In 1987, when BBC producer Richard Edis selected "The International Christmas Pudding" for a Radio 2 repeat,[1] he discovered the edited Transcription Services copy was too short for the intended slot.
He consulted sound engineer and researcher Ted Kendall, who'd been working on rebuilding the BBC's Goons archive and had found a tape of the original transmission version of the episode in a collection made by dubbing mixer Peter Copeland.
In 2015 three of the EMI-licensed episodes were included without the cuts, in their original chronological order, on The Goon Show Compendium Volume 11, indicating that the rights had by then reverted to the BBC.
The network took the series off the air in January 2004, but following listener response to the cancellation, broadcasts of the show resumed in the Friday time slot in June.
[11] Terry Gilliam of the Goon-influenced Monty Python comedy troupe recalled first hearing it broadcast on FM radio in New York City in the 1960s.
One-off special shows Cast: Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe, Spike Milligan, Michael Bentine, The Ray Ellington Quartet, The Stargazers, Max Geldray and the BBC Dance Orchestra, conducted by Stanley Black.
Cast: Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe, Spike Milligan, Michael Bentine, The Ray Ellington Quartet, Max Geldray and the BBC Dance Orchestra, conducted by Stanley Black.
Cast: Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe, Spike Milligan, with Max Geldray and The Ray Ellington Quartet, orchestra conducted by Wally Stott.
Cast: Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe, Spike Milligan, with Max Geldray and The Ray Ellington Quartet, orchestra conducted by Wally Stott.
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Cast: Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe, Spike Milligan, with Max Geldray and The Ray Ellington Quartet, orchestra conducted by Wally Stott.
[20] Cast: Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe, Spike Milligan, with Max Geldray and The Ray Ellington Quartet, orchestra conducted by Wally Stott.
[30] Cast: Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe, Spike Milligan, with Max Geldray and The Ray Ellington Quartet, orchestra conducted by Wally Stott.
[22] Cast: Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe, Spike Milligan, with Max Geldray and The Ray Ellington Quartet, orchestra conducted by Wally Stott.
[23][35] Cast: Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe, Spike Milligan, with Max Geldray and The Ray Ellington Quartet, orchestra conducted by Wally Stott.
[24] Cast: Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe, Spike Milligan, with Max Geldray and The Ray Ellington Quartet, orchestra conducted by Wally Stott.