Close menu

Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

Radio 4 Extra,20 Jan 1959,30 mins

SeriesSeries 9

The Call of the West

The Goon Show

Available for 22 days

Count Moriarty and Grytpype-Thynne sell saxophones to the Indians in a cowboy caper. Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike Milligan. Starring: Harry Secombe Spike Milligan Peter Sellers 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: John Browell First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in January 1959.

Programme Website
More episodes