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    The Goons
    The Goon Show was a popular and influential British radio comedy programme, originally produced and broadcast by the BBC from 1951 to 1960 in the BBC Home Service. The first series, broadcast between May and September 1951, went out as Crazy People, with Radio's Own Crazy Gang: The Goons as its subtitle. Listeners in the United States were able to hear the show from as early as the mid-1950s when it was carried by NBC. The scripts mixed ludicrous plots with surreal humour, puns, catchphrases and an array of silly and bizarre sound effects. Some of the later episodes feature electronic effects devised by the fledgling BBC Radiophonic Workshop,BBC Radiophonic Workshop#Sound effects and music contributions many of which were reused by other shows for decades afterward. Many elements of the show satirised contemporary life in Britain, parod

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