Eventually, they managed to get a series on the BBC Home Service. The first series was called Crazy People, but it was then re-titled The Goon Show (the word 'Goon' came from a Popeye cartoon). In the ...

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 ...

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Radio sitcom / sketch show BBC Home Service 1951 - 1960 231 episodes (10 series) Perhaps the most famous scene in The Goon Show is the one in which Bluebottle asks Eccles the time, whilst they are in ...