List of The Goon Show episodes

The Goon Show was a popular and influential British radio comedy series, originally produced and broadcast by the BBC from 1951 to 1960 on the BBC Home Service. This article discusses and lists the episodes that survive, as well as the history of their broadcast.

Availability of The Goon Show episodes

Lost episodes

Many of the earliest radio episodes no longer exist. No episodes from the first series survive. Only Episode 1 and 3 from the second series (1951-2) survive. Only one full episode and one ten minute extract from the third series survive. Only some of the episodes from the fourth series were selected for preservation in the BBC Sound Archive, and a few others exist only as off-air copies made by fans at the time of the original broadcast.

When the first episodes were broadcast, recording technology was still expensive and primitive, by later standards. Audio tape was not in general use, and any recordings were made directly on to acetate discs. These could be played back, but tended to wear out quickly and did not survive, unless further processed to create a master disc, which was only done for recording intended for sale.

Surviving episodes

Commencing with the start of the fifth series (in 1954), BBC Transcription Services began making copies for overseas sales, and even commissioned re-recordings of some key fourth series episodes for the "Vintage Goons" series, which was mainly intended for overseas markets.

Rather than making copies from the broadcast tapes, the BBC Transcription Services made their own recordings simultaneous with the broadcast recordings in order to obtain the best possible sound quality. These copies were then edited to match the producer's cut of the broadcast tapes.

The BBC Transcription Services versions were then cut to remove topical and parochial material and anything that might be potentially offensive (and The Goon Show did feature quite a lot of politically incorrect humour, much of it sneaked under the noses of BBC censors). Later BBC Transcription Services releases had further cuts for timing purposes. For many years these abridged versions were the only surviving copies of many episodes, but in recent years the BBC has attempted to find and restore missing material, with some, but limited, success.

To date, the BBC has released 25 CD sets of these re-mastered episodes (originally on audio cassette tapes), containing 100 shows, plus The Last Goon Show of All and Goon Again. Another twelve shows had been previously issued by EMI, but for contractual reasons these were all heavily cut to remove musical interludes and other music cues, and to this day they are the only commercially available versions of those particular episodes. The 25th CD set as well as a new Goon Show Compendium, which contains the first 13 episodes of series 5, were released on 7 April 2008. The Compendium's bonus material includes a note by Ted Kendall, audio researcher and restorer, on the sources used for the recordings, which include BBC Sound Archive and Transcription Services master tapes and discs, unofficial copies made by engineers or other BBC staff, and even domestic off-air recordings from which a few cut lines were restored.

Broadcasting

Episodes of The Goon Show are still occasionally repeated on BBC Radio 2 or Radio 4 in the United Kingdom. More recently the show has become a regular feature on the digital radio station BBC 7, which features both new material and archives from several decades of BBC comedy and drama.

The on-line station GoonShowRadio broadcasts most of these 100 episodes continuously.

The ABC Radio National network in Australia has regularly broadcast The Goon Show since the 1960s. For many years, the series was broadcast every Saturday afternoon, just after the midday news bulletin. More recently, it was broadcast twice a week, on Friday mornings and Sunday afternoons. The network attempted to retire the series in January 2004, feeling that it might have at last worn out its welcome; but a huge listener response proved them wrong, and broadcasts of the show resumed in the Friday timeslot in June of the same year. The ABC's broadcasts of the series have made The Goon Show one of the most repeated and longest-running of all radio programmes.

The programme has also been broadcast in the United States. NBC broadcast The Goon Show as early as the mid-1950s.^[1] Terry Gilliam of the Goon-influenced Monty Python comedy troupe recalled first hearing it broadcast on FM radio in New York City in the 1960s.^[2] When Vermont Public Radio signed on the air in 1977 (as a single station which has since evolved into a statewide network), the first program ever to air was an episode of The Goon Show.^[3] The show was described as a "madcap radio comedy classic".^[4]

Episodes

The following list of episodes of The Goon Show includes any "specials" and all episodes made for the BBC Transcription Service unaired domestically at the time (and therefore listed at the date of their recording).

First Series: Crazy People (1951)

Episode #	Title	Original airdate	Producer	Scriptwriter(s)
1	Untitled	28 May 1951	Dennis Main Wilson	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
2	Untitled	4 June 1951	Dennis Main Wilson	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
3	Untitled	11 June 1951	Dennis Main Wilson	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
4	Untitled	18 June 1951	Dennis Main Wilson	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
5	Untitled	25 June 1951	Dennis Main Wilson	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
6	Untitled	2 July 1951	Dennis Main Wilson	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
7	Untitled	9 July 1951	Dennis Main Wilson	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
8	Untitled	16 July 1951	Dennis Main Wilson	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
9	Untitled	23 July 1951	Dennis Main Wilson	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
10	Untitled	2 August 1951	Dennis Main Wilson	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
11	Untitled	9 August 1951	Leslie Bridgmont	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
12	Untitled	16 August 1951	Leslie Bridgmont	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
13	Untitled	23 August 1951	Leslie Bridgmont	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
14	Untitled	30 August 1951	Leslie Bridgmont	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
15	Untitled	6 September 1951	Dennis Main Wilson	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
16	Untitled	13 September 1951	Dennis Main Wilson	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
17	Untitled	20 September 1951	Dennis Main Wilson	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
Sp.	Cinderella	26 December 1951	Dennis Main Wilson	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton

Second Series (1952)

Episode #	Title	Original airdate	Producer	Scriptwriter(s)
1	Untitled	22 January 1952	Dennis Main Wilson	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
2	Untitled	29 January 1952	Dennis Main Wilson	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
3	Untitled	5 February 1952	Dennis Main Wilson	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
4	Untitled	19 February 1952	Dennis Main Wilson	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
5	Untitled	26 February 1952	Dennis Main Wilson	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
6	Untitled	4 March 1952	Dennis Main Wilson	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
7	Untitled	11 March 1952	Dennis Main Wilson	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
8	Untitled	18 March 1952	Dennis Main Wilson	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
9	Untitled	25 March 1952	Dennis Main Wilson	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
10	Untitled	1 April 1952	Dennis Main Wilson	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
11	Untitled	8 April 1952	Dennis Main Wilson	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
12	Untitled	15 April 1952	Dennis Main Wilson	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
13	Untitled	22 April 1952	Dennis Main Wilson	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
14	Untitled	29 April 1952	Dennis Main Wilson	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
15	Untitled	6 May 1952	Dennis Main Wilson	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
16	Untitled	13 May 1952	Dennis Main Wilson	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
17	Untitled	20 May 1952	Dennis Main Wilson	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
18	Untitled	27 May 1952	Dennis Main Wilson	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
19	Untitled	3 June 1952	Dennis Main Wilson	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
20	Untitled	10 June 1952	Dennis Main Wilson	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
21	Untitled	17 June 1952	Dennis Main Wilson	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
22	Untitled	24 June 1952	Dennis Main Wilson	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
23	Untitled	1 July 1952	Dennis Main Wilson	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
24	Untitled	8 July 1952	Dennis Main Wilson	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
25	Untitled	15 July 1952	Dennis Main Wilson	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton

Third Series (1952-1953)

Episode #	Title	Original airdate	Producer	Scriptwriter(s)
1	Fred of the Islands	11 November 1952	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
2	The Egg of the Great Auk	18 November 1952	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
3	I Was a Male Fan Dancer	25 November 1952	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
4	The Saga of HMS Aldgate	2 December 1952	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
5	The Expedition for Toothpaste	9 December 1952	Peter Eton	Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
6	The Archers	16 December 1952	Peter Eton	Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
7	Robin Hood (45 mins)	26 December 1952	Peter Eton	Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
8	Where Does Santa Claus Go in the Summer?	30 December 1952	Peter Eton	Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
9	The Navy, Army and Air Force	6 January 1953	Peter Eton	Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
10	The British Way of Life	13 January 1953	Peter Eton	Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
11	A Survey of Britain	20 January 1953	Peter Eton	Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
12	Flint of the Flying Squad	27 January 1953	Peter Eton	Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
13	Seaside Resorts in Winter	3 February 1953	Peter Eton	Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
14	The Tragedy of Oxley Tower	10 February 1953	Peter Eton	Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
15	The Story of Civilization	17 February 1953	Peter Eton	Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
16	The Search for the Bearded Vulture	24 February 1953	Peter Eton	Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
17	The Mystery of the Monkey's Paw	3 March 1953	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
18	The Mystery of the Cow on the Hill	10 March 1953	Charles Chilton	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
19	Where Do Socks Come From?	17 March 1953	Charles Chilton	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
20	The Man Who Never Was	31 March 1953	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
21	The Building of a Suez Canal	7 April 1953	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
22	The De Goonlies	14 April 1953	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
23	The Conquest of Space	21 April 1953	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
24	The Ascent of Mount Everest	28 April 1953	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
25	The Story of the Plymouth Hoe Armada	5 May 1953	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton
Sp.	Coronation edition (40 mins)	3 June 1953	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Jimmy Grafton

Fourth Series (1953-1954)

Episode #	Title	Original airdate	Producer	Scriptwriter(s)
1	The Dreaded Piano Clubber	2 October 1953	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
2	The Man Who Tried to Destroy London's Monuments	9 October 1953	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
3	The Ghastly Experiments of Dr. Hans Eidelburger	16 October 1953	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
4	The Building of Britain's First Atomic Cannon	23 October 1953	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
5	The Gibraltar Story	30 October 1953	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
6	Through the Sound Barrier in an Airing Cupboard	6 November 1953	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
7	The First Albert Memorial to the Moon	13 November 1953	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
8	The Missing Bureaucrat	20 November 1953	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
9	Operation Bagpipes	27 November 1953	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
10	The Flying Saucer Mystery	4 December 1953	Peter Eton	Larry Stephens
11	The Spanish Armada	11 December 1953	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
12	The British Way	18 December 1953	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
Sp.	Short insert in: Christmas Crackers	25 December 1953	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
13	The Giant Bombardon	26 December 1953	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
14	Ten Thousand Fathoms Down in a Wardrobe	1 January 1954	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
15	The Missing Prime Minister	8 January 1954	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
16	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Crun	15 January 1954	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
17	The Mummified Priest	22 January 1954	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
18	The History of Communications	29 January 1954	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
19	The Kippered Herring Gang	5 February 1954	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
20	The Toothpaste Expedition	12 February 1954	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
21	The Case of the Vanishing Room	15 February 1954	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan
22	The Great Ink Drought of 1902	22 February 1954	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan
23	The Greatest Mountain in the World	1 March 1954	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan
24	The Collapse of the British Railway Sandwich System	8 March 1954	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan
25	The Silent Bugler	15 March 1954	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan
26	Western Story	22 March 1954	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan
27	The Saga of the Internal Mountain	29 March 1954	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan
28	The Invisible Acrobat	5 April 1954	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan
29	The Great Bank of England Robbery	12 April 1954	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan
30	The Siege of Fort Knight	19 April 1954	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan
Sp.	Archie in Goonland	11 June 1954	Roy Speer	Eric Sykes, Spike Milligan
Sp.	The Starlings	31 August 1954	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan

Fifth Series (1954-1955)

Episode #	Title	Original airdate	Producer	Scriptwriter(s)
1	The Whistling Spy Enigma	28 September 1954	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan
2	The Lost Gold Mine (of Charlotte)	5 October 1954	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan
3	The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler (of Bexhill-on-Sea)	12 October 1954	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan
4	The Phantom Head Shaver (of Brighton)	19 October 1954	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan
5	The Affair of the Lone Banana	26 October 1954	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan
6	The Canal	2 November 1954	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan
7	Lurgi Strikes Britain	9 November 1954	Peter Eton	Eric Sykes, Spike Milligan
8	The Mystery of the Marie Celeste (solved)	16 November 1954	Peter Eton	Eric Sykes, Spike Milligan
9	The Last Tram (from Clapham)	23 November 1954	Peter Eton	Eric Sykes, Spike Milligan
10	The Booted Gorilla (found?)	30 November 1954	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Eric Sykes
11	The Spanish Suitcase	7 December 1954	Peter Eton	Eric Sykes, Spike Milligan
12	Dishonoured (or The Fall of Neddie Seagoon)	14 December 1954	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Eric Sykes
13	Forog	21 December 1954	Peter Eton	Eric Sykes, Spike Milligan
14	Ye Bandit of Sherwood Forest	28 December 1954	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Eric Sykes
15	1985	4 January 1955	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Eric Sykes
16	The Case of the Missing Heir	11 January 1955	Peter Eton	Eric Sykes, Spike Milligan
17	China Story	18 January 1955	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Eric Sykes
18	Under Two Floorboards	25 January 1955	Peter Eton	Eric Sykes, Spike Milligan
19	The Missing Scroll	1 February 1955	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Eric Sykes
20	1985 (remake)	8 February 1955	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Eric Sykes
21	The Sinking of Westminster Pier	15 February 1955	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Eric Sykes
22	The Fireball of Milton Street	22 February 1955	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Eric Sykes
23	The Six Ingots of Leadenhall Street	1 March 1955	Peter Eton	Eric Sykes, Spike Milligan
24	The Yehti	8 March 1955	Peter Eton	Eric Sykes, Spike Milligan
25	The White Box of Great Bardfield	15 March 1955	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Eric Sykes
26	The End (aka Confessions of a Secret Senna Pod Drinker)	22 March 1955	Peter Eton	Eric Sykes, Spike Milligan

Sixth Series (1955-1956)

Episode #	Title	Original airdate	Producer(s)	Scriptwriter(s)
1	The Man Who Won the War (aka Seagoon MCC)	20 September 1955	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Eric Sykes
2	The Secret Escritoire	27 September 1955	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Eric Sykes
3	The Lost Emperor	4 October 1955	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan
4	Napoleon's Piano	11 October 1955	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan
5	The Case of the Missing CD Plates	18 October 1955	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan
6	Rommel's Treasure	25 October 1955	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan
7	Foiled by President Fred	1 November 1955	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan
8	Shangri-La Again	8 November 1955	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan
9	The International Christmas Pudding	15 November 1955	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan
10	The Pevensey Bay Disaster	(20 November 1955)	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan
11	The Sale of Manhattan (aka The Lost Colony)	29 November 1955	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan
12	The Terrible Revenge of Fred Fumanchu	6 December 1955	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan
Sp.	The Missing Christmas Parcel - Post Early for Christmas	8 December 1955	Peter Eton, John Lane	Eric Sykes
13	The Lost Year	13 December 1955	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan
14	The Greenslade Story	20 December 1955	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan
15	The Hastings Flyer - Robbed	27 December 1955	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan
16	The Mighty Wurlitzer	3 January 1956	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan
17	The Raid of the International Christmas Pudding	10 January 1956	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan
18	Tales of Montmartre	17 January 1956	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Eric Sykes
19	The Jet-Propelled Guided NAAFI	24 January 1956	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan
20	The House of Teeth	31 January 1956	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan
21	Tales of Old Dartmoor	7 February 1956	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan
22	The Choking Horror	14 February 1956	Pat Dixon	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
23	The Great Tuscan Salami Scandal	21 February 1956	Pat Dixon	Spike Milligan
24	The Treasure in the Lake	28 February 1956	Pat Dixon	Spike Milligan
Sp.	The Goons Hit Wales	1 March 1956	Unknown	Spike Milligan
25	The Fear of Wages	6 March 1956	Pat Dixon	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
26	Scradje	13 March 1956	Pat Dixon	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
27	The Man Who Never Was	20 March 1956	Pat Dixon	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
10	The Pevensey Bay Disaster	3 April 1956	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan
Sp.	China Story (remake)	29 August 1956	Dennis Main Wilson	Spike Milligan, Eric Sykes

Seventh Series (1956-1957)

Episode #	Title	Original airdate	Producer	Scriptwriter(s)
1	The Nasty Affair at the Burami Oasis	4 October 1956	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
2	Drums Along the Mersey	11 October 1956	Peter Eton	Spike Milligan
3	The Great Nadger Plague	18 October 1956	Pat Dixon	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
4	The MacReekie Rising of ‘74	25 October 1956	Pat Dixon	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
5	The Spectre of Tintagel	1 November 1956	Pat Dixon	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
6	The Sleeping Prince	14 February 1957	Pat Dixon	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
7	The Great Bank Robbery	15 November 1956	Pat Dixon	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
8	Personal Narrative	22 November 1956	Pat Dixon	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
9	The Mystery of the Fake Neddie Seagoons	29 November 1956	Pat Dixon	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
Sp.	Robin Hood (and His Merry Men)	rec. 2 December 1956	Pat Dixon	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
10	What's My Line?	5 December 1956	Pat Dixon	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
11	The Telephone	13 December 1956	Pat Dixon	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
12	The Flea	20 December 1956	Pat Dixon	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
Sp.	Operation Christmas Duff	24 December 1956	Pat Dixon	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
13	Six Charlies in Search of An Author	26 December 1956	Pat Dixon	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
14	Emperor of the Universe	3 January 1957	Pat Dixon	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
15	Wings Over Dagenham	10 January 1957	Pat Dixon	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
16	The Rent Collectors	17 January 1957	Pat Dixon	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
17	Shifting Sands	24 January 1957	Pat Dixon	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
18	The Moon Show	31 January 1957	Pat Dixon	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
19	The Mysterious Punch-up-the-Conker	7 February 1957	Pat Dixon	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
20	Round the World in Eighty Days	21 February 1957	Pat Dixon	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
21	Insurance, the White Man's Burden	28 February 1957	Pat Dixon	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
22	The Africa Ship Canal	7 March 1957	Pat Dixon	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
23	Ill Met by Goonlight	14 March 1957	Pat Dixon	Spike Milligan
24	The Missing Boa Constrictor	21 March 1957	Pat Dixon	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
25	The Histories of Pliny the Elder	28 March 1957	Pat Dixon	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
Sp.	The Reason Why	22 August 1957	Jacques Brown	Spike Milligan

Eighth Series (1957-1958)

Episode #	Title	Original airdate	Producer	Scriptwriter(s)
1	Spon	30 September 1957	Charles Chilton	Spike Milligan
2	The Junk Affair	7 October 1957	Charles Chilton	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
3	The Burning Embassy	14 October 1957	Charles Chilton	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
4	The Great Regent's Park Swim	21 October 1957	Charles Chilton	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
5	The Treasure in the Tower	28 October 1957	Charles Chilton	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
6	The Space Age	4 November 1957	Roy Speer	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
7	The Red Fort	11 November 1957	Roy Speer	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
8	The Missing Battleship	18 November 1957	Roy Speer	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
9	The Policy	25 November 1957	Roy Speer	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
10	King Solomon's Mines	2 December 1957	Roy Speer	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
11	The Stolen Postman	9 December 1957	Roy Speer	Larry Stephens
12	The Great British Revolution	16 December 1957	Roy Speer	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
13	The Plasticine Man	23 December 1957	Roy Speer	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
14	African Incident	30 December 1957	Roy Speer	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
15	The Thing on the Mountain	6 January 1958	Tom Ronald	Larry Stephens, Maurice Wiltshire
16	The String Robberies	13 January 1958	Tom Ronald	Spike Milligan
17	The Moriarty Murder Mystery	20 January 1958	Charles Chilton	Larry Stephens, Maurice Wiltshire
18	The Curse of Frankenstein	27 January 1958	Charles Chilton	Spike Milligan
19	The White Neddie Trade	3 February 1958	Charles Chilton	Larry Stephens, Maurice Wiltshire
20	Ten Snowballs that Shook the World	10 February 1958	Charles Chilton	Spike Milligan
21	The Man Who Never Was (remake)	17 February 1958	Charles Chilton	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
22	World War One (aka !)	24 February 1958	Charles Chilton	Spike Milligan
23	The Spon Plague	3 March 1958	Charles Chilton	John Antrobus, Spike Milligan
24	Tiddlywinks	10 March 1958	Charles Chilton	Spike Milligan
25	The Evils of Bushey Spon	17 March 1958	Charles Chilton	Spike Milligan
26	The Great Statue Debate	24 March 1958	Charles Chilton	Spike Milligan, John Antrobus

Vintage Goons Series (1957-1958)

The following episodes were especially recorded for overseas stations only during the Eighth Series and were re-recordings of earlier episodes. Most of these episodes were not broadcast in the United Kingdom until the 1980s. Therefore, the dates listed in this series are recording dates.

Episode #	Title	Recording date	Producer	Scriptwriter(s)
1	The Mummified Priest	6 October 1957	Charles Chilton	Spike Milligan
2	The Greatest Mountain in the World	20 October 1957	Charles Chilton	Spike Milligan
3	The Missing Number 10 Downing Street	3 November 1957	Roy Speer	Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens
4	The Giant Bombardon	17 November 1957	Roy Speer	Spike Milligan
5	The Kippered Herring Gang	1 December 1957	Roy Speer	Spike Milligan
6	The Vanishing Room	15 December 1957	Roy Speer	Spike Milligan
7	The Ink Shortage	29 December 1957	Roy Speer	Spike Milligan
8	The Mustard and Cress Shortage	12 January 1958	Tom Ronald	Spike Milligan
9	The Internal Mountain	16 February 1958	Charles Chilton	Spike Milligan
10	The Silent Bugler	23 February 1958	Charles Chilton	Spike Milligan
11	The Great Bank of England Robbery	2 March 1958	Charles Chilton	Spike Milligan
12	The Dreaded Piano Clubber	9 March 1958	Charles Chilton	Spike Milligan
13	The Siege of Fort Night	16 March 1958	Charles Chilton	Spike Milligan
14	The Albert Memorial	23 March 1958	Charles Chilton	Spike Milligan

Six of these episodes were broadcast prior to the commencement of the Ninth Series, which is the reason why the Ninth Series was shorter.

Episode #	Title	Original airdate	Producer	Scriptwriter
1	The Mummified Priest	22 September 1958	Charles Chilton	Spike Milligan
2	The Greatest Mountain in the World	29 September 1958	Charles Chilton	Spike Milligan
4	The Giant Bombardon	6 October 1958	Roy Speer	Spike Milligan
6	The Vanishing Room	13 October 1958	Roy Speer	Spike Milligan
11	The Great Bank of England Robbery	20 October 1958	Charles Chilton	Spike Milligan
14	The Albert Memorial	27 October 1958	Charles Chilton	Spike Milligan

Ninth Series (1958-1959)

Episode #	Title	Original airdate	Producer	Scriptwriter(s)
1	The Sahara Desert Statue	3 November 1958	John Browell	Spike Milligan
2	I Was Monty's Treble	10 November 1958	John Browell	Spike Milligan
3	The £1,000,000 Penny	17 November 1958	John Browell	Spike Milligan
4	The Pam's Paper Insurance Policy	24 November 1958	John Browell	Spike Milligan
5	The Mountain Eaters	1 December 1958	John Browell	Spike Milligan
6	The Childe Harolde Rewarde	8 December 1958	John Browell	Spike Milligan
7	The Seagoon Memoirs	15 December 1958	John Browell	Larry Stephens, Maurice Wiltshire
8	Queen Anne's Rain	22 December 1958	John Browell	Spike Milligan
9	The Battle of Spion Kop	29 December 1958	John Browell	Spike Milligan
10	Ned's Atomic Dustbin	5 January 1959	John Browell	Spike Milligan
11	Who Is Pink Oboe?	12 January 1959	John Browell	Spike Milligan
12	The Call of the West	20 January 1959	John Browell	Spike Milligan
13	Dishonoured - Again	26 January 1959	John Browell	Spike Milligan
14	The Scarlet Capsule	2 February 1959	John Browell	Spike Milligan
15	The Tay Bridge	9 February 1959	John Browell	Spike Milligan
16	The Gold Plate Robbery	16 February 1959	John Browell	Spike Milligan
17	The £50 Cure	23 February 1959	John Browell	Spike Milligan

Tenth Series (1959-1960)

Episode #	Title	Original airdate	Producer	Scriptwriter
1	A Christmas Carol	24 December 1959	John Browell	Spike Milligan
2	The Tale of Men's Shirts	31 December 1959	John Browell	Spike Milligan
3	The Chinese Legs	7 January 1960	John Browell	Spike Milligan
4	Robin's Post	14 January 1960	John Browell	Spike Milligan
5	The Silver Doubloons	21 January 1960	John Browell	Spike Milligan
6	The Last Smoking Seagoon	28 January 1960	John Browell	Spike Milligan

Special (1968)

Tales of Men's Shirts (8 August 1968)

Special (1972)

The Last Goon Show of All (5 October 1972)

Special (2001)

Goon Again: the 50th Anniversary Cardboard Replica Goon Show (29 May 2001)

References

^ "Under the Influence of the Goons". FIREZINE #4. Firesign Theatre. Winter 1997/98. http://www.firezine.net/issue4/fz4_13.htm. Retrieved 14 October 2006.
^ "The Goon Show Site - Tributes - Terry Gilliam". Pythonline Daily Llama. http://www.thegoonshow.net/tributes/terry_gilliam.asp. Retrieved 2 June 2006.
^ "Vermont Public Radio 25th Anniversary Site". Vermont Public Radio. 2002. Archived from the original on 4 October 2006. http://web.archive.org/web/20061004121108/http://www.vpr.net/history/timeline/index.shtml. Retrieved 29 May 2006.
^ "Vermont Public Radio ::: 70s Timeline". Vermont Public Radio. 2002. http://www.vpr.net/history/timeline/70s.shtml. Retrieved 3 June 2006.

Bibliography

Farnes, Norma (6 November 1997). The Goons: The Story. London: Virgin Books. ISBN 1-85227-679-7.
Wilmut, Roger; Jimmy Grafton (1976). "A Goonography". The Goon Show Companion - A History and Goonography. London: Robson Books. Appendixes. ISBN 0-903895-64-1.

The Goons

Spike Milligan · Harry Secombe · Peter Sellers · Michael Bentine Ray Ellington · Max Geldray · Wally Stott · Wallace Greenslade · Valentine Dyall · George Chisholm · Charlotte Mitchell · Jack Train · Kenneth Connor · Dick Emery · A. E. Matthews · Dennis Main Wilson · Larry Stephens · Eric Sykes · Andrew Timothy · John Snagge · Graham Stark · Dennis Price · Bernard Miles

Radio and TV series	The Goon Show · The Telegoons

Films	Let's Go Crazy · Penny Points to Paradise · Down Among the Z Men · The Case of the Mukkinese Battle Horn · The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film

Characters	Major Bloodnok · Bluebottle · Henry Crun and Minnie Bannister · Eccles · Hercules Grytpype-Thynne · Count Jim Moriarty · Neddie Seagoon

Related	Episodes · Running jokes