Series 2 – Plot Synopses

the first series, the shows consist of several (usually three or four) independent sketches. Show 2/8, however, sustains a single plot throughout the whole show (a parody of Rider Haggard’s She entitled ‘Her’). The sketches, once again, tend to be heavy on dialogue and jokes and short on plot.

2/1 (untitled) has four sketches:

  • Handsome Harry Secombe engages in The Pursuit of Lo Hing Ding the sinister Oriental.
  • The Building of the Suez Canal.
  • Broadcasting in 1999.
  • The Quest for the Abominable Snowman

2/2 (untitled) has four sketches:

  • Handsome Harry chases Ho Fu Chang
  • Captain Pureheart builds the Trans-Siberian express
  • Education sketch
  • Bloodnok in the Highlands in 1745

2/3 (untitled) has four sketches:

  • The Building of the Crystal Palace
  • Handsome Harry Secombe Hunts the Lost Drummer in Venice
  • The Senepati and His Tribe
  • The Quo Vadis Sketch

2/4 (untitled) has four sketches:

  • Handsome Harry chases Andrew Timothy
  • Captain Pureheart constructs Croydon Airport
  • BBC programmes crammed together
  • Colonel Slocombe fights the Chippewar tribe

2/5 (untitled) has three sketches:

  • Handsome Harry guards a French vineyard
  • Monte Carlo Rally 1952 – commentary
  • Captain Pureheart photographs the world

2/6 (untitled) has four sketches:

  • Handsome Harry goes home
  • Bloodnok’s quest for the golden idol
  • Fred Bogg in the army
  • Barton and Pureheart’s interplanetary adventure

2/7 (untitled) has four sketches:

  • Handsome Harry investigates a murder
  • Pureheart lays the Atlantic cable
  • Swiss winter sports sketch
  • Major Bloodnok protects the Blarney Stone

2/8 Her

  • The Goons’ version of Rider Haggard’s She. This is the first show to have a single plot throughout the programme.

2/9 (untitled) has four sketches:

  • Handsome Harry the troubador
  • Pureheart builds a jet fighter X9
  • A survey of Britain
  • Major Bloodnok (2nd/7th Bombay Biddis at Goonistan) attacks the Mad Mullah

2/10 (untitled) has four sketches:

  • Handsome Harry and the lost million
  • Pureheart – building the Channel Tunnel
  • The Grand National
  • Major von Bloodnok – German secret agent

2/11 (untitled) has four sketches:

  • Handsome Harry Secombe is taken prisoner in the Army by the British
  • Pureheart’s excavation at Pompeii
  • Wacklow & Crun censor a show
  • Colonel Slocombe in the Southern Army

2/12 (untitled) has four sketches:

  • Harry Secombe – secret agent
  • Bloodnok fights the Mad Mullah
  • Goon focus on other programmes
  • Pureheart builds a satellite town

2/13 (untitled) has four sketches:

  • Handsome Harry – military intelligence
  • Filthmuck gets a laundry
  • Presidential elections
  • Slocombe goes to the firing line

2/14 (untitled) has four sketches:

  • Handsome Harry and the Ministry of Documentation
  • Captain Pureheart builds a time machine
  • Regent’s Park Zoo
  • El Gato – Harolde Slocombe and the President’s Daughter

2/15 (untitled) has five sketches:

  • Speech impediment
  • Harry Secombe educates the BBC
  • Osric Pureheart and the story of the Mulberry Harbour
  • The Goons interview British Olympic hopefuls
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (Lord Nugent Gascoine)

2/16 (untitled) has four sketches:

  • Trailer for the Goon Show / Handsome Harry’s dream – on trial for singing
  • High Goon
  • Pureheart – the gorilla hunter
  • Home, Light and Third Programme gimmick

2/17 (untitled) has four sketches:

  • Handsome Harry educates the listeners/Japanese Goon Show
  • Sinking of the Goonmark
  • Home, Light and Third Programme gimmick
  • Welsh spot

2/18 (untitled) has four sketches:

  • Handsome Harry hunted by a gang
  • Captain Pureheart photographs ghosts
  • Manoeuvres
  • Napoleon’s hours before Waterloo

2/19 (untitled) has four sketches:

  • Introductory banter
  • Pureheart traces the mail van robbers
  • Handsome Harry helps an opera singer find a missing note
  • The diary of Henry Crun – finding the source of the Amazon

2/20 (untitled) has four sketches:

  • Opening banter
  • Whitsun Bank Holiday special – BBC Commentaries
  • Harry Secombe – female Peruvian singing star
  • Dr. Crun’s Amazon expedition continued

2/21 (untitled) has two sketches:

  • Opening banter / Secombe gets sponsorship
  • The legend of Shangri-La

2/22 (untitled) has four sketches:

  • Handsome Harry’s daredevil circus audition
  • Pureheart’s Arabian oil discoveries
  • Commentaries on sporting events
  • Survey of the British holiday season

2/23 (untitled) has four sketches:

  • Cast have to read in the sound effects
  • The History of Britain
  • The legend of Dhobi Mick
  • Olympic Trials

2/24 (untitled) has three sketches:

  • Secombe auditions for Shakespeare
  • Pureheart cures the Lurgi
  • The legend of Ivanhoe

2/25 (untitled) has four sketches:

  • Handsome Harry looks back at the series
  • The Green Eyed of the Little Yellow God
  • Holiday season commentaries
  • Pureheart searches for the rare African White Carnation

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