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Goon Show episodes and archiving — The Goon Show was a popular and influential British radio comedy series, originally produced and broadcast by the BBC from 1951 to 1960 on the BBC Home Service. This article discusses and lists the episodes that survive, as well as the history of … Wikipedia
Goon Show Preservation Society — The Goon Show Preservation Society is a non profit organisation formed to help preserve and research the history of the Goon Show . It was founded in 1972 by theatre critic Michael Coveney.The society maintains an archive of Goon Show material,… … Wikipedia
The Goon Show — Infobox Radio Show show name = The Goon Show imagesize = caption = format = Comedy record location = Camden Theatre London creator = Spike Milligan producer = Peter Eton (101) Dennis Main Wilson (38) Pat Dixon (29) Charles Chilton (25) John… … Wikipedia
The Last Goon Show of All — Infobox Radio Show show name = The Last Goon Show of All imagesize = caption = other names = format = Comedy runtime = 30 minutes country = flagicon|United Kingdom United Kingdom language = English home station = BBC Radio 4 syndicates =… … Wikipedia
The Goon Show cast members and characters — This is a list of regular cast members of the 1950s British radio programme The Goon Show and the characters they portrayed.Harry Secombe Neddie Seagoon Main article: Neddie Seagoon Uncle OscarUncle of Henry and Min. A very old pensioner (Henry… … Wikipedia
The Goon Show running jokes — This is a list of running jokes the 1950s British radio programme The Goon Show. Contents 1 Catch phrases 2 Regular plot devices 3 Very long jokes 4 Footnotes … Wikipedia
(the) Goon Show — The Goon Show [The Goon Show] a British comedy radio programme, broadcast by the ↑BBC in the 1950s. It consisted of jokes, songs and situations that were full of surprising and ridiculous humour, and had an important influence on the development… … Useful english dictionary
goon — 1921, stupid person, from gony simpleton (1580s), of unknown origin, but applied by sailors to the albatross and similar big, clumsy birds (1839); sense of hired thug first recorded 1938 (in ref. to union beef squads used to cow strikers in the… … Etymology dictionary
goon — [20] The antecedents of goon are murky. It may have been inspired by goony ‘simpleton’, which is first recorded in the 1890s and which may well be the same word as the much earlier gony with the same meaning, which in turn goes right back to the… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
goon — [20] The antecedents of goon are murky. It may have been inspired by goony ‘simpleton’, which is first recorded in the 1890s and which may well be the same word as the much earlier gony with the same meaning, which in turn goes right back to the… … Word origins
