Pat Dixon

[1] Dixon worked for a time as a journalist with the Glasgow Herald,[3] and then in the publicity section of Gaumont British before moving to the advertising agency Mather & Crowther.

[5][6] At the end of 1948 he produced the radio series Third Division, which was broadcast in early 1949; the shows were written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden and the cast included Secombe, Michael Bentine and Peter Sellers.

[7] Bentine noted that Dixon was "scholarly and intelligently humorous ... and as radical in his approach to comedy as we were",[8] while Muir considered him "a terrific chap, and a rebel ... he started all sorts of ideas and shows.

[14] During his tenure as Goon Show producer, Dixon came under pressure from the BBC to ensure no overtly political preferences or jokes were in the script; he resented such coercion, and wrote to the Assistant Head of Variety, "I think it is very dangerous to have these subtle encroachments on free speech".

[1] Dixon also worked again with Michael Bentine on the first series of Round the Bend in Thirty Minutes.