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==Story==
==Story==
Light yourself a hammock for our story begins onboard Britain's largest battleship, the 1902 [[w:HMS Boxer|HMS Boxer]] , where a broadcast of their favourite programme, ''Variety Awash'', is now in progress. Old jokes ahoy!  (And that was nothing like an old joke). But music-hall comic [[Neddie Seagoon|Hairy Seagoon]] can't stop [[Count Jim Moriarty|Captain Jim 'Bilge' Moriarty]]'s piracy and the ship is swiftly flying the ''[[w:Jolly Roger]]''. Crash landing on a desert island could save them but there are [[w:Human cannibalism|cannibals]] about. And they're threatening to put [[Bluebottle]] inside. Inside what? Inside them!
Light yourself a hammock for our story begins onboard Britain's largest battleship, the 1902 [[w:HMS Boxer|HMS Boxer]] , where a broadcast of their favourite programme, ''Variety Awash'', is now in progress. Old jokes ahoy!  (And that was nothing like an old joke). But music-hall comic [[Neddie Seagoon|Hairy Seagoon]] can't stop [[Count Jim Moriarty|Captain Jim 'Bilge' Moriarty]]'s piracy and the ship is swiftly flying the ''[[w:Jolly Roger|Jolly Roger]]''. Crash landing on a desert island could save them but there are [[w:Human cannibalism|cannibals]] about. And they're threatening to put [[Bluebottle]] inside. Inside what? Inside them!


==Music==
==Music==

Revision as of 21:02, 7 November 2022

"The Missing Battleship"
The Goon Show episode
Episode: no.Series: 8
Episode: 8
Written by
AnnouncerWallace Greenslade
Produced byRoy Speer
Music
Recording
Number
TLO 41935
First broadcast18 November 1957 (1957-11-18)
Running time29:56
Episode Order
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"The Policy"
The Goon Show series 8
List of episodes

The Missing Battleship is an episode from The Goon Show. It is the eighth show in the eighth series. It was recorded Sunday 17 November 1957, and broadcast on Monday 18 November 1957.

The Vintage Goons fourth episode, The Giant Bombardon, was recorded the same day as this show.

Story

Light yourself a hammock for our story begins onboard Britain's largest battleship, the 1902 HMS Boxer , where a broadcast of their favourite programme, Variety Awash, is now in progress. Old jokes ahoy! (And that was nothing like an old joke). But music-hall comic Hairy Seagoon can't stop Captain Jim 'Bilge' Moriarty's piracy and the ship is swiftly flying the Jolly Roger. Crash landing on a desert island could save them but there are cannibals about. And they're threatening to put Bluebottle inside. Inside what? Inside them!

Music