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The Goon Show

Comedy: Sketch

Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers star in the groundbreaking classic comedy.

Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers star in BBC radio's groundbreaking classic comedy.

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The Goon Show: Series 8: The Missing Battleship

The Missing Battleship

Series 8

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When HMS Boxer is stolen, you just know someone's going to fall in the water.

When HMS Boxer is stolen, you just know someone's going to fall in the water. Stars Peter Sellers. From November 1957.

When HMS Boxer is stolen, you just know that someone's going to fall in the water. 

Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens.

With:

Peter Sellers
Spike Milligan
Harry Secombe

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.

With the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray.

Orchestra conducted by Wally Stott.

Announcer: Wallace Greenslade

Producer: Roy Speer 

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November 1957.

The Goon Show: Series 8

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