Pick of the Goons

The Pick of the Goons is the name given to the BBC Transcription Services (TS) re-issues edited to 27 mins 00 secs, issued on 12" LP. The re-issues ("Pick of the Goons") have further slight cuts beyond the cuts made to the Original Issue discs, no playout, and in most cases a shortened version of the closing signature tune. These records all run to 27 mins 00 secs and can't be made available to the public for contractual reasons.

First Series (CN 267)

PotG No.	Series/ Episode	Title
01	05/01	The Whistling Spy Enigma
02	05/05	The Affair of the Lone Banana
03	06/04	Napoleon's Piano
04	VG/01	The Mummified Priest
05	06/26	Scradje
06	06/06	Rommel's Treasure
07	06/08	Shangri-La Again
08	VG/14	The Albert Memorial
09	VG/02	The Greatest Mountain in the World
10	VG/06	The Vanishing Room
11	VG/09	The Internal Mountain
12	VG/11	The Great Bank of England Robbery
13	06/27	The Man Who Never Was
14	07/09	The Mystery of the Fake Neddie Seagoons
15	07/12	The Flea
16	07/18	The Moon Show
17	07/19	The Mysterious Punch-up-the-Conker
18	07/20	Round the World in 80 Days
19	07/21	Insurance, the White Man's Burden
20	07/23	Ill Met by Goonlight
21	08/04	The Great Regent's Park Swim
22	08/09	The Policy
23	09/05	The Mountain Eaters
24	09/08	Queen Anne's Rain
25	09/12	The Call of the West
26	09/16	The Gold Plate Robbery

Second Series (CN 756)

PotG No.	Series/ Episode	Title
27	05/02	The Lost Gold Mine (of Charlotte)
28	05/06	The Canal
29	05/08	The Mystery of the Marie Celeste (solved)
30	05/16	The Case of the Missing Heir
31	05/19	The Missing Scroll
32	05/21	The Sinking of Westminster Pier
33	05/26	The End (a.k.a. Confessions of a Secret Senna Pod Drinker)
34	06/10	The Pevensey Bay Disaster
35	06/11	The Lost Colony
36	06/18	Tales of Montmartre
37	06/22	The Choking Horror
38	06/24	The Treasure in the Lake
39	07/05	The Spectre of Tintagel
40	07/08	Personal Narrative
41	07/15	Wings Over Dagenham
42	07/17	Shifting Sands
43	07/22	The Africa Ship Canal
44	07/24	The Missing Boa Constrictor
45	08/06	The Space Age
46	08/05	The Treasure in the Tower
47	08/11	The Stolen Postman
48	08/12	The Great British Revolution
49	08/03	The Burning Embassy
50	08/20	Ten Snowballs that Shook the World
51	08/18	The Curse of Frankenstein
52	08/22	______!
53	08/23	The Spon Plague
54	09/02	I Was Monty's Treble
55	09/07	The Seagoon Memoirs
56	10/04	Robin's Post
57	10/06	The Last Smoking Seagoon
58	10/01	A Christmas Carol

Third Series (CN 1546/SS)

PotG No.	Series/ Episode	Title
59	05/04	The Phanthom Head Shaver
60*	05/25	The White Box of Great Bardfield
61	05/18	Under Two Floorboards
62*	06/03	The Lost Emperor
63	06/05	The Case of the Missing CD Plates
64	07/06	The Sleeping Prince
65	06/09	The International Christmas Pudding
66*	06/14	The Greenslade Story
67	06/20	The House of Teeth
68	06/23	The Great Tuscan Salami Scandal
69*	06/25	The Fear of Wages
70*	07/01	The Nasty Affair at the Burami Oasis
71	07/02	Drums Along the Mersey
* Not previously issued by Transcription Services

Fourth Series (CN 1645/SS)

PotG No.	Series/ Episode	Title
72*	06/07	Foiled by President Fred
73*	07/16	The Rent Collector
74	VG/04	The Giant Bombardon
75	08/10	King Solomon's Mines
76	08/13	The Plasticine Man
77	08/17	The Moriarty Murder Mystery
78	08/16	The String Robberies
79	VG/10	The Silent Bugler (VG)
80*	09/01	The Sahara Desert Statue
81	09/03	The ₤1,000,000 Penny
82	09/06	The Childe Harolde Rewarde
83	10/05	The Silver Dubloons
84	07/Special	Robin Hood
* Not previously issued by Transcription Services

This list was compiled by Roger Wilmut and published in The Goon Show Companion: A History and Goonography.