The Mystery of the Fake Neddie Seagoons
| "The Mystery of the Fake Neddie Seagoons" | |
|---|---|
| The Goon Show episode | |
| Episode: no. | Series: 7 Episode: 9 |
| Written by | |
| Announcer | Wallace Greenslade |
| Produced by | Pat Dixon |
| Music |
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| Recording Number | TLO 16986 |
| First broadcast | 29 November 1956 |
| Running time | 31:54 |
SHOW 161 (7/9): The Mystery of the Fake Neddie Seagoons (aka The Case of the Fake Neddie SeagoonsJ (CD4,Track 11) Pre-recording: Sunday 25 November 1956, 5pm, The Camden Theatre. DLO I 6989. Recording: Sunday 25 November 1956, 9pm, The Camden Theatre.TLC 16989. First Home Service Broadcast: Thursday 29 November 1956, 8.30pm. Ratings: 2.3 million. RI: 66. Repeat Monday 3 December 1956, 8pm, 3.6 million [Light Programme]; Sunday 25 July 1982, 12 noon [Radio 4 in Smash of the Doy]. Transcription Service Synopsis: As everyone knows, there is only one genuine signed original Neddie Seagoon. In their search for the genuine article, Grytpype-Thynne, Moriarty and Neddie Seagoon are concerned with an adventure in a dustbin, a noisy episode with sixty-eight pianos and a visit to a picture restorer's workshop. Finally Eccles is thrown into a bath of turpentine and is washed away, revealing the original Neddie Seagoon by Elder the Breugel. Unfortunately a second seemingly genuine Seagoon is discovered and the problem is, which is the fake? Music Max Geld ray plays Boo-Dah (Billy Strayhorn); The Ray Ellington Quartet plays It's All Right with Me (Cole Porter).
The Seagoon Memoirs is an episode from The Goon Show. It is the seventh show in the ninth series.
Two pre-recording sessions took place:
- Wednesday 28 January 1959, 4.15pm/5.15pm. Aeolian Hall Studio 2 (TLO & C/DLO 76382, TLO 77924)
- Saturday 1 February 1959, 5.45pm, The Paris Cinema (DLO 76513/A)
The recording for transmission was created at 8pm on Sunday 14 December 1958, at The Camden Theatre, Camden Town, London (TLO 72138).
The first Home Service broadcast was the next day at 8.30pm on Monday 15 December 1958, its ratings were 1.1 million.
The show was repeated:
- Wednesday 9.31pm, 17 December 1958, on the Light Programme to 2.3 million listeners.
- Friday 9.30pm, 6 March 1964 on the Home Service in Vintage Goons, to 0.5 million listeners.
- Friday 9.30pm, 20 August 1965 on the Home Service in Let's Laugh Again, to 0.2 million listeners (the broadcast was affected by a fault on the reproduction equipment).
Transcription Service Synopsis
'To open the scene, take a knife and cut along the dotted line. Inside you will find the Great North Road in an icy blizzard.' This is how Spike Milligan describes the setting for the start of the latest unexpurgated edition of Seagoon's memoirs. Listeners can, in fact, buy a copy (in a plain sealed envelope) at any local Second Class Slipper Bath.
Music
- The BBC Radio Orchestra was conducted by Wally Stott
- Max Geldray plays I Kiss Your Little Hand, Madame (Ralph Erwin (music) / Fritz Rotter (lyrics))
- The Ray Ellington Quartet plays The Late Late Show (Murray Berlin (music) / Roy Alfred (lyrics))
Technical
Originally recorded on TLO 72138 (15 ips ¼" tape recorded at Broadcasting House).
The TLO 72138 master tape no longer exists, and the version of the show included on The Goon Show Compendium Vol 10 was compiled from the TGS disc, the POTG master tape and domestic recordings of both the original transmission and the 1964 repeat.[1]
7/8 - Penonal Narrative Originally recorded on TLO 16600. This tape no longer exists, and this issue has been compiled from the POTG master tape, the TGS disc and a domestic tape recording of the original transmission.
References
- ^ Kendall, Ted (2011). The Goon Show Compendium Vol 5 (Booklet 2). BBC Worldwide. p. 13. ISBN 978-1408-427286.
