The Saga of HMS Aldgate

"The Saga of HMS Aldgate"
The Goon Show episode
Episode: no.	Series: 3 Episode: 4
Written by	Spike Milligan Larry Stephens
Announcer	Andrew Timothy
Produced by	Peter Eton
Music	Orchestra Conductor: Wally Stott Geldray: Pennies from Heaven Ellington: Takes Two to Tango
Editing by	Jimmy Grafton
Recording Number	SLO 18613
First broadcast	22 January 1952 (1952-01-22)

The Saga of HMS Aldgate (aka Show 46) is an episode from The Goon Show. It is the fourth show in the third series. The show was recorded at 9.30pm on Sunday 30 November 1952 The recording took place at Aeolian I, 135–137 New Bond Street, London.

The first British public broadcast was on the Home Service on Tuesday 2 December 1952 at 9.30pm. It reached a peak listenership of 2.2m. Its first repeat on the Light Programme at 4.30pm on Sunday 7 December 1952 increased the peak listernship to 5.5m.

Sketches

• Moriarty phones Harry Secombe and tells him to deliver forged pound notes to the Peter Sellers Old Folks Home.
• Adapted from the Classics: The Saga of HMS Aldgate by William McGoonigle recounts how Henry Crun and Eccles became lighthouse keepers in 1881.
• Reports from the previous month cover the Motor Show, the Brewers’ Exhibition at Olympia, the arrival of an Indian Yogi at an airport, and an interview with boxer ‘Kid’ Eccles.

Music

• Max Geldray plays Pennies from Heaven (Arthur Johnston).
• The Ray Ellington Quartet plays Takes Two to Tango (Al Hoffman / Dick Manning).

Technical

Originally recorded on SLO 18613 (33⅓ rpm, coarse-groove 16" disk recorded at Broadcasting House).