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Volume Number: 1
Episode Count: 109 Size of Volume: 572 MB Price: $3.99 Catalog # C-GSHO-1 Show / Hide Description
The Goon Show was a hugely popular and extremely influential British radio comedy programme, which was originally produced and broadcast by the BBC from 1951 to 1960 on the BBC Home Service.
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 -- and it has exerted a singular influence over succeeding generations of comedians and writers, most notably the creators of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Alongside the work of The Marx Brothers, the Goon Show is arguably one of the most important comic creations of the 20th century. The scripts mixed ludicrous plots with surreality, puns, catchphrases and an array of silly and surreal 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, film and much more.
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Volume Number: 2
Episode Count: 104 Size of Volume: 271 MB Price: $3.99 Catalog # C-GSHO-2 Show / Hide Episodes
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Volume Number: All Volumes
Episode Count: 213 Size of Volume: 843 MB Price: $6.00 - Save 25%!
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