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SHOW 13
Recording: Sunday 19 August 1951, 8.15pm, Aeolian I. SOX 61088 [same as Show 11].
First Home Service Broadcast: Thursday 23 August 1951, 8pm [London and Midlands only]. Ratings: 0.7 million. AI: 53.
Repeats: Saturday 25 August 1951, 9.30am, 0.4 million [Home Service]; Tuesday 28 August 1951, 7.30pm, 5.8 million. AI: 54 [Light Programme].


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

Revision as of 12:45, 7 July 2024


"Show 13"
The Goon Show episode
Episode: no.Series: 1
Episode: 13
Written by
AnnouncerAndrew Timothy
Produced byLeslie Bridgmont
Music
Recording
Number
SOX 61088
First broadcast16 August 1951 (1951-08-16)
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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 12 is an episode from The Goon Show (Crazy People). It is the twelfth show in the first series.

The show was recorded at 8.15pm on Sunday 19 August 1951 (on the same tape as Show 11, SOX 61088) The recording took place at Aeolian I, 135–137 New Bond Street, London.

The first British public broadcast was on the Home Service on Thursday 23 August 1951 at 8pm (in London and Midlands only). It reached a peak listenership of 0.7m. The show then had its repeat on the Home Service at 9.30am on Saturday morning 18 August 1951 which achieved a peak listenership of 0.4m and then again on Tuesday 28 August 1951 at 7.30pm, playing to an audience of 5.8 million on the Light Programme.

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 Leslie Bridgmont (due to Dennis Main Wilson being on leave) and was announced by an uncredited Andrew Timothy.

Sketches

  • Jones explains how he is a Harley Street brain specialist;
  • A Survey of Britain: Looked at The Housing Problem;
  • Roger Fudgeknuckle and Jack Islott report from the holiday resort of Clushboot-on-Sea;
  • The Story of Colonel Slocombe!: Finds the Colonel and his cavalry terrorised by the tribes at Skunk Hollow.

Music

Technical

Originally recorded on SOX 61088 (33⅓ rpm, coarse-groove 16" disk recorded at 200 Oxford St., London).[1]

References

  1. ^ Kendall, Ted (2017). The Goon Show Compendium Vol 13 (Booklet 2). BBC Worldwide. p. 27. ISBN 9781785298776.