Vintage Goons

From The Goon Show Depository

Cast: Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe, Spike Milligan, with Max Geldray and The Ray Ellington Quartet, conducted by Wally Stott.
Announcer: Wallace Greenslade
The following episodes were especially recorded for overseas stations only during the Eighth Series and were re-recordings of earlier episodes. Six of these episodes were broadcast prior to the commencement of the Ninth series, which is why the Ninth series was shorter. However, many of these episodes were not broadcast in the United Kingdom until the 1980s or 1990s. So for contextual purposes, the recording dates are listed alongside the original airdates in the United Kingdom.[1][2]

Episode # Title Recording
date
Original air
date
Producer Scriptwriter(s) Notes Compendium CD
Vol
1 "The Mummified Priest" 6 October 1957 22 September 1958 Charles Chilton Spike Milligan 9 12
2 "The Greatest Mountain in the World" 20 October 1957 29 September 1958 Charles Chilton Spike Milligan 9 27
3 "The Missing Ten Downing Street" 3 November 1957 N/A Roy Speer Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens Never broadcast in the UK 12
4 "The Giant Bombardon" 17 November 1957 6 October 1958 Roy Speer Spike Milligan with Valentine Dyall 9 18
5 "The Kippered Herring Gang" 1 December 1957 9 April 1994 Roy Speer Spike Milligan 9 27
6 "The Vanishing Room" 15 December 1957 13 October 1958 Roy Speer Spike Milligan 9 13
7 "The Ink Shortage" 29 December 1957 8 December 2008 Roy Speer Spike Milligan 9 22
8 "The Mustard and Cress Shortage" 12 January 1958 17 September 1994 Tom Ronald Spike Milligan 9 29
9 "The Internal Mountain" 16 February 1958 28 December 1986 Charles Chilton Spike Milligan 9
10 "The Silent Bugler" 23 February 1958 29 December 1986 Charles Chilton Spike Milligan 9 17
11 "The Great Bank of England Robbery" 2 March 1958 20 October 1958 Charles Chilton Spike Milligan 9 26
12 "The Dreaded Piano Clubber" 23 March 1958 26 December 1986 Charles Chilton Spike Milligan [a][2] 9 24
13 "The Siege of Fort Night" 16 March 1958 27 December 1986 Charles Chilton Spike Milligan 9 26
14 "The Albert Memorial" 9 March 1958 27 October 1958 Charles Chilton Spike Milligan [a] 9 27

Notes

  1. ^ a b Different paperwork sources for episodes 12 and 14 of the Vintage Goons series are variously dated 9 March 1958 or 23 March 1958. The rehearsal material for "The Dreaded Piano Clubber" was recorded on the same day as the eighth series episode "The Great Statue Debate", which was 23 March 1958. However, along with "The Albert Memorial", it was issued out of chronological order.

References

  1. ^ Wilmut & Grafton 1981, p. 130.
  2. ^ a b Pixley, Andrew; Kendall, Ted (2014). The Goon Show Compendium Volume Nine (Vintage Goons) (CD). AudioGO Ltd. booklet 2, pp. 2–6, 9. ISBN 978-1471-331619.