The Goon Show Classics: Have a Gorilla (Previously Volume 6) (BBC Radio Collection)

Be goon to yourself and buy this collection of the Goons' best work. All the best characters are here with the aid of the new steam-leather microphone. It's lights, camera, knees, teeth, corsets and action!
Features my favourite episode; Ill Met by Goonlight and one of the longest gags ever featured in a Goon Show episode that I know of. I first came across these brilliant pieces of work when I was a young bluebottle reading a fly paper. My dad had a load of the cassettes and I was an instant convert. Spread the Goon word and convert the masses!

And why is that gas stove wearing a hat?
It's going out!


Superlatives from Spon: The Best Goons Volume.   April 13, 2001
11 out of 11 found this review helpful

In short, this is unquestionably the best compilation of available Goons recordings available. "Rommel's Treasure" is the best Goons episode written. This is Milligan at his superlative best. As all Goons fans know, Grytpype and Moriarty are after treasure; in this case it is Jim Rommel's buried in a cunning manner. This episode never lets up for a moment, and the whole volume is worth purchasing just for the entrance of Bluebottle. "Ill met by Goonlight" features a coherent plot (by Goon standards) as Lieutenant Seagoon is despatched to Crete along with a few helpers to capture General Von Gutern, armed only with the latest weapon developed by Major Bloodnok (cue sound effects). Does he capture the naughty type German? Buy it to see! "Iwas Monty's Treble" gets off to a roaring start and even the insurance premium on Major Bloodnok's underwear may rise. This is worth listening to several times in a cowards air-raid shelter with your film reference guidebook.

The final episode is a non-Milligan creation but you won't notice. Join Neddie and his Rosewood hand operated piano as he writes his memoirs. Polish your nose with Ping and have a gorilla with me. "The Seagoon Memoirs" is beautifully crafted, creative writing. If this isn't the best Goons collection then my name's Henry Crun!