The Goon Show

The Goon Show was a hugely popular and extremely influential British radio comedy programme, which was originally produced and broadcast by the BBC from 1951 to 1960 on the BBC Home Service.

Resources

• The Goon Show Site – Contains downloads, pictures, collectables, cast, characters and much more
• Goon Show Preservation Society – UK
• Goon Show Preservation Society – USA
• The Goon Show Archive
• The Goon Show YAQ: Google Usenet archive
• The Goon Show – Some of the scripts: 50 scripts available for download
• the newsgroup exists to discuss the Goon show and Goon-related things
• BBC On-line Shop
• The Goon Show Companion: A History and Goonography by Roger Wilmut and Jimmy Grafton (1976) remains the definitive book on the series, but has never been updated.
• The Goonlog – a Goonish weblog by Wayne Stewart. Contains polls, guess this sound clip competitions and find links to shows.
• The Spike Milligan Tribute Site
• The Spike Milligan Appreciation Society
• The Goon Show on BBC7
• The Goon Show – A Quick Guide – An introduction to Spike Milligan's revolutionary radio show, with audio clips.