Talk:The Goon Show cast members and characters

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[edit] Is this page neccessary?

Personally I preferred it with these details on the original The Goon Show page. It may have made the page a bit long but I think these are essential details about the show.

Also, in future post in the Talk page before you make a major change like this please. --Albert 19:17, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kenneth Connor

IF I RECALL CORRECTLY (because I can't find it) My copy of "More Goon Show Scripts" suggests that Kenneth Connor deputised for Milligan, Sellers and Secombe during 1959/1960, meaning that he would have been the only actor to have played Bloodnok, Eccles, Moriarty, Gryppe-Pype Thynne, Neddy, Uncle Henry, Minnie Bannister and Bluebottle. One episode has him down as playing for Secombe and Milligan alongside Sellers; another alongside Milligan and Secombe covering for Sellers, and a third covering both Sellers and Milligan alongside Secombe. Shurely shome mishtake??? --Lunarship 01:32, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Couldn't find it in my paper-back edition - any suggestions as to which pages/section to look in? --AGoon 02:25, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hern

From current page (2006-08-05) "Hearn, Hern or Herne, also Herne Sales. An American character used for narration, outrageous announcements, parody sales pitches. The Goons referred to Americans as "herns", possibly because saying "hern hern hern...." sounded American to them. See also Lafcadio Hearn."

I can see no great evidence of alternative spellings being used in Goon Shows except by mistake. The published scripts from Milligan use "Hern", only one transcriber uses "Hearn" (in two different shows he transcribed). "Lafcadio Hearn" seems to have absolutely nothing to do with the Goons or Milligan. On alt.fan.goons google shows 5 refs to herne, 8 to hearn, 10 to hearne and 551 to hern. On alt.fan.goons Paul Winalski says "It's a Goonism. There was an American-accented employee of the BBC named William Hearne. The Goons mocked his name and accent by adopting "hern hern hern" as the quintessential distillation of the American accent." [1] (Paul is an expert on Goon show scripts and has reputedly transcribed every show for his own referemce) - I will edit this entry --AGoon 02:22, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
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