Offical Goon Show CDs

Over 100 episodes of The Goon Show have been released by the BBC Radio Collection and EMI.

These official releases are available on CD. They are of a far higher standard than those unofficial copies available for download on the Internet. Many CDs are also available as downloads.

Goon Show Compendium 1

13 Episodes:

The Whistling Spy Enigma / The Lost Gold Mine (of Charlotte) / The Dreaded Batter-Pudding Hurler (of Bexhill-on-Sea) / The Phantom Head Shaver (of Brighton) / The Affair of the Lone Banana / The Canal / Lurgi Strikes Britain / The Mystery of the Marie Celeste (Solved) / The Last Tram (from Clapham) / The Booted Gorilla (found?) / The Spanish Suitcase / Dishonoured, or The Fall of Neddie Seagoon / Forog

Extras: Outtakes and a feature entitled 'Me and my shadows'

Goon Show Compendium 2

12 Episodes:

Ye Bandit of Sherwood Forest / Nineteen-Eighty-Five / The Case of the Missing Heir / Under Two Floorboards - A Story of the Legion / The Missing Scroll / Nineteen-Eighty-Five / The Sinking of Westminster Pier / The Fireball of Milton Street / The Six Ingots of Leadenhall Street / Yehti / The White Box of Great Bardfield / The End

Extras: A previously unreleased version of 'The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler' plus features entitled 'The Lid Off The BBC' and 'The Critics'

Goon Show Compendium 3

13 Episodes:

The Man Who Won the War / The Secret Escritoire / The Lost Emperor / Napoleon's Piano / The Case of the Missing CD Plates / Rommel's Treasure / Shangri-La Again / The International Christmas Pudding / The Pevensey Bay Disaster / The Sale of Manhattan / The Terrible Revenge of Fred Fu-Manchu / The Lost Year / The Greenslade Story

Extras: Outtakes and features including 'What Goes On', 'The Listening Room' and 'Home Service Continuity'

Goon Show Compendium 4

14 Episodes:

The Hastings Flyer - Robbed / The Mighty Wurlitzer / The Raid of the International Christmas Pudding / Tales of Montmartre / The Jet-Propelled Guided NAAFI / The House of Teeth / The Choking Horror / The Great Tuscan Salami Scandal / The Treasure in the Lake / The Goons Hit Wales / The Fear of Wages / Scradje / The Man Who Never Was / China Story

Extras: A warm up routine, outtakes and features including 'The Laughter Makers' and a Harry Secombe tribute to Peter Sellers.

Goon Show Compendium 5

12 Episodes:

The Nasty Affair at the Burami Oasis / Drums Along the Mersey / The Nadger Plague / The Spectre of Tintagel / The Sleeping Prince / The Great Bank Robbery / Personal Narrative / The Mystery of the Fake Neddie Seagoons / What's My Line? / The Telephone / The Flea / Operation Christmas Duff

Extras: A recorded rehersal and features including 'Curiouser and Curiouser'.

Goon Show Compendium 6

12 Episodes:

Emperor of the Universe / Wings Over Dagenham / The Rent Collectors / Shifting Sands / The Moon Show / The Mysterious Punch-up-the-Conker / Round the World in Eighty Days / The Africa Ship Canal / Ill Met by Goonlight / The Missing Boa Constrictor / The Histories of Pliny the Elder / The Reason Why

Extras: Two illustrated booklets to tell the story of the show's development with reference to original archive paperwork, plus the history of the recordings themselves.

Goon Show Compendium 7

14 Episodes:

Spon / The Junk Affair / The Burning Embassy / The Great Regents Park Swim / The Treasure in the Tower / The Space Age / The Missing Battleship / The Policy / King Solomon's Mines / The Stolen Postman / The Great British Revolution / The Plasticine Man / African Incident / The Thing on the Mountain

Extras: Two booklets with essays, details for each episode and original Radio Times listings.

Goon Show Compendium 8

11 Episodes:

The String Robberies / The Moriarty Murder Mystery / The Curse of Frankenstein / The White Neddie Trade / Ten Snowballs that Shook the World / The Man Who Never Was / World War One / The Spon Plague / Tiddleywinks / The Evils of Bushey Spon / The Great Statue Debate

Extras: A special recording of the tiddlywinks match in which the Goons took on Cambridge University. Two illustrated booklets, plus the history of the recordings themselves.

Goon Show Compendium 9

13 Episodes:

The Mummified Priest / The Greatest Mountain in the World / The Giant Bombardon / The Kippered Herring Gang / The Vanishing Room / The Ink Shortage / The Mustard and Cress Shortage / The Internal Mountain / The Silent Bugler / The Great Bank of England Robbery / The Dreaded Piano Clubber / The Siege of Fort Night / The Albert Memorial

Extras: Rare archive bonus items including extracts from cast rehearsals. Two illustrated booklets tell the story of the show's development with reference to original archive paperwork, plus the history of the recordings themselves.

Goon Show Compendium 10

12 Episodes:

The Sahara Desert Statue / I Was Monty's Treble / The £1,000,000 Penny / The Pam's Paper Insurance Policy / The Mountain Eaters / The Childe Harolde Rewarde / The Seagoon Memoirs / Queen Anne's Rain / The Battle of Spion Kop / Ned's Atomic Dustbin / Who Is Pink Oboe? / The Call of the West