# Round the Horne: List of programmes

Round the Horne is a BBC Radio comedy programme that was transmitted in four series of weekly episodes from 1965 until 1968. The show was created by Barry Took and Marty Feldman, who wrote the first three series. The fourth was written by Took, Johnnie Mortimer, Brian Cooke and Donald Webster. Round the Horne starred Kenneth Horne, with Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee. The following list shows the dates of first broadcasts and some of the principal items in each programme.

## List of programmes
### Series 1

Series 1: 1965 :
| 1 | 7 March | Including: The BBC's backroom boys: the programme planners Part one of The Clissold Saga |
| 2 | 14 March | Including: Isambard Kingdom Fortinbras, inventor of the doorknob More of the BBC backroom boys The Clissold Saga 2: The aviator |
| 3 | 21 March | Including: BBC sound effects department The Clissold Saga 3: A pantomime horse |
| 4 | 28 March | Including: Robert Capability Lackwind, inventor of toad in the hole BBC censorship department The Clissold Saga 4: Egyptology Rentachap: the first appearance of Julian and Sandy |
| 5 | 4 April | Including: Richard Serendipity Mountbasket, inventor of the Christmas Pudding BBC personnel department: Gruntfuttock applies for a BBC job The Clissold Saga 5: films Julian and Sandy running a gents' boutique in Chelsea |
| 6 | 11 April | Including: Tammany Wilkinshaft, inventor of the crumpet BBC complaints department Inspector Horne's casebook – The Tap-dancing Monk Kenneth Horne visits a new bona bistro |
| 7 | 18 April | Including: Nemesis Fothergill, Ornithologist BBC audience research department "Edwin Braden Is Missing": Horne investigates Julian and Sandy as scriptwriters |
| 8 | 25 April | Including: Edwin Chattleforth, inventor of forced meat BBC auditioners 'Who killed the Amazing Proudbasket? Private Fever – Noël Coward parody Bona Tours |
| 9 | 2 May | Including: Friar Wacker Biscuit, inventor of the hip bath The Spy Who Came in with a Cold: Kenneth Horne meets Chou en Ginsberg Bona Bouffant |
| 10 | 9 May | Including: Gruntfuttock, King of Peasmoldia Kenneth Horne, Master Spy: Famous People Are Turning Into Animals First appearance of Rambling Syd Rumpo |
| 11 | 16 May | Including: From Russia With Love and Kind Regards to Auntie Mabel Blithe Laughter Bona Homes, estate agents |
| 12 | 23 May | Including: Kenneth Horne, Master Spy: The Man with the Golden Thunderball Fabe Homes and Bona Gardens |
| 13 | 30 May | Including: Dictator ex-King Gruntfuttock Kenneth Horne, Master Spy: The Missing Eiffel Tower Lover, Come Back to Me, Romberg, Hammerstein Present Encounter Bona Pets |
| 14 | 6 June | Including: Dictator ex-King Gruntfuttock Special agent Kenneth Horne probes a pirate invasion of the BBC It's a Lovely Day Today Irving Berlin Studio Bona – Jules and Sand as photographers |
| 15 | 13 June | Including: Special agent Kenneth Horne investigating a Rocket Site in Haiti Bitter Laughter Nice Work If You Can Get It George and Ira Gershwin Bona Seats, ticket agency |
| 16 | 20 June | Including: Kenneth Horne, Special Agent: Traffic wardens in outer space Forbidden Encounter This Can't Be Love, Rodgers and Hart Bona Productions: melodramas with Julian and Sandy |

### Series 2

Series 2: 1966 :
| 1 | 13 March | Including: Kenneth Horne, Master Spy – Big Ben is Stolen The Seamus Android Show with Gladys Runt Bona Drag |
| 2 | 20 March | Including: Kenneth Horne, Master Spy – Big Ben is Still Missing Bona Books |
| 3 | 27 March | Including: Kenneth Horne, Master Spy – The Escaped War Criminal Bona Tattoos The Seamus Android Show with J. Peasmold Gruntfuttock, Zsa Zsa Poltergeist and Daryl F. Claphanger IV |
| 4 | 3 April | Including: Dobbiroids, The Magic Horse Rejuvenator Kenneth Horne, Master Spy – The World Cup Is Stolen Julian and Sandy in MI5 |
| 5 | 10 April | Including: Kenneth Horne, Master Spy – The Nuclear Banana Julian and Sandy as unarmed combat instructors |
| 6 | 17 April | Including: Kenneth Horne, Master Spy – The Joke Thief Julian and Sandy as MI5 dance instructors The Seamus Android Show with Barbara Cartload and Michael Baine |
| 7 | 24 April | Including: Dobbiroids Theatre of the Air presents a Special Edition of Round the Horne – Dr Mckinlays Scrapbook |
| 8 | 1 May | Including: Kenneth Horne Theatre of Suspense – The Giant Mouse The End of the Pier Show at Bogmouth-on-Sylt, auditions – The Amazing Gruntfuttock, Escapologist Extraordinaire Desmond Grapple, Panto Dame Dentures as The Great Omipaloni, Illusionist Rambling Syd Rumpo** Irish Bog Wanderers Song Sunny Molestrangler Vaf Julian and Sandy Telepathy Act |
| 9 | 8 May | Including: Kenneth Horne Theatre of Mystery and Imagination – The Curse of the Blackstumps The Balls Pond Road Festival of the Arts – J Peasmold Gruntfuttock Describes the Events Rambling Syd Rumpo: Fly Little Bird The Ballet Bona |
| 10 | 15 May | Including: Kenneth Horne Theatre of Suspense – The Portrait of Florian Thrust The Hasty Nose Bona Promotions |
| 11 | 22 May | Including: Kenneth Horne Theatre of Suspense – The Gaylords Bona Beat Songs Ltd |
| 12 | 29 May | Including: Kenneth Horne Theatre of Suspense – Dr Postern and Dr Fu Manchu-en-Ginsberg Bona Relations |
| 13 | 5 June | Including: Kenneth Horne Theatre of Suspense – Moby Duck Bona Performers |

### Series 3

Series 3: 1967 :
| 1 | 12 February | Including: Armpit Theatre – The Plastic Max Colour supplement – Seamus Android at Pinewood Julian and Sandy: no parts for us? |
| 2 | 19 February | Including: Armpit theatre – The Three Musketeers (I) Colour supplement – Swinging London with Brad Smallpiece Brief Ecstasy Bona Law |
| 3 | 26 February | Including: Armpit theatre – The Three Musketeers (II) In Which We Serve Bona Cruising |
| 4 | 5 March | Including: Armpit Theatre – Lipharvest of the River Seamus Android at London AirportThe Moon and Sixpence (reduced to fourpence for this week only) Bona Antiques |
| 5 | 12 March | Including: Armpit theatre – How The Bullet Proof Vest Was Won Bona Soulmates |
| 6 | 19 March | Including: Armpit Theatre – Trilby The Daily Polari |
| 7 | 26 March | Including: Armpit theatre – The Admirable Loombucket (I) Bona Caterers |
| 8 | 2 April | Including: Armpit Theatre – The Admirable Loombucket (II) Bona Nature clinic |
| 9 | 9 April | Including: A Special Tribute to J Peasmold Gruntfuttock Bona Press |
| 10 | 16 April | Including: Armpit Theatre – Gaslight Bona Prods |
| 11 | 23 April | Including: Armpit Theatre – The Phantom of Bogmouth Bona Tax Consultants |
| 12 | 30 April | Including: Armpit Theatre – A Man Is Two Foot Tall Bona Bijou Tourettes |
| 13 | 7 May | Including: Armpit Theatre – Young Horne with a Man Bona Séances |
| 14 | 14 May | Including: Armpit theatre – The Maltese Brass Monkey Bona Hunt |
| 15 | 21 May | Including: Armpit Theatre – The Big Top Bona Gourmet |
| 16 | 28 May | Including: Armpit Theatre – The Muffplaster Saga Bona Guided Tripettes |
| 17 | 4 June | Including: The Muffplaster Saga – The Boxer Bona Guest House |
| 18 | 11 June | Including: The Muffplaster Saga – The Bullfighter Bona TV |
| 19 | 18 June | Including: The Palone Ranger The BBC: J Peasmold Gruntfuttock the scriptwriter Charles and Fiona in the sound effects department Rambling Syd Rumpo, Green Grows My Bogling Fork Julian and Sandy: wardrobe department |
| 20 | 25 June | Including: The Head of the BBC Who Came In From The Cold Gruntfuttock goes bodybuilding The Body Bona |

### Series 4

Series 4: 1968 :
| 1 | 25 February | Including: Movie Go Wrong – Dr Doosweet BA The Lazy Bona Ranch |
| 2 | 3 March | Including: Movie Go Wrong – Thoroughly Modern Willy Bona Gurumat |
| 3 | 10 March | Including: Movie Go Wrong – Frankenstein's Monster Bona Indoor Ski School |
| 4 | 17 March | Including: Movie Go Wrong – The Knights Of Camelot Bona Rags |
| 5 | 24 March | Including: Movie Go Wrong – Relatively Grand Prix Bona Male Model Agency |
| 6 | 31 March | Including: Movie Go Wrong – Big Broads Don't Squeal Bona Gift Boutique |
| 7 | 7 April | Including: Movie Go Wrong – The Celluloid Jungle Bona Academy of Ballroom Dancing |
| 8 | 14 April | Including: Movie Go Wrong – Around The World in Ten Minutes Bona Songs |
| 9 | 21 April | Including: Movie Go Wrong – Journey to Uranus Bona Books |
| 10 | 28 April | Including: Movie Go Wrong – Apache Story Keep Britain Bona |
| 11 | 5 May | Including: Movie Go Wrong – Escape From Stalag Limpwrist Bona Abbey |
| 12 | 12 May | Including: Movie Go Wrong – I Showed Them In Fleet Street Bona Private Detective Agency |
| 13 | 19 May | Including: Movie Go Wrong – Continuum Medicum Romanum Bona Language School |
| 14 | 26 May | Including: Movie Go Wrong – Beau Julian and Sandy: Efficiency Experts |
| 15 | 2 June | Including: Movie Go Wrong – Bona Prince Charlie Bona Ads |
| 16 | 9 June | Including: Movie Go Wrong – He, Son of She Julian and Sandy: Julian's birthday |
    Source: BBC Radio 7.

### Christmas specials
#### Broadcast 25 December 1966

* What's on in Swinging London, with Peter Nodule
* Daphne Whitethigh's gossip column
* Horse of the Year Show
* Brad Smallpiece with current events
* The Colour Supplement – The Lively Arts
* Rambling Syd Rumpo: "The Clacton Bogle Picker's Lament"
* Christmas at the BBC, exchanging presents (Charles and Fiona, Julian and Sandy)
* The Fraser Hayes Four – It Happened In Sun Valley
* Armpit Theatre – The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(Kenneth Horne was unwell and did not take part in this programme.)

#### Broadcast 24 December 1967

* The Critics
* Events this Christmas
* Christmas Message
* Armpit Theatre – Cinderella
* Christmas Party – Daphne Whitethigh makes the punch – Madam Osiris predicts – Charles without Fiona
* Rambling Syd Rumpo: "Good King Boroslav"
* Julian and Sandy as cloakroom attendants and entertainers.