The End

"The End"
The Goon Show episode
Episode: no.	Series: 5 Episode: 26
Written by	Spike Milligan Eric Sykes
Announcer	Wallace Greenslade
Produced by	Peter Eton
Music	Orchestra: Wally Stott Geldray: Happy Days and Lonely Nights Ellington: I Can't Tell a Waltz from a Tango
Recording Number	TLO 74489
First broadcast	22 March 1955 (1955-03-22)
Running time	30:45

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

• The BBC Radio Orchestra was conducted by Wally Stott
• Max Geldray plays Happy Days and Lonely Nights (Fred Fisher)
• The Ray Ellington Quartet plays I Can't Tell a Waltz from a Tango (Al Hoffman / Dick Manning)

Transcript

• The End (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.