Show 23

"Handsome Harry Secombe Goes Home"
The Goon Show episode
Episode: no.	Series: 2 Episode: 6
Written by	Spike Milligan Larry Stephens
Announcer	Andrew Timothy
Produced by	Dennis Main Wilson
Music	Stanley Black and The BBC Dance Orchestra The Stargazers: Button Up Your Overcoat Max Geldray: I Can’t Give You Anything but Love, Baby Ellington Quartet: I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi (I Like You Very Much) Incidental music: Wally Stott
Editing by	Jimmy Grafton
Recording Number	SLO 4021
First broadcast	4 March 1952 (1952-03-04)

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

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

Show 23 (aka Handsome Harry Secombe goes home) is an episode from The Goon Show. It is the sixth show in the second series.

The main show recording session was Sunday, 2 March 1952 at 9pm. The recording session was recorded at Aeolian I, 135–137 New Bond Street, London.

The first British public broadcast was on the Home Service on Tuesday, 4 March 1952 at 9.30pm. It reached a peak listenership of 2.2m.

The show's repeat was broadcast at 12.15pm on Saturday, 8 March 1952 on the Light Programme to an audience of 0.7 million listeners.

Sketches

• Handsome Harry Secombe Goes Home: Harry recounts what happened when he went home to the wrong house.
• Major Bloodnok's quest for the Golden Idol: Hass Bloodnok recalling his adventures in Africa with the Monottia tribe;
• Fred Bogg in the Army: Harry relates the experiences of a friend of his from a letter;
• Barton & Pureheart’s Interplanetary Adventures presents Flash Barton – Special Interplanetary Agent! in which Barton boards Pureheart's rocket heading for Mars.

Music

• The Stargazers performed Button Up Your Overcoat (Ray Henderson/BG De Sylva/Lew Brown).
• Max Geldray performed I Can’t Give You Anything but Love, Baby (Jimmy McHugh).
• The Ray Ellington Quartet paid tribute to Carmen Miranda with I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi (I Like You Very Much) (Harry Warren/Mack Gordon).

Show Trivia

This show was planned to have Harry pre-record Beggar in Love at 6pm for playback into the main show at 7.30pm, but this was cut. The recording was eventually done on 9 March 1952, at 6pm and included in Show 24 instead.

Technical

Originally recorded on SLO 4021 (33⅓ rpm, coarse-groove 16" disk recorded at Broadcasting House).