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.

Volume 1 Episode List

abc 52-01-22 No Announced Title 52-02-05 No Announced Title 53-10-09 The Man Who Tried to Destroy London's 53-10-16 The Ghastly Experiments of Dr Hans Ei 53-12-26 The Giant Bombardo 54-01-08 The Missing Prime Minister 54-01-29 The History of Communications 54-03-01 The Greatest Mountain in the World 54-03-08 The Collapse of the British Railway S 54-03-15 The Silent Bugler 54-04-12 The Great Bank of England Robbery 54-08-31 tarlings 54-09-28 The Whistling Spy Enigma 54-10-05 The Lost Gold Mine (of Charlotte) (De 54-10-12 The Dreaded Batter-Pudding Hurler (of 54-10-19 The Phantom Head Shaver (of Brighton) 54-10-26 The Affair of the Lone Banana 54-11-02 The Canal 54-11-09 Lurgi Strikes Britain 54-11-16 The Mystery of the Marie Celeste (Sol 54-11-23 The Last Tram (from Clapham) 54-11-30 The Booted Gorilla 54-12-07 The Spanish Suitcase 54-12-14 Dishonoured, or the Fall of Neddie Se 54-12-21 Forog 54-12-28 Ye Bandit of Sherwood Forest 55-01-04 1985 55-01-11 The Case of the Missing Heir (The Gre 55-01-18 China Story 55-01-25 Under Two Floorboards (A Story of the 55-02-01 The Missing Scroll (The Lost Music of 55-02-15 The Sinking of Westminster Pier 55-02-22 The Fireball of Milton Street 55-03-08 Yehti 55-03-15 The White Box of Great Bardfield (Son 55-03-15 The White Box of Great Bardfield (Son 55-03-22 The End (Ts Title - Confessions of a 55-09-20 The Man Who Won the War (Ts Title - S 55-09-27 The Secret Escritoire 55-10-04 The Lost Emperor (The Tomb of Ghengis 55-10-11 Napoleon's Piano 55-10-18 The Case of the Missing Cd Plates (A 55-10-25 (The Search For) Rommel's Treasure 55-11-01 Foiled by President Fred (In Honour B 55-11-08 Shangri-La Again (Lost Horizon) 55-11-15 The (Great) International Christmas P 55-11-20 br> 55-11-29 The Sale of Manhattan (Ts Title - The 55-12-06 The Terrible Revenge of Fred Fu-Manch 55-12-13 The Lost Year 55-12-20 The Greenslade Story 55-03-01 The Six Ingots of Leadenhall Street.m 56-01-03 The Mighty Wurlitzer 56-01-10 The Raid of the International Christm

56-01-17 Tales of Montmartre 56-01-24 The Jet-Propelled Guided Naafi 56-01-31 The House of Teeth 56-02-07 Tales of Old Dartmoor 56-02-14 The Choking Horror 56-02-21 The Great Tuscan Salami Scandal 56-02-28 The Treasure in the Lake (The Treasur 56-03-06 The Fear of Wages 56-03-13 Scradje 56-03-20 The Man Who Never Was 56-08-29 The Goon Show China Story 56-10-04 The Nasty Affair at the Burami Oasis. 56-10-11 Drums Along the Mersey 56-10-15 the great bank rob 56-10-18 The (Great) Nadger Plague (1) 56-10-18 The (Great) Nadger Plague (2) 56-10-25 The Macreekie Rising of '74 (1) 56-10-25 The Macreekie Rising of '74 (2) 56-11-01 The Spectre of Tintagel 56-11-04 the sleeping princ 56-11-22 Personal Narrative (The Personal Narr 56-11-29 The Mystery of the Fake Neddie Seagoo 56-12-02 The Goon Show Robin Hood (1) 56-12-02 The Goon Show Robin Hood (2) 56-12-05 What's My Line 56-12-13 The Telephone (1) 56-12-13 The Telephone (2) 56-12-20 The Flea 56-12-23 emperor of the uni 56-12-24 The Goon Show Operation Christmas Duff 56-12-26 Six Charlies in Search of an Author.m 57-01-10 Wings over Dagenham 57-01-17 The Rent Collectors 57-01-24 Shifting Sands (India 1902) 57-01-31 The Moon Show 57-02-07 The Mysterious Punch-up-the-Conker 57-02-21 Round the World in Eighty Days 57-02-28 Insurance, the White Man's Burden (1) 57-02-28 Insurance, the White Man's Burden (2) 57-03-07 The Africa Ship Canal (The Great Tran 57-03-14 Ill Met by Goonlight 57-03-21 The Missing Boa Constrictor 57-03-28 The Histories of Pliny the Elder 57-08-22 The Goon Show The Reason Why (The Goons Plus Greenslade 57-09-30 Spon 57-10-06 The Mummified Priest 57-10-07 The Junk Affair 57-10-14 The Burning Embassy 57-10-21 The Great Regent's Park Swim 57-10-28 The Treasure in the Tower 57-11-03 The Missing Ten Downing Street (The M 57-11-04 The Space Age 57-11-11 The Red Fort (A Tale of India) (1) 57-11-11 The Red Fort (A Tale of India) (2)

Volume 2 Episode List

57-11-17 The Giant Bombardon (1) 57-11-17 The Giant Bombardon (2) 57-11-18 The Missing Battleship 57-11-25 The Policy 57-12-01 The Kippered Herring Gang 57-12-02 King Solomon's Mines 57-12-09 The Stolen Postman 57-12-15 The Vanishing Room 57-12-16 The Great British Revolution 57-12-23 The Plasticine Man 57-12-29 The Ink Shortage (Hansard Unexpurgate 57-12-30 African Incident 58-01-06 The Thing on the Mountain 58-01-12 The Mustard and Cress Shortage (The C 58-01-13 The (Great) String Robberies 58-01-20 The Moriarty Murder Mystery 58-01-27 The Curse of Frankenstein (My Heart's 58-02-03 The White Neddie Trade 58-02-10 Ten Snowballs That Shook the World 58-02-16 The Internal Mountain 58-02-17 The Man Who Never Was 58-02-23 The Silent Bugler 58-02-24 World War One (1) 58-02-24 World War One (2) 58-03-02 The Great Bank of England Robbery 58-03-03 The (Great) Spon Plague 58-03-09 The Dreaded Piano Clubber 58-03-10 Tiddleywinks 58-03-16 The Siege of Fort Night 58-03-17 The Evils of Bushey Spon 58-03-23 The Albert Memorial (The First Albert 58-03-23 The Albert Memorial (The First Albert 58-03-24 The Great Statue Debate 58-09-22 The Goon Show The Mummified Priest 58-10-03 the sahara desert 58-10-03 the vanishing room 58-11-01 i was monty's treb 58-11-17 The 1,000,000 Pound Penny (The Story 58-11-24 The Pam's Paper Insurance Policy 58-12-01 The Mountain Eaters 58-12-08 The Childe Harolde Rewarde 58-12-15 The Seagoon Memoirs 58-12-22 Queen Anne's Rain 58-12-29 The Battle of Spion Kop 59-01-05 Ned's Atomic Dustbin 59-01-12 Who Is Pink Oboe (The Spy) 59-01-20 The Call of the West (Captain Stingo, 59-01-26 Dishonoured--Again (I Knew Terence Nu 59-02-02 The Scarlet Capsule (Quatermass Obe). 59-02-09 The Tay Bridge 59-02-16 The Gold Plate Robbery (The Kleens of 59-02-23 The 50 Pound Cure

59-12-24 A Christmas Carol (A Merry Christmas 59-12-31 The Tale of Men's Shirts 60-01-07 The Chinese Legs 60-01-21 The Silver Dubloons 60-01-28 The Last Smoking Seagoon 65-12-25 The Naughty Navy S 72-04-30 The Goon Show The Last Goon Show of All Another Lot Australia Cougher Royal Famous Last Words Finale Fun,Fun,Fun Good King Ecclesas Have They Gone Hit Parade I'm Walking Out With A Moun Intro Michael_Bentine-Football_Re Monument To Porridge Nonsense Rhymes, etc Pete & Spike-She Loves You Putting Up A Tent Sewers of the Strand Underneath It All WW2 Will I Find My Love Today badjelly the witch bluebottle_blues bridge on the river wye maverick michael_bentine-french_for_ my darling little baby my september love ning nang nong peter sellers & sophia lore peter sellers dance with me peter sellers-auntie rotter peter sellers-balhamgateway peter sellers-party politic peter sellers-public school peter sellers-she-loves-you peter sellers-unchained mel photograph san francisco spike_milligan-python the goons-the ying tong son the silly old baboon wish i knew word power wormwood you gotta go oww!