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

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The Goon Show: Vintage Goons: The Vanishing Room

The Vanishing Room

Vintage Goons

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A murder mystery in Brodley-on-Cleat - and Paris.  With Harry Secombe. From 1957.

Inspector Ned Seagoon investigates the very thorough murder of Lord Cretinby. Starring Spike Milligan. Re-recording from 1957.

Inspector Ned Seagoon investigates the murder of Lord Cretinby and the mysterious library and corpse which reappear on the other side of the English Channel.

Starring:

Peter Sellers
Harry Secombe
Spike Milligan

Vintage Goons is a series of re-recorded episodes made by the original cast for sale abroad. Scripts in the Vintage Goons are based on scripts from their 4th series, often with a certain amount of re-writing.  


With The Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray.

Orchestra conducted by Wally Stott.

Announcer: Wallace Greenslade

Producer: Roy Speer

First broadcast as The Case of the Vanishing Room on the BBC Home Service in February 1954

Re-recording from December 1957 by the BBC Transcription Service made for broadcast overseas.

First broadcast in the UK on BBC 7 in October 2003.

The Goon Show: Vintage Goons

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