Kismet, fate, serendipity, Alphonse. Call it what you will, but the very week that The Goon Show celebrates its 75th Anniversary, is the same week that I should receive the current issue of the Goon Show News, periodical of @thegsps.bsky.social. (you should join) Coincidence? #TheGoonShow75

"Pull your chair up to the ceiling, fill up your glass with potassium cyanide & let the Goons do the rest!" Crazy People - later renamed the Goon Show - was first broadcast on 28 May 1951. Happy 75th birthday, Goon Show!

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the first broadcast of the Goon Show on 28 May 1951 we have a special offer for those of you who wish to join us! Sign up by the 4th of June to take advantage of the discount! goonshow.org/gsps/join/

GSPS magazine no. 193 is out now, folks! If you're not a member yet, why not join today? goonshow.org/gsps/join/

Hello folks! Calling folks! Tickets are available for The Goon Show 75! at St Elvan's Church, Aberdare on 28th May at 7:00PM, celebrating the 75th anniversary of the first ever broadcast of the iconic Goon Show! More details here: www.ticketsource.com/whats-on/abe...

Really looking forward to performing some long forgotten #GoonShow material in the 75th anniversary year. These #TPTV events are wonderful, so do grab a ticket if you can @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social @thegsps.bsky.social @goonshow.org @tonyhancock.bsky.social

This very good. If you also listen to the Goon Pods with Gavin Sutherland and Louis Barfe then across the three podcasts you’ll get a ton of insight into why The Goon Show music is so special.

New! NEIL BRAND pod.link/1569929507 This week's special guest neilkbrand.bsky.social on Goon Show music and how it enlivened & 'structured' the programme, why the Goons with their freewheeling 'jazz comedy' were in harmony with Max, Ray and the boys in the band, and the genius of Angela Morley.

#TheGoonShow @thegsps.bsky.social @goonpod.bsky.social Just found on talking video type YouTube!! @bloodnok.bsky.social 😃😃 🤣🤣 youtu.be/EB7eep-fK8Q?...

Harry Secombe reading his autobiography this week on Radio 4 Extra @goonpod.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

#OnThisDay 11 April 1973 It's the turn of #SpikeMilligan to receive the Big Red Book from Eamonn Andrews in This Is Your Life. Amongst those paying 'tribute' is #PeterSellers.

@goonpod.bsky.social @thegsps.bsky.social Just seen that an episode of The Milligan Papers is on BBCRadio4extra next Saturday.

The formatting of this Beckett quote does still represent resilience and determination, just of a very different sort.

Obligatory:

Radio highlights: Looking for a Boat. Vintage Goons - The Seagoon Memoirs. Weather: light sleet or snow. Outlook - continuing cold. 3c, 37f

SillyBilly Productions are to premiere in the Dunedin Fringe Festival with an innovative stage adaptation of Goon Show classics. The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler and Ye Bandit of Sherwood Forest will be performed on the 13th to 15th of March. For further information see www.dunedinfringe.nz

GSPS magazine no. 192 is out now, folks! If you're not a member yet, why not join today? goonshow.org/gsps/join/

@thegsps.bsky.social @goonshow.org @goonpod.bsky.social #Bloodnok's Interesting post-prandial curry accompaniment?? 🤔🤔

The @thegsps.bsky.social will be represented at the @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social Roadshow in St Albans on 22nd March. We'll have a stall, come and say hello, and there will be a showing of a newly restored reel of Thames TV's Tales of Men's Shirts from 1968. There's lots of other stuff on too...

NED: What are you doing up that tree? GRYTPYPE-THYNNE: We're mountaineering on a rather tight budget. (Goon Show S7 E18, 31 Jan 1957. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)

Hello folks! Calling Folks! Look what popped up on my EweTube channels tonight!! #TheGoonShow circa 1951 with Michael Ben time. @thegsps.bsky.social @goonshow.org @goonpod.bsky.social #SpikeMilligna #SirNeddySeagoon #PeterBirdyNumNumSellers 😁😁🤣🤣 youtu.be/E8J3RnHK9ms?...

Going to the barbers and asking them for a "Goon Show"

Did you know Spike Milligan was stationed in #Bexhill during WW2? When we reopen for the new season on January 27th, why not come in and find out all about it?

OH MY WORD 👀 hambledonproductions.com/phantomraspb...

We had some wonderful news to end 2025 and begin 2026. Our Highly Steamed organisation has received its own version of a New Year Honour in the shape of a communication confirming that His Majesty The King would be delighted to retain Patronage of The Goon Show Preservation Society.

New on The Goon Show Preservation Society website, there’s the Multiple Choice Quiz and the Peter Sellers Picture Quiz which were set for our annual meeting. Also, stories taken from a 1996 meeting where John Browell, John P Hamilton and Brian Wiley talked of their days working with the Goons.

We all fondly remember that Goon Show catchphrase "awk!" don't we? Lads?

We were very sorry to learn of the death of John Antrobus on 15 December at the age of 92. John co-wrote 2 Goon Shows with Spike Milligan in 1958 - The Spon Plague (S8E23) and The Great Statue Debate (S8E26). He will be very much missed. May he rest in peace.

@dirkmaggs.bsky.social audio drama of Puckoon by Spike Milligan is drama of the week on BBCSounds. Ed Byrne, Barry Cryer, Pauline McLynn and Jane Milligan in the cast. @goonpod.bsky.social @thegsps.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

ATTN: @thegsps.bsky.social @goonpod.bsky.social New concept artwork for The International Christmas Pudding just dropped

Dec 1995: Spoken Word Tapes ad from Woolworths (+Andy McNab: Immediate Action; Hancock's Half Hour; Round The Horne: Movie Spoofs; Goon Show Classics; Last of the Summer Wine; Roy 'Chubby' Brown: Jingle Bricks; Roy Chubby Brown: Censored Allsorts; Jethro Live!; and The Clown Jewels)

GSPS magazine no. 191 is out now, folks! If you're not a member yet, why not join today? goonshow.org/gsps/join/

In case you needed evidence.

Calling Bluebottle! #TheGoonsShowPreservationSociety present an exclusive screening at our #TPTV Festival of Film & TV Roadshow at Hebden Bridge Picture House Sat 11 & Sun 12 Oct. ⭐️2 fun-filled days celebrating Film & TV history! Call 0808 178 8212 or buff.ly/QMiH1yf

A quick reminder, the Goon Show Preservation Society's annual meeting is this Saturday in Finchley, near to the home of the East Finchley boy hero Bluebottle. Come along...

Arena: The Peter Sellers Story "The first of three films presenting a portrait of one of the world's greatest comic actors, tracing his life from childhood to a successful post-war career with the Goons and more." www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Here's a recent article written for the Goon Show News, reproduced on my blog with kind permission. www.ianwinick.com/en/the-goon-...

GSPS magazine no. 190 is out now, folks! If you're not a member yet, why not join today? goonshow.org/gsps/join/

The Goon Show Preservation Society will be at the @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social‬ Festival of Film & TV Roadshow in Hebden Bridge on 13th October. Have a good day out and come say hello to us, all in one. goonshow.org/2025/08/13/t...

#TheGoonShow #Seagoon & #Eccles re-enacting 1066 & All that?? I presume #Bloodnok is Commander of the Gin Bottle-shaped bottlements in the background.🤔 @thegsps.bsky.social

Premiering on YouTube today is my performance of a #GoonShow sketch written for #PeterSellers by #comedy legends #GaltonandSimpson. 'Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Two Raised Fingers' was performed for @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social 2025 #actor #voiceartist #theatre youtu.be/wrJt0xyNlFk?...

New on the @thegsps.bsky.social website: As we approach would have been Peter Sellers' 100th birthday, Mark Cousins previews next month's Sellers Season at the British Film Institute.

@thegsps.bsky.social. A little light reading...

Advance Notice – The GSPS Annual Meeting – 13th September wp.me/pe48YE-39E @thegsps.bsky.social

28 May is #NationalGoonShowDay folks! Join us today via the website and get a whopping 25% off an e-membership*! Use the codeword: SPON. *Offer only available to new members signing up by 4 June 2025. Valid for 1 year. Not available to lapsed members or for renewals. goonshow.org/gsps/join/

Nice, informative overview of the rarely seen Peter Sellers short THE SUPER SECRET SERVICE shown on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social last evening - review by the excellent Anthony Nield on Letterboxd #FilmSky boxd.it/9DBdJF

'The Super Secret Service' was written by Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens and stars Peter Sellers. Plus Graham Stark, Dick Emery and Ray Ellington. Tune in at 6pm!

Set your sundials for 7 May at 6pm! The Super Secret Service, a 1953 short film written by Larry Stephens (@lsggbg.bsky.social) and Spike Milligan and starring Peter Sellers, is being shown on Talking Pictures Television (@talkingpicturestv.bsky.social)

New! GOON SHOW SOUND EFFECTS pod.link/1569929507 Fred the Oyster! Tom the piano-playing penguin! The Mighty Wurlitzer! Ned Seagoon & his nickel-plated bagpipes being run over by a steamroller! Whoooosh! They're all here plus a chat about what sounds are fading from popular memory!