Originally published – December 2022
by Mark Cousins
The Goon Show
The Goon Show: discography by John WN Francis – at docplayer.net
A previously unknown (to me, MC) Canadian version of The Best Of The Goon Show No 2. Note the different sleeve! Where’s volume 1!? – at discogs.com
BBC producer Roy Speer on trial! – at www.superstock.com – www.topfoto.co.uk
The BBC’s own webpage on The Goon Show
at bbc.com/historyofthebbc – bbc.com 100 faces
Goon Show characters – at academic.com
The Goons and the East Acton Stick Dance – at www.anonymousmorris.co.uk
See also Goon News: issue 167, pages 25 to 28
The Goon Show – All the tropes
Peter Sellers
Romance of The Pink Panther. The script was cowritten by Peter Sellers
at dokumen.tips
A lengthy talk about ‘There’s A Girl In My Soup’
While we’re talking documentaries here’s another newly found one
The Ghost of Peter Sellers: Livestream Movie Discussion with Jeff Yanc
Interesting website and a homemade documentary on Peter Sellers
at allaboutheaven.org
Clouseau: The Greatest Bungler – Behind The scenes of The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Seldom seen, this short ‘There’s a Girl in my Soup’ documentary ‘This is my Wife or Life with Goldie’ (1970) was made by Gus Trikonis on the making of the 1970 movie ‘There’s a Girl in my Soup’ with Peter Sellers and Goldie Hawn.
A nice selection of photos on Pinterest – here and here
Spike Milligan
Spike with Paul and Linda McCartney helping to save Rye Hospital
at ryehospital.org.uk
Here’s Spike’s well-known LP of The Snow Goose
Spike and The Beatles including a poem to Spike by Paul McCartney
at arrivewithouttravelling.com
A Spike Milligan website for rummaging around!
at mikeagnew123.tripod.com
Spike had many series of his own, but rarely appeared in other people’s comedy shows. One of the exceptions was…The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine. All 15 parts include Spike Milligan! This had been scheduled for a legitimate four-disc
DVD release a few years ago but it never happened. (Possibly for copyright reasons?) – on Amazon
There are quite a few available to watch on YouTube. Here’s the link to one, perhaps it’s best to leave you to your own searches for others.
Episode 1 – 1st October, 1971, (50 mins)
Michael Bentine
Voice artist, actor, Goons fan and Hon Sec of GSPS, Richard Usher, provides his tribute to Michael Bentine
Dr Elliot Bentine – Michael Bentine’s grandson – at insidequantum.org
Madabout – 6th January 1982
Orphaned episodes. It’s a Square World – at culttvblog.blogspot.com
The Sandwich Man – now released on Blu Ray – on Amazon
Harry Secombe
Dandy Sandy – Des O’Connor, Harry Secombe and Britt Ekland in a sketch from Des’ 1970s television series. Available from Network.
at television heaven on facebook.com
The Goon Show Preservation Society 