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Growing up in New Zealand in the eighties I was always a sucker for a TV-tie-in ice lolly (except we called them 'ice blocks') As well as the Alf abomination I have fond memories of chowing down on a Mr T and a Fonzie running down my arm on a particularly hot day

There's a distinct smell from my childhood which I cannot replicate - the winey aroma of my primary school ditto machine which printed out worksheets onto coarse grade A4 paper in purple ink. For some reason that's all I can think about this morning.

This week’s Major Star is Mrs Miggins, a welcome female addition to the sausage fest that is Blackadder The Third. Far from having a “brain the size of a sultana” she reveals herself to be a canny businesswoman with a floury finger on the pulse of the times. open.spotify.com/episode/5Iyy...

Encouraged by @goonpod.bsky.social I watched It's Trad, Dad! and had a great time with it. It's just hard to believe that a bunch of teenagers would get so excited about bands covering songs that even sounded old when their own parents were kids. youtu.be/2O1b8evO2fs?...

Going to watch The Stalls of Barchester tonight. Never seen it but it's got Robert Hardy and I'm going to predict that he delivers his lines at a shout

On this day 71 years ago: LURGI STRIKES BRITAIN was first broadcast It was also Eric Sykes' first joint writing credit on the Goon Show

"So I said, 'I'd only support the death penalty in very extreme circumstances, such as high treason or mass murder, and even then only if it was proven 100% that they were guilty...' what did I say Roy?" "You said, 'Anybody not wearing a poppy from late August onwards should be taken out and shot.'"

“I didn’t get a ‘hurrumph’ outta that guy”

When Goon Pod met... MARK THOMAS @markthomasinfo.bsky.social A few years back Tyler had the great pleasure of chatting to one of his comedy heroes - Mark talked about his career, the fine art of devilment and dancing to pop music with Ma Boswell from Bread open.spotify.com/episode/10E8...

If you want to listen to the full album straight through, I've uploaded the entire thing to youtube. And it's the stereo mix, so you can get an idea of just how sophisticated George Martin's "sound picture" idea was, even in 1962.

It doesn't seem like twenty years since my wife and I were cast headlong into parenthood, wholly under-prepared yet charged with a solemn trust: the safe care and upbringing of the tiny human being we had brought into the world. Luckily TV had already taught me one important rule of child-rearing

Important. Especially for people in the U.K., where we consider swearing a highly-evolved artform.

Exactly 50 years ago today, on Thursday 6th November 1975, Spike Milligan's Q6 series began on BBC2. Pioneering Milligan, unpredictable as ever and looking to try a new direction, included a sketch about the war, one where he was dressed as a tramp and one with a woman with big boobs.

This is what we had to do before social media

This week we're talking about a record: pod.link/1569929507

I'll be covering George Martin's comedy recordings in the next couple of months in Season 2 of PTB, but if you want a more expansive look at one of the albums that shows Martin's mastery of the studio pre-Beatles, this installment of Goon Pod is for you!

IT'S A SQUARE WORLD (LP, 1962) With Jason Kruppa @ptbeatles.bsky.social pod.link/1569929507 Michael Bentine flew solo on this George Martin-produced comedy record, voicing dozens of characters including the Film Extra of the Year, an excitable sports announcer, the (now extinct) Shrdlu and more!

Despite my startling resemblance to a 1926 box brownie I am, in fact, not a camera.

While researching for a future show I found a Victor Lewis-Smith piece from the Evening Standard where he suggests he might throw up on his shoes if he has to hear another of Harry Secombe’s rather whiskery Goon Show anecdotes. Harsh, but I did sometimes yearn for some real dope from Sir Ned

Me looking at your posts.

It's been bothering me for weeks but finally today I worked out who was the single greatest Carry On character ever: Harriet Potter in Camping

Who Remembers.

My dad hated popular music which to my mind meant he only liked unpopular music and this sure as hell qualified

I'd never seen this picture of the Goons before - taken in November 1955 (around the middle of the sixth series)

IMDb bios can be overwhelming sometimes, with Juliet Bravo extras given undeserved hagiographies while other actors receive a scant throwaway line or two… such as Declan Mulholland here whose body of work is reduced down to:

BBC4 tonight, 11pm: Parkinson with Spike Milligan, James Coburn and Professor Eric Laithwaite It's another chance for Spike to tell the dysentery story and this time it's Jack Hobbs who has the trouser-filling trauma (previously attributed to the likes of Eric Sykes)

Coventry Evening Telegraph, 11th January 1958 "The model boat is for Peter Sellers' son Michael - but Dad, like all fathers, is monopolising it" No doubt binned or given to Princess Margaret the following day

Next week it's one of our all-too-rare shows about a Michael Bentine topic - any guesses?

If you haven't voted for the forthcoming LISTENERS TOP 20 BRITISH SITCOMS OF ALL TIME show please post, DM or email your FAVOURITE 3 sitcoms so we can continue to build up the chart! From The Good Life to Ghosts, Rising Damp to The Royle Family, we want to hear from YOU! [email protected]

Carry on Screaming (1966) As it’s Halloween why not listen to us chatting about the only Carry On to feature Harry H Corbett, who is investigating creepy caperings in Victorian London? www.patreon.com/posts/113338...

My son, who is tall, dark, slim and has the suggestion of Christopher Lee about him, is going on a Halloween pub crawl tomorrow night. They all have to dress as classic horror monsters. He asked for my Amazon login as he was going to buy some Dracula fangs. Fair enough. Just checked my orders

As mentioned on Goon Pod Film Club this month ('Steptoe & Son Ride Again') here's Harry H Corbett being interviewed on Australian TV in '72 while being driven around by a real Aussie rag & bone man and looking a tad uncomfortable! Patreon.com/GoonPod

“I woulda gotten away with upscaling those Harry Worth sitcoms if it hadn’t been for you meddling kids!”

Archbishop John Laurie cries "He's CROOOOOONED!" This week we're talking about Peter Sellers' antepenultimate film, THE PRISONER OF ZENDA (1979) Available here: pod.link/1569929507

"He vas my BOYFRIEND!" is probably my single most favourite line in a film rammed with great lines. God I love Frau Blücher * horses whinny *

Lloyd Didcot, 45, was reportedly “shocked and outraged” when not a single judge correctly identified that he was dressed as Paul Tanner, second trombonist in the Glen Miller Orchestra and inventor of the Electro-Theramin.

Post a piccie of someone who should be a National Treasure

"Madam, I must insist you keep your hand south of the equator"

I have a recurring nightmare that I’m in the final of the World Snooker Championship but I can’t string together anything higher than an 8-break and John Virgo calls me a ‘chuffing disgrace’ on live television

Only been in this train for three minutes and the woman in the next seat just said into her phone 'Like Eric Morcombe said, I've only got one arm full!' I have pulled the emergency cord.

You keep telling yourself that.

New episode! THE PRISONER OF ZENDA (1979) - with John Hewer pod.link/1569929507 Anthony Hope's classic novel about an imperilled King and his lookalike was adapted by Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais as a vehicle for Peter Sellers. Lacking in laughs but some nice Sellers business nevertheless

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From the front page of The Mirror, September 1968: The amazing story of a farmer in Norfolk who waited 40 hours with a cine camera to film a mouse dancing. He told the BBC that 'Monty' enjoys dancing to beat music & had danced a jig to 'Hey Jude' but unfortunately the footage was too dark to see

"And after that you can start laying the ballroom foundations"

ADOLF HITLER - MY PART IN HIS DOWNFALL (1973) is free to stream on Amazon Prime www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/det... We covered it a couple of months ago on Goon Pod