Show 8

"Show 8"
The Goon Show episode
Episode: no.	Series: 1 Episode: 8
Written by	Spike Milligan Larry Stephens Jimmy Grafton
Announcer	Denys Drower
Produced by	Dennis Main Wilson
Music	Stanley Black and the Dance Orchestra The Stargazers: Lover Ellington: Let the Good Times Roll Geldray: Bubble Bubble Bubble (Pink Champagne) The Ray Ellington Quartet and the Stargazers Shine
Recording Number	SLO 92262
First broadcast	16 July 1951 (1951-07-16)

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 8 is an episode from The Goon Show (Crazy People). It is the eighth show in the first series. The show was recorded at 6.45pm on Sunday 15 July 1951 The recording took place at Aeolian I, 135–137 New Bond Street, London.

The first British public broadcast was on the Home Service on Monday 2 July 1951 at 6.30pm (in London and Northern only). It reached a peak listenership of 0.4m. The show didn't have a repeat schedule yet.

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 Dennis Main Wilson and was announced by an uncredited Denys Drower (the presenter of the BBC's Midday Miscellany show).

Sketches

• Herschel & Jones: Sees Jones recalling the poverty of growing up in the country.
• BBC Skit': A report on economies at the BBC as programmes are combined;
• Episode 2 of Phillip String continues String’s escapades in The Sun Never Sets.
• Commentaries from the Funfair: Features reports from Roger Fudgeknuckle and Jack Islott;
• The Goonbird: Followed the progress of speedboat designer Captain Osric Pureheart.

Music

• The Stargazers sang Lover (Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart)
• The Ray Ellington Quartet played Let the Good Times Roll (Louis Jordan)
• Max Geldray and the Ray Ellington Quartet played Bubble Bubble Bubble (Pink Champagne) (George Forrest/Robert Wright)
• The Ray Ellington Quartet and the Stargazers performed Shine (Cecil Mack/Lew Brown/Ford Dabney)

Technical

Originally recorded on SLO 92262 (33⅓ rpm, coarse-groove 16" disk recorded at Broadcasting House).