Original Issues - The Goon Show

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Starting in 1954 the BBC Transcription Services recorded the Goon Shows for issue on pressed long-playing records to overseas radio stations, who could buy the rights to use them for a limited period, usually about two years from the date of issue. The original issues were cut by up to two minutes (topical references and supposedly offensive gags being removed) to run to about 29 mins 30 secs with some playout.

Original Issues
Disc No. Series /
Episode
Title
01 05 / 01 The Whistling Spy Enigma
02 05 / 02 The Lost Gold Mine (of Charlotte)
03 05 / 04 The Phantom Head Shaver (of Brighton)
04 05 / 05 The Affair of the Lone Banana
05 05 / 06 The Canal
06 05 / 08 The Mystery of the Marie Celeste (solved)
07 05 / 12 Dishonoured (or The Fall of Neddie Seagoon)
08 05 / 16 The Case of the Missing Heir
09 05 / 17 China Story
10 05 / 18 Under Two Floorboards
11 05 / 19 The Missing Scroll
12 05 / 21 The Sinking of Westminster Pier
13 05 / 26 The End
 
14 06 / 04 Napoleon's Piano
15 06 / 06 Rommel's Treasure
16 06 / 08 Shangri-La Again
17 06 / 09 The International Christmas Pudding
18 06 / 10 The Pevensey Bay Disaster
19 06 / 11 The Sale of Manhattan (aka The Lost Colony)
20 06 / 13 The Lost Year
21 06 / 16 The Mighty Wurlitzer
22 06 / 18 Tales of Montmartre
23 06 / 05 The Case of the Missing CD Plates
24 06 / 20 The House of Teeth
25 06 / 21 Tales of Old Dartmoor
26 06 / 22 The Choking Horror
27 06 / 24 The Treasure in the Lake
28 06 / 23 The Great Tuscan Salami Scandal
29 06 / 26 Scradje
30 06 / 27 The Man Who Never Was
 
31 07 / 02 Drums Along the Mersey
32 07 / 04 The MacReekie Rising of '74
33 07 / 05 The Spectre of Tintagel
34 07 / 08 Personal Narrative
35 07 / 09 The Mystery of the Fake Neddie Seagoons
36 07 / 12 The Flea
37 07 / 13 Six Charlies in Search of an Author
38 07 / 15 Wings Over Dagenham
39 07 / 17 Shifting Sands
40 07 / 18 The Moon Show
41 07 / 19 The Mysterious Punch-up-the-Conker
42 07 / 06 The Sleeping Prince
 
43 07 / 20

Round the World in Eighty Days

44 07 / 21 Insurance, the White Man's Burden
45 07 / 22 The Africa Ship Canal
46 07 / 23 Ill Met by Goonlight
47 07 / 24 The Missing Boa Constrictor
48 07 / Special Robin Hood
 
49 08 / 02 The Junk Affair
50 08 / 04 The Great Regent's Park Swim
51 08 / 06 The Space Age
52 08 / 05 The Treasure in the Tower
53 08 / 08 The Missing Battleship
54 08 / 09 The Policy
55 08 / 10 King Solomon's Mines
56 08 / 11 The Stolen Postman
57 08 / 12 The Great British Revolution
58 08 / 13 The Plasticine Man
59 08 / 14 African Incident
60 08 / 16 The String Robberies
61 08 / 17 The Moriarty Murder Mystery
62 08 / 03 The Burning Embassy
63 08 / 20 Ten Snowballs that Shook the World
64 08 / 18 The Curse of Frankenstein
65 08 / 22 World War One
66 08 / 23 The Spon Plague
 
67 09 / 02 I Was Monty's Treble
68 09 / 03 The ₤1,000,000 Penny
69 09 / 04 The Pam's Paper Insurance Policy
70 09 / 05 The Mountain Eaters
71 09 / 07 The Seagoon Memoirs
72 09 / 08 Queen Anne's Rain
73 09 / 10 Ned's Atomic Dustbin
74 09 / 06 The Childe Harolde Rewarde
75 09 / 12 The Call of the West
76 09 / 14 The Scarlet Capsule
77 09 / 15 The Tay Bridge
78 09 / 13 Dishonoured — Again
79 09 / 16 The Gold Plate Robbery
80 09 / 17 The ₤50 Cure
 
81 10 / 02 The Tale of Men's Shirts
82 10 / 03 The Chinese Legs
83 10 / 04 Robin's Post
84 10 / 05 The Silver Dubloons
85 10 / 06 The Last Smoking Seagoon
86 10 / 01 A Christmas Carol
 
87 05 / 14 Ye Bandit of Sherwood Forest
88 05 / 03 The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler (of Bexhill-on-Sea)
89 05 / 07 Lurgi Strikes Britain
90 05 / 09 The Last Tram (from Clapham)
91 05 / 10 The Booted Gorilla (found?)
92 05 / 11 The Spanish Suitcase
93 05 / 13 Forog
94 05 / 22 The Fireball of Milton Street
95 05 / 23 The Six Ingots of Leadenhall Street
96 05 / 24 The Yehti
97 06 / 01 The Man Who Won the War
98 06 / 02 The Secret Escritoire
99 06 / 19 The Jet-Propelled Guided NAAFI"
100 07 / 03 The Nadger Plague
101 07 / 07 The Great Bank Robbery
102 07 / 10 What's My Line?
103 07 / 11 The Telephone
104 07 / 14 Emperor of the Universe
105 07 / 25 The Histories of Pliny the Elder
106 08 / 15 The Thing on the Mountain
107 08 / 26 The Great Statue Debate

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