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The following list of Goon Show episodes includes Goon Show "specials": also episodes made for the BBC transcription service unaired domestically at the time, listed at the date of their recording.

First series 1951 Crazy People

Untitled shows

  1. 28 May 1951
  2. 11 June 1951
  3. 4 June 1951
  4. 25 June 1951
  5. 18 June 1951
  6. 9 July 1951
  7. 2 July 1951
  8. 23 July 1951
  9. 16 July 1951
  10. 9 August 1951
  11. 2 August 1951
  12. 23 August 1951
  13. 16 August 1951
  14. 6 September 1951
  15. 30 August 1951
  16. 20 September 1951
  17. 13 September 1951

Christmas pantomime 1951

Second series early 1952 The Goon Show

Untitled shows

  1. 29 January 1952
  2. 22 January 1952
  3. 19 February 1952
  4. 5 February 1952
  5. 4 March 1952
  6. 26 February 1952
  7. 18 March 1952
  8. 11 March 1952
  9. 1 April 1952
  10. 25 March 1952
  11. 15 April 1952
  12. 8 April 1952
  13. 29 April 1952
  14. 22 April 1952
  15. 13 May 1952
  16. 6 May 1952
  17. 27 May 1952
  18. 20 May 1952
  19. 10 June 1952
  20. 3 June 1952
  21. 24 June 1952
  22. 17 June 1952
  23. 8 July 1952
  24. 1 July 1952
  25. 15 July 1952

Third series late 1952

  1. Fred of the Islands 11 November 1952
  2. The Egg of the Great Auk 18 November 1952
  3. I was a Male Fan Dancer 25 November 1952
  4. The Saga of HMS Aldgate 2 December 1952
  5. The Expedition for Toothpaste 9 December 1952
  6. The Archers 16 December 1952
  7. Robin Hood (pantomime, 45 min.) 26 December 1952
  8. Where Does Santa Claus Go in the Summer? 30 December 1952
  9. The Navy, Army, and Air Force 6 January 1953
  10. The British Way of Life 13 January 1953
  11. A Survey of Britain 20 January 1953
  12. Flint of the Flying Squad 27 January 1953
  13. Seaside Resorts in Winter 3 February 1953
  14. The Tragedy of Oxley Towers 10 February 1953
  15. The Story of Civilization 17 February 1953
  16. The Search for the Bearded Vulture 24 February 1953
  17. The Mystery of the Monkey's Paw 3 March 1953
  18. The Mystery of the Cow on the Hill 10 March 1953
  19. Where Do Socks Come From? 17 March 1953
  20. The Man Who Never Was 31 March 1953
  21. The Building of the Suez Canal 7 April 1953
  22. The De Goonlies 14 April 1953
  23. The Conquest of Space 21 April 1953
  24. The Ascent of Mount Plymouth 28 April 1953
  25. The Story of Plymouth Hoe Armada 5 May 1953

Coronation special 1953

Fourth series 1953

  1. The Dreaded Piano Clubber 2 October 1953
  2. The Man Who Tried to Destroy London's Monuments 9 October 1953
  3. The Ghastly Experiements of Dr. Hans Eidelburger 16 October 1953
  4. The Building of Britain's First Atomic Cannon 23 October 1953
  5. The Gibraltar Story 30 October 1953
  6. Through the Sound Barrier in an Airing Cupboard 6 November 1953
  7. The First Albert Memorial to the Moon 13 November 1953
  8. The Missing Beaurocrat 20 November 1953
  9. Operation Bagpipes 27 November 1953
  10. The Flying Saucer Mystery 4 December 1953
  11. The Spanish Armada 11 December 1953
  12. The British Way 18 December 1953
  13. The Giant Bombardon 26 December 1953
  14. Ten Thousand Fathoms Down in a Wardrobe 1 January 1954
  15. The Missing Prime Minister 8 January 1954
  16. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Crun 15 January 1954
  17. The Mummified Priest 22 January 1954
  18. The History of Communications 29 January 1954
  19. The Kippered Herring Gang 5 February 1954
  20. The Toothpaste Expedition 12 February 1954
  21. The Case of the Vanishing Room 15 February 1954
  22. The Great Ink Drought of 1902 22 February 1954
  23. The Greatest Moutain in the World 1 March 1954
  24. The Great Tuscan Salami Scandal, or The Collapse of the British Railway Sandwich System 8 March 1954
  25. The Silent Bugler 15 March 1954
  26. Western Story 22 March 1954
  27. The Saga of the Internal Mountain 29 March 1954
  28. The Invisible Acrobat 5 April 1954
  29. The Great Bank of England Robbery 12 April 1954
  30. The Siege of Fort Knight 19 April 1954

Specials 1954

Fifth series 1954

  1. The Whistling Spy Enigma 28 September 1954
  2. The Lost Gold Mine of Charlotte 5 October 1954
  3. The Dreaded Batter-Pudding Hurler of Bexhill-on-Sea 12 October 1955
  4. The Phantom Head Shaver of Brighton 19 October 1954
  5. The Affair of the Lone Banana 26 October 1954
  6. The Canal 2 November 1954
  7. Lurgi Strikes Britain (aka Lurgi Strikes Again) 9 November 1954
  8. The Mystery of the Marie Celeste (Solved) 16 November 1954
  9. The Last Tram from Clapham 23 November 1954
  10. The Booted Gorilla 30 November 1954
  11. The Spanish Suitcase 7 December 1954
  12. Dishonoured, or, The Fall of Neddie Seagoon 14 December 1954
  13. Forog 21 December 1954
  14. Ye Bandit of Sherwood Forest 28 December 1954
  15. 1985 4 January 1955
  16. The Case of the Missing Heir 11 January 1955
  17. China Story 18 January 1955
  18. Under Two Floorboards: a Story of the Legion 25 January 1955
  19. The Missing Scroll 1 February 1955
  20. 1985 8 February 1955
  21. The Sinking of Westminster Pier 15 February 1955
  22. The Freball of Milton Street 22 February 1955
  23. The Six Ingots of Leadenhall Street 1 March 1955
  24. Yeti 8 March 1955
  25. The White Box of Great Bardfield 15 March 1955
  26. The End (aka Confessions of a Secret Senna-pod Drinker) 22 March 1955

Sixth series 1955

  1. The Man Who Won the War (aka Seagoon MCC) 20 September 1955
  2. The Secret Escritoire 27 September 1955
  3. The Lost Emperor 4 October 1955
  4. Napoleon's Piano 11 October 1955
  5. The Case of the Missing CD Plates 18 October 1955
  6. Rommel's Treasures 25 October 1955
  7. Foiled by President Fred 1 November 1955
  8. Shangri-La Again 8 November 1955
  9. The International Christmas Pudding 15 November 1955
  10. The Sale of Manhattan (aka The Lost Colony) 29 November 1955
  11. The Terrible Revenge of Fred Fu Man-chu 6 December 1955
    • The Missing Christmas Parcel: Post Early (transmitted in Children's Hour, 15 min.) 8 December 1955
  12. The Lost Year 13 December 1955
  13. The Greenslade Story 20 December 1955
  14. The Hastings Flyer - Robbed 27 December 1955
  15. The Mighty Wurlitzer 3 January 1956
  16. The Raid of the International Christmas Pudding 10 January 1956
  17. Tales of Montmartre 17 January 1956
  18. The Jet-Propelled Guided NAAFI 24 jan 1956
  19. The House of Teeth 31 January 1956
  20. Tales of Old Dartmoor 7 February 1956
  21. The Choking Horror 14 February 1956
  22. The Great Tuscan Salami Scandal 21 February 1956
  23. The Treasure in the Lake 28 February 1956
  24. The Fear of Wages 6 March 1956
  25. Scradje 13 March 1956
  26. The Man Who Never Was 20 March 1956
  27. The Pevensey Bay Disaster 4 April 1956 (postponed from22 November 1955)

Special 1956

Seventh series 1956

  1. The Nasty Affair at the Burami Oasis 4 October 1956
  2. Drums Along the Mersey 11 October 1956
  3. The Nadger Plague 18 October 1956
  4. The MacReekie Rising of '74 25 October 1956
  5. The Spectre of Tintagel 1 November 1956
  6. The Great Bank Robbery 15 November 1956
  7. Personal Narrative 22 November 1956
  8. The Mystery of the Fake Neddie Seagoons (aka The Case of ... ) 29 November 1956
  9. What's My Line 5 December 1956
  10. The Telephone 13 December 1956
  11. The Flea 20 December 1956
    • Operation Christmas Duff [ BBC General Overseas Service ] ((unaired))
  12. Six Charlies in Search of An Author 26 December 1956
  13. Emperor of the Universe 3 January 1957
  14. Wings over Dagenham 10 January 1957
  15. The Rent Collectors 17 January 1957
  16. Shifting Sands 24 January 1957
  17. The Moon Show 31 January 1957
  18. The Mysterious Punch-up-the-Conker 7 February 1957
  19. The Sleeping Prince 14 February 1957 (Postponed from8 November 1956.)
  20. Round the World in Eighty Days 21 February 1957
  21. Insurance, the White Man's Burden 28 February 1957
  22. The Africa Ship Canal 7 March 1957
  23. Ill Met by Goonlight 14 March 1957
  24. The Missing Boa Constrictor 21 March 1957
  25. The Histories of Pliny the Elder 28 March 1957

Special 1957

Eighth series 1957

  1. Spon 30 September 1957
  2. The Junk Affair 7 October 1957
  3. The Burning Embassy 14 October 1957
  4. The Great Regent's Park Swim 21 October 1957
  5. The Treasure in the Tower 28 October 1957
  6. The Space Age 4 November 1957
  7. The Red Fort 11 November 1957
  8. The Missing Battleship 18 November 1957
  9. The Policy 25 November 1957
  10. King Solomon's Mines 2 December 1957
  11. The Stolen Postman 9 December 1957
  12. The Great British Revolution 16 December 1957
  13. The Plasticine Man 23 December 1957
  14. African Incident 30 December 1957
  15. The Thing on the Mountain 6 January 1958
  16. The String Robberies 13 January 1958
  17. The Moriarty Murder Mystery 20 January 1958
  18. The Curse of Frankenstein 27 January 1958
  19. The White Neddie Trade 3 February 1958
  20. Ten Snowballs That Shook the World 10 February 1958
  21. The Man Who Never Was 17 February 1958
  22. World War One (aka _____!) 24 February 1958
  23. The Spon Plague 3 March 1958
  24. Tiddleywinks 10 March 1958
  25. The Evils of Bushley Spon 17 March 1958
  26. The Great Statue Debate 24 March 1958

"Vintage Goons" series 1957

Especially recorded for overseas stations. The dates in this series are recording dates. Most of these episodes were not broadcast in the UK until the 1980s.

  1. The Mummified Priest 6 October 1957
  2. The Greatest Mountain in the World 20 October 1957
  3. The Missing Number 10 Downing Street 3 November 1957
  4. The Giant Bombardon 17 November 1957
  5. The Kippered Herring Gang 1 December 1957
  6. The Vanishing Room 15 December 1957
  7. The Ink Shortage 29 December 1957
  8. The Mustard and Cress Shortage 12 January 1958
  9. The Internal Mountain 16 February 1958
  10. The Silent Bugler 23 February 1958
  11. The Great Bank of England Robbery 2 March 1958
  12. The Dreaded Piano Clubber 9 March 1958
  13. The Siege of Fort Night 16 March 1958
  14. The Albert Memorial 23 March 1958

Ninth series 1958

  1. The Sahara Desert Statue 3 November 1958
  2. I was Monty's Treble 10 November 1958
  3. The £1,000,000 Penny 17 November 1958
  4. The Pam's Paper Insurance Policy 24 November 1958
  5. The Mountain Eaters 1 December 1958
  6. The Childe Harolde Rewarde 8 December 1958
  7. The Seagoon Memoirs 15 December 1958
  8. Queen Anne's Rain 22 December 1958
  9. The Battle of Spion Kop 29 December 1958
  10. Ned's Atomic Dustbin 5 January 1959
  11. The Spy, or Who is Pink Oboe? 12 January 1959
  12. The Call of the West 20 January 1959
  13. Dishonoured Again 26 January 1959
  14. The Scarlet Capsule (aka Quatermess O.B.E.)2 February 1959
  15. The Tay Bridge 9 February 1959
  16. The Gold Plate Robbery 16 February 1959
  17. The £50 Cure 23 February 1959

Tenth series 1959

  1. A Christmas Carol 24 December 1959
  2. The Tale of Men's Shirts 31 December 1959
  3. The Chinese Legs 7 January 1960
  4. Robin's Post 14 January 1960
  5. The Silver Dubloons 21 January 1960
  6. The Last Smoking Seagoon 28 January 1960

Specials 1972 and 2001

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