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More About This Title The Goon Show Compendium Volume Three: Series 6, Part 1
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Immensely popular and hugely influential, the groundbreaking series The Goon Show changed the face of British comedy. Now, for the first time, this box set collection presents the episodes in chronological order as they were scheduled to be broadcast. This third volume includes: 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, and The Greenslade Story. Also featured are some rare archive bonus items, including Peter Sellers in The Listening Room playing Spike Milligan’s classic nonsense song 'I’m Walking Backwards for Christmas'. Two illustrated booklets tell the story of the show’s development with reference to original archive paperwork, plus the history of the recordings themselves. In addition, this box set contains four limited edition postcards featuring characters from The Goon Show as Spike Milligan imagined them. Remastered using new material and the latest technology to give the best possible sound quality, these recordings are sure to appeal to all collectors of The Goon Show.
7 CDs. 6 hrs 45 mins.
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Spike Milligan was perhaps best known as one of the Goons. He went on to become one of Britain's foremost comic writers and performers. His bestselling titles include Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall, Puckoon, and Where have all the Bullets Gone? He died in 2002. Eric Sykes was first introduced to showbusiness whilst in the RAF and went on to write for hit BBC radio shows and appear in TV variety shows whilst writing for comedy greats such as Peter Sellers and Frankie Howerd. Although he is over 80, Sykes continues to work, having starred in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
