Showing results by author "The Goons"

Here's a crazy quartet of cult comedy classics from those wireless wizards Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, and Harry Secombe. This collection features "The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler of Bexhill-on-Sea", "The Histories of Pliny the Elder", "The Jet Propelled Guided Naafi", and "The Evils of Bushy Spon".

Here's another crazy quartet of cult comedy classics from those wireless wizards Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, and Harry Secombe. This collection features "Lurgi Strikes Britain", "The International Christmas Pudding", "Napoleon's Piano", and "The Flea".

Here is another crazy quartet of cult comedy classics from those wireless wizards Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, and Harry Secombe. This collection features "The Greatest Mountain in the World", "The Mystery of the Marie Celeste (solved)", "The Last Train (from Clapham)", and "The Spanish Suitcase".

Here's another quartet of cult comedy classics from those wireless wizards Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, and Harry Secombe. This collection features "The Treasure of Loch Lomond", "The Greenslade Story", "Wings Over Dagenham", and "The Rent Collections".

Here's another quartet of cult comedy classics from those wireless wizards Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, and Harry Secombe. This collection features "Rommel's Treasure", "III Met by Goonlight", "I was Monty's Treble", and "The Seagoon Memoirs".

Using scripts by Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens, The Goon Show was recreated with a 'genetic' theme for one night at the Playhouse Theatre in London. Taking part were Andrew Secombe (son of Harry), Jon Glover (as the voices of Spike Milligan), and Jeffrey Holland (taking on the Peter Sellers roles), with announcements by Christopher Timothy (son of original Goon Show announcer, Andrew) and Lance Ellington singing in for his father Ray.

Here's another crazy quartet of cult comedy classics from those wireless wizards Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, and Harry Secombe. This collection features "The Man Who Never Was", "The Case of the Missing CD Plates", "World War I", and "The Nasty Affair at the Burani Oasis".

GO ON, but watch out for flying Christmas puddings. It's the time of goodwill and custard so join the festive fun with Scrooge and Neddie Scratchit in A Christmas Carol (by kind permission) and follow the lost chords of The Mighty Wurlitzer hot foot across the Sahara. Or take a bow in the panto with Neddie Hood and soothing Friar Balsam and mix it with the military as the Goons make a patriotic pudding for a Combined Services overseas special.

GO ON, join junk king Neddie as he tries to salvage the world; go in hot pursuit of Fire Chief Seagoon when he blazes a trail to old Peking (he has a burning ambition); sail the seven ponds with bold pirate Captain Jim "Bilge" Moriarity; and help Stock Market runner Seagoon save the pound (it's a sterling effort).

Here is another crazy quartet of cult comedy classics from those wireless wizards Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, and Harry Secombe. This collection features "The Phantom Head Shaver", "The Last Emperor", "Drums Along the Mersey", and "The Mummified Priest".

GO ON, take a trip to Monmartre with Neddie Toulouse-Lautrec, the famous French Impressionist (all right, do Al Jolson). Or help sell snow to the Sudan, trace down the fake Neddie Seagoon, or hunt the Great Bank Robber in a horse-hair stuffed Zeppelin disguised as the 7:20 to Bradford. Yes, you can do all this through another crazy quartet of cult comedy classics under the Goony guidance of Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, and Harry Secombe. It's The Goon Show. Accept no substitutes.

GO ON, take your seats for the time-warp as Sir Walter Raleigh loads his treasure on the good ship Venus; the Hon. Harold Bowels MP gets the Needle from Cleopatra; Neddie, the 6,000-year-old Plasticine Man is unearthed at Stonehenge; and secret agent Capt. Hairy Seagoon tracks down the Russian time machine in a special edition recorded for the BBC Transcription Service.

GO ON, but watch your feet. Boots are exploding everywhere; in Hungary, on the football field, and at home where Britain's scradje deposits are on the blink. And make sure your banana is loaded when you join Neddie in Guatemala, and keep your salami primed as you search for missing diplomats Burgess and McTeeth. Or just sit back and listen to the lilting refrain of "I'm Walking Backwards for Christmas".

GO ON, break out with Childe Harolde (37 years old and still in his pram) and get on to the Marrakesh trail with Lord Seagoon and the mystery of the missing Gold Plate. Or join soggy Squire Seagoon as he gets bogged down in Queen Anne's Rain and thrill to the heroics of 5th Lt. Seagoon at the battle of Spion Kop (intelligence has established that the people who are attacking him are the enemy).

GO ON, take a world tour with Neddie & Co as they get captured on military inaction in Africa and forced to swim the ice-cold Kupatee (there's nothing worse than a cold Kupatee); play tiddlywinks at the Palace (will this lead to a knighthood, Ned?); bombard the Russians in Crimea with a mighty cannon (and some terrible jokes); and don their kilts for a wee bit of Scottish bridge building.

From a watery Westminster Pier to the far-flung Foreign Legion, from Yehti-ridden Yorkshire moors to a leather omnibus with a phantom conker-puncher, the weird, wide, and wonderful world of Goonery knows no bounds. So savour another crazy quartet of cult comedy classics as Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, and Harry Secombe, aided by Seagoon, Eccles, Bluebottle, and the rest, once more redefine the limits of radio comedy. Catch them while you can. Here today...Goon tomorrow.

GO ON, join Commander Seagoon and the Fourth Armoured Thunderboxes as they fight on (well, blunder on) in Burma; help Lord Neddie combat the dreaded Nadger Plague; man (and Bluebottle) the barricades as Citizen Ned leads the revolution; and avert your eyes as Nude Ned of Wales bares all in the Sahara. It's hot stuff, folks.

The historic reunion of radio's greatest comedy team to celebrate 50 years of the BBC was their farewell performance and proved so momentous it was broadcast complete with the pre-show warm-up! In what became almost a Royal Command Performance, Neddie Seagoon, Hercules Grytpype-Thynne, the famous Eccles, and Bluebottle were among the much-loved characters who found their voices again at the Camden Theatre on Sunday 30 April 1972.

Here's another quartet of cult comedy classics from those wireless wizards Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, and Harry Secombe. This collection features "The Call of the West", "The Last Smoking Seagoon", "1985", and "Shifting Sands".

GO ON, join Inspector Ned Seagoon on the trail of the horrible vanishing room, the fabled million pound penny, and the case of the mauve raven. Yes, folks, three thrilling crime-type murders for naughty Ned to get his nut around, plus Lord Seagoon's search for King Solomon's Mines. So travel the crazy world with the help of the all-leather Goon Show, those wireless wizards Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, and Harry Secombe in a quartet of cult comedy classics.