Peter Sellers the voice of Alfonso Bedoya in "The Black Rose". He continued to work with Bentine, Milligan, and Secombe. On 3 February 1951, he made a trial tape entitled "The Goons", and sent it to the BBC producer Pat Dixon, who eventually accepted it. The first "Goon Show" was broadcast on 28 May 1951. Against their wishes, they appeared under the name "Crazy People". Sellers appeared in "The Goons" until the last programme of the ten-series run, broadcast on 28 January 1960. Sellers played four main characters—Major Bloodnok, Hercules Grytpype-Thynne, Bluebottle and Henry Crun—and seventeen minor ones. Starting with 370,000 listeners,
Major Bloodnok "56th Heavy Underwater Artillery" (the real 56th Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery was Milligan's regiment during WW2). "The Affair of the Lone Banana" sees Bloodnok as "Major Bloodnok, late of Zsa Zsa Gabor's Third Regular Husbands". In "The Mummified Priest", when Seagoon explains that he has come to Egypt to look for the tomb of a priest belonging to the third or fourth dynasties, Bloodnok replies, "Fourth Dynasties? My old regiment!" He has also claimed to have been in the "3rd Heavy Nudists" ("Oh, what a cap badge they had!"). It is possible that he was at one time a member