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ITV would routinely screen a rival live transmission of worship after breakfast the sort of clash that now only occurs with talent shows and World Cup matches, followed by Sir Harry Secombe belting out hymns after tea on Highway.
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The man who lit the blue touchpaper was Jimmy Grafton, publican, scriptwriter and Secombe's manager.
The Goon Show must go on – 60 years since its first broadcast 2011
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The Goon Show 1951-1960 first exploded here, the plaque will declare on the exterior wall of the Strutton Arms then called Grafton's, listing also the names and caricatures of the humorists who made it go bang: Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine.
The Goon Show must go on – 60 years since its first broadcast 2011
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The Ivory Coast, who began as title favorites, take on Guinea in Secombe (ph).
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The Ivory Coast, who began as title favorites, take on Guinea in Secombe (ph).
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The other Goons were the outrageous Spike Milligan, the Welsh singer and actor Harry Secombe, and originally, the former intelligence officer and later parapsychologist Michael Bentine.
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
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The other Goons were the outrageous Spike Milligan, the Welsh singer and actor Harry Secombe, and originally, the former intelligence officer and later parapsychologist Michael Bentine.
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
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The other Goons were the outrageous Spike Milligan, the Welsh singer and actor Harry Secombe, and originally, the former intelligence officer and later parapsychologist Michael Bentine.
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
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Spike Milligan employed army slang in The Goons, making Harry Secombe giggle so much at phrases like "the pink oboe" that he could barely splutter out his lines.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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"It's one of those shows you can define different generations by, those of us who know Harry Secombe best as a Goon compared to those out there who've only ever been aware of him as Songs Of Praise presenter," she says.
WalesOnline - Home 2011
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