The Goon Show Preservation Society

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New concept artwork for The International Christmas Pudding just dropped

An advertisement for spoken word cassette tapes featuring comedy, radio and audiobook titles. The ad promotes the Woolworths Spoken Word Top 10 with a selection of titles from BBC radio collections and comedy acts. The best new Spoken Word tapes. (We're all talk.) WARNING IF YOU ARE EASILY OFFENDED, PLEASE DON'T BUY! 14 gems of classk BBC comedy hosted by Ken Bruce What happened was... All items subject to availability

Dec 1995: Spoken Word Tapes ad from Woolworths

(+Andy McNab: Immediate Action; Hancock's Half Hour; Round The Horne: Movie Spoofs; Goon Show Classics; Last of the Summer Wine; Roy 'Chubby' Brown: Jingle Bricks; Roy Chubby Brown: Censored Allsorts; Jethro Live!; and The Clown Jewels)

The front cover of Goon Show News magazine number 191, the December 2025 issue.

The contents page of Goon Show News December 2025 which includes the following: John Browell's inside story; Ying Tong What?; A rare Spike book plus Spike to music; The Phantom blows again; Comedy and Comedians: Mr Bentine; GSPS with TPTV; Peter Sellers oddities and rarities.

GSPS magazine no. 191 is out now, folks! If you're not a member yet, why not join today?
goonshow.org/gsps/join/

In case you needed evidence.

Calling Bluebottle! #TheGoonsShowPreservationSociety present an exclusive screening at our #TPTV Festival of Film & TV Roadshow at Hebden Bridge Picture House Sat 11 & Sun 12 Oct.
⭐️2 fun-filled days celebrating Film & TV history! Call 0808 178 8212 or buff.ly/QMiH1yf

GSPS Annual Meeting – 13 September 2025 The 2025 annual GSPS member’s meeting is set for Saturday, 13th September. Once again, we’ll be gathering within earshot of the Spike Milligan Memorial Bench and the Lodge House which h…

A quick reminder, the Goon Show Preservation Society's annual meeting is this Saturday in Finchley, near to the home of the East Finchley boy hero Bluebottle.
Come along...

Section of end credits from the programme which reads, "The BBC wishes to thank The Peter Sellers Estate; Shepperton Studios; Bryan Connon; St. Aloysius College; Mervyn Heard; Keith Wilton/Filmtek; THE GOON SHOW PRESERVATION SOCIETY; Philip Kemp; Wimbledon Theatre; Graftons; Lumiere Pictures; Rank Film Distributors..."

Arena: The Peter Sellers Story
"The first of three films presenting a portrait of one of the world's greatest comic actors, tracing his life from childhood to a successful post-war career with the Goons and more."
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The Goon Show and Me - Ian Winick This article was written for the December 2024 issue of the Goon Show News,published by the Goon Show Preservation Society, http://www.goonshow.org. I remember the time and place the Goon Show entered...

Here's a recent article written for the Goon Show News, reproduced on my blog with kind permission.

www.ianwinick.com/en/the-goon-...

Front cover of Goon Show News, the quarterly magazine of The Goon Show Preservation Society. Issue number 190 dated September 2025.

Goon Show News 'goontents' which includes articles on the 100th anniversary of Peter Sellers; a soldier's Christmas; GSPS at Hebden Bridge; news from Milligan Lodge; R.I.P. Mike Coveney, founder; R.I.P. Mike Childs; Brad Ashton's memories; preservation report, three cheers for Bentine; BBC Sounds; an enacted Goon Show, a lost Goon Show performed, a kick up the archives and letters.

GSPS magazine no. 190 is out now, folks! If you're not a member yet, why not join today?
goonshow.org/gsps/join/

Come see us with TPTV in Hebden Bridge In June this year, an episode of The Footage Detectives on Talking Pictures TV was a Goon Show Special which featured our own Mark Cousins and some rare bits of Goon Madness film featuring Harry Se…

The Goon Show Preservation Society will be at the @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social‬ Festival of Film & TV Roadshow in Hebden Bridge on 13th October. Have a good day out and come say hello to us, all in one.
goonshow.org/2025/08/13/t...

#TheGoonShow
#Seagoon & #Eccles re-enacting 1066 & All that??
I presume #Bloodnok is Commander of the Gin Bottle-shaped bottlements in the background.🤔
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YouTube video by Richard Usher A Goon Show Sketch by Galton & Simpson - Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Two Raised Fingers

Premiering on YouTube today is my performance of a #GoonShow sketch written for #PeterSellers by #comedy legends #GaltonandSimpson. 'Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Two Raised Fingers' was performed for @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social 2025

#actor #voiceartist #theatre

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Peter Sellers at the BFI In Character: Peter SellersThe British Film Institute season by Mark Cousins “For me, the most influentialactor in films was Peter Sellers”- Robin Williams Marking what would have been his one hund…

New on the @thegsps.bsky.social website:
As we approach would have been Peter Sellers' 100th birthday, Mark Cousins previews next month's Sellers Season at the British Film Institute.

@thegsps.bsky.social. A little light reading...

GSPS Annual Meeting – 13 September 2025 The 2025 annual GSPS member’s meeting is set for Saturday, 13th September. Once again, we’ll be gathering within earshot of the Spike Milligan Memorial Bench and the Lodge House which h…

Advance Notice – The GSPS Annual Meeting – 13th September
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28th May is National Goon Show Day folks! To receive a quarterly magazine AND be able to buy our exclusive Encyclopaedia Goonicus, JOIN US TODAY via the website and get a whopping 25% off an e-membership! Use the codeword: SPON. Offer only available to new members signing up between 28th May and 4th June 2025. Special offer membership valid for only one year. This offer is not available to lapsed members or members renewing their subscription.

28 May is #NationalGoonShowDay folks! Join us today via the website and get a whopping 25% off an e-membership*! Use the codeword: SPON.
*Offer only available to new members signing up by 4 June 2025. Valid for 1 year. Not available to lapsed members or for renewals.
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A review of The Super Secret Service (1953) A curio for fans of The Goon Show. It was co-written by Spike Milligan with Larry Stephens, his most regular collaborator on the radio series. And it stars Peter Sellers under various hairpieces, incl...

Nice, informative overview of the rarely seen Peter Sellers short THE SUPER SECRET SERVICE shown on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social last evening - review by the excellent Anthony Nield on Letterboxd #FilmSky boxd.it/9DBdJF

'The Super Secret Service' was written by Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens and stars Peter Sellers. Plus Graham Stark, Dick Emery and Ray Ellington. Tune in at 6pm!

The deaf ears found on the floor of a barber’s shop in Penge?

Set your sundials for 7 May at 6pm! The Super Secret Service, a 1953 short film written by Larry Stephens (@lsggbg.bsky.social) and Spike Milligan and starring Peter Sellers, is being shown on Talking Pictures Television (@talkingpicturestv.bsky.social)

New! GOON SHOW SOUND EFFECTS
pod.link/1569929507

Fred the Oyster! Tom the piano-playing penguin! The Mighty Wurlitzer! Ned Seagoon & his nickel-plated bagpipes being run over by a steamroller! Whoooosh! They're all here plus a chat about what sounds are fading from popular memory!

I drew the artwork for this episode!

Set your sundials for 7 May at 6pm! The Super Secret Service, a 1953 short film written by Larry Stephens (@lsggbg.bsky.social) and Spike Milligan and starring Peter Sellers, is being shown on Talking Pictures Television (@talkingpicturestv.bsky.social)

YouTube video by Chris Stayt The Goon Show - Major Bloodnok & Colonel Chinstrap enjoy a sociable drink together . .

#TheGoonShow @thegsps.bsky.social #Bloodnok

Just found this....

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Thank you Jeeeeeeeeem!

Fabulous! Thank you!

Test page for an official Goon Show comic that didn't happen, by Dave Windett, based on "Ned's Atomic Dustbin". Commissioned by me in 2007

Test page for an official Goon Show comic that didn't happen, by David Hailwood, based on "Ned's Atomic Dustbin". Commissioned by me in 2007

Test page for an official Goon Show comic that didn't happen, by Hunt Emerson, based on "Ned's Atomic Dustbin". Commissioned by me in 2007

Test page for an official Goon Show comic that didn't happen, by VIZ artist Lee Healey, based on "Ned's Atomic Dustbin". Commissioned by me in 2007

You might like these @thegsps.bsky.social - test pages for an official Goon Show comic that didn't happen, by Dave Windett, David Hailwood, Hunt Emerson and Lee Healey, based on "Ned's Atomic Dustbin". Commissioned by me in 2007

I have the privilege of having written E C Segar's Goon, Eric Powell's Goon and have contributed Goon Show illustrations to the Goon Show Preservation Society magazine. I'm full of Goons!

New! THE HISTORIES OF PLINY THE ELDER
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"Caractacus Seagoon will be strangled by a gorilla!"

Yes, the Goons go back to Ancient Rome (when their old gags were new) as Seagoon and his fellow slaves seek Spartacus the Gladiola!

With guest James Page @drivelcast.bsky.social