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 ...

Radio sitcom / sketch show BBC Home Service 1951 - 1960 231 episodes (10 series) A small, fat, affable but idiotic Welshman, Neddie is always looking for a way to make money and to be either famous or ...

QUESTION What is the story behind the harmonica player Max Geldray, who features on The Goon Show? BORN Max van Gelder to a Jewish family in Amsterdam in 1916, Geldray was a pioneering jazz ...

Surreal humour from The Goons, featuring Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe, 1966. The page will automatically reload. You may need to reload again if the build takes longer than ...

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 ...

QUESTION: What is the story behind the harmonica player Max Geldray, who features on The Goon Show? Born Max van Gelder to a Jewish family in Amsterdam in 1916, Geldray was a pioneering jazz ...

In a dramatic episode of the TV show Main Dil Tum Dhadkan ... who resorted to hiring goons to intimidate her. Reflecting on ...