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'''''The End''''' ({{aka}} ''Confessions of a Secret Senna Pod Drinker'') is an episode from [[The Goon Show]]. It is the twenty-sixth show in the fifth series. The show was recorded at 9pm on Sunday {{date|20 March 1955}}. The recording took place at the [[KOKO (music venue)|Camden Theatre]], Camden Town, London.


The first British public broadcast was on the [[BBC Home Service|Home Service]] on Tuesday {{date|22 March 1955}} at 8.30pm. It reached a peak listenership of 3.4m. The show's first repeat was the following Friday at 12.25pm/12.30pm (depending on area), {{date|25 March 1955}}, on the Home Service. It was listened to by 2.3 million.


== Synopsis ==
[[File:Banana on whitebackground.jpg|thumb|right|A banana, with one in the chamber]]
Senor Gonzales Mess, string attaché to the South American consulate in [[Salisbury]], finds a loaded banana in a secret [[carboy]] of [[creosote]] consigned to the consul, Senor Scatheplunger. Inspector [[Neddie Seagoon]] is faced with the job of finding the consul's would-be assassin. What is an unopened box of [[The Goon Show#Lurgi|lurgi]] ridden Roumanian {{sic}} tennis balls doing in [[Major Bloodnok]]'s overcoat pocket and why is the mysterious Doctor Rheingold Fnutt furtively selling bagpipe mixture in Salisbury market?
==Music==
*The BBC Radio Orchestra was conducted by [[Wally Stott]]
*[[Max Geldray]] plays ''[[Happy Days and Lonely Nights]]'' {{small|([[Fred Fisher]])}}
*[[Ray Ellington|The Ray Ellington Quartet]] plays ''[[I Can't Tell a Waltz from a Tango]]'' {{small|([[Al Hoffman]] / [[Dick Manning]])}}
==Transcript==
*[[The End (Transcript)]]
==Technical==
Originally recorded on [[The Goon Show recording numbers#TLO|TLO 74489]] (15 ips ¼" tape recorded at [[Broadcasting House]]).
The original tape no longer exists, so the version of the show found on the [[The Goon Show Compendiums#Vol2|Compendium Vol 2]] collection was compiled from the [[Pick of the Goons|PotG 33]] master tape and the [[The Goon Show recording numbers#TGS|TGS]] 13 disc.<ref>{{Cite AV media notes |title=[[The Goon Show Compendiums#Vol2|The Goon Show Compendium Vol 2]] |first=Ted |last=Kendall | author-link=Ted Kendall |date=2009 |page=11|type=Booklet 2 |publisher=BBC Worldwide|ISBN=978-1-4056-8774-4}}</ref>
==References==
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Latest revision as of 15:30, 15 September 2024

"The End"
The Goon Show episode
Episode: no.Series: 5
Episode: 26
Written by
AnnouncerWallace Greenslade
Produced byPeter Eton
Music
Recording
Number
TLO 74489
First broadcast22 March 1955 (1955-03-22)
Running time30:45
Episode Order
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"The White Box of Great Bardfield"
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"The Man Who Won the War"
The Goon Show series 5
List of episodes

The End (a.k.a. Confessions of a Secret Senna Pod Drinker) is an episode from The Goon Show. It is the twenty-sixth show in the fifth series. The show was recorded at 9pm on Sunday 20 March 1955. The recording took place at the Camden Theatre, Camden Town, London.

The first British public broadcast was on the Home Service on Tuesday 22 March 1955 at 8.30pm. It reached a peak listenership of 3.4m. The show's first repeat was the following Friday at 12.25pm/12.30pm (depending on area), 25 March 1955, on the Home Service. It was listened to by 2.3 million.

Synopsis

A banana, with one in the chamber

Senor Gonzales Mess, string attaché to the South American consulate in Salisbury, finds a loaded banana in a secret carboy of creosote consigned to the consul, Senor Scatheplunger. Inspector Neddie Seagoon is faced with the job of finding the consul's would-be assassin. What is an unopened box of lurgi ridden Roumanian [sic] tennis balls doing in Major Bloodnok's overcoat pocket and why is the mysterious Doctor Rheingold Fnutt furtively selling bagpipe mixture in Salisbury market?

Music

Transcript

Technical

Originally recorded on TLO 74489 (15 ips ¼" tape recorded at Broadcasting House).

The original tape no longer exists, so the version of the show found on the Compendium Vol 2 collection was compiled from the PotG 33 master tape and the TGS 13 disc.[1]

References

  1. ^ Kendall, Ted (2009). The Goon Show Compendium Vol 2 (Booklet 2). BBC Worldwide. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-4056-8774-4.