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The Missing Battleship
Episode 8 of 26
When HMS Boxer is stolen, you just know someone's going to fall in the water. Stars Peter Sellers. From November 1957.
When HMS Boxer is stolen, you just know that someone's going to fall in the water.
Groundbreaking, surreal Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ radio comedy written by Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens.
With:
Peter Sellers
Spike Milligan
Harry Secombe
First billed as Crazy People, ten series of The Goon Show were recorded between 1951 and 1960, but sadly many of the earliest shows weren’t kept in the archive.
With the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray.
Orchestra conducted by Wally Stott.
Announcer: Wallace Greenslade
Producer: Roy Speer
First broadcast on the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Light Programme in November 1957.
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