The Mystery of the Fake Neddie Seagoons

"The Mystery of the Fake Neddie Seagoons"
The Goon Show episode
Episode: no.	Series: 7 Episode: 9
Written by	Spike Milligan Larry Stephens
Announcer	Wallace Greenslade
Produced by	Pat Dixon
Music	Orchestra: Wally Stott Geldray: Boo-Dah Ellington: It's All Right with Me
Recording Number	TLO 16986
First broadcast	29 November 1956 (1956-11-29)
Running time	31:54

SHOW 161 (7/9): The Mystery of the Fake Neddie Seagoons (aka The Case of the Fake Neddie SeagoonsJ (CD4,Track 11)

Pre-recording: Sunday 25 November 1956, 5pm, The Camden Theatre. DLO I 6989.

Recording: Sunday 25 November 1956, 9pm, The Camden Theatre.TLC 16989.

First Home Service Broadcast: Thursday 29 November 1956, 8.30pm. Ratings: 2.3 million. RI: 66.

Repeat Monday 3 December 1956, 8pm, 3.6 million [Light Programme]; Sunday 25 July 1982, 12 noon [Radio 4 in Smash of the Doy].

The Mystery of the Fake Neddie Seagoons is an episode from The Goon Show. It is the ninth show in the seventh series. Wallace Greenslade announces the show as "The Great Art Mystery or The Case of the Fake Neddie Seagoon".

Two pre-recording sessions took place:

• Wednesday 28 January 1959, 4.15pm/5.15pm. Aeolian Hall Studio 2 (TLO & C/DLO 76382, TLO 77924)
• Saturday 1 February 1959, 5.45pm, The Paris Cinema (DLO 76513/A)

The recording for transmission was created at 8pm on Sunday 14 December 1958, at The Camden Theatre, Camden Town, London (TLO 72138).

The first Home Service broadcast was the next day at 8.30pm on Monday 15 December 1958, its ratings were 1.1 million.

The show was repeated:

• Wednesday 9.31pm, 17 December 1958, on the Light Programme to 2.3 million listeners.
• Friday 9.30pm, 6 March 1964 on the Home Service in Vintage Goons, to 0.5 million listeners.
• Friday 9.30pm, 20 August 1965 on the Home Service in Let's Laugh Again, to 0.2 million listeners (the broadcast was affected by a fault on the reproduction equipment).

Transcription Service Synopsis

As everyone knows, there is only one genuine signed original Neddie Seagoon. In their search for the genuine article, Grytpype-Thynne, Moriarty and Neddie Seagoon are concerned with an adventure in a dustbin, a noisy episode with sixty-eight pianos and a visit to a picture restorer's workshop. Finally Eccles is thrown into a bath of turpentine and is washed away, revealing the original Neddie Seagoon by Elder the Breugel. Unfortunately a second seemingly genuine Seagoon is discovered and the problem is, which is the fake?

Music

• The BBC Radio Orchestra was conducted by Wally Stott
• Max Geldray plays Boo-Dah (Billy Strayhorn)
• The Ray Ellington Quartet plays It's All Right with Me Cole Porter)

Technical

Originally recorded on TLO 72138 (15 ips ¼" tape recorded at Broadcasting House).

The TLO 72138 master tape no longer exists, and the version of the show included on The Goon Show Compendium Vol 10 was compiled from the TGS disc, the POTG master tape and domestic recordings of both the original transmission and the 1964 repeat.

7/9 - The Mystery of the Fake Neddie Seagoons Originally recorded on TLO 16989.This no longer exists, and this issue was compiled from a DAT copy of the Sound Archives shelf tape made in 1990 and a domestic tape recording of the original transmission.