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1985
Parody of George Orwell’s book
Affair of the Lone Banana, The
Ned Seagoon tries defends the last British banana tree in
South America
Booted Gorilla, The
Our heros on the track of a gorilla in Africa
Bulldog Seagonn’s First Case
Sherlock Holmes/Boy’s Own-type story
Call of the West, The
Wild West America story.
Case of the Missing CD Plates, The
Ned Seagoon is struck by a steamroller with CD plates and then
a piano without
China Story
Ned Seagoon has to get a piano across China
Dishonoured
In which Ned Seagoon steals some gold from his bank but has to
flee the country
Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurdler of Bexhill-on-Sea, The
The story of the same
Drums Along the Mersey
In which Ned Seagoon tries to prove that all Welsh people come
from Brazil (Kon-Tiki voyage parody)
Evils of Bushey Spon, The
About the colour of a lamp post
Fireball of Milton Street, The
In which the villagers of Milton Street put out a fire on the
sun (hasn’t it gone dark suddendly)
Flea, The
Concerning a flea
Forog
In which Ned Seagoon attempts to get rid of London’s fog, but
the statues of London object
Great Bank Robbery, The
GTT & M. rob a bank by lifting it into the air with a zeplin
Great Saharra Statue, The
Ned Seagoon is convienced to pose as a statue of the Saharra
Desert and gets hit by an atom bomb
Great Statue Debate, The
Should the leather statue of King James II be replaced by a
compressed tobacco one of Sir Walter Riely? We are just about
to find out when GTT evicts the MPs from teh houses of Parliment
Great Tuscan Salami Scandal, The
Concerning the theft of a salami
Greatest Mountain in the World, The
Ned & co attempt to conquer Mount Fred … a mountain higher
than Mt Everest, but underwater
Greenslade Story, The
The story of announcer Wallace Greenslade
Guided Naffi, The
Concerning a rocket powered Naffi..
Histories of Pliny the Elder, The
Set in Roman times, Ned is made a slave…
House of Teeth, The
Concerning someone who wants 50 pairs of castenettes
I Was Monty’s Treble
Parody of “I Was Monty’s Double” (WW II movie)
Ill Met By Goonlight
Parody of “Ill Met By Moonlight” (WW II movie)
Insurance — The White Man’s Burden
In which Ned tries to set fire to the English channel to claim
the insurance
International Christmas Pudding, The
Ned searches for the Great Internation XMas Pud in darkest Africa
Jet-Propelled Naafi, The
(same as before)
Last Tram (from Clapham), The
Concerning the last tram in London…
Last of the Smoking Seagoons, The
Concerning Ned, and the Ascot tobacco company… the very last
regular Goon Show
Lost Colony, The
Ned tries to claim he is a native American Indian to get Manhattan
Lurgi Strikes Britan
A mysterious disease invades Britian (yack-a-back-co!)
Macreekie Rising of ‘74, The
Concerning Scotsmen invading England…
Man Who Never Was, The
Another WW II parody… from the film of the same legs
Moriarity Murder Mystery, The
In which M is murdered, and Inspector Ned Seagoon has to find
the killer
Mysterious Punch-Up-The-Conker, The
Concerning the title
Mystery of the Marie Celeste (solved), The
Ned Seagoon investigates (and solves) the disapperance of the ship
Napoleon’s Piano
Ned is convienced to bring a piano back from France for #5
Nasty Affair at the Burami Oasis, The
The Arabs want to win the football match with the garason at
Burami Oasis, and the British send a battleship there…
Ned Seagoon MCC
Ned Seagoon tries to get out of the Army
One Million Pound Penny, The
A penny is left #10e6 in a will
Phantom Head Shaver of Brighton, The
Concerning the same
Plasticne Man (incomplete), The
GTT & M convience Ned Seagoon to imitate a man of the
Plasticne period…
Rent Collectors, The
Ned is to collect the rent from Death Grange, Slaughter Hill
Robin Hood and His Merry Men
Parody of the same…
Rommel’s Treasure
Our cast is searching for treasure buried three feet above
ground
Scarlet Capsule, The
Parody of “Quatermass”
Scradje
To stop people’s boots exploding, Ned goes to the North Pole
to find fresh scradje
Seagoon Memoirs, The
Ned is going to write his memiors, but there are people who
want to stop him
Secret Escritoire, The
GTT & M want to shrink Ned to 4 inches so they can sell him
lots of tiny suits
The Siege of Fort Knight
We have to get this underwater gas stove to Fort Knight
Shifting Sands
Concerning a fort built on shifting sands
Silent Bugler, The
Cloak and dagger spy stuff
Sinking of Westminster Pier, The
Ned Seagoon investiages why the pier sank
Six Charlies In Search of An Author
Ned Seagoon has to retrieve some comprimising x-ray photos…
Six Ingots of Leadinghall Street, The
GTT &M steal 6 gold bars from the Bank of England
#$ The Sleeping Prince
Parody of the opera “The Student Prince” (I think)
Spannish Doubloons
Ned is sent to dig up silver doubloons from a long sunk
Spannish Gallion
Spannish Suitcase, The
Concerning a suitcase in Spain
Tale of Mens Shirts
Ned & co are sent into Germany to find out why British army
shirts are exploding
Tales of Old Dartmoor
Ned is running a jail, but is out of convicts
Telephone, The
Ned has to get a telephone to Henry Crun in Africa
Thing on the Mountain, The
Ned is to find out what the thing on the mountain is
Treasure of Loch Lomond, The
Concerning the treasure in the loch and the people who want to
get it…
Under Two Floorboards
Ned joins the French Foriegn Legion
What’s My Line
Parody of the American program of the same name
Whistling Spy Enigma, The
Ned is to sabotage the Hungarian football team, with the aid
of a spy he can only identify by whistling
White Box of Great Bardfield, The
Ned is convienced to send an exhibit of British snow to the
Sudan, but it melts…
Wings over Dagenham
Concerning the invention of the first hairy-plane
World War I
Concerning Ned Seagoon and WW I
Ye Bandits of Sherwood Forest
Another Robin Hood
Yethi, The
Ned searches for the legendary Yethi … in Yorkshire
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Goon but Not Forgotten
Well, I’ve finally decided to pull the Goon Show page that I used to have here, because I wasn’t maintaining it properly. I’d be grateful if any of the other Goon Show web people would take any material I used to have!
To minimise the loss, I include below all the Goon Show links I know. If you have any others, please email them to me at wkt@tuhs.org.
* Russell Street’s Goon Show Pages. But where is his YAQ?
* Jon Poole’s Goon Show Pages
* Adam Waltemire’s Goon Show Pages
* The Goon Show Preservation Society
* Another Goon Show Preservation Society
* The Goon Show Glossary
* The BBC’s Goon Show Homepage
* Dave Josephson’s Preserved Goon Shows
* Dave Josephson’s Goon FTP Site
* David Yost’s Goon Show Pages
* The Goon Appreciation Society of Australia
* Graeme Chamber’s Goon Page
* Robert Dickson’s Goon Show Page
* Robert Dickson’s Goon Show MP3 Page
* Richard’s Goon Show Page
* The Information SuperGoonway
* Some Photos of the Goons
* Some Goon Show Scripts
* A Michael Bentine Link
* Even more links!
* If you have Usenet news, you should read alt.fan.goons
Unfortunately, I’ve lost a link to Russell Street’s YAQ. Any pointers? Finally, for those desperate to get at the files I used to have, they are still here.
Owwww….
Warren Toomey
2000-04-20
The Goon Show from
Wikipedia
The Goon Show was a popular and influential British radio comedy programme, originally produced and broadcast by the BBC from 1951 to 1960 in the BBC Home Service. The first series, broadcast between May and September 1951, went out as Crazy People, with Radio’s Own Crazy Gang: The Goons as its subtitle.
Listeners in the United States were able to hear the show from as early as the mid-1950s when it was carried by NBC.
The scripts mixed ludicrous plots with surreal humour, puns, catchphrases and an array of silly and 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 afterward.
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.
Background
The show was enormously popular in Britain in its heyday; tickets for the recording sessions at the BBC’s Aeolian Hall studio in London were constantly over-subscribed and the various character voices and catchphrases from the show quickly became part of the vernacular. The series has remained consistently popular ever since – it is still being broadcast once a week by the ABC in Australia, as well as on BBC 7; and it has exerted a singular influence over succeeding generations of comedians and writers, most notably the creators of Monty Python’s Flying Circus and the Beatles’ movies.
The series was devised and written by Spike Milligan with the regular collaboration of other writers including (singly) Larry Stephens, Eric Sykes, Maurice Wiltshire and John Antrobus, under the watchful eye of Jimmy Grafton (KOGVOS - Keeper of the Goons and Voice of Sanity). However, on four occasions during the 8th series, Milligan was unable to come up with scripts, so Stephens wrote The Stolen Postman, and Stephens and Wiltshire The Thing On The Mountain, The Moriarty Murder Mystery and The White Neddie Trade, in very convincing Milligan-esque style. In the 9th series, when a similar situation occurred, Stephens and Wiltshire also wrote The Seagoon Memoirs (Stephens had contributed a solo script during the 4th series). Many senior BBC staff were bemused by the show’s surreal humour and it has been reported that senior programme executives erroneously referred to it as “The Go On Show” or even “The Coon Show”.
Milligan and Harry Secombe became friends while serving in the Royal Artillery during World War II; they met up with Peter Sellers and Michael Bentine back in England after the war and got together in Grafton’s pub performing and experimenting with tape recorders. Famously, Milligan first encountered Secombe after Gunner Milligan’s artillery unit accidentally allowed a large howitzer to roll off a cliff - under which Secombe was sitting in a small wireless truck: “Suddenly there was a terrible noise as some monstrous object fell from the sky quite close to us. There was considerable confusion, and in the middle of it all the flap of the truck was pushed open and a young, helmeted idiot asked ‘Anybody see a gun?’ It was Milligan…”
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