Here you will find the Goons Scripts as gathered from various websites around the internet. You can buy the goons scripts from ebay and some online book shops.

I decided to add the scripts here because they were a huge part of Spikes life and shaped what came along after. The tapes and cds of the shows are available from the BBC shop of Amazon or from whoever pays me the most to mention them!  

Needle Nardle Noo

Listen to What time is it Eccles? here

This introduction and the next few pages are from the minnie.tuh.org website, which is not open for business anymore and they suggest people use whatever material they can find lying around - which is just what I have done - so thank you.

GOONOGRAPHY INTRODUCTION

The  chaos  which surrounds the fictional characters in `The Goon Show' has had a tendency to spill over into real life and  affect anyone associated with the shows. The history of the programme is confused and often contradictory. The BBC's files have been thor-
oughly complicated by last-minute changes of cast, changes of title, and other incidents; and people who were involved  with  the shows  occasionally  say  things in interviews and articles which suggest that their memory is playing tricks on them - hardly surprising at this distance in time. It is with the hope of clearing up as much of this confusion as possible  that  this  Goonography has been undertaken.

Researching  the details proved to be something of a Goon Show in itself, sorting through microfilmed files and scripts at the BBC, ploughing  through the Radio Times, and, where possible, checking against recordings of the shows themselves.  In research of  this
complexity  there is always the chance that small details will go astray; the readers indulgence is asked for any errors which  may have crept in.

An  explanation  of  the BBC's programme filing system is perhaps necessary. When the original recordings were made, they were kept for transmission and subsequent repeats in identification numbers which have been quoted in the chronological index. These are  the
numbers  beginning  SLO,  TLO,  and  so  on. None of the original recordings still exists under these  numbers.  Some  were  transferred  to  'Recorded Programmes Permanent Library' (better known as Sound Archives) under new numbers. Those preserved in this way
are detailed in Appendix 3.

It is a popular myth that the BBC keeps all its programmes.  This would be impossible, as a building the area of W1  would  be  required  to  house  them  all. Sound Archives exists to preserve a representative sample of programmes, and in fact 'The Goon  Show' is fairly generously represented - 41 programmes out of 241 ('ITMA' is represented by 44 out of 312, for example).  However,  129 shows  are preserved in the Transcription Services issues for use by overseas radio stations (and in fact the 1975  series  of  repeats  was  drawn entirely from Transcription Services' library).

The main part of this Goonography is a chronological index of all the  shows,  with their titles, transmission dates, cast changes, and other relevant information. It is preceded by an alphabetical index  covering  both  official and announced titles (where these are different), and followed by appendices  dealing  with,  among other  things,  the  Transcription Services issues, the shows in Archives, and non-Goon-Show appearances by the Goons.

It would have been impossible for me to have  compiled  all  this information  without the help I received. My colleagues Tim Smith and Peter Copeland acted as research assistants, Dennis Main Wilson,  Peter  Eton,  John Browell, Bobby Jaye, Ron Belchier, David Allen, Brian Willey, George Martin and Norma  Farnes  kindly  answered  silly  questions  over the telephone. BBC Sound Archives, Script Library, Registry (Radio and Television), Programme Index, Transcription  Services and Written Archives Centre at Caversham, and many other departments, were most helpful in providing access to  their  files and in checking details, as was the British Film Institute. My thanks to all of them.  R. F. Wilmut February, 1977

CAST LIST

So many characters appeared in the Goon Shows that it is impossible to list them all; all the major characters are  included  and many  of  the  minor ones, but not those who appeared in one show only. A few minor characters were played by different people from
time to time - they are listed under the artist who usually plays them.

HARRY SECOMBE plays
Neddie Seagoon               Old Uncle Oscar
Fred Bogg (cockney idiot)    Mr. Nugent Dirt
Big Chief Worri Guts

PETER SELLERS plays
Mr. Henry Crun               Cynthia/'Breathy Kensington
                              Dear'
Hercules Grytpype-Thynne     Hern (American Announcer)
Major Dennis Bloodnok        Babu Banerjee
Bluebottle                   'Dear Duchess'
William ('Mate')             Hairy Scot
Lew/'Cash'/Judge Schnorrer   'Swede' (rustic voice)
Gravely Headstone            'Geraldo'
Flowerdew ('camp' voice)     'Cyril' ('I seen 'im')
Dr. Justin Eidelburger       'Dimbleby'
Reuben Croucher              'Churchlll'
William J. MacGoonigal       and the piano (very badly)
  (sometimes)

SPIKE MILLIGAN plays
Eccles                       'Wolfit' (tragic actor)
Miss Minnie Bannister        Fred Fu-Manchu (and other
                              fiendish Chincse gentlemen)
Count Jim Moriarty           Abdul/Singhiz Thingz
Throat/Miss Throat           Mr. Lalkaka
Yakamoto                     Bowser (upper-class twit)
Jim Spriggs                  Basil (upper-upper-class twit)
Adolphus Spriggs (wandering  William J. MacGoonigal (other
singer)                      times)
Little Jim                   Odium

RAY ELLINGTON plays
Big Chief Ellinga            The Red Bladder
Gladys

ALPHABETICAL INDEX

Official titles are indexed to series and number, or date if out of-series.  Transcription  Services  (TS)  and  announced titles which differ from the official title are referred to that  title.

In the case of announced titles, only the announcement at the beginning of the show is considered, not  that  after  the  musical items  (unless the show is episodic).  Third series shows are indexed by their official title only.  Some announced titles merely add  'Great'  to  the  official title (e.g this index; if a title cannot be found, try removing 'Great' from it (or in some  cases, adding it: 'The Tuscan Salami Scandal' is correctly

* indicates announced title differing from official one.

**  indicates  TS title differing from official one.  + indicates
announcement for part of a show (other than  3rd  series).   V  =
'Vintage Goons' (after 8th series in main list).