Show 42

"Story of The Green Eyed Little Yellow God"
The Goon Show episode
Episode: no.	Series: 2 Episode: 25
Written by	Spike Milligan Larry Stephens
Announcer	Andrew Timothy
Produced by	Dennis Main Wilson
Music	Stanley Black and The BBC Dance Orchestra Secombe: Heart of a Clown Geldray: My Blue Heaven Ellington: Teddy Bear’s Picnic' Incidental music: Wally Stott
Editing by	Jimmy Grafton
Recording Number	SLO 10808
First broadcast	15 July 1952 (1952-07-15)
Running time	28 mins 49 secs

The series 2 shows didn't have episode names per se, but for ease of reference using the show number is to differentiate them.

The show had now changed its name from Crazy People to The Goon Show, featuring those crazy people…

Show 42 (aka Story of The Green Eyed Little Yellow God) is an episode from The Goon Show. It is the 25th show in the second series. The show was recorded at 7.45pm on Sunday 6 July 1952, 9pm The recording was done at The Playhouse Theatre, Northumberland Avenue, London.

The first British public broadcast was on the Home Service on Tuesday 15 July 1952 at 9.30pm (except Northern Ireland). It reached a peak listenership of 1.5m.

Sketches

• Harry tells Andrew Timothy about his recent appearances and they recount several of his earlier exploits (from Shows 2/1, 2/7, 2/3, 2/20).
• Story of The Green Eyed Little Yellow God: The Goons tell the story about Major Bloodnok and Captain Mad Carew in Poona, 1903
• Commentators Glendenning and Bentine report on the Annual BBC Bridge Contest, the Groingeweather Dog Show and Shellsea Bay fairground.
• In 1931, Captain Osric Pureheart answers an advert and is sent with Crun to bring back a specimen of the rare African White Carnation.

Music

• Harry Secombe sings Heart of a Clown (Francis Kane/Steve Nelson/Jack Rollins).
• Max Geldray plays My Blue Heaven (Walter Donaldson).
• The Ray Ellington Quartet plays Teddy Bear’s Picnic (John W Bratton/Jimmy Kennedy).

Technical

Originally recorded on SLO 10808 (33⅓ rpm, coarse-groove 16" disk recorded at Broadcasting House).

Ted Kendall's Restoration

The published recording on The Goon Show Compendium Vol 13 was taken from a domestic off-air tape recording. The recording sounds as if the bias of the machine was mis-set — the timpani rolls indicating The Lost Drummer scarcely registered at all and had to be substituted from the Show 20 recording. The tape runs out before the punch line of the final sketch, but this can possibly be inferred.