The Canal - Revision history

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	\| music = *Orchestra: [[Wally Stott]]		\| music = *Orchestra: [[Wally Stott]]
	*Geldray: ''[[w:C Jam Blues\|C Jam Blues]]''		*Geldray: ''[[C Jam Blues\|C-Jam Blues]]''
	*Ellington: ''[[w:Sometimes I'm Happy (Sometimes I'm Blue)\|Sometimes I'm Happy]]''		*Ellington: ''[[Sometimes I'm Happy (Sometimes I'm Blue)\|Sometimes I'm Happy]]''
	\| production = [[The Goon Show recording numbers#TLO\|TLO]] 65467		\| production = [[The Goon Show recording numbers#TLO\|TLO]] 65467
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	'''''The Canal''''' is an episode from [[The Goon Show]]. It is the sixth show in series five. It was recorded on Sunday {{Date\|31 ~~October 1954~~}} at 9pm. It was recorded at [[~~w:The~~ Paris Theatre\|The Paris Cinema]], 12 Lower Regent Street in central London.		'''''The Canal''''' is an episode from [[The Goon Show]]. It is the sixth show in series five. It was recorded on Sunday {{Date\|1954-10-31}} at 9pm. It was recorded at [[Paris Theatre\|The Paris Cinema]], 12 Lower Regent Street in central London.

	The first [[BBC Home Service\|Home Service]] broadcast was on Tuesday {{Date\|~~2 November~~ 1954}} at 8.30pm. It attracted a peak listenership of 3.4m listeners.		The first [[BBC Home Service\|Home Service]] broadcast was on Tuesday {{Date\|1954-11-02}} at 8.30pm. It attracted a peak listenership of 3.4m listeners.

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	== Story ==		== Story ==
	After fourty-three years at school young [[Neddie Seagoon\|Ned Seagoon]] returns to Seagoon's Folly, the ancestral home, to find it empty save for a sinister [[w:orient\|oriental]] [[w:valet\|valet]], a refugee [[w:heroin\|heroin]] importer and Gravelly Headstone (played by [[Peter Sellers\|Sellers]]), the [[w:butler\|butler]].		After fourty-three years at school young [[Neddie Seagoon\|Ned Seagoon]] returns to Seagoon's Folly, the ancestral home, to find it empty save for a sinister [[orient\|oriental]] [[valet\|valet]], a refugee [[heroin\|heroin]] importer and Gravelly Headstone (played by [[Peter Sellers\|Sellers]]), the [[butler\|butler]].

	Where is Seagoon's father, his four mothers, the first cook, the [[w:Footman\|underfootman]] and the overfootman? All Ned's queries are met with silence. The, one night, three mysterious strangers are seen digging a grave nearly fifty-foot long in the rose garden. Hollow knockings and weird moans are heard in the [[w:Buttery (room)\|buttery]] and Strangler Aagonschmidt, a notorius [[~~w:schizophrenic\|~~schizophrenic]], is discovered in the act of setting fire to the library. Why is there a secret passage from the grave to Seagoon's bedroom? What is the secret of 'The Canal'?		Where is Seagoon's father, his four mothers, the first cook, the [[Footman\|underfootman]] and the overfootman? All Ned's queries are met with silence. The, one night, three mysterious strangers are seen digging a grave nearly fifty-foot long in the rose garden. Hollow knockings and weird moans are heard in the [[Buttery (room)\|buttery]] and Strangler Aagonschmidt, a notorius [[schizophrenic]], is discovered in the act of setting fire to the library. Why is there a secret passage from the grave to Seagoon's bedroom? What is the secret of 'The Canal'?

	==Music==		==Music==
	*The BBC Radio Orchestra was conducted by [[Wally Stott]]		*The BBC Radio Orchestra was conducted by [[Wally Stott]]
	*[[Max Geldray]] plays ''[[w:C Jam Blues\|C-Jam Blues]]'' {{small\|([[~~w:Duke Ellington\|~~Duke Ellington]])}}		*[[Max Geldray]] plays ''[[C Jam Blues\|C-Jam Blues]]'' {{small\|([[Duke Ellington]])}}
	*[[Ray Ellington\|The Ray Ellington Quartet]] plays ''[[w:Sometimes I'm Happy (Sometimes I'm Blue)\|Sometimes I'm Happy]]'' {{small\|([[~~w:Vincent Youmans\|~~Vincent Youmans]] / [[~~w:Irving Caesar\|~~Irving Caesar]])}}		*[[Ray Ellington\|The Ray Ellington Quartet]] plays ''[[Sometimes I'm Happy (Sometimes I'm Blue)\|Sometimes I'm Happy]]'' {{small\|([[Vincent Youmans]] / [[Irving Caesar]])}}

	==Technical==		==Technical==
	Originally recorded on [[The Goon Show recording numbers#TLO\|TLO]] 65467 (15 ips ¼" tape recorded at Broadcasting House). This tape no longer exists. The version included on [[The Goon Show Compendiums\|Compendium Vol 1]] was compiled from the [[The Goon Show recording numbers#POTG\|POTG]] 28 master tape and the [[The Goon Show recording numbers#TGS\|TGS]] 5 disc.<ref>{{Cite AV media notes \|title=[[The Goon Show Compendiums#Vol1\|The Goon Show Compendium Vol 1]] \|first=Ted \|last=Kendall \| author-link=Ted Kendall \|date=2007 \|page=15\|type=Booklet 2 \|publisher=BBC Worldwide\|ISBN=978-1-4056-7800-1}}</ref>		Originally recorded on [[The Goon Show recording numbers#TLO\|TLO]] 65467 (15 ips ¼" tape recorded at [[Broadcasting House]]). This tape no longer exists. The version included on [[The Goon Show Compendiums\|Compendium Vol 1]] was compiled from the [[The Goon Show recording numbers#POTG\|POTG]] 28 master tape and the [[The Goon Show recording numbers#TGS\|TGS]] 5 disc.<ref>{{Cite AV media notes \|title=[[The Goon Show Compendiums#Vol1\|The Goon Show Compendium Vol 1]] \|first=Ted \|last=Kendall \| author-link=Ted Kendall \|date=2007 \|page=15\|type=Booklet 2 \|publisher=BBC Worldwide\|ISBN=978-1-4056-7800-1}}</ref>

	==References==		==References==

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	'''''The Canal''''' is an episode from [[The Goon Show]]. It is the sixth show in series five. It was recorded on Sunday {{Date\|31 October 1954}} at 9pm. It was recorded at [[w:The Paris Theatre\|The Paris Cinema]], 12 Lower Regent Street in central London.		'''''The Canal''''' is an episode from [[The Goon Show]]. It is the sixth show in series five. It was recorded on Sunday {{Date\|31 October 1954}} at 9pm. It was recorded at [[w:The Paris Theatre\|The Paris Cinema]], 12 Lower Regent Street in central London.

	The first [[w:BBC Home Service\|Home Service]] broadcast was on Tuesday {{Date\|2 November 1954}} at 8.30pm. It attracted a peak listenership of 3.4m listeners.		The first [[BBC Home Service\|Home Service]] broadcast was on Tuesday {{Date\|2 November 1954}} at 8.30pm. It attracted a peak listenership of 3.4m listeners.

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Kurt at 00:06, 25 October 2022

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	*Geldray: ''[[C Jam Blues]]''		*Geldray: ''[[w:C Jam Blues\|C Jam Blues]]''
	*Ellington: ''[[Sometimes I'm Happy (Sometimes I'm Blue)\|Sometimes I'm Happy]]''		*Ellington: ''[[w:Sometimes I'm Happy (Sometimes I'm Blue)\|Sometimes I'm Happy]]''
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	''The Canal'' is an episode from [[The Goon Show]]. It is the sixth show in series 5. It was recorded on Sunday 31 October 1954 at 9pm. It was recorded at [[w:The Paris Theatre\|The Paris Cinema]], 12 Lower Regent Street in central London.		'''''The Canal''''' is an episode from [[The Goon Show]]. It is the sixth show in series five. It was recorded on Sunday {{Date\|31 October 1954}} at 9pm. It was recorded at [[w:The Paris Theatre\|The Paris Cinema]], 12 Lower Regent Street in central London.

	The first [[w:BBC Home Service\|Home Service]] broadcast was on Tuesday 2 November 1954 at 8.30pm. It attracted a peak listenership of 3.4m listeners.		The first [[w:BBC Home Service\|Home Service]] broadcast was on Tuesday {{Date\|2 November 1954}} at 8.30pm. It attracted a peak listenership of 3.4m listeners.

	==~~Technical~~==		{\| class="wikitable"
	~~Originally recorded on~~ [[~~The Goon Show recording numbers#TLO~~\|~~TLO~~]] ~~65467 (15 ips ¼" tape recorded at Broadcasting House)~~. ~~This tape no longer exists~~. ~~The version included on~~ [[~~The Goon Show Compendiums~~\|~~Compendium Vol 1~~]] ~~was compiled from the [[The Goon Show recording numbers#POTG~~\|~~POTG]] 28 master tape and the [[The Goon Show recording numbers#TGS~~\|~~TGS]] 5 disc.~~		\|+ Repeats
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	== Story ==		== Story ==
	After fourty-three years at school young [[Neddie Seagoon\|Ned Seagoon]] returns to Seagoon's Folly, the ancestral home, to find it empty save for a sinister [[w:orient\|oriental]] [[w:valet\|valet]], a refugee [[w:heroin\|heroin]] importer and Gravelly Headstone (played by [[Peter Sellers\|Sellers]]), the [[w:butler]].		After fourty-three years at school young [[Neddie Seagoon\|Ned Seagoon]] returns to Seagoon's Folly, the ancestral home, to find it empty save for a sinister [[w:orient\|oriental]] [[w:valet\|valet]], a refugee [[w:heroin\|heroin]] importer and Gravelly Headstone (played by [[Peter Sellers\|Sellers]]), the [[w:butler\|butler]].

	Where is Seagoon's father, his four mothers, the first cook, the [[w:Footman\|underfootman]] and the overfootman? All Ned's queries are met with silence. The, one night, three mysterious strangers are seen digging a grave nearly fifty-foot long in the rose garden. Hollow knockings and weird moans are heard in the [[w:Buttery (room)\|buttery]] and Strangler Aagonschmidt, a notorius [[w:schizophrenic\|schizophrenic]], is discovered in the act of setting fire to the library. Why is there a secret passage from the grave to Seagoon's bedroom? What is the secret of 'The Canal'?		Where is Seagoon's father, his four mothers, the first cook, the [[w:Footman\|underfootman]] and the overfootman? All Ned's queries are met with silence. The, one night, three mysterious strangers are seen digging a grave nearly fifty-foot long in the rose garden. Hollow knockings and weird moans are heard in the [[w:Buttery (room)\|buttery]] and Strangler Aagonschmidt, a notorius [[w:schizophrenic\|schizophrenic]], is discovered in the act of setting fire to the library. Why is there a secret passage from the grave to Seagoon's bedroom? What is the secret of 'The Canal'?

			==Music==
			*The BBC Radio Orchestra was conducted by [[Wally Stott]]
			*[[Max Geldray]] plays ''[[w:C Jam Blues\|C-Jam Blues]]'' {{small\|([[w:Duke Ellington\|Duke Ellington]])}}
			*[[Ray Ellington\|The Ray Ellington Quartet]] plays ''[[w:Sometimes I'm Happy (Sometimes I'm Blue)\|Sometimes I'm Happy]]'' {{small\|([[w:Vincent Youmans\|Vincent Youmans]] / [[w:Irving Caesar\|Irving Caesar]])}}

			==Technical==
			Originally recorded on [[The Goon Show recording numbers#TLO\|TLO]] 65467 (15 ips ¼" tape recorded at Broadcasting House). This tape no longer exists. The version included on [[The Goon Show Compendiums\|Compendium Vol 1]] was compiled from the [[The Goon Show recording numbers#POTG\|POTG]] 28 master tape and the [[The Goon Show recording numbers#TGS\|TGS]] 5 disc.<ref>{{Cite AV media notes \|title=[[The Goon Show Compendiums#Vol1\|The Goon Show Compendium Vol 1]] \|first=Ted \|last=Kendall \| author-link=Ted Kendall \|date=2007 \|page=15\|type=Booklet 2 \|publisher=BBC Worldwide\|ISBN=978-1-4056-7800-1}}</ref>

			==References==
			{{reflist}}


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			*Geldray: ''[[C Jam Blues]]''
	*Ellington: ''[[Sometimes I'm Happy (Sometimes I'm Blue)\|Sometimes I'm Happy]]''		*Ellington: ''[[Sometimes I'm Happy (Sometimes I'm Blue)\|Sometimes I'm Happy]]''
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	==Technical==		==Technical==
	Originally recorded on [[The Goon Show recording numbers#TLO\|TLO]] 65467 (15 ips ¼" tape recorded at Broadcasting House). This tape no longer exists. The version included on [[The Goon Show Compendiums\|Compendium Vol 1]] was compiled from the [[The Goon Show recording numbers#POTG\|POTG]] 28 master tape and the TGS 5 disc.		Originally recorded on [[The Goon Show recording numbers#TLO\|TLO]] 65467 (15 ips ¼" tape recorded at Broadcasting House). This tape no longer exists. The version included on [[The Goon Show Compendiums\|Compendium Vol 1]] was compiled from the [[The Goon Show recording numbers#POTG\|POTG]] 28 master tape and the [[The Goon Show recording numbers#TGS\|TGS]] 5 disc.

	== Story ==		== Story ==
			After fourty-three years at school young [[Neddie Seagoon\|Ned Seagoon]] returns to Seagoon's Folly, the ancestral home, to find it empty save for a sinister [[w:orient\|oriental]] [[w:valet\|valet]], a refugee [[w:heroin\|heroin]] importer and Gravelly Headstone (played by [[Peter Sellers\|Sellers]]), the [[w:butler]].

			Where is Seagoon's father, his four mothers, the first cook, the [[w:Footman\|underfootman]] and the overfootman? All Ned's queries are met with silence. The, one night, three mysterious strangers are seen digging a grave nearly fifty-foot long in the rose garden. Hollow knockings and weird moans are heard in the [[w:Buttery (room)\|buttery]] and Strangler Aagonschmidt, a notorius [[w:schizophrenic\|schizophrenic]], is discovered in the act of setting fire to the library. Why is there a secret passage from the grave to Seagoon's bedroom? What is the secret of 'The Canal'?

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	\| music = *[[C-Jam Blues]]		\| music = *Geldray: ''[[C Jam Blues]]''
	*[[Sometimes I'm Happy (Sometimes I'm Blue)\|Sometimes I'm Happy]]		*Ellington: ''[[Sometimes I'm Happy (Sometimes I'm Blue)\|Sometimes I'm Happy]]''
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			''The Canal'' is an episode from [[The Goon Show]]. It is the sixth show in series 5. It was recorded on Sunday 31 October 1954 at 9pm. It was recorded at [[w:The Paris Theatre\|The Paris Cinema]], 12 Lower Regent Street in central London.

			The first [[w:BBC Home Service\|Home Service]] broadcast was on Tuesday 2 November 1954 at 8.30pm. It attracted a peak listenership of 3.4m listeners.

			==Technical==
			Originally recorded on [[The Goon Show recording numbers#TLO\|TLO]] 65467 (15 ips ¼" tape recorded at Broadcasting House). This tape no longer exists. The version included on [[The Goon Show Compendiums\|Compendium Vol 1]] was compiled from the [[The Goon Show recording numbers#POTG\|POTG]] 28 master tape and the TGS 5 disc.

			== Story ==


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	*Ellington: ''[[w:Sometimes I'm Happy (Sometimes I'm Blue)\|Sometimes I'm Happy]]''		*Ellington: ''[[Sometimes I'm Happy (Sometimes I'm Blue)\|Sometimes I'm Happy]]''
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	'''''The Canal''''' is an episode from [[The Goon Show]]. It is the sixth show in series five. It was recorded on Sunday {{Date\|31 ~~October 1954~~}} at 9pm. It was recorded at [[~~w:The~~ Paris Theatre\|The Paris Cinema]], 12 Lower Regent Street in central London.		'''''The Canal''''' is an episode from [[The Goon Show]]. It is the sixth show in series five. It was recorded on Sunday {{Date\|1954-10-31}} at 9pm. It was recorded at [[Paris Theatre\|The Paris Cinema]], 12 Lower Regent Street in central London.

	The first [[BBC Home Service\|Home Service]] broadcast was on Tuesday {{Date\|~~2 November~~ 1954}} at 8.30pm. It attracted a peak listenership of 3.4m listeners.		The first [[BBC Home Service\|Home Service]] broadcast was on Tuesday {{Date\|1954-11-02}} at 8.30pm. It attracted a peak listenership of 3.4m listeners.

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	== Story ==		== Story ==
	After fourty-three years at school young [[Neddie Seagoon\|Ned Seagoon]] returns to Seagoon's Folly, the ancestral home, to find it empty save for a sinister [[w:orient\|oriental]] [[w:valet\|valet]], a refugee [[w:heroin\|heroin]] importer and Gravelly Headstone (played by [[Peter Sellers\|Sellers]]), the [[w:butler\|butler]].		After fourty-three years at school young [[Neddie Seagoon\|Ned Seagoon]] returns to Seagoon's Folly, the ancestral home, to find it empty save for a sinister [[orient\|oriental]] [[valet\|valet]], a refugee [[heroin\|heroin]] importer and Gravelly Headstone (played by [[Peter Sellers\|Sellers]]), the [[butler\|butler]].

	Where is Seagoon's father, his four mothers, the first cook, the [[w:Footman\|underfootman]] and the overfootman? All Ned's queries are met with silence. The, one night, three mysterious strangers are seen digging a grave nearly fifty-foot long in the rose garden. Hollow knockings and weird moans are heard in the [[w:Buttery (room)\|buttery]] and Strangler Aagonschmidt, a notorius [[~~w:schizophrenic\|~~schizophrenic]], is discovered in the act of setting fire to the library. Why is there a secret passage from the grave to Seagoon's bedroom? What is the secret of 'The Canal'?		Where is Seagoon's father, his four mothers, the first cook, the [[Footman\|underfootman]] and the overfootman? All Ned's queries are met with silence. The, one night, three mysterious strangers are seen digging a grave nearly fifty-foot long in the rose garden. Hollow knockings and weird moans are heard in the [[Buttery (room)\|buttery]] and Strangler Aagonschmidt, a notorius [[schizophrenic]], is discovered in the act of setting fire to the library. Why is there a secret passage from the grave to Seagoon's bedroom? What is the secret of 'The Canal'?

	==Music==		==Music==
	*The BBC Radio Orchestra was conducted by [[Wally Stott]]		*The BBC Radio Orchestra was conducted by [[Wally Stott]]
	*[[Max Geldray]] plays ''[[w:C Jam Blues\|C-Jam Blues]]'' {{small\|([[~~w:Duke Ellington\|~~Duke Ellington]])}}		*[[Max Geldray]] plays ''[[C Jam Blues\|C-Jam Blues]]'' {{small\|([[Duke Ellington]])}}
	*[[Ray Ellington\|The Ray Ellington Quartet]] plays ''[[w:Sometimes I'm Happy (Sometimes I'm Blue)\|Sometimes I'm Happy]]'' {{small\|([[~~w:Vincent Youmans\|~~Vincent Youmans]] / [[~~w:Irving Caesar\|~~Irving Caesar]])}}		*[[Ray Ellington\|The Ray Ellington Quartet]] plays ''[[Sometimes I'm Happy (Sometimes I'm Blue)\|Sometimes I'm Happy]]'' {{small\|([[Vincent Youmans]] / [[Irving Caesar]])}}

	==Technical==		==Technical==
	Originally recorded on [[The Goon Show recording numbers#TLO\|TLO]] 65467 (15 ips ¼" tape recorded at Broadcasting House). This tape no longer exists. The version included on [[The Goon Show Compendiums\|Compendium Vol 1]] was compiled from the [[The Goon Show recording numbers#POTG\|POTG]] 28 master tape and the [[The Goon Show recording numbers#TGS\|TGS]] 5 disc.<ref>{{Cite AV media notes \|title=[[The Goon Show Compendiums#Vol1\|The Goon Show Compendium Vol 1]] \|first=Ted \|last=Kendall \| author-link=Ted Kendall \|date=2007 \|page=15\|type=Booklet 2 \|publisher=BBC Worldwide\|ISBN=978-1-4056-7800-1}}</ref>		Originally recorded on [[The Goon Show recording numbers#TLO\|TLO]] 65467 (15 ips ¼" tape recorded at [[Broadcasting House]]). This tape no longer exists. The version included on [[The Goon Show Compendiums\|Compendium Vol 1]] was compiled from the [[The Goon Show recording numbers#POTG\|POTG]] 28 master tape and the [[The Goon Show recording numbers#TGS\|TGS]] 5 disc.<ref>{{Cite AV media notes \|title=[[The Goon Show Compendiums#Vol1\|The Goon Show Compendium Vol 1]] \|first=Ted \|last=Kendall \| author-link=Ted Kendall \|date=2007 \|page=15\|type=Booklet 2 \|publisher=BBC Worldwide\|ISBN=978-1-4056-7800-1}}</ref>

	==References==		==References==

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	'''''The Canal''''' is an episode from [[The Goon Show]]. It is the sixth show in series five. It was recorded on Sunday {{Date\|31 October 1954}} at 9pm. It was recorded at [[w:The Paris Theatre\|The Paris Cinema]], 12 Lower Regent Street in central London.		'''''The Canal''''' is an episode from [[The Goon Show]]. It is the sixth show in series five. It was recorded on Sunday {{Date\|31 October 1954}} at 9pm. It was recorded at [[w:The Paris Theatre\|The Paris Cinema]], 12 Lower Regent Street in central London.

	The first [[w:BBC Home Service\|Home Service]] broadcast was on Tuesday {{Date\|2 November 1954}} at 8.30pm. It attracted a peak listenership of 3.4m listeners.		The first [[BBC Home Service\|Home Service]] broadcast was on Tuesday {{Date\|2 November 1954}} at 8.30pm. It attracted a peak listenership of 3.4m listeners.

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