This week we remove our legs from the vulgar gaze of public and refuse to have a haircut as we pay tribute to the quite wonderful Michael Bentine’s Potty Time!

First there was the Goon Show, then The Bumblies, then It’s A Square World and then, erm, Rentadick, but after that there was Michael Bentine’s Potty Time which enchanted children and adults alike in the 1970s with Potty adaptations of classic works of literature and famous events from history.

Guesting on the show this week are Andrew Trowbridge and Lisa Parker, hosts of the ever-popular retro television podcast Round The Archives, who joined Tyler (who’s actually seen episodes of The Gnomes of Dulwich on New Zealand TV don’t you know) with tales to tell of Potty Time and the semi-Peruvian polymath.

Please follow on the Twitters @goonshowpod – Lisa and Andrew can be found @lisacartman and @Roundthearchiv1

This week Tyler welcomes a senior scoundrel to the pod in the shape of Tilt Araiza, who popped along to talk about the Series 9 episode Queen Anne’s Rain and much more besides.

This episode includes: Tilt’s relationship with and occasional astonishment at the Goon Show, the rhythm of jokes and the art of building audiences up to a state of comic ecstasy, the wonderful Wal Greenslade and his unique contribution to the show, Ray Ellington doing Goon impressions on vinyl, BBC Christmas tapes, the Marx Brothers, Ken Dodd and even Sabrina!

Tilt is co-presenter of The Sitcom Club and Jaffa Cakes For Proust podcasts, details of which can be found on this episode!

This week Tyler chats to writer and comedy historian Mark Cousins about Peter Sellers and some of the lesser-known aspects of his career.

Mark has neared completion of a sizeable Sellers chronology which has been years in the writing and he has advised on and contributed to several radio and television documentaries on the life of the former Goon.

Sellers’ radio, television, film and stage work is all under discussion and during the course of the conversation such topics arise as Sellers on Sykes, the influence of Ted Ray, the Goons on vinyl, his friendship with Irene Handl, the ‘lost’ Peter Sellers shorts and, intriguingly, Dudley Moore as ‘The Ferret’!

This week Tyler chats with Richard Usher, actor, performer and voiceover artist, who as a member of the Fred Theatre Company has brought the magic of The Goon Show to new audiences, appearing as part of The Birmingham Comedy Festival. Richard has taken on the role of Peter Sellers in a number of sell-out live Goon Show performances in recent years (staging such shows as The Phantom Head Shaver of Brighton and The House of Teeth) as part of a highly-skilled troupe and he talks about the highlights and challenges involved in such an undertaking! How did he manage to master the likes of Bluebottle and Bloodnok?

He also explains how he came to discover the Goons in the eighties and there’s some marvellous tales of meeting the Goons in the flesh, including being invited to Spike’s house for a cup of tea and being a hedonistic teenager attending Harry Secombe concerts.

Richard also speaks warmly about Michael Bentine and how he had a real influence and impact on Richard’s life growing up.

It’s an all-too-short conversation with a fascinating man and Richard’s website can be found here: www.richardusher.co.uk 

Pull up a chair and cock an ear to the latest episode of Goon Pod! This week Tyler is joined by Paul Abbott of the Head Ballet and Big Beatles Sort Out podcasts to rhapsodise about one of the best-known and most fondly remembered Goon Shows of all time: The Whistling Spy Enigma from 1954.

We explore the show itself, the characters and gags and acknowledge how this show marked the beginning of a new chapter for the Goons. As Paul is a huge music enthusiast we naturally spend some time talking about Ray, Max and the orchestra and we even at one point stray dangerously close to a proper conversation about football! There’s also an intriguing insight into how American children reacted to hearing the Goon Show for the first time!

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Well, we know what it is, we know who done it but for heaven’s sake tell us where it is!

This episode of Goon Pod we’re joined by Scott from the Reel Britannia & Talking Pictures podcasts (among others) to cast an ear over the Series 9 episode ‘I Was Monty’s Treble’ which is a near as damn it faithful scene-by-scene tribute to the 1958 John Mills feature film I Was Monty’s Double (not really!)

Along the way we discover just what the Goons mean to Scott and how Adrian Juste changed his life!

What we cannot promise is an answer to the burning question of the moment: Who is Eccles? 

New episode - cunningly disguised as the 7:20 train to Bradford!

Joining me on the pod this week is motorsport commentator and presenter Jake Sanson who has a deep and enduring love for the Goons and his enthusiasm is really infectious. We had a great conversation about one of his favourite Goon Show episodes (and mine), “The Great Bank Robbery” from series 7. Along the way we touched on such topics as A Show Called Fred/Son of Fred, Sheila Van Damm, Victor Meldrew and even Superman III.

Attach the zeppelin hooks to the horsehair-stuffed podcast and haul away!

An episode of Goon Pod where we’re talking about puppets?

Can only be The Telegoons right?

WRONG!

There was a time when Hollywood A-listers would be queuing around the block for the opportunity to sing a duet with a bit of coloured felt with ping-pong ball eyes. The Muppet Show was one of the biggest TV successes of the 1970s and today we welcome guest Manning Krull to the pod where we will be talking about how a pair of Goons appeared with Kermit & Co: Peter Sellers in 1978 and Spike Milligan in 1979. It’s safe to say the two episodes could not be more different!

Also, as he’s from the other side of the pond and therefore a damn foreigner Manning had never experienced The Goon Show before and having now heard a handful he shares his thoughts – was he baffled or bewitched? Or bemused? Or something else beginning with B?

It's time to put on make up, it's time to dress up right, it's time to raise the curtain on the, erm, Goon Pod! Download and listen now! (Warning: contains references to cigareets)

Let the needle drop on the latest episode of Goon Pod as Tyler chats to writer and broadcaster Tim Worthington about Sellers’ and Loren’s 1960 collaboration on vinyl: “Peter & Sophia”.

We discuss Tim’s relationship with the record and Sellers’ LPs in general (step forward George Martin), with conversational forays taking in that mucky pup Serge Gainsbourg, The Last Goon Show Of All and a certain popular sketch show from the nineties.

We examine each track on the album and find time to address some obvious issues – if you have even a passing interest in comedy on record then this episode is a must listen!

Fill up your horses with three gallons of hay as we welcome guest John Dredge to the podcast!

We're talking about the classic Series 9 Goon Show episode The Call of the West but also find time to talk about The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town, The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins, dying in Coventry, laughs filched from I Love Lucy and even Tiswas!

We also address the burning question - who WAS that at the beginning of The Ying Tong Song?

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