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The Goon Show Preservation Society @thegsps.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

We're thrilled to announce that Grumbleweeds legend Robin Colvill will be joining us as Wallace Greenslade! Music comes from harmonica maestro Pete Hewitt and the awesome Wyre Levee Stompers! This Saturday, 17th October. Get your tickets now! #GoonShow tftv.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

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The Goon Show Preservation Society @thegsps.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Our AGM takes place on 10 October 2026 at Stephens House & Gardens, N3 3QE. Our special guest will be author @stephenauthor.bsky.social; there’ll be 75th anniversary cake to eat; books & CDs will be given away; & time permitting we’ll see a live performance of forgotten Galton and Simpson sketches!

The front cover of Stephen Palmer's forthcoming book, The Making & Legacy of The Goon Show: The Goons Go To Africa.

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The Goon Show Preservation Society @thegsps.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The joint birthday of #PeterSellers & #HarrySecombe is the ideal day to suggest you join us to celebrate 75 years of #TheGoonShow on 17th October. TWO recreated shows, rarely seen archives and all in support of @ageukyork.bsky.social & York 50+ Festival: tftv.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

The Goon Show Preservation Society and Borthwick Institute for Archives present a Birmingham Comedy Festival production of The Goon Show. Celebrating 75 years of The Goon Show with two classic radio scripts LIVE on stage + Q&A and a look at the Institute’s comedy archive. Saturday 17th October 2026, 2pm. Scenic Stage Theatre, University of York (Campus East), Baird Lane, Heslington, York YO10 5GD.

Jimm Rennie as Harry Secombe, Mark Earby as Spike Milligan and Richard Usher as Peter Sellers

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The Goon Show Preservation Society @thegsps.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

GSPS magazine no. 194 is out now, folks! If you're not a member yet, why not join today? goonshow.org/gsps/join/

Front cover of Goon Show News, the quarterly magazine of The Goon Show Preservation Society illustrated with a Telegoons comic strip from TV Comic Annual, 1966.

Number 194 – September 2026
Goontents
4 Michael Bentine – onstage
6 Feldman’s Comedy Machine – more
7 Fred fings ’appnin – three pages
10 Telegoon collectibles
11 Martian Alert!!
15 Canadian Reel Fans
16 Goon Show comment + Himazas
17 St Elmo’s Fire by Spike Milligan
18 The Book Goon Show Scripts
20 Phantom tour towns
21 Goon Show fandom in Australia
23 Fred report by Goonist Movement
24 Queen Victoria’s what?!?!
25 GSPS Annual Meeting
26 Penny Points to Double or Quits
28 DVD News + Milligan Lodge News
29 Goon Show in Canada
31 TPTV’s Festival of Film and Telly
32 Proudly – a letter from HM The King
33 Badjelly quest + Book News
34 A Kick up the Archives
36 A new Goon book!
37 Letters etc
Contributors:
Mark Cousins, Duncan Gray, Chris Smith,
SMP Ltd, Neil Trickey, ancient texts + PE.
Patron: HM King Charles III
Honorary Presidents:
Jane Milligan, Silé Milligan
www.goonshow.org
The Goon Show Preservation Society

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Paul H Tubb @paulhtubb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I received a package today, wrapped up in a 5-pound note, actually it was simply a photo of a five-pound note, so I exchanged it for a photo of some Chocolate Hobnobs. It was my September issue of Goon Show News from @thegsps.bsky.social #thegoonshow #DrawingFunnyPictures #NonsensicalOrnithology

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The Goon Show Preservation Society @thegsps.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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Chortle @chortle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Marking 75 years of The Goon Show

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Marking 75 years of The Goon Show

Archive events set

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The Goon Show Preservation Society @thegsps.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Hello folks! Calling folks! We're celebrating 75 years of The Goon Show with two classic radio scripts LIVE on stage in York. All profits are going to @age-uk.bsky.social Tickets are on sale now. For further information see: goonshow.org/2026/08/21/g...

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The Goon Show Preservation Society @thegsps.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

WHATWHATWHATWHATWHAT

In the mid-1950s, four outstanding Associated-Rediffusion television shows - THE IDIOT WEEKLY, PRICE 2D, A SHOW CALLED FRED, SON OF FRED and YES, IT'S THE CATHODE-RAY TUBE SHOW! - adapted the brilliantly bizarre humour of BBC radio comedy THE GOON SHOW into visual form.

Initially innovatively overseen by director Richard Lester and starring Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan, but only broadcast in the London region, these supremely silly and surreal sketch shows remain the most uproariously successful attempts to capture the quicksilver genius of the Goons on the telly-box.

This long-overdue box set gathers together all available archival material that still exists from these shows - newly scanned and re-presented in the best possible quality, for new generations of comedy fans to enjoy.
Also included is a lavish array of hens'- teeth rarities, featuring members of the Goons or their entourage, also from the Associated-Rediffusion collection, much of which appears here on disc for the very first time.

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The Goon Show Preservation Society @thegsps.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Hello folks! Calling folks! We're trying to track down the Telegoons. Can you help? If you have any information, please get in touch: goonshow.org/2026/06/30/w... And we'd be most grateful if you could share this post please. Thank you!

The popular Telegoons puppet TV series was seen on BBC TV between 1963 and 1965. When production ended, some of the studio puppets were given as gifts to friends, whilst others were exhibited in the popular Nellie McQueens restaurant in Sunbury on Thames until that restaurant ceased trading in 1992. At that time, those restaurant puppets were also given away by proprietor David Young (brother of Tony Young, who produced the series) to well-known customers and personal friends. Where are the puppets now? The Goon Show Preservation Society (established 1972) is making one last effort to gather in stories of any of the individual puppets themselves, from the people who were given them (or their families), to add to our extensive documentary Encyclopedia Goonicus project.

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Goon Pod @goonpod.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Spike Milligan's copy of a Goon Show script from November 1956 with (presumably) a scribbled self-portrait

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The Goon Show Preservation Society @thegsps.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

NED: I resign! WINNICK: Resignation accepted on grounds of incompetence. Anyone else want the old job there? NED: I’ll take it on. WINNICK: Right. Name? NED: Ned Seagoon. WINNICK: Same as the last bloke. (The Sinking of Westminster Pier by Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes)

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The Goon Show Preservation Society @thegsps.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

What what what what what?! Great spons of galloping custard! 😉

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The Goon Show Preservation Society @thegsps.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

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Sean Gaffney @toukochan.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

FYI for @thegsps.bsky.social.

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Richard Usher @richardausher.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

This will be a wonderful event, and I am really looking forward to bringing two long forgotten #GoonShow scripts to life on stage. Needle-Nardle-Noo!

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Paul H Tubb @paulhtubb.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Kismet, fate, serendipity, Alphonse. Call it what you will, but the very week that The Goon Show celebrates its 75th Anniversary, is the same week that I should receive the current issue of the Goon Show News, periodical of @thegsps.bsky.social. (you should join) Coincidence? #TheGoonShow75

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Larry Stephens @lsggbg.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

"Pull your chair up to the ceiling, fill up your glass with potassium cyanide & let the Goons do the rest!" Crazy People - later renamed the Goon Show - was first broadcast on 28 May 1951. Happy 75th birthday, Goon Show!

A piece torn from the Radio Times by Larry Stephens. The caption reads, "The Goons' script conference: is it a joke or isn't it? From the left are; the producer Dennis Main Wilson (with mallet), Jimmy Grafton, Spike Milligan, and Larry Stephens. Laughing it out in the corner are Harry Secombe, Michael Bentine, and Peter Sellers."

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The Goon Show Preservation Society @thegsps.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the first broadcast of the Goon Show on 28 May 1951 we have a special offer for those of you who wish to join us! Sign up by the 4th of June to take advantage of the discount! goonshow.org/gsps/join/

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The Goon Show Preservation Society @thegsps.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

GSPS magazine no. 193 is out now, folks! If you're not a member yet, why not join today? goonshow.org/gsps/join/

The front cover of the quarterly magazine of the Goon Show Preservation Society. This issue of Goon Show News is number 193 from June 2026. Pictured is the front cover of the script from episode 1 of Crazy People, later renamed The Goon Show.

The contents page of Goon Show News number 193 which includes steam-powered topics such as A Show Called Fred, Telegoons news, Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, George Martin and the Mukkinese Battlehorn. Our Patron is HM King Charles III.

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The Goon Show Preservation Society @thegsps.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Hello folks! Calling folks! Tickets are available for The Goon Show 75! at St Elvan's Church, Aberdare on 28th May at 7:00PM, celebrating the 75th anniversary of the first ever broadcast of the iconic Goon Show! More details here: www.ticketsource.com/whats-on/abe...

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Richard Usher @richardausher.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Really looking forward to performing some long forgotten #GoonShow material in the 75th anniversary year. These #TPTV events are wonderful, so do grab a ticket if you can @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social @thegsps.bsky.social @goonshow.org @tonyhancock.bsky.social

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John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

This very good. If you also listen to the Goon Pods with Gavin Sutherland and Louis Barfe then across the three podcasts you’ll get a ton of insight into why The Goon Show music is so special.

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Goon Pod @goonpod.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

New! NEIL BRAND pod.link/1569929507 This week's special guest neilkbrand.bsky.social on Goon Show music and how it enlivened & 'structured' the programme, why the Goons with their freewheeling 'jazz comedy' were in harmony with Max, Ray and the boys in the band, and the genius of Angela Morley.

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Mike Haskins @mikehaskins.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Harry Secombe reading his autobiography this week on Radio 4 Extra @goonpod.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

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BBC Radio 4 Extra - Goon Abroad by Sir Harry Secombe, 1. Childhood Memories

Goon Show star Sir Harry Secombe recalls his Swansea childhood.

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Did You See? @tvdidyousee.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

#OnThisDay 11 April 1973 It's the turn of #SpikeMilligan to receive the Big Red Book from Eamonn Andrews in This Is Your Life. Amongst those paying 'tribute' is #PeterSellers.

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AngryDigit @angrydigit.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

@goonpod.bsky.social @thegsps.bsky.social Just seen that an episode of The Milligan Papers is on BBCRadio4extra next Saturday.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

The formatting of this Beckett quote does still represent resilience and determination, just of a very different sort.

A neon light art piece of Samuel Beckett's famous quote "I can't go on. I'll go on" but spaced - it would seem inadvertently- so that it reads "I can't goon. I'll goon".

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Sean Gaffney @toukochan.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Obligatory:

A Manhattan coffee shop named Blue Bottle Coffee. No relation to The Goon Show.

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Hannah Howe @hannahhowe.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Radio highlights: Looking for a Boat. Vintage Goons - The Seagoon Memoirs. Weather: light sleet or snow. Outlook - continuing cold. 3c, 37f

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The Goon Show Preservation Society @thegsps.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

SillyBilly Productions are to premiere in the Dunedin Fringe Festival with an innovative stage adaptation of Goon Show classics. The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler and Ye Bandit of Sherwood Forest will be performed on the 13th to 15th of March. For further information see www.dunedinfringe.nz

Poster to advertise the performances of The Goon Show episodes 'The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler (of Bexhill-on-Sea)' and 'Ye Bandit of Sherwood Forest' at Allen Hall Theatre. 7pm on the 13th-14th March & 2pm on the 15th of March.

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The Goon Show Preservation Society @thegsps.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

GSPS magazine no. 192 is out now, folks! If you're not a member yet, why not join today? goonshow.org/gsps/join/

The front cover of Goon Show News, the Goon Show Preservation Society's magazine. This is issue number 192 dated March 2026. There is an image of John Antrobus (Spike Milligan's co-writer) drawn by Tim Leatherbarrow. The words, "RIP John Antrobus 1933 - 2025" are printed across the bottom.

The contents page of Goon Show News. This month's articles include Royal Patronage Retained; Dance With Me Henry; Stage Show in NZ; 1956 intro + Lost T-Shirt; How Paul McC Wrote A Song; Treasure to Woy Woy; More About Woy Woy; New Book Semi Reviewed; The Margaret Lindsay Mystery; Marty Feldman's Comedy Machine; Secombe Here; Goon Pod Takes A Break; News from Milligan Lodge; News from the Borthwick; Pirate Coast + Eric Sykes; Preservation Report + Greenslade Slip; Puckoon: A Look at the Books; Fred Illustrated; By Kenneth Connor; A Kick Up The Archives; Goon-ing to Town in 1957; Letters, Emails, Posts; Contacts.
Contributors include Tim Leatherbarrow; Brad Ashton; Mark Cousins; Duncan Gray; Chris Smith; Tyler Adams; SMP Ltd; Borthwick and Neil Trickey.
Deadline for next issue: 2nd May 2026.

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WindsLightToVariable @yingtongiddle.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

@thegsps.bsky.social @goonshow.org @goonpod.bsky.social #Bloodnok's Interesting post-prandial curry accompaniment?? 🤔🤔

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goonshow.org @goonshow.org · 26/02/2026

The @thegsps.bsky.social will be represented at the @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social Roadshow in St Albans on 22nd March. We'll have a stall, come and say hello, and there will be a showing of a newly restored reel of Thames TV's Tales of Men's Shirts from 1968. There's lots of other stuff on too...

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Larry Stephens @lsggbg.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

NED: What are you doing up that tree? GRYTPYPE-THYNNE: We're mountaineering on a rather tight budget. (Goon Show S7 E18, 31 Jan 1957. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)

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WindsLightToVariable @yingtongiddle.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Hello folks! Calling Folks! Look what popped up on my EweTube channels tonight!! #TheGoonShow circa 1951 with Michael Ben time. @thegsps.bsky.social @goonshow.org @goonpod.bsky.social #SpikeMilligna #SirNeddySeagoon #PeterBirdyNumNumSellers 😁😁🤣🤣 youtu.be/E8J3RnHK9ms?...

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The Goons: London Entertains (1951)

YouTube video by Putrid Heron Archive

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Going to the barbers and asking them for a "Goon Show"

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Bexhill Museum @bexhillmuseum.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Did you know Spike Milligan was stationed in #Bexhill during WW2? When we reopen for the new season on January 27th, why not come in and find out all about it?

The photograph is of a black and white photograph of Spike at the D battery reunion held at the De La Warr Pavilion on the 22nd May (year obscured). He is wearing a helmet and saluting.

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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

OH MY WORD 👀 hambledonproductions.com/phantomraspb...

Hambledon Productions wth the permisson of Spike Milligan Productions Ltd and Handles for forks Ltd present

SPIKE MILLIGAN'S AND RONNIE BARKER'S
THE PHANTOM RASPBERRY BLOWER OF OLD LONDON TOWN

CELEBRATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE CLASSIC "Two Ronnies" COMEDY THRILLER

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The Goon Show Preservation Society @thegsps.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

We had some wonderful news to end 2025 and begin 2026. Our Highly Steamed organisation has received its own version of a New Year Honour in the shape of a communication confirming that His Majesty The King would be delighted to retain Patronage of The Goon Show Preservation Society.

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goonshow.org @goonshow.org · 22/12/2025

New on The Goon Show Preservation Society website, there’s the Multiple Choice Quiz and the Peter Sellers Picture Quiz which were set for our annual meeting. Also, stories taken from a 1996 meeting where John Browell, John P Hamilton and Brian Wiley talked of their days working with the Goons.

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Christmas Reading from the GSPS

A Very Merry Christmas to everyone from the Goon Show Preservation Society. If you’re looking to pass some time over the festive season, have a go at the quizzes which were set for this year’s annu…

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Goon Pod @goonpod.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

We all fondly remember that Goon Show catchphrase "awk!" don't we? Lads?

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