Show 7

"Show 7"
The Goon Show episode
Episode: no.	Series: 1 Episode: 7
Written by	Spike Milligan Larry Stephens Jimmy Grafton
Announcer	Andrew Timothy
Produced by	Dennis Main Wilson
Music	Stanley Black and the Dance Orchestra The Stargazers: Jezebel Ellington: Black Eyes Geldray: Sabre Dance Ellington Quartet and the Stargazers: Life is So Peculiar
Recording Number	SOX 59949
First broadcast	24 June 1951 (1951-06-24)

The first series shows didn't have episode names per se, but for ease of reference using the show number is to differentiate them.

At this point in time the show was called Crazy People.

Show 7 is an episode from The Goon Show (Crazy People). It is the seventh show in the first series.

The show had a pre-recording session at 7.30pm on Sunday 1 July 1951 (SOX 59639) at Aeolian I, 135–137 New Bond Street, London. The session was primarily to record the Ellington Quartet's numbers.

The main show was recorded at 9.30pm on Sunday 8 July 1951 at Aolian I (SLO 91565).

The first British public broadcast was on the Home Service on Monday 9 July 1951 at 7.45pm (in London, Northern and Northern Ireland only). It reached a peak listenership of 0.7m. The show didn't have a repeat schedule yet.

The show starred Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers, Michael Bentine, Spike Milligan, the Stargazers, Max Geldray, the Ray Ellington Quartet with Stanley Black and the Dance Orchestra. The show was produced by Dennis Main Wilson and was announced by an uncredited Andrew Timothy.

Sketches

• Herschel & Jones: Sees Jones recalling how his yacht was hit by a storm.
• The Story of Civilization
• The History of Communications
• Adventures of Philip String: Sees Philip String ensnared in a bank robbery in The Sun Never Sets;
• Sea Stories: With Captain Ernie Splutmuscle;
• The Building of the Merseygoon Tunnel: With Captain Osric Pureheart.

Music

• The Stargazers sang Jezebel (Wayne Shanklin)
• The Ray Ellington Quartet played Black Eyes (traditional)
• Max Geldray played Sabre Dance (Aram Khachaturian)
• The Ray Ellington Quartet and the Stargazers performed Life is So Peculiar (Jimmy Van Heusen/Johnny Burke)

Technical

The pre-recording session was originally recorded on SOX 59639 (33⅓ rpm, coarse-groove 16" disk recorded at 200 Oxford St. London) and the main show was recorded on SLO 91565 (33⅓ rpm, coarse-groove 16" disk recorded at Broadcasting House).