The Canal: Difference between revisions

From The Goon Show Depository

No edit summary
No edit summary
 
(6 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
{{Infobox radio episode
{{italictitle}}
| series        = [[The Goon Show]]<!-- without italics or formatting. -->
{{Infobox Goon Show episode
| image          = <!-- bare filename only. Wikilinking, "File:", and pixel size not required. -->
| series        = [[The Goon Show]]
| image_size    = <!-- raw number. "px" not required. -->
| image          =  
| image_alt      =  
| image_alt      =  
| caption        =  
| caption        =  
| series_no      = 05
| series_no      = 5
| episode        = 06
| episode        = 6
| director      =
| writer        = [[Spike Milligan]]
| writer        = *[[Spike Milligan]]
| story          =
| script        =
| based_on      =  
| based_on      =  
| narrator      =
| presenter      = [[Wallace Greenslade]]
| presenter      = [[Wallace Greenslade]]
| producer      = [[Peter Eton]]
| producer      = [[Peter Eton]]
| music          = *Geldray: ''[[C Jam Blues]]''
| music          = *Orchestra: [[Wally Stott]]
*Geldray: ''[[C Jam Blues|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]]''
| production    = [[The Goon Show recording numbers#TLO|TLO]] 65467
| production    = [[The Goon Show recording numbers#TLO|TLO]] 65467
| recording_date = {{Start date|1954|10|31|df=y}}
| recording_date = {{Start date|1954|10|31|df=y}}
| airdate        = {{Start date|1954|11|02|df=y}}
| airdate        = {{Start date|1954|11|02|df=y}}
| length        = 30 mins 56 secs
| length        = {{duration|m=30|s=56}}
| guests        = [[Valentine Dyall]]
| guests        = [[Valentine Dyall]]
| prev          = [[The Affair of the Lone Banana]]
| prev          = [[The Affair of the Lone Banana]]
| next          = [[Lurgi Strikes Britain]]
| next          = [[Lurgi Strikes Britain]]
| CD_volume      = 23
| season_article = [[The Goon Show series 5]]
| Compendium    = 01
| CD_volume      = [[The Goon Show CDs#Vol23|23]]
| Compendium    = [[The Goon Show Compendiums#Vol1|1]]
}}
}}
''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|1954-10-31}} at 9pm. It was recorded at [[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 [[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.
 
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Repeats
|-
! Day !! Date !! Time !! Ratings !! Station
|-
| Friday
|style=text-align:center;| {{date|1954-11-05}}
|style=text-align:center;| 12.25pm / 12.30pm
|style=text-align:center;| 1.1m
|| [[BBC Home Service|Home Service]]
|-
| Friday
|style=text-align:center;| {{Date|1955-05-27}}
|style=text-align:center;| 7.30pm
|style=text-align:center;| 3.8m
|| [[BBC Light Programme|Light Programme]]
|-
|}
 
== 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 [[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 [[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==
*The BBC Radio Orchestra was conducted by [[Wally Stott]]
*[[Max Geldray]] plays ''[[C Jam Blues|C-Jam Blues]]'' {{small|([[Duke Ellington]])}}
*[[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 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.<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>


== Story ==
==References==
{{reflist}}




Latest revision as of 14:28, 27 February 2023

"The Canal"
The Goon Show episode
Episode: no.Series: 5
Episode: 6
Written bySpike Milligan
AnnouncerWallace Greenslade
Produced byPeter Eton
Music
Recording
Number		TLO 65467
First broadcast2 November 1954 (1954-11-02)
Running time30:56
Guest appearance
Valentine Dyall
Episode Order
← Previous
"The Affair of the Lone Banana" 		Next →
"Lurgi Strikes Britain"
The Goon Show series 5
List of episodes

The Canal is an episode from The Goon Show. It is the sixth show in series five. It was recorded on Sunday 31 October 1954 at 9pm. It was recorded at The Paris Cinema, 12 Lower Regent Street in central London.

The first Home Service broadcast was on Tuesday 2 November 1954 at 8.30pm. It attracted a peak listenership of 3.4m listeners.

Repeats
Day Date Time Ratings Station
Friday 5 November 1954 12.25pm / 12.30pm 1.1m Home Service
Friday 27 May 1955 7.30pm 3.8m Light Programme

Story

After fourty-three years at school young Ned Seagoon returns to Seagoon's Folly, the ancestral home, to find it empty save for a sinister oriental valet, a refugee heroin importer and Gravelly Headstone (played by Sellers), the butler.

Where is Seagoon's father, his four mothers, the first cook, the 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 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

Technical

Originally recorded on TLO 65467 (15 ips ¼" tape recorded at Broadcasting House). This tape no longer exists. The version included on Compendium Vol 1 was compiled from the POTG 28 master tape and the TGS 5 disc.[1]

References

  1. ^ Kendall, Ted (2007). The Goon Show Compendium Vol 1 (Booklet 2). BBC Worldwide. p. 15. ISBN 978-1-4056-7800-1.


Retrieved from "https://www.thegoonshow.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=The_Canal&oldid=42723"