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
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:
More of the BBC backroom boys
The Clissold Saga: The aviator
3 21 March Including:
BBC sound effects department
The Clissold Saga: A pantomime horse
4 28 March Including:
Capability Lackwind, inventor of toad in the hole
BBC censorship department
The Clissold Saga: Egyptology
Rentachap: the first appearance of Julian and Sandy
5 4 April Including:
BBC personnel department: Gruntfuttock applies for a BBC job
The Clissold Saga: films
Julian and Sandy running a gents' boutique in Chelsea
6 11 April Including:
BBC complaints department
Inspector Horne's casebook – The Tap-dancing Monk
Kenneth Horne visits a new bona bistro
7 18 April Including:
"Edwin Braden Is Missing": Horne investigates
Julian and Sandy as scriptwriters
8 25 April Including:
'Who killed the Amazing Proudbasket?
'Private Fever – Noël Coward parody
Bona Tours
9 2 May Including:
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 meets Lotus Blossom
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:
Special agent Kenneth Horne probes a pirate invasion of the BBC
Dictator ex-King Gruntfuttock
It's a Lovely Day Today Irving Berlin
Studio Bona – Jules and Sand as photographers
15 13 June Including:
Special agent Kenneth Horne investigating sinister giant milk bottles
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, Rogers and Hart
Bona Productions: melodramas with Julian and Sandy