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	*''[[Adiós muchachos (song)\|Adios, Muchachos]]''		*''[[Adiós muchachos (song)\|Adios, Muchachos]]''

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{{Infobox Goon Show episode
| title = Handsome Harry and the Ministry of Documentation
| series = [[The Goon Show]]
| image =
| image_alt =
| caption =
| series_no = 2
| episode = 14
| writer =
*[[Spike Milligan]]
*[[Larry Stephens]]
| editor = [[Jimmy Grafton]]
| producer = [[Dennis Main Wilson]]
| music =
*Max Geldray:
*''[[Adiós muchachos (song)|Adios, Muchachos]]''
*Ellington Quartet:
*''[[Some of These Days]]''
*''[[My Yiddishe Momme]]''
*The Goons (Grafton's Parodies)
*''[[Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross]]''
*''[[I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi (I Like You Very Much)]]''
*''El Cumbanchero''
*''[[Jarabe Tapatío]]''
*''[[Tico-Tico no Fubá]]''
| production = [[The Goon Show recording numbers#SLO|SLO]] 6959
| recording_date = {{Start date|1952|04|27|df=y}}
| airdate = {{Start date|1952|04|29|df=y}}
| length =
| guests =
| prev = [[Show 30]]
| next = [[Show 32]]
| season_article = [[The Goon Show series 2]]
| CD_volume = [[The Goon Show CDs|—]]
| Compendium = [[The Goon Show Compendiums#Vol13|-]]
}}

The series 2 shows didn't have 'official' episode names ''per se'', but for ease of reference using the show number and ''Handsome Harry'' sketch name is to differentiate them.

The show had now changed its name from ''Crazy People'' to "'''''[[The Goon Show]], featuring those crazy people…'''''"

'''''Show 31''''' (aka ''Handsome Harry and the Ministry of Documentation'') is an episode from [[The Goon Show]]. It is the fourteenth show in the second series.

The show recording session was on Sunday, {{Date|1952-04-27}} at 9pm and was recorded at The [[Playhouse Theatre#BBC studios|Playhouse Theatre]], [[Northumberland Avenue]], Central London.

The first British public broadcast was on the [[BBC Home Service|Home Service]] on Tuesday, {{Date|1952-04-29}} at 9.30pm (except Northern Ireland). It reached a peak listenership of 1.5m.

The show's repeat was broadcast the following Thursday at 7.30pm, {{Date|1952-05-01}} on the [[BBC Light Programme|Light Programme]] to an audience of 4.7 million listeners.

==Sketches==
*''Handsome Harry and the Ministry of Documentation'': Tells how Harry safeguarded the Ministry of Documentation against burglary when he was a detective;
*''Captain Pureheart builds a Time Machine'': Pureheart tells [[Andrew Timothy]] how he was summoned by the President of the Scientific Research Committee to make [[H. G. Wells|HG Wells]]’ Time Machine.
*''Regent’s Park Zoo'': Features [[Michael Bentine]], [[Brian Johnston]] and Jack Islott commentating on one of the most popular places to visit on Easter Monday.
*Haroldo Secombe loves the President’s daughter Conchita and becomes the Mexican bandit El Gato to rebel against repression and taxes.

==Music==
*[[Max Geldray]] performed ''[[Adiós muchachos (song)|Adios, Muchachos]]'' {{small|([Julio Cesar Sanders]])}}.
*[[Ray Ellington|The Ray Ellington Quartet]] ({{small|pays tribute to [[Sophie Tucker]] with}}) ''[[Some of These Days]]'' {{small|(Shelton Brooks)}} and ''[[My Yiddishe Momme]]'' {{small|([[Jack Yellen]]/[[Lew Pollack]])}}.
*The Goons sing [[Jimmy Grafton]]’s parodies of the ''[[Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross]]'' {{small|(Traditional)}}, ''[[I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi (I Like You Very Much)]]'' {{small|([[Harry Warren]]/[[Mack Gordon]])}}, ''El Cumbanchero'' {{small|([[Rafael Hernández Marín]])}}, ''[[Jarabe Tapatío]]'' {{small|([[Jesús González Rubio]])}} and ''[[Tico-Tico no Fubá]]'' {{small|([[Zequinha de Abreu]]/[[Aloísio de Oliveira]])}}.

==Show Trivia==
The fourteenth show experimented with a new closing adventure with neither Bloodnok nor Slocombe, but concerning the Mexican bandit El Gato (Harry).

==Technical==
Originally recorded on [[The Goon Show recording numbers#SLO|SLO 6959]]. (33⅓ rpm, coarse-groove 16" disk recorded at [[Broadcasting House]]).
<ref>{{Cite AV media notes |title=[[The Goon Show Compendiums#Vol13|The Goon Show Compendium Vol 13]] |first=Ted |last=Kendall | author-link=Ted Kendall |date=2017 |page=28|type=Booklet 1 |publisher=BBC Worldwide|ISBN=9781785298776}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Goon Shows co-written by Larry Stephens]]
[[Category:Goon Shows edited by Jimmy Grafton]]
[[Category:Goon Shows with show trivia section]]

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