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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 886, 27 July 1956, Page 5

Sir,-+May I be permitted to enter a heartfelt plea for the rapid, return of the highly esteemed Goon Show, the funniest programme to hit this country since the days of Much Binding in the Marsh; which is now, alas, only heard through ‘streams of «static and_startling noises from Nelson. We are ‘told.iny The Listener’ for March 9 that the Goons started in 1951. Even allowing for the three-year rule enforced by the BBC, there are still three years of Goonery forthcoming before they become A Show Called Fred for commercial television. Is the NZBS going to reinstate the Goons or are all true living (and dead) ‘Goons going to be forced to buy wireless sets powerful enough to pick the Goons up from Australia, whence they are broadcast every Sunday? The day of Take It From Here is done-it should be buried mercifully in the Sunday afternoon programmes, to make way for the New Deal in radio-the Goons, Let, then, every true Goon-lover arise to the cry-Liberty, Equality, Goonery-rally round the polka-dotted flag of sky-blue pink and pig-sty purple (the Multicolore) and advance and storm the Bastille of The Listener office in their latest triumph for world Goonunism.

LONG GOON SILVER

(Auckland).

(A new series of The Goon Show will be gin on December 1 from all YA stations, 1YZ, and 4YZ. Station 2YZ begins the on November 30. Meanwhile, the old series can be heard from 1ZB, 2ZB, 3ZB and 4ZB, beginning on August 26,-at 7.0 p.m. It will begin at 1XH and 2ZA on September 9.-Ed.)