Richard Usher

#Halloween chills from Edgar Allan Poe this weekend in Kenilworth @treehousebookshop.bsky.social and Birmingham. Join Neu Noir Theatre Company for an evening reading of 'Fall of the House of Usher'!

#edgarallanpoe #fallofthehouseofusher

Tour Details Here:

neunoir.wordpress.com/performances/

Did you tot up how much whiskey should have been in there? Is it making a Dram-a out of the situation? Or are adopting a rye sense of humour about it? I'll stop now...

‘Innit Marvellous?’: The Galton and Simpson Archive project Saving Hancock and Steptoe and more

FOLKS!

We are VERY CLOSE to securing the archive of Galton and Simpson - so the writers of Hancock's Half Hour and Steptoe and Son (or Sanford and Son, if you like) for the nation. Every little helps - can you help?

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The #GaltonandSimpson archive needs to be preserved for future generations, it is a treasure trove and a very special resource. The appeal needs just £600, so if you can donate, please do...details in Gary's post.

‘Innit Marvellous?’: The Galton and Simpson Archive project Saving Hancock and Steptoe and more

Folks!

Folks!

AMAZING NEWS! Thanks to some INCREDIBLY GENEROUS donations from fans and the V&A Purchase Grant Fund, we are now just SIX HUNDRED POUNDS (alright, £663) short of securing the Galton and Simpson archive for the nation.

yustart.hubbub.net/p/galtonands...

Informed that it is the 65th birthday of It's A Square World today.

Me and @tiltaraiza.bsky.social had a chat about the show a while back & speculated that it may have included the first ever Dr Who parody, with Clive Dunn as Hartnell's Doctor.

Full show here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

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...

Reggie Perrin?

Delighted to be working with NeuNoir Theatre again this Halloween, with our 5th production: a reading of Poe's THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER.

We're visiting #Birmingham, #Kenilworth, #Worcester, #Stourbridge, and #NorthYorkshire too.

#gothic #halloween2025 #literature #theatre #edgarallanpoe

Sellers Centenary on the BBC As Peter Sellers 100th birthday approaches on 8th September, the BBC is airing a variety of programmes from the archives to mark the occasion.BBC2:Monday 1st September, 11.00pmThe Life And Death Of…

There are several Peter Sellers themed programmes on Radio 4 Extra next week. I've updated my list here:
goonshow.org/2025/08/28/s...

VOYAGER Paintings informed by a motion picture

If you have ever been inspired creatively by a favourite movie you will understand the love that radiates from this project. Beautiful artwork inspired by #StarTrekTheMotionPicture and the amazing V'ger #Voyager plotline, painted by my dear friend, #PaulHarraway

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ph1...

‘Innit Marvellous?’: The Galton and Simpson Archive project Saving Hancock and Steptoe and more

Friends! Chums! Eccentric millionaires of my acquaintance!

By popular demand, we have REOPENED our AMAZING CROWDFUNDER for the Galton and Simpson Archive, so please pass this on to fans of comedy history, Tony Hancock, Steptoe and Son etc etc

yustart.hubbub.net/p/galtonands...

‘Innit Marvellous?’: The Galton and Simpson Archive project Saving Hancock and Steptoe and more

Mes braves!

If you missed it earlier, due to very, er, popular demand, we have re-opened our Galton and Simpson Archive fundraiser. If you feel minded, nay, called upon to chip in, please do:

yustart.hubbub.net/p/galtonands...

Hope it is going well Stephen. I've messaged you here and via Facebook with regards to our GSPS AGM, I hope you received the messages okay? Just wondered if there is a better way to get in touch? Regards, Richard

Space: 1999 | Barry GRAY • Derek WADSWORTH | CD Space: 1999, Years 1 and 2, CD Soundtrack. Music Composed by Barry Gray, Derek Wadsworth, Silva Screen, SILCD1641

And coincidentally, look what just arrived in my email inbox! A remastered re-release! www.musicbox-records.com/en/cd-soundt...

Yep, Jack Duckworth himself! He was quite a renowned singer and had many albums produced by Derek Wadsworth. Derek also went under the name Daniel Caine and produced and conducted the only released version of 'The A-Team' TV scores.

It absolutely is! I was corresponding with Derek to arrange an interview slot for Bill Tarmey and we got chatting all things 'Space: 1999'. I invited him in when Gerry Anderson was a special guest and gave them a wonderful reunion as they'd not worked together for 15 years - Fandersontastic!

They get all the best ideas from TV! I got to know the composer of the music that goes with that title sequence, lovely chap called Derek Wadsworth. He gave me one of the last of his privately pressed CD's of the score long before it was released. He produced Dusty Springfield, Bill Tarmey and more.

That's a brilliant post! I just realised I missed the 207th anniversary of my own stunt (did you know I was a time traveller?) stjohnswaterloo.org/usher-the-cl...

YouTube video by Richard Usher Happy 54th Birthday YTV Yorkshire Television!

Love the t-shirt squire! youtu.be/TYQVUPy_jlQ?...

The professional rejection of one’s creative and comedy efforts is a funny old thing, ironically. I’ve always loved writing and performing my own comedy material, but nothing has ever been commissioned, it’s always rejected. ALWAYS. It’s like a jigsaw piece that never fits any puzzle. Ah well…

Dirk Maggs and Ted Kendall are this week's guests on Goon Pod, gassing about Goons!
pod.link/1569929507

Loved this in-depth talk about the 1991 Goon Show documentary I made with Mike Pointon. Spike, Harry, Mike Bentine, Angela Morley & Eric Sykes gave unstintingly & Ted Kendall found terrific clips. It led to Ted and I restoring The Last Goon Show Of All from the original 1” eight-track master tapes.

I have deleted my accounts with them and I'm going to study up on how to encrypt and protect my creative property in the future. Eternal vigilance is the price of creative freedom?

YouTube video by Gary Brannan Innit' Marvellous? The Galton and Simpson Archive Campaign

FOLKS!

We have SEVEN DAYS to raise £700 as part of our crowdfunder, and then we unlock a further £3,000 from an external donor!

All yer info here, link in the description

youtu.be/XwVw9u7tfm8

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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Great movie! I was born a few hundred yards away from where the petrol station scenes were filmed. The pub across the road that’s in shot from time to time was one of my local haunts when I still lived in Hull.

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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

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