The Missing Battleship
| "The Missing Battleship" | |
|---|---|
| The Goon Show episode | |
| Episode: no. | Series: 8 Episode: 8 |
| Written by | |
| Announcer | Wallace Greenslade |
| Produced by | Roy Speer |
| Music |
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| Recording Number | TLO 41935 |
| First broadcast | 18 November 1957 |
| Running time | 29:56 |
The Missing Battleship is an episode from The Goon Show. It is the eighth show in the eighth series. It was recorded Sunday 17 November 1957, and broadcast on Monday 18 November 1957.
The Vintage Goons fourth episode, The Giant Bombardon, was recorded the same day as this show.
Story
Light yourself a hammock for our story begins onboard Britain's largest battleship, the 1902 HMS Boxer , where a broadcast of their favourite programme, Variety Awash, is now in progress. Old jokes ahoy! (And that was nothing like an old joke). But music-hall comic Hairy Seagoon can't stop Captain Jim 'Bilge' Moriarty's piracy and the ship is swiftly flying the Jolly Roger. Crash landing on a desert island could save them but there are cannibals about. And they're threatening to put Bluebottle inside. Inside what? Inside them!
Music
- The BBC Orchester was conducted by Wally Stott.
- The Ray Ellington Quartet plays Up Above My Head (Sister Rosetta Tharpe).
- Max Geldray's performance was excised due to the show running too long..
Technical
Originally recorded on TLO 41935 (15 ips ¼" tape recorded at Broadcasting House).
The TLO 41935 master tape survived intact in TS, and has been used for this issue. Max Geldray's number was evidently lost in the editing required to get the performance (listed as over 42' duration in the tape log) down to transmission length, as his credit has been rather crudely excised from the closing announcement.[1]
References
- ^ Kendall, Ted (2012). The Goon Show Compendium Vol 7 (Booklet 2). BBC Worldwide. p. 10. ISBN 978-1-4458-9133-0.
