• The Goon Show is a British radio comedy programme, originally produced and broadcast by the BBC Home Service from 1951 to 1960, with occasional repeats...
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  • of gooning (sexual practice) Goons, members of the Something Awful user forums Box wine, as Australian slang The Goons, performers in The Goon Show Bill...
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  • The following is a list of The Goon Show episodes. The Goon Show was a popular and influential British radio comedy series, originally produced by the...
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  • " The BBC's radio comedy show The Goon Show made a send-up of the story of The Man Who Never Was (based on the book) and incorporated most of the regular...
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  • The Goon is a comic book series written and drawn by Eric Powell. The series mixes both a comical and violent atmosphere with a supernatural slant, which...
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  • This is a list of running jokes and catchphrases in the 1950s British radio programme The Goon Show. Bluebottle's catchphrases Bluebottle reads his own...
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    Peter Sellers (category The Goon Show)
    and comedian. He first came to prominence performing in the BBC Radio comedy series The Goon Show. Sellers featured on a number of hit comic songs, and...
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  • This is a list of regular cast members of the 1950s British radio programme The Goon Show and the characters they portrayed. Uncle of Henry and Min. A...
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  • Andrew Timothy (category The Goon Show)
    Radio announcer, who is known for being the original announcer of the comedy series The Goon Show. His son is the actor Christopher Timothy. Son of Rev...
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    Peter Sellers on stage, radio, screen and record (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    entertainment, including film, radio and theatre. He appeared in the BBC Radio comedy series The Goon Show, recorded a number of hit comic songs and became known...
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  • the characters Eccles and Minnie Bannister. He was the earliest-born and last surviving member of the Goons. He took his success with The Goon Show into...
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  • The Last Goon Show of All is a special edition of the BBC Radio comedy programme The Goon Show commissioned as part of the celebrations of the 50th anniversary...
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  • Harry Secombe (category The Goon Show)
    and television presenter. Secombe was a member of the British radio comedy programme The Goon Show (1951–1960), playing many characters, most notably...
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    Goon of Fortune, sometimes called Wheel of Goon, is an Australian drinking game involving cheap cask wine (colloquially known as "goon"), played between...
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  • Goon is a 2011 Canadian sports comedy film directed by Michael Dowse and written by Jay Baruchel and Evan Goldberg, based on the autobiography Goon: The...
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  • Huddersfield, a town known for the manufacture of worsted cloth). The show was mentioned in the following episodes of The Goon Show: In an untitled episode (s02...
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    Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 126. ISBN 0297788108. "1985, The Goon Show - BBC Radio 4 Extra". BBC. "Theatre 625: The World Of George Orwell: 1984". 25 November 1965...
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  • The Goon Show Preservation Society is a non-profit organisation, formed to help preserve and research the history of the Goon Show. The society, founded...
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  • Up In 2014, the festival company performed a script-in-hand stage adaptation of The Goon Show featuring two scripts by Spike Milligan - The Phantom Head...
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  • (1918–2002), The Goon Show Robert Moreton (1922–1957) Chris Morris (born 1962), On the Hour Richard Murdoch (1907–1990), Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh Stephen...
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  • Max Geldray (category The Goon Show)
    interludes for the BBC radio comedy programme The Goon Show, he was also credited as being the first harmonica player to embrace the jazz style. Geldray...
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  • Operation Mincemeat (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    In 2010 the journalist Ben Macintyre published Operation Mincemeat, a history of the events. A 1956 episode of The Goon Show, titled "The Man Who Never...
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    Sykes, Eric; Milligan, Spike. "Goon Show Script: Forog: Series 5 Episode 13". The Goon Show Site. Archived from the original on 29 March 2023. Retrieved...
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    Christopher Timothy (category The Goon Show)
    the announcer for the Goon Again Show in 2001 marking the 50th anniversary of The Goon Show (Andrew had been the announcer for the show back in the early...
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  • Michael Bentine (category The Goon Show)
    radio "Goon". He also appeared in the 1952 Goon Show film Down Among the Z Men. In 1951 Bentine was invited to the United States to appear on The Ed Sullivan...
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  • writer and actor in the 1950s, which include collaboration on some scripts for The Goon Show. He became a TV star in his own right in the early 1960s when...
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    Dick Emery (category The Goon Show)
    Emery also made a guest appearance on the popular BBC radio programme The Goon Show, replacing regular cast member Harry Secombe for one episode in 1957...
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    jelly babies, or similar sweets. Liquorice allsorts "The Pevensey Bay Disaster". The Goon Show. Series 6. Episode 10. 1956-04-03. 18:14 minutes in. BBC...
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  • in the TV comedy Steptoe and Son, Series 5, broadcast in 1970. In 1957, Peter Sellers recorded a rendition in a voice he created for The Goon Show, Willium...
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    Angela Morley (category The Goon Show)
    familiar to BBC Radio listeners in the 1950s under the name of Wally Stott. Morley provided incidental music for The Goon Show and Hancock's Half Hour. She...
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