Pick of the Goons

From The Goon Show Depository

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.