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The Missing Scroll

The Goon ShowSeries 5
Episode 19 of 24

Can ace translator Neddie Seagoon recover the lost ancient manuscript of Purdom? Stars Spike Milligan. From February 1955.

Can ace translator Neddie Seagoon recover the lost ancient manuscript of Purdom?

Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes.

Starring:

Peter Sellers
Harry Secombe
Spike Milligan

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: Peter Eton

First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in February 1955.

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