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Goon Show fans will celebrate the world of Spike Milligan and the other Goons at the London pub where the show started Photograph: PA
The Goon Show must go on – 60 years since its first broadcast 2011
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Despite Bentine soon leaving and a decade of nerves on the part of the BBC, The Goon Show ran until The Last Smoking Seagoon, the episode that brought down the curtain in January 1960, after 10 series and about 250 shows.
The Goon Show must go on – 60 years since its first broadcast 2011
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Older readers who remember the Goon Show on the radio (younger readers should search it out) will recall the character Minnie Bannister, whose catchphrase was "we'll all be murdered in our beds".
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If you're a Firesign fan who hasn't heard much of the Goon Show, it would be a good idea to seek them out.
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Could be, but I wonder if it built on the gosh-wow buzz he generated for several years playing nearly two-thirds of the characters in the Goon Show.
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It makes me think of Bluebottle, off the Goon Show.
Archive 2008-12-01 Gordie 2008
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It makes me think of Bluebottle, off the Goon Show.
The Discos of Christmas Past - No 2 Gordie 2008
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'Donovan, I don't care if you've found an unbroadcast edition of The Goon Show, it's no longer my concern.
A Taste for Burning Bannister, Jo 1995
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And the other was that he'd no idea what a Goon Show was.
A Taste for Burning Bannister, Jo 1995
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The Goon Show, with Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, and others, ran on BBC radio from 1951 to 1958.
The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said Robert Byrne 1990
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