The Mystery of the Marie Celeste (solved)

"The Mystery of the Marie Celeste (solved)"
The Goon Show episode
Episode: no.	Series: 5 Episode: 8
Written by	Spike Milligan Eric Sykes
Based on	Mary Celeste
Announcer	Wallace Greenslade
Produced by	Peter Eton
Music	Orchestra: Wally Stott Geldray: St Louis Blues Ellington: ABC Boogie
Recording Number	TLO 67106
First broadcast	16 November 1954 (1954-11-16)
Running time	29:59

The Mystery of the Marie Celeste (solved) is an episode from The Goon Show. It is the eighth show in series five. It was recorded on Sunday 14 November 1954 at 9.15pm. It was recorded at The Paris Cinema, 12 Lower Regent Street in central London.

The first Home Service broadcast was on Tuesday 16 November 1954 at 8.30pm. It attracted a peak listenership of 1.1m listeners.

Repeats

Day	Date	Time	Ratings	Station	Show
Friday	19 November 1954	12.25pm / 12.30pm	1.9m	Home Service
Saturday	8 August 1970	8.00pm	1.2m	Radio 4

Story

What do Crun, Bannister, and Co., the Deptford Shipwrights, know of the mystery of the Marie Celeste? And why is Admiral Bloodnok so anxious to withhold Admiralty charts from Neddie Seagoon? And who is the mysterious philanthropist offering £5,000 for information about the Marie Celeste? And did Crun, Bannister and Co. really build the missing ship? And who were the original members of the crew masquerading under the pseudonyms of Bluebottle, Throat, Bogg, Eccles, Yakamoto, Eidelburger, Headstone and Grytpype-Thynne? We shall see!

Music

• The BBC Radio Orchestra was conducted by Wally Stott
• Max Geldray plays St Louis Blues (WC Handy)
• The Ray Ellington Quartet plays ABC Boogie (Max Spickol / Al Russell)

Technical

Originally recorded on TLO 67106 (15 ips ¼" tape recorded at Broadcasting House).

Ted Kendall's Restoration

This tape survived in TS until 1970, when it was destroyed. The version included on Compendium Vol 1 was sourced from the Sound Archive shelf copy (T28578) (a 15 ips ¼" tape) and was dubbed to DAT in 1990.