Perhaps the most famous scene in The Goon Show is the one in which Bluebottle asks Eccles the time, whilst they are in the basement of a local watch-repairers. Eccles does have the time... on a piece ...

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 ...