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Hello Simon
That's a common tape, which was issued as Goon Show Classics Episode 5 in 1990. I have a copy personally, and the Society has copies of pretty much everything released. Details of the few things we don't are on our website.
That's a common tape, which was issued as Goon Show Classics Episode 5 in 1990. I have a copy personally, and the Society has copies of pretty much everything released. Details of the few things we don't are on our website.
February 5, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Hello Simon
That's a common tape, which was issued as Goon Show Classics Episode 5 in 1990. I have a copy personally, and the Society has copies of pretty much everything released. Details of the few things we don't are on our website.
That's a common tape, which was issued as Goon Show Classics Episode 5 in 1990. I have a copy personally, and the Society has copies of pretty much everything released. Details of the few things we don't are on our website.
Here's news of a newly published book which will pique the interest of Goon Show enthusiasts. A Lifetime in Television by Marjorie Graham looks as far back as her 1950s experiences working for Richard Lester, with Milligan, Sellers et al. on the 'Fred' TV shows.
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New Marjorie Graham Book
We’re excited and delighted that a book just been published which brings stories from the world of the Goons in the 1950s. The book is A Lifetime in Television, it’s the memoirs of Marjorie G…
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February 2, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Here's news of a newly published book which will pique the interest of Goon Show enthusiasts. A Lifetime in Television by Marjorie Graham looks as far back as her 1950s experiences working for Richard Lester, with Milligan, Sellers et al. on the 'Fred' TV shows.
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Hello folks! Calling Folks!
Look what popped up on my EweTube channels tonight!!
#TheGoonShow circa 1951 with Michael Ben time. @thegsps.bsky.social @goonshow.org @goonpod.bsky.social
#SpikeMilligna #SirNeddySeagoon #PeterBirdyNumNumSellers 😁😁🤣🤣
youtu.be/E8J3RnHK9ms?...
Look what popped up on my EweTube channels tonight!!
#TheGoonShow circa 1951 with Michael Ben time. @thegsps.bsky.social @goonshow.org @goonpod.bsky.social
#SpikeMilligna #SirNeddySeagoon #PeterBirdyNumNumSellers 😁😁🤣🤣
youtu.be/E8J3RnHK9ms?...
The Goons: London Entertains (1951)
YouTube video by Putrid Heron Archive
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February 1, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Hello folks! Calling Folks!
Look what popped up on my EweTube channels tonight!!
#TheGoonShow circa 1951 with Michael Ben time. @thegsps.bsky.social @goonshow.org @goonpod.bsky.social
#SpikeMilligna #SirNeddySeagoon #PeterBirdyNumNumSellers 😁😁🤣🤣
youtu.be/E8J3RnHK9ms?...
Look what popped up on my EweTube channels tonight!!
#TheGoonShow circa 1951 with Michael Ben time. @thegsps.bsky.social @goonshow.org @goonpod.bsky.social
#SpikeMilligna #SirNeddySeagoon #PeterBirdyNumNumSellers 😁😁🤣🤣
youtu.be/E8J3RnHK9ms?...
The Goon Show Preservation Society wishes a Happy New Year to everyone and has an exciting bit of news to share.
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The Goon Show Preservation Society Retains Royal Patronage
Happy New Year everybody. To begin the year, we have excellent news to share in the form of the following press release: Our “Highly Esteemed” organisation has received its own version of a New Yea…
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January 1, 2026 at 11:09 AM
The Goon Show Preservation Society wishes a Happy New Year to everyone and has an exciting bit of news to share.
goonshow.org/2026/01/01/r...
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New on The Goon Show Preservation Society website, there’s the Multiple Choice Quiz and the Peter Sellers Picture Quiz which were set for our annual meeting.
Also, stories taken from a 1996 meeting where John Browell, John P Hamilton and Brian Wiley talked of their days working with the Goons.
Also, stories taken from a 1996 meeting where John Browell, John P Hamilton and Brian Wiley talked of their days working with the Goons.
Christmas Reading from the GSPS
A Very Merry Christmas to everyone from the Goon Show Preservation Society. If you’re looking to pass some time over the festive season, have a go at the quizzes which were set for this year’s annu…
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December 22, 2025 at 10:38 AM
New on The Goon Show Preservation Society website, there’s the Multiple Choice Quiz and the Peter Sellers Picture Quiz which were set for our annual meeting.
Also, stories taken from a 1996 meeting where John Browell, John P Hamilton and Brian Wiley talked of their days working with the Goons.
Also, stories taken from a 1996 meeting where John Browell, John P Hamilton and Brian Wiley talked of their days working with the Goons.
Sad news that the last of the original contributors to the Goon Show and GSPS Honorary President has passed away.
RIP John Antrobus
Sad news to report from the world of the Goon Show. John Antrobus, the esteemed writer and honorary president of the GSPS, passed away on 15th December at the age of 92. John was probably the last …
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December 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Sad news that the last of the original contributors to the Goon Show and GSPS Honorary President has passed away.
The new edition of Goon Show News is on its way to @thegsps.bsky.social members. It's a good one.
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Goon Show News issue 191
It’s that Christmassy-themed time again, and the final issue of our newsletter for 2025 is on its way to members. Things in this issue include: John Browell recalls the Last Goon Show Of AllM…
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December 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The new edition of Goon Show News is on its way to @thegsps.bsky.social members. It's a good one.
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Are you missing out on the benefits of being a full Goon Show Preservation Society member?
Our members receive a quarterly magazine: Goon Show News, and a new issue will be landing on doormats in the next few days.
Visit goonshow.org/gsps/newslet... to download a sample copy of a recent issue.
Our members receive a quarterly magazine: Goon Show News, and a new issue will be landing on doormats in the next few days.
Visit goonshow.org/gsps/newslet... to download a sample copy of a recent issue.
Newsletters
Goon Show News is our members’ newsletter. It’s a quarterly magazine, usually about 40 pages, printed on good quality, glossy A5 paper. Alternatively, it can be sent electronically as a PDF f…
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November 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Are you missing out on the benefits of being a full Goon Show Preservation Society member?
Our members receive a quarterly magazine: Goon Show News, and a new issue will be landing on doormats in the next few days.
Visit goonshow.org/gsps/newslet... to download a sample copy of a recent issue.
Our members receive a quarterly magazine: Goon Show News, and a new issue will be landing on doormats in the next few days.
Visit goonshow.org/gsps/newslet... to download a sample copy of a recent issue.
I saw those fellows' show a few months ago. It was excellent.
November 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I saw those fellows' show a few months ago. It was excellent.
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New! THE SALE OF MANHATTAN
With Tom Salinsky @tomsalinsky.bsky.social
pod.link/1569929507
The one where Seagoon is approached at the Athenæum Club by two chisellers, duped into believing he owns New York and paddles all the way there in a zinc bath tub to claim his birthright.
It doesn't go well.
With Tom Salinsky @tomsalinsky.bsky.social
pod.link/1569929507
The one where Seagoon is approached at the Athenæum Club by two chisellers, duped into believing he owns New York and paddles all the way there in a zinc bath tub to claim his birthright.
It doesn't go well.
November 19, 2025 at 7:39 AM
New! THE SALE OF MANHATTAN
With Tom Salinsky @tomsalinsky.bsky.social
pod.link/1569929507
The one where Seagoon is approached at the Athenæum Club by two chisellers, duped into believing he owns New York and paddles all the way there in a zinc bath tub to claim his birthright.
It doesn't go well.
With Tom Salinsky @tomsalinsky.bsky.social
pod.link/1569929507
The one where Seagoon is approached at the Athenæum Club by two chisellers, duped into believing he owns New York and paddles all the way there in a zinc bath tub to claim his birthright.
It doesn't go well.
The Peter Sellers Centenary events are still going. There's a filmshow in Birmingham on 15th November.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The Peter Sellers Centenary events are still going. There's a filmshow in Birmingham on 15th November.
goonshow.org/2025/11/04/s...
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New episode! THE POLICY
pod.link/1569929507
With Andy Bell @rhaglencymru.bsky.social
The Goon Show had several fixations - plagues and disease, World War Two, the decline of Empire - and, as with this week's episode, insurance policies.
Join us under a short, fat tent for The Indigestion Waltz!
pod.link/1569929507
With Andy Bell @rhaglencymru.bsky.social
The Goon Show had several fixations - plagues and disease, World War Two, the decline of Empire - and, as with this week's episode, insurance policies.
Join us under a short, fat tent for The Indigestion Waltz!
October 22, 2025 at 6:30 AM
New episode! THE POLICY
pod.link/1569929507
With Andy Bell @rhaglencymru.bsky.social
The Goon Show had several fixations - plagues and disease, World War Two, the decline of Empire - and, as with this week's episode, insurance policies.
Join us under a short, fat tent for The Indigestion Waltz!
pod.link/1569929507
With Andy Bell @rhaglencymru.bsky.social
The Goon Show had several fixations - plagues and disease, World War Two, the decline of Empire - and, as with this week's episode, insurance policies.
Join us under a short, fat tent for The Indigestion Waltz!
What a great opportunity to introduce Spike Milligan's humour to a new generation - on @itvx.com
Spike Milligan’s Badjelly on ITV
The animated TV series based on Spike Milligan’s book Badjelly The Witch is set to appear for the first time in the UK on Thursday 16th October. The 13 part series was made in New Zealand and…
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October 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
What a great opportunity to introduce Spike Milligan's humour to a new generation - on @itvx.com
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THE MAN WHO TRIED TO DESTROY LONDON'S MONUMENTS
With @rogerthesaurus.bsky.social
pod.link/1569929507
Join us for a couple of rounds of "Is It Spike Or Is It Peter?" as we discuss the earliest Goon Show covered on GP so far!
Also: Goon panto and the intriguing story of Fred Flange!
With @rogerthesaurus.bsky.social
pod.link/1569929507
Join us for a couple of rounds of "Is It Spike Or Is It Peter?" as we discuss the earliest Goon Show covered on GP so far!
Also: Goon panto and the intriguing story of Fred Flange!
October 8, 2025 at 6:42 AM
THE MAN WHO TRIED TO DESTROY LONDON'S MONUMENTS
With @rogerthesaurus.bsky.social
pod.link/1569929507
Join us for a couple of rounds of "Is It Spike Or Is It Peter?" as we discuss the earliest Goon Show covered on GP so far!
Also: Goon panto and the intriguing story of Fred Flange!
With @rogerthesaurus.bsky.social
pod.link/1569929507
Join us for a couple of rounds of "Is It Spike Or Is It Peter?" as we discuss the earliest Goon Show covered on GP so far!
Also: Goon panto and the intriguing story of Fred Flange!
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GOON POD Q&A
pod.link/1569929507
This week Tyler tackles listeners' questions!
What if Spike had written for Tony Hancock?
Why did Barry Cryer complain about the Goons?
Was Minnie Bannister inspired by The Bride of Frankenstein?
..And much much more!
With @adamsleslie.bsky.social
pod.link/1569929507
This week Tyler tackles listeners' questions!
What if Spike had written for Tony Hancock?
Why did Barry Cryer complain about the Goons?
Was Minnie Bannister inspired by The Bride of Frankenstein?
..And much much more!
With @adamsleslie.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 6:38 AM
GOON POD Q&A
pod.link/1569929507
This week Tyler tackles listeners' questions!
What if Spike had written for Tony Hancock?
Why did Barry Cryer complain about the Goons?
Was Minnie Bannister inspired by The Bride of Frankenstein?
..And much much more!
With @adamsleslie.bsky.social
pod.link/1569929507
This week Tyler tackles listeners' questions!
What if Spike had written for Tony Hancock?
Why did Barry Cryer complain about the Goons?
Was Minnie Bannister inspired by The Bride of Frankenstein?
..And much much more!
With @adamsleslie.bsky.social
A reminder. The Goon Show Preservation Society will be represented at the @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social Festival of Film & TV Roadshow at Hebden Bridge Picture House on Saturday 11th October. There will be a film screening, and you can come and talk to us at our stall.
Come see us with TPTV in Hebden Bridge
In June this year, an episode of The Footage Detectives on Talking Pictures TV was a Goon Show Special which featured our own Mark Cousins and some rare bits of Goon Madness film featuring Harry Se…
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September 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
A reminder. The Goon Show Preservation Society will be represented at the @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social Festival of Film & TV Roadshow at Hebden Bridge Picture House on Saturday 11th October. There will be a film screening, and you can come and talk to us at our stall.
What you missed at the GSPS annual meeting
The 2025 Annual Meeting Report
The annual meeting of the GSPS was held at Stephens House and Garden in Finchley on 13th September, our fourth visit to the venue. The roll says there were 13 members present, with another 9 tuned …
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September 24, 2025 at 11:36 PM
What you missed at the GSPS annual meeting
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NED: A house!
BLOODNOK: It's a mirage.
NED: Nonsense... Let's go in. Eccles - search the house for food... Oh! It's vanished. You were right - a mirage.
BLOODNOK: I told you.
ECCLES: AHHHHH!
FX: CRASH OF BODY
BLOODNOK: What happened?
ECCLES: I was upstairs.
(Vintage Goons, 22 Sep 1958)
BLOODNOK: It's a mirage.
NED: Nonsense... Let's go in. Eccles - search the house for food... Oh! It's vanished. You were right - a mirage.
BLOODNOK: I told you.
ECCLES: AHHHHH!
FX: CRASH OF BODY
BLOODNOK: What happened?
ECCLES: I was upstairs.
(Vintage Goons, 22 Sep 1958)
September 22, 2025 at 8:09 AM
NED: A house!
BLOODNOK: It's a mirage.
NED: Nonsense... Let's go in. Eccles - search the house for food... Oh! It's vanished. You were right - a mirage.
BLOODNOK: I told you.
ECCLES: AHHHHH!
FX: CRASH OF BODY
BLOODNOK: What happened?
ECCLES: I was upstairs.
(Vintage Goons, 22 Sep 1958)
BLOODNOK: It's a mirage.
NED: Nonsense... Let's go in. Eccles - search the house for food... Oh! It's vanished. You were right - a mirage.
BLOODNOK: I told you.
ECCLES: AHHHHH!
FX: CRASH OF BODY
BLOODNOK: What happened?
ECCLES: I was upstairs.
(Vintage Goons, 22 Sep 1958)
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Lady Penelope investigates..
The writings of Spike Milligan
👍🏼
The writings of Spike Milligan
👍🏼
September 21, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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THE NADGER PLAGUE
With Sean Gaffney @toukochan.bsky.social
pod.link/1569929507
Presumably the blue-pencil-clutching BBC censors were blissfully unaware of another meaning of the word 'nadgers' when they let this go out in 1956! We also discuss Liberace, Son of Fred, Telegoons and... Harry Potter?
With Sean Gaffney @toukochan.bsky.social
pod.link/1569929507
Presumably the blue-pencil-clutching BBC censors were blissfully unaware of another meaning of the word 'nadgers' when they let this go out in 1956! We also discuss Liberace, Son of Fred, Telegoons and... Harry Potter?
September 17, 2025 at 7:05 AM
THE NADGER PLAGUE
With Sean Gaffney @toukochan.bsky.social
pod.link/1569929507
Presumably the blue-pencil-clutching BBC censors were blissfully unaware of another meaning of the word 'nadgers' when they let this go out in 1956! We also discuss Liberace, Son of Fred, Telegoons and... Harry Potter?
With Sean Gaffney @toukochan.bsky.social
pod.link/1569929507
Presumably the blue-pencil-clutching BBC censors were blissfully unaware of another meaning of the word 'nadgers' when they let this go out in 1956! We also discuss Liberace, Son of Fred, Telegoons and... Harry Potter?
A quick reminder, the Goon Show Preservation Society's annual meeting is this Saturday in Finchley, near to the home of the East Finchley boy hero Bluebottle.
Come along...
Come along...
GSPS Annual Meeting – 13 September 2025
The 2025 annual GSPS member’s meeting is set for Saturday, 13th September. Once again, we’ll be gathering within earshot of the Spike Milligan Memorial Bench and the Lodge House which h…
goonshow.org
September 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM
A quick reminder, the Goon Show Preservation Society's annual meeting is this Saturday in Finchley, near to the home of the East Finchley boy hero Bluebottle.
Come along...
Come along...
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Calling Bluebottle! #TheGoonsShowPreservationSociety present an exclusive screening at our #TPTV Festival of Film & TV Roadshow at Hebden Bridge Picture House Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th October.
⭐️2 fun-filled days celebrating Film & TV history! Call 0808 178 8212 or online buff.ly/lBLZv9b
⭐️2 fun-filled days celebrating Film & TV history! Call 0808 178 8212 or online buff.ly/lBLZv9b
September 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Calling Bluebottle! #TheGoonsShowPreservationSociety present an exclusive screening at our #TPTV Festival of Film & TV Roadshow at Hebden Bridge Picture House Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th October.
⭐️2 fun-filled days celebrating Film & TV history! Call 0808 178 8212 or online buff.ly/lBLZv9b
⭐️2 fun-filled days celebrating Film & TV history! Call 0808 178 8212 or online buff.ly/lBLZv9b
Come along and see us next week. It'll be fun
GSPS Annual Meeting – 13 September 2025
The 2025 annual GSPS member’s meeting is set for Saturday, 13th September. Once again, we’ll be gathering within earshot of the Spike Milligan Memorial Bench and the Lodge House which h…
goonshow.org
September 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Come along and see us next week. It'll be fun