have influenced the Goons. 6-7-80 National Public Radio's "All Things 12:30 A Considered" discusses the Goon Show, inc. interview with Dick Baker. 7-27-80 ABC [Australian] Radio memorial show 56:40 B-A to PS. 8-13-83 A Sound of Goons--Documentary on Goon 44:30 A Show by Frank Muir. 5-27-91 At Last the Go On Show--40th birthday 70:10 A celebration of the Goons. Outtakes of old shows and comments by SM, HS, PS, MB, Eric Sykes, Graham Stark, George Chisholm, John Browell, Charles Chilton, Dennis Main Wilson, Angela Morley (Wally Stott). Prod. Dirk Maggs. 10-25-95 A Weekend Called Fred--Roy Bainton's 8:50 A report on the GSPS convention in Bournemouth, Oct. 20-22, 1995. 1996 Secombe So Far--BBC Radio 2 tribute 58:40 A to Secombe on his 75th birthday. 5-26-01 Harry Makes Me Smile--BBC Radio 56:45 A Tribute to Secombe a few weeks after his death. Excellent compilation of excerpts & comments by friends & family. 6-10-01 ABC (Australian) 50th Anniversary Goon Program a. Interviews with John Browell, HS, 31:50 A- SM, Bentine, also Spike's famous disruption of 1971 news broadcast. b. Talking History--Excellent 1990 29:25 A- discussion of how the Goon Show was edited with John Newsome (Australian editor for Transcription Service), Eddie Millis (engineer on the original show), and Michael Cosby (ABC radio executive who attended many of the original recording ses- sions at the Camden Theatre). 7/8-02 Best Sellers: The Life and Times of PS 1:56:00 A 6-25-02 Six Characters in Search of an Answer: 27:30 A No. 3: Neddie Seagoon (Radio 4) 12-24-02 Vivat Milligna! BBC Radio 2 tribute to 57:05 A SM presented by Dennis Norden. Has a lot of material not heard in all the other documentaries. Goons Night - BBC Radio 2, May 29, 2001 First Hour: 57:20 A a. Introduction by Eddie Izzard, with GS excerpts (5:40) b. Spike's Pick of the Goons: The Fear of Wages (30:15) c. Comedians' Goons--Contemporary comics Eddie Izzard, Mark Thomas, Lee Hurst, Al Murray, Ardal O'Hanlon & Harry Hill talk about the Goons' influence on them (20:20) [d. a. & c. only, for those who already have "Fear of Wages" 26:05 A At Last the Go On Show--Revised version of the 57:45 A 40th birthday celebration mentioned above under Documentaries. Just Before Goonrise--Denis Norden traces the 27:05 A history of radio comedy from the end of WWII to the first broadcast of "Crazy People" in May 1951. Goon Again: The 50th Anniversary Cardboard 59:30 A Replica Goon Show. Recorded March 25, 2001, at the Playhouse Theatre, London. Starring Andrew Secombe (son of HS, as HS), Jon Glover (as SM), Jeffrey Holland (as PS), and Christopher Timothy (son of Andrew, as announcer). Featuring Lance Ellington (son of Ray) and Harry Pitch (harmonica) with the John Wilson Orchestra; arrangements by Angela Morley. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens, edited by Paul Minett, Brian Leveson & Dirk Maggs. Produced and directed by Dirk Maggs. New production of excerpts from two Third Series Goon Shows. Goodbye Spike - BBC7 - January 5, 2003 Eric Sykes & Norma Farnes--Reminiscences of 56:55 A- Spike interspersed with SM and Goon Show excerpts. Milligna (or Your Favourite Spike)--SM, John 30:45 A- Bluthal et al. in sketches & music; prod. John Browell. Repeat from 1973. More Plain Tales from the Raj: Milligan, chota 43:30 A- sahib. Repeat from 1975. Dinosaurs--SM with John Antrobus, written by 18:10 A- Antrobus. Repeat from 1975. The Fear of Wages--Supposedly Spike's favorite 29:55 A- show. Repeat of Series 6, No. 25. (Entire Goodbye Spike is three hours and includes all the BBC7 continuity. Sykes-Farnes was new for this broadcast; everything else is repeat of earlier material and can be found elsewhere in its original form.)