Peter Eton

He worked at the Variety Department of the BBC from 1951 onwards and oversaw a number of radio series, notably The Goon Show.

[4] Eton joined the BBC in 1941 in the London Transcription Service—a wartime propaganda unit within the BBC—as a producer.

[6] Hancock's biographer John Fisher suggests that Eton was the first person in British broadcasting to use the term "situation comedy", in a memo dated 31 March 1953, suggesting the format as the ideal vehicle for Hancock's comedic style.

He insisted that the Goons rehearsed properly and pushed for better facilities for the show;[8] Spike Milligan noted that "Peter Eton was the one guy that used to beat the shit out of the sound-effects boys to get the right atmosphere.

"[8] Towards the end of the sixth series of the Goons, Eton left the show to move to television production and his role was taken by Pat Dixon,[9] although he returned to produce the first two shows of Series 7 after friction between Dixon and Milligan.