The Red Fort
| "The Red Fort" | |
|---|---|
| The Goon Show episode | |
| Episode: no. | Series: 8 Episode: 7 |
| Written by | |
| Announcer | Wallace Greenslade |
| Produced by | Roy Speer |
| Music |
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| Recording Number | TLO 41712 |
| First broadcast | 11 November 1957 |
| Running time | 30:29 |
The Red Fort 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
1857 and it looks like Major Bloodnok has a major problem: the natives are revolting because their rifle cartridges are being greased with banana skins and the banana is a sacred animal. Bloodnok orders Seagoon to do the work of three brave men - well, he is big enough.
Music
- The BBC Radio Orchestra was conducted by Wally Stott
- Max Geldray plays Sonny Boy (Ray Henderson / Buddy G. DeSylva / Lew Brown)
- The Ray Ellington Quartet plays Will You Still Be Mine? (Tom Adair / Matt Dennis)
Technical
Originally recorded on TLO 72138 (15 ips ¼" tape recorded at Broadcasting House).
The TLO 41712 master tape survives in TS, and was used for the version of the show incuded on The Goon Show Compendium Vol 12. The Home Service opening was taken from a domestic recording of the original transmission.[1]
Note
In December 1972, EMI released an LP (electronically processed to stereo), entitled The Very Best of The Goons, which included The Red Fort along with a previously unbroadcast Vintage Goons series show, The Missing Ten Downing Street. This had the effect of putting both shows into licensing limbo until the BBC were able to regain licensing rights to release both shows under their own banner on The Goon Show Compendium Vol 12 in 2016.
References
- ^ Kendall, Ted (2018). The Goon Show Compendium Vol 12 (Booklet 2). BBC Worldwide. p. 18. ISBN 978-1-7852-9449-5.
