'Vintage Goons' Series

A series recorded specially for
BBC Transcription Services.

Basic Cast :-

  • Peter Sellers,
  • Harry Secombe,
  • Spike Milligan,
  • The Ray Ellington Quartet,
  • Max Geldray.

  • Announcer is Wallace Greenslade.

  • Produced by Charles Chilton (nos. 1, 2, & 9-14), Roy Speer (nos. 3-7),
    and Tom Ronald (no. 8).

Scripts by Spike Milligan.

Recorded Sundays together with the 8th series shows.

  Recorded TS Tape No.  
1 06-Jan-57 Tl/AG/2966 * The Mummified Priest
2 02-Oct-57 T7/AG/3654 * The Greatest Mountain in the World
3 03-Oct-57 Tl/AG/3054 The Missing Ten Downing Street 2
(Spike & Larry Stephens)
4 17-Oct-57 T5/AG/4309 * The Giant Bombardon
(with Valentine Dyall)
5 01-Dec-57 T5/AG14341 The Kippered Herring Gang
6 15-Dec-57 T5/AG/4382 * The Vanishing Room
7 29-Dec-57 T5/AG/4417 The Ink Shortage 3
8 12-Jan-58 Tl/AG/3875 The Mustard and Cress Shortage 4
9 16-Feb-58 Tl/AG/3965 The Internal Mountain
10 23-Feb-58 T5/AG/4597 The Silent Bugler 5
11 02-Mar-58 T2/AG/4043 * The Great Bank of England Robbery 6
12 09-Mar-58 Tl/AG/4025 The Dreaded Piano Clubber
13 16-Mar-58 T5/AG/4661 The Siege of Fort Night
14 22-Mar-58 T2/AG/4060 * The Albert Memorial 7
* These 6 shows were broadcast on Mondays immediately prior to the 9th series
  Broadcast BH Tape No.  
1 22-Sep-58 TLO 65468 The Mummified Priest
2 29-Sep-58 TLO 65469 The Greatest Mountain in the World
4 06-Oct-58 TLO 65470 The Giant Bombardon
6 13-Oct-58 TLO 65471 The Vanishing Room
11 22-Oct-58 TLO 65472 The Great Bank of England Robbery
14 27-Oct-58 TLO 65473 The Albert Memorial
Notes to the 'Vintage Goons' series

All scripts in this series are based on scripts from the 4th series, often with a certain amount of re-writing. When six of these shows were broadcast in the Home Service immediately prior to the 9th series Radio Times contrived, in a badly-worded write-up, to give the impression that they were recorded repeats of the 4th series shows. To add to the confusion, the repeat series broadcast in 1964 and 1970 were billed as 'Vintage Goons', although none of the shows concerned came from the original 'Vintage Goon' series, some of which have still never been broadcast in this country.

2. Based on 4115 and announced as 'The Missing Prime Minister'.

3. Based on 4122 and announced as 'Hansard Unexpurgated'.

4. Based on 4124 and announced as 'The Collapse of the British Railway Sandwich System'.

5. Based on 4125; the nearest to an announcement is 'Take the Case of Agent X2'.

6. Announced first as 'Open Casebook' and later by the official one.

7. Announced as 'The First Albert Memorial to the Moon'.