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The Goon Show

Series 8

The Moriarty Murder Mystery

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 7Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Available for years

Inspector Neddie Seagoon turns sleuth and meets a creepy undertaker.

Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy.

Starring:

Peter Sellers
Harry Secombe
Spike Milligan
George Chisholm

First billed as Crazy People, ten series of The Goon Show were recorded between 1951 and 1960, but sadly many of the earliest shows weren’t kept in the archive.

Written by Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens and Maurice Wiltshire.

With the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray.

Orchestra conducted by Wally Stott.

Announcer: Wallace Greenslade

Producer: Charles Chilton

First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in January 1958. Show less

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