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'''''The Treasure of Loch Lomond (aka The Treasure in the Lake)''''' is an episode from [[The Goon Show]]. It is the twenty-fourth show in the sixth series (149th episode overall). The show was recorded at 9.30pm on Sunday {{date|1956-02-26}} (TLO 98661). The recording took place at the [[KOKO (music venue)|Camden Theatre]], Camden Town, London.


The first British public broadcast was the following Tuesday on the [[BBC Home Service|Home Service]] on {{date|1956-02-28}} at 8.30pm. It reached a peak listenership of 3.0m.
The first repeats were...
*Sunday, {{date|1956-05-13}}, 3.30pm, 2.6 million, ([[BBC Light Programme|Light Programme]])
*Monday, {{date|1990-05-07}}, 12.30pm ([[BBC Radio 2|Radio 2]] as ''The Treasure of Loch Lomond'')


==BBC Audiobooks Synopsis:==
Six hundred years ago a Spanish galleon sank in a Scottish loch with treasure aboard - so much for the clumsy, heavily laboured plot! And so begin Neddie Seagoon's adventures north of the border when he claims his McHeritance. But that suave villain Grytpype-Thynne has other plans - involving Neddie, that raving idiot, drinking the loch and exposing the booty. Not so fast.
Neddie feels faint, Henry's sporran gets soggy and Bluebottle arrives via the bathroom tap.Thynne must be stopped but can Neddie return the water to the loch in time! By bucket!
Plus a special rendition by Adolphus Spriggs of I'm Walking Bockwards for Christmas.
==Music==
*The BBC Radio Orchestra was conducted by [[Wally Stott]]
*[[Max Geldray]] plays ''[[I'm Beginning to See the Light]]'' {{small|([[Don George]] / [[Johnny Hodges]] / [[Duke Ellington]] / [[Harry James]])}}
*[[Ray Ellington|The Ray Ellington Quartet]] plays ''I've Changed My Mind a Thousand Times'' {{small|([[Pat Ballard]])}} and [[Who's Sorry Now?]] {{small|([[Ted Snyder]] / [[Bert Kalmar]] (music) / [[Harry Ruby]] (lyrics)}}.
On the Transcription version…
*Max Geldray plays ''[[You're Driving Me Crazy]]'' {{small|([[Walter Donaldson]])}} from ''[[The Affair of the Lone Banana]]''.
*The Ray Ellington Quartet plays ''Hold Him Tight'' (Laudon) from [[Scradje]].
==Technical==
Originally recorded on [[The Goon Show recording numbers#TLO|TLO 98661]] (15 ips ¼" tape recorded at [[Broadcasting House]]).
This tape survived in [[BBC Transcription Services]], and was edited for the [[Pick of the Goons]] release; the music items were changed because the original recording suffered from intermittent wow - fortunately the originals were kept, although other cuts were not. The version released on The Goon Show Compendium Vol 4 was compiled from a combination of this particular tape, the TGS master tape and a domestic tape recording of the original transmission.<ref>{{Cite AV media notes |title=[[The Goon Show Compendiums#Vol4|The Goon Show Compendium Vol 4]] |first=Ted |last=Kendall | author-link=Ted Kendall |date=2009 |page=12|type=Booklet 2 |publisher=BBC Worldwide|ISBN=978-1408-41046-2}}</ref>
==References==
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Latest revision as of 21:26, 28 September 2024

"The Treasure of Loch Lomond"
The Goon Show episode
Episode: no.Series: 6
Episode: 24
Written bySpike Milligan
AnnouncerWallace Greenslade
Produced byPat Dixon
Music
Recording
Number		TLO 98661
First broadcast28 February 1956 (1956-02-28)
Running time30 mins 21 secs
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The Treasure of Loch Lomond (aka The Treasure in the Lake) is an episode from The Goon Show. It is the twenty-fourth show in the sixth series (149th episode overall). The show was recorded at 9.30pm on Sunday 26 February 1956 (TLO 98661). The recording took place at the Camden Theatre, Camden Town, London.

The first British public broadcast was the following Tuesday on the Home Service on 28 February 1956 at 8.30pm. It reached a peak listenership of 3.0m. The first repeats were...

  • Sunday, 13 May 1956, 3.30pm, 2.6 million, (Light Programme)
  • Monday, 7 May 1990, 12.30pm (Radio 2 as The Treasure of Loch Lomond)

BBC Audiobooks Synopsis:

Six hundred years ago a Spanish galleon sank in a Scottish loch with treasure aboard - so much for the clumsy, heavily laboured plot! And so begin Neddie Seagoon's adventures north of the border when he claims his McHeritance. But that suave villain Grytpype-Thynne has other plans - involving Neddie, that raving idiot, drinking the loch and exposing the booty. Not so fast.

Neddie feels faint, Henry's sporran gets soggy and Bluebottle arrives via the bathroom tap.Thynne must be stopped but can Neddie return the water to the loch in time! By bucket!

Plus a special rendition by Adolphus Spriggs of I'm Walking Bockwards for Christmas.

Music

On the Transcription version…

Technical

Originally recorded on TLO 98661 (15 ips ¼" tape recorded at Broadcasting House).

This tape survived in BBC Transcription Services, and was edited for the Pick of the Goons release; the music items were changed because the original recording suffered from intermittent wow - fortunately the originals were kept, although other cuts were not. The version released on The Goon Show Compendium Vol 4 was compiled from a combination of this particular tape, the TGS master tape and a domestic tape recording of the original transmission.[1]

References

  1. ^ Kendall, Ted (2009). The Goon Show Compendium Vol 4 (Booklet 2). BBC Worldwide. p. 12. ISBN 978-1408-41046-2.


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