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The Goon Show

Season 7 1956 - 1957

  • 1956-10-03T23:00:00Z
  • 30m
  • 13h (26 episodes)
  • United Kingdom

28 episodes

Season Premiere

1956-10-03T23:00:00Z

7x01 The Nasty Affair at the Burami Oasis

Season Premiere

7x01 The Nasty Affair at the Burami Oasis

  • 1956-10-03T23:00:00Z30m

First Broadcast: 1956-10-04
Recorded: 1956-09-30
Author: Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens
Producer: Peter Eton
Notes: Not coherently announced.

1956-10-11T00:00:00Z

7x02 Drums Along the Mersey

7x02 Drums Along the Mersey

  • 1956-10-11T00:00:00Z30m

First Broadcast: 1956-10-11
Recorded: 1956-10-07
Author: Spike Milligan
Producer: Peter Eton
Notes: With Valentine Dyall.

1956-10-18T00:00:00Z

7x03 The Nadger Plague

7x03 The Nadger Plague

  • 1956-10-18T00:00:00Z30m

First Broadcast: 1956-10-18
Recorded: 1956-10-14
Author: Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens
Producer: Pat Dixon
Notes: Announced as 'The Great Nadger Plague'.

7x04 The MacReekie Rising of '74

  • 1956-10-25T00:00:00Z30m

First Broadcast: 1956-10-25
Recorded: 1956-10-21
Author: Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens
Producer: Pat Dixon
Notes: Without Spike Milligan, with George Chisholm.

1956-11-01T00:00:00Z

7x05 The Spectre of Tintagel

7x05 The Spectre of Tintagel

  • 1956-11-01T00:00:00Z30m

First Broadcast: 1956-11-01
Recorded: 1956-10-28
Author: Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens
Producer: Pat Dixon
Notes: With Valentine Dyall.

1957-02-14T00:00:00Z

7x06 The Sleeping Prince

7x06 The Sleeping Prince

  • 1957-02-14T00:00:00Z30m

First Broadcast: 1957-02-14
Recorded: 1956-11-04
Author: Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens
Producer: Pat Dixon
Notes: This show, which parodies a Latin-American revolution, was postponed 3 months owing to the international situation at the time (among other things, the Hungarian uprising was taking place). Despite this it is still referred to as episode 6.

7x07 The Great Bank Robbery

  • no air date30m

First Broadcast: 1956-11-15
Recorded: 1956-11-11
Author: Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens
Producer: Pat Dixon

1956-11-22T00:00:00Z

7x08 Personal Narrative

7x08 Personal Narrative

  • 1956-11-22T00:00:00Z30m

First Broadcast: 1956-11-22
Recorded: 1956-11-18
Author: Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens
Producer: Pat Dixon
Notes: Announced as 'The Personal Narrative of Captain Neddie Seagoon R.N.'.

First Broadcast: 1956-11-29
Recorded: 1956-11-25
Author: Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens
Producer: Pat Dixon
Notes: Announced as 'The Great Art Mystery, or The Case of the Fake Neddie Seagoon'.

1956-12-05T00:00:00Z

7x10 What's My Line?

7x10 What's My Line?

  • 1956-12-05T00:00:00Z30m

First Broadcast: 1956-12-05
Recorded: 1956-12-02
Author: Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens
Producer: Pat Dixon

1956-12-13T00:00:00Z

7x11 The Telephone

7x11 The Telephone

  • 1956-12-13T00:00:00Z30m

First Broadcast: 1956-12-13
Recorded: 1956-12-09
Author: Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens
Producer: Pat Dixon

1956-12-20T00:00:00Z

7x12 The Flea

7x12 The Flea

  • 1956-12-20T00:00:00Z30m

First Broadcast: 1956-12-20
Recorded: 1956-12-16
Author: Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens
Producer: Pat Dixon

7x13 Six Charlies in Search of an Author

  • 1956-12-26T00:00:00Z30m

First Broadcast: 1956-12-26
Recorded: 1956-12-23
Author: Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens
Producer: Pat Dixon

1957-01-03T00:00:00Z

7x14 Emperor of the Universe

7x14 Emperor of the Universe

  • 1957-01-03T00:00:00Z30m

First Broadcast: 1957-01-03
Recorded: 1956-12-23
Author: Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens
Producer: Pat Dixon

1957-01-10T00:00:00Z

7x15 Wings Over Dagenham

7x15 Wings Over Dagenham

  • 1957-01-10T00:00:00Z30m

First Broadcast: 1957-01-10
Recorded: 1956-12-30
Author: Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens
Producer: Pat Dixon
Notes: With George Chisholm.

1957-01-17T00:00:00Z

7x16 The Rent Collectors

7x16 The Rent Collectors

  • 1957-01-17T00:00:00Z30m

First Broadcast: 1957-01-17
Recorded: 1956-12-30
Author: Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens
Producer: Pat Dixon
Notes: With Bernard Miles.

1957-01-24T00:00:00Z

7x17 Shifting Sands

7x17 Shifting Sands

  • 1957-01-24T00:00:00Z30m

First Broadcast: 1957-01-24
Recorded: 1957-01-20
Author: Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens
Producer: Pat Dixon
Notes: Not coherently announced. With Jack Train as Colonel Chinstrap (from 'ITMA'). It is interesting that this character, although from a different show a decade earlier, fitted into the Goon Show framework with no sense of strain.

1957-01-31T00:00:00Z

7x18 The Moon Show

7x18 The Moon Show

  • 1957-01-31T00:00:00Z30m

First Broadcast: 1957-01-31
Recorded: 1957-01-27
Author: Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens
Producer: Pat Dixon

7x19 The Mysterious Punch-up-the-Conker

  • 1957-02-07T00:00:00Z30m

First Broadcast: 1957-02-07
Recorded: 1957-02-03
Author: Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens
Producer: Pat Dixon
Notes: Not coherently announced. This show contains the well known 'What time is it Eccles?' sketch.

7x20 Round the World in Eighty Days

  • 1957-02-21T00:00:00Z30m

First Broadcast: 1957-02-21
Recorded: 1957-02-17
Author: Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens
Producer: Pat Dixon

7x21 Insurance, the White Man's Burden

  • 1957-02-28T00:00:00Z30m

First Broadcast: 1957-02-28
Recorded: 1957-02-24
Author: Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens
Producer: Pat Dixon

1957-03-07T00:00:00Z

7x22 The Africa Ship Canal

7x22 The Africa Ship Canal

  • 1957-03-07T00:00:00Z30m

First Broadcast: 1957-03-07
Recorded: 1957-03-03
Author: Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens
Producer: Pat Dixon
Notes: Announced as 'The Great Trans-Africa Canal'.

1957-03-14T00:00:00Z

7x23 Ill Met by Goonlight

7x23 Ill Met by Goonlight

  • 1957-03-14T00:00:00Z30m

First Broadcast: 1957-03-14
Recorded: 1957-03-10
Author: Spike Milligan
Producer: Pat Dixon

7x24 The Missing Boa Constrictor

  • 1957-03-21T00:00:00Z30m

First Broadcast: 1957-03-21
Recorded: 1957-03-17
Author: Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens
Producer: Pat Dixon
Notes: Not coherently announced.

7x25 The Histories of Pliny the Elder

  • 1957-03-28T00:00:00Z30m

First Broadcast: 1957-03-28
Recorded: 1957-03-24
Author: Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens
Producer: Pat Dixon

7x26 Robin Hood

  • no air date30m

First Broadcast: Not broadcast in UK
Recorded: 1956-12-02
Author: Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens
Producer: Pat Dixon
Notes: With Valentine Dyall and Dennis Price. Not broadcast in Britain.

1956-12-24T00:00:00Z

7x27 Operation Christmas Duff

7x27 Operation Christmas Duff

  • 1956-12-24T00:00:00Z30m

First Broadcast: 1956-12-24
Recorded: 1956-12-09
Author: Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens
Producer: Pat Dixon
Notes: A BBC General Overseas Service (GOS) only overseas edition. The GOS was at this time broadcasting entirely on short waves, so that this show could only have been heard in the UK by listeners equipped with short-wave receivers. The show was aimed largely at the British Armed Forces overseas.

1957-08-21T23:00:00Z

7x28 The Reason Why

7x28 The Reason Why

  • 1957-08-21T23:00:00Z30m

First Broadcast: 1957-08-22
Recorded: 1957-08-11
Author: Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens
Producer: Jacques Brown
Notes: With Valentine Dyall. Music pre-recorded, no audience.

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