• Major Denis Bloodnok is a fictional character from the 1950s BBC Radio comedy The Goon Show. He was voiced by Peter Sellers. Bloodnok's army career is...
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  • roles such as a tribal chieftain, native bearer or Major Bloodnok's nemesis (and counterpoint to Bloodnok's affliction) "The Red Bladder".[citation needed]...
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  • (Milligan), often alongside Bluebottle (Sellers), Eccles (Milligan), and Major Bloodnok (Sellers). Sharing his actor's Welsh heritage, Neddie's appearance was...
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  • Minnie's laundry soup. One of Major Bloodnok's soldiers who is usually picked upon to do all the dangerous/scary jobs that Bloodnok himself is too afraid to...
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  • of Major Bloodnok because of a past romance between Bloodnok and Minnie. Crun is unable to do anything about this, however, because he and Bloodnok are...
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    the Irish dramatist George Farquhar's play The Recruiting Officer. Major Bloodnok of the Goon Show bears some resemblance to Il Capitano and shares many...
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    broadcast on 28 January 1960. Sellers played four main characters—Major Bloodnok, Hercules Grytpype-Thynne, Bluebottle and Henry Crun—and seventeen minor...
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    Show broadcast on 16 February 1959 entitled "The Gold Plate Robbery", Major Bloodnok – in his rôle as 'the last British Ambassador in Marrakesh' – is heard...
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  • to pay off his blackmailers. He discovers that Major Bloodnok has the photographs in a safe. Bloodnok does not have the combination. At this point, the...
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    re-release of Charlie Chaplin's 1915 short Down Among the Z Men 1952 Major Bloodnok Our Girl Friday 1953 Parrot Voice (uncredited) Orders Are Orders 1954...
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  • reporting to Major Bloodnok in a distinctly non-Scottish voice; Seagoon asks incredulously, "How did he get into a Scottish Regiment?", to which Bloodnok replies:...
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  • Neddie Seagoon of the 4th Armoured Thunderboxes reads a telegram that Major Bloodnok failed to show him in 1945 because he thought it was a practical joke...
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  • with no consequence to the plot other than to link to the entrance of Major Bloodnok, who is being pursued by the Red Bladder, played as always by Ray Ellington...
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  • show, working for a total of 15 episodes, and voiced the characters of Major Bloodnok and Bluebottle. Philpott created puppets from junk material to entertain...
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  • inside the most recent pudding, and travels to the nearby army camp. Major Bloodnok is the commanding officer, and is displeased at having to get his men...
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  • fiction TV serial Quatermass and the Pit (1958–59) and the sounds of "Major Bloodnok's Stomach" for the radio comedy series The Goon Show. In October 1958...
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  • from all types of sources from serious drama and documentary to the "Major Bloodnok's Stomach" sound effect from The Goon Show. As with the 1968 compilation...
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  • members of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, a notable example being the "Major Bloodnok's Stomach" effect, realised by Dick Mills. Although the Goons elevated...
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  • Desmond Briscoe - "Quatermass and the Pit (Effects)" Dick Mills - "Major Bloodnok's Stomach" Desmond Briscoe & Maddalena Fagandini - "Outside" Phil Young...
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  • A-side was "Bloodnok's Rock 'n' Roll Call") on Decca Records (catalogue no. F 10780), performed by The Goons featuring Major Dennis Bloodnok, Roland Rockcake...
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  • Singles Chart that year. Sellers had previously performed it as Major Dennis Bloodnok (with Spike Milligan as Minnie Bannister) in a 1954 episode of The...
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  • and the stars only play one character each: Eccles (Milligan), Colonel Bloodnok (Sellers), Osric Pureheart (Bentine) and Harry Jones (Secombe). Harry Jones...
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  • Antipathy" Dick Mills - "Crazy Dazy" Dick Mills - "Adagio" Dick Mills - "Major Bloodnok's Stomach" Paddy Kingsland - "The World Of Science" Paddy Kingsland -...
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    and much easier to play. The Goon Show featured as the introduction of 'Bloodnok's Rock and Roll', the first four bars of the Revelle in 4/4 time, followed...
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    reference to the NAAFI in scripts, mostly by Peter Sellers' character, Major Dennis Bloodnok. One episode was entitled "The Jet-Propelled Guided NAAFI". In the...
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  • Blues" in 1956. Another response was to treat rock and roll as a joke – "Bloodnok's Rock and Roll Call", recorded by The Goons, reached number 3 in the chart...
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