List of The Goon Show episodes
Appearance
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
- 28 May 1951
- 11 June 1951
- 4 June 1951
- 25 June 1951
- 18 June 1951
- 9 July 1951
- 2 July 1951
- 23 July 1951
- 16 July 1951
- 9 August 1951
- 2 August 1951
- 23 August 1951
- 16 August 1951
- 6 September 1951
- 30 August 1951
- 20 September 1951
- 13 September 1951
Christmas pantomime 1951
Second series early 1952 The Goon Show
Untitled shows
- 29 January 1952
- 22 January 1952
- 19 February 1952
- 5 February 1952
- 4 March 1952
- 26 February 1952
- 18 March 1952
- 11 March 1952
- 1 April 1952
- 25 March 1952
- 15 April 1952
- 8 April 1952
- 29 April 1952
- 22 April 1952
- 13 May 1952
- 6 May 1952
- 27 May 1952
- 20 May 1952
- 10 June 1952
- 3 June 1952
- 24 June 1952
- 17 June 1952
- 8 July 1952
- 1 July 1952
- 15 July 1952
Third series late 1952
- Fred of the Islands 11 November 1952
- The Egg of the Great Auk 18 November 1952
- I was a Male Fan Dancer 25 November 1952
- The Saga of HMS Aldgate 2 December 1952
- The Expedition for Toothpaste 9 December 1952
- The Archers 16 December 1952
- Robin Hood (pantomime, 45 min.) 26 December 1952
- Where Does Santa Claus Go in the Summer? 30 December 1952
- The Navy, Army, and Air Force 6 January 1953
- The British Way of Life 13 January 1953
- A Survey of Britain 20 January 1953
- Flint of the Flying Squad 27 January 1953
- Seaside Resorts in Winter 3 February 1953
- The Tragedy of Oxley Towers 10 February 1953
- The Story of Civilization 17 February 1953
- The Search for the Bearded Vulture 24 February 1953
- The Mystery of the Monkey's Paw 3 March 1953
- The Mystery of the Cow on the Hill 10 March 1953
- Where Do Socks Come From? 17 March 1953
- The Man Who Never Was 31 March 1953
- The Building of the Suez Canal 7 April 1953
- The De Goonlies 14 April 1953
- The Conquest of Space 21 April 1953
- The Ascent of Mount Plymouth 28 April 1953
- The Story of Plymouth Hoe Armada 5 May 1953
Coronation special 1953
Fourth series 1953
- The Dreaded Piano Clubber 2 October 1953
- The Man Who Tried to Destroy London's Monuments 9 October 1953
- The Ghastly Experiements of Dr. Hans Eidelburger 16 October 1953
- The Building of Britain's First Atomic Cannon 23 October 1953
- The Gibraltar Story 30 October 1953
- Through the Sound Barrier in an Airing Cupboard 6 November 1953
- The First Albert Memorial to the Moon 13 November 1953
- The Missing Beaurocrat 20 November 1953
- Operation Bagpipes 27 November 1953
- The Flying Saucer Mystery 4 December 1953
- The Spanish Armada 11 December 1953
- The British Way 18 December 1953
- (sketch in Christmas Crackers) 25 December 1953
- The Giant Bombardon 26 December 1953
- Ten Thousand Fathoms Down in a Wardrobe 1 January 1954
- The Missing Prime Minister 8 January 1954
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Crun 15 January 1954
- The Mummified Priest 22 January 1954
- The History of Communications 29 January 1954
- The Kippered Herring Gang 5 February 1954
- The Toothpaste Expedition 12 February 1954
- The Case of the Vanishing Room 15 February 1954
- The Great Ink Drought of 1902 22 February 1954
- The Greatest Moutain in the World 1 March 1954
- The Great Tuscan Salami Scandal, or The Collapse of the British Railway Sandwich System 8 March 1954
- The Silent Bugler 15 March 1954
- Western Story 22 March 1954
- The Saga of the Internal Mountain 29 March 1954
- The Invisible Acrobat 5 April 1954
- The Great Bank of England Robbery 12 April 1954
- The Siege of Fort Knight 19 April 1954
Specials 1954
Fifth series 1954
- The Whistling Spy Enigma 28 September 1954
- The Lost Gold Mine of Charlotte 5 October 1954
- The Dreaded Batter-Pudding Hurler of Bexhill-on-Sea 12 October 1955
- The Phantom Head Shaver of Brighton 19 October 1954
- The Affair of the Lone Banana 26 October 1954
- The Canal 2 November 1954
- Lurgi Strikes Britain (aka Lurgi Strikes Again) 9 November 1954
- The Mystery of the Marie Celeste (Solved) 16 November 1954
- The Last Tram from Clapham 23 November 1954
- The Booted Gorilla 30 November 1954
- The Spanish Suitcase 7 December 1954
- Dishonoured, or, The Fall of Neddie Seagoon 14 December 1954
- Forog 21 December 1954
- Ye Bandit of Sherwood Forest 28 December 1954
- 1985 4 January 1955
- The Case of the Missing Heir 11 January 1955
- China Story 18 January 1955
- Under Two Floorboards: a Story of the Legion 25 January 1955
- The Missing Scroll 1 February 1955
- 1985 8 February 1955
- The Sinking of Westminster Pier 15 February 1955
- The Freball of Milton Street 22 February 1955
- The Six Ingots of Leadenhall Street 1 March 1955
- Yeti 8 March 1955
- The White Box of Great Bardfield 15 March 1955
- The End (aka Confessions of a Secret Senna-pod Drinker) 22 March 1955
Sixth series 1955
- The Man Who Won the War (aka Seagoon MCC) 20 September 1955
- The Secret Escritoire 27 September 1955
- The Lost Emperor 4 October 1955
- Napoleon's Piano 11 October 1955
- The Case of the Missing CD Plates 18 October 1955
- Rommel's Treasures 25 October 1955
- Foiled by President Fred 1 November 1955
- Shangri-La Again 8 November 1955
- The International Christmas Pudding 15 November 1955
- The Sale of Manhattan (aka The Lost Colony) 29 November 1955
- 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
- The Lost Year 13 December 1955
- The Greenslade Story 20 December 1955
- The Hastings Flyer - Robbed 27 December 1955
- The Mighty Wurlitzer 3 January 1956
- The Raid of the International Christmas Pudding 10 January 1956
- Tales of Montmartre 17 January 1956
- The Jet-Propelled Guided NAAFI 24 jan 1956
- The House of Teeth 31 January 1956
- Tales of Old Dartmoor 7 February 1956
- The Choking Horror 14 February 1956
- The Great Tuscan Salami Scandal 21 February 1956
- The Treasure in the Lake 28 February 1956
- The Fear of Wages 6 March 1956
- Scradje 13 March 1956
- The Man Who Never Was 20 March 1956
- The Pevensey Bay Disaster 4 April 1956 (postponed from22 November 1955)
Special 1956
Seventh series 1956
- The Nasty Affair at the Burami Oasis 4 October 1956
- Drums Along the Mersey 11 October 1956
- The Nadger Plague 18 October 1956
- The MacReekie Rising of '74 25 October 1956
- The Spectre of Tintagel 1 November 1956
- The Great Bank Robbery 15 November 1956
- Personal Narrative 22 November 1956
- The Mystery of the Fake Neddie Seagoons (aka The Case of ... ) 29 November 1956
- Robin Hood ((unaired)) (First UK airing25 December 1988.)
- What's My Line 5 December 1956
- The Telephone 13 December 1956
- The Flea 20 December 1956
- Operation Christmas Duff [ BBC General Overseas Service ] ((unaired))
- Six Charlies in Search of An Author 26 December 1956
- Emperor of the Universe 3 January 1957
- Wings over Dagenham 10 January 1957
- The Rent Collectors 17 January 1957
- Shifting Sands 24 January 1957
- The Moon Show 31 January 1957
- The Mysterious Punch-up-the-Conker 7 February 1957
- The Sleeping Prince 14 February 1957 (Postponed from8 November 1956.)
- Round the World in Eighty Days 21 February 1957
- Insurance, the White Man's Burden 28 February 1957
- The Africa Ship Canal 7 March 1957
- Ill Met by Goonlight 14 March 1957
- The Missing Boa Constrictor 21 March 1957
- The Histories of Pliny the Elder 28 March 1957
Special 1957
Eighth series 1957
- Spon 30 September 1957
- The Junk Affair 7 October 1957
- The Burning Embassy 14 October 1957
- The Great Regent's Park Swim 21 October 1957
- The Treasure in the Tower 28 October 1957
- The Space Age 4 November 1957
- The Red Fort 11 November 1957
- The Missing Battleship 18 November 1957
- The Policy 25 November 1957
- King Solomon's Mines 2 December 1957
- The Stolen Postman 9 December 1957
- The Great British Revolution 16 December 1957
- The Plasticine Man 23 December 1957
- African Incident 30 December 1957
- The Thing on the Mountain 6 January 1958
- The String Robberies 13 January 1958
- The Moriarty Murder Mystery 20 January 1958
- The Curse of Frankenstein 27 January 1958
- The White Neddie Trade 3 February 1958
- Ten Snowballs That Shook the World 10 February 1958
- The Man Who Never Was 17 February 1958
- World War One (aka _____!) 24 February 1958
- The Spon Plague 3 March 1958
- Tiddleywinks 10 March 1958
- The Evils of Bushley Spon 17 March 1958
- 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.
- The Mummified Priest 6 October 1957
- The Greatest Mountain in the World 20 October 1957
- The Missing Number 10 Downing Street 3 November 1957
- The Giant Bombardon 17 November 1957
- The Kippered Herring Gang 1 December 1957
- The Vanishing Room 15 December 1957
- The Ink Shortage 29 December 1957
- The Mustard and Cress Shortage 12 January 1958
- The Internal Mountain 16 February 1958
- The Silent Bugler 23 February 1958
- The Great Bank of England Robbery 2 March 1958
- The Dreaded Piano Clubber 9 March 1958
- The Siege of Fort Night 16 March 1958
- The Albert Memorial 23 March 1958
Ninth series 1958
- The Sahara Desert Statue 3 November 1958
- I was Monty's Treble 10 November 1958
- The £1,000,000 Penny 17 November 1958
- The Pam's Paper Insurance Policy 24 November 1958
- The Mountain Eaters 1 December 1958
- The Childe Harolde Rewarde 8 December 1958
- The Seagoon Memoirs 15 December 1958
- Queen Anne's Rain 22 December 1958
- The Battle of Spion Kop 29 December 1958
- Ned's Atomic Dustbin 5 January 1959
- The Spy, or Who is Pink Oboe? 12 January 1959
- The Call of the West 20 January 1959
- Dishonoured Again 26 January 1959
- The Scarlet Capsule (aka Quatermess O.B.E.)2 February 1959
- The Tay Bridge 9 February 1959
- The Gold Plate Robbery 16 February 1959
- The £50 Cure 23 February 1959
Tenth series 1959
- A Christmas Carol 24 December 1959
- The Tale of Men's Shirts 31 December 1959
- The Chinese Legs 7 January 1960
- Robin's Post 14 January 1960
- The Silver Dubloons 21 January 1960
- The Last Smoking Seagoon 28 January 1960