Series 5 (1954-55)

From the start of this series, the shows are recorded by the BBC Transcription Services for overseas sales. From now on, all shows contain a single full-length plot featuring the best known Goon characters. Cast includes Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe, Spike Milligan, The Ray Ellington Quartet, Max Geldray and Wallace Greenslade as announcer.

Episode Details:

1 : The Whistling Spy Enigma

First Broadcast: 1954-09-28
Recorded: 1954-09-26
Author: Spike Milligan
Producer: Peter Eton
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2 : The Lost Gold Mine (of Charlotte)

First Broadcast: 1954-10-05
Recorded: 1954-10-03
Author: Spike Milligan
Producer: Peter Eton
Notes: Announced as 'Death in the Desert'.
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3 : The Dreaded Batter-Pudding Hurler (of Bexhill-on-Sea)

First Broadcast: 1954-10-12
Recorded: 1954-10-10
Author: Spike Milligan
Producer: Peter Eton
Notes: Announced as 'The Terror of Bexhill-on-Sea'.
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4 : The Phantom Head Shaver (of Brighton)

First Broadcast: 1954-10-19
Recorded: 1954-10-17
Author: Spike Milligan
Producer: Peter Eton
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5 : The Affair of the Lone Banana

First Broadcast: 1954-10-26
Recorded: 1954-10-24
Author: Spike Milligan
Producer: Peter Eton
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6 : The Canal

First Broadcast: 1954-11-02
Recorded: 1954-10-31
Author: Spike Milligan
Producer: Peter Eton
Notes: With Valentine Dyall.
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7 : Lurgi Strikes Britain

First Broadcast: 1954-11-09
Recorded: 1954-11-07
Author: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton
Notes: Not coherently announced.
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8 : The Mystery of the Marie Celeste (Solved)

First Broadcast: 1954-11-16
Recorded: 1954-11-14
Author: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton
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9 : The Last Tram (from Clapham)

First Broadcast: 1954-11-23
Recorded: 1954-11-21
Author: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton
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10 : The Booted Gorilla (found?)

First Broadcast: 1954-11-30
Recorded: 1954-11-28
Author: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton
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11 : The Spanish Suitcase

First Broadcast: 1954-12-07
Recorded: 1954-12-05
Author: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton
Notes: Not coherently announced.
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12 : Dishonoured, or The Fall of Neddie Seagoon

First Broadcast: 1954-12-14
Recorded: 1954-12-12
Author: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton
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13 : Forog

First Broadcast: 1954-12-21
Recorded: 1954-12-19
Author: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton
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14 : Ye Bandit of Sherwood Forest

First Broadcast: 1954-12-28
Recorded: 1954-12-19
Author: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton
Notes: With Charlotte Mitchell.
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15 : Nineteen-Eighty-Five

First Broadcast: 1955-01-04
Recorded: 1955-01-02
Author: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton
Notes: Orchestra conducted by Bruce Campbell. Inspired by George Orwell's '1984'. The show was such a sucess that it was re-performed as episode 20 later in the series.
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16 : The Case of the Missing Heir

First Broadcast: 1955-01-11
Recorded: 1955-01-09
Author: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton
Notes: Not coherently announced.
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17 : China Story

First Broadcast: 1955-01-18
Recorded: 1955-01-16
Author: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton

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18 : Under Two Floorboards - A Story of the Legion

First Broadcast: 1955-01-25
Recorded: 1955-01-23
Author: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton
Notes: Announced as 'Beau Geste'.
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19 : The Missing Scroll

First Broadcast: 1955-02-01
Recorded: 1955-01-30
Author: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton
Notes: Announced as 'The Lost Music of Purdom'.
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20 : Nineteen-Eighty-Five

First Broadcast: 1955-02-08
Recorded: 1955-01-30
Author: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton
Notes: This is a repeat of episode 15. It is a new performance of the same script, which was re-typed, incorporating all but one of the timing cuts made for the first version. In this show John Snagge (pre-recorded) reads the telescreen announcement near the beginning.
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21 : The Sinking of Westminster Pier

First Broadcast: 1955-02-15
Recorded: 1955-02-13
Author: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton
Notes: Billed in Radio Times (and Programme Index) as 'The Six Ingots of Leadenhall Street'. The script was changed at short notice to a story inspired by a photograph of the floating pier at Westminster under several feet of water with an 'Out of Order' notice pinned to it. Greenslade tries to announce the show as 'The Six Ingots of Leadenhall Street' (insisting that the Radio Times is never wrong). Finally Sellers announces it as 'The Port of London Authority's valuable hand-carved, oil-painted, valuable floating pier'.
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22 : The Fireball of Milton Street

First Broadcast: 1955-02-22
Recorded: 1955-02-20
Author: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton
Notes: 'Milton Street' is the name of a village in Sussex.
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23 : The Six Ingots of Leadenhall Street

First Broadcast: 1955-03-01
Recorded: 1955-02-27
Author: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton
Notes: The title situation for this show can best be described as confusing. The front of the script, Radio Times, Programme Index and the 'Programme as Broadcast' files give the title as 'The Terrible Blasting of Moreton's Bank'. However, the show is in fact 'The Six Ingots of Leadenhall Street', the script postponed from 15th February 1955, is announced as such, and titled as such by TS. Strictly speaking, the title ought to match the official files, but since the 'Six Ingots' title makes more sense, and in fact would have been the official title of the script had not the last-minute change of plan happened. Hence the given title.
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24 : Yehti

First Broadcast: 1955-03-08
Recorded: 1955-03-06
Author: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton
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25 : The White Box of Great Bardfield

First Broadcast: 1955-03-15
Recorded: 1955-03-13
Author: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton
Notes: Not coherently announced.
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26 : The End

First Broadcast: 1955-03-22
Recorded: 1955-03-20
Author: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton
Notes: Announced as 'The Confessions of a Secret Senna-pod Drinker'.
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