The Saga of the Internal Mountain

"The Saga of the Internal Mountain"
The Goon Show episode
Episode: no.	Series: 4 Episode: 27
Written by	Spike Milligan
Announcer	Wallace Greenslade
Produced by	Peter Eton
Music	Orchestra: Wally Stott Geldray: The Lady is a Tramp Ellington: Schooldays
Recording Number	TLO 51769
First broadcast	29 March 1954 (1954-03-29)
Running time	28:14

The Saga of the Internal Mountain is an episode from The Goon Show. It is the twenty-seventh show in the fourth series. The show was recorded at 9pm on Sunday 17 January 1954 The show was recorded starting at 7pm Sunday 28 March 1954. The show/recording took place at the Camden Theatre, Camden Town, London.

The first British public broadcast was on the Home Service on the following Monday 29 January 1954 at 8.30pm. It reached a peak listenership of 1.9m.

The show's first repeat was at 1.10pm, Monday 3 May 1954, on the Home Service. It was listened to by 1.9 million.

Transcription Service Remake Synopsis

The inside is darker.

You may think that it is enough to have climbed Mount Everest from the outside, but not a bit of it. In this script Spike Milligan makes his heroes do it the hard way — from the inside!

Music

• The BBC Radio Orchestra was conducted by Wally Stott
• Max Geldray plays The Lady is a Tramp (Richard Rodgers / Lorenz Hart)
• The Ray Ellington Quartet plays Schooldays (Robinson)

Technical

Originally recorded on TLO 51769 (Agfa FR tape stock at 15 ips ¼" tape recorded at Broadcasting House).

Ted Kendall's Restoration

The source used for this recording was the most problematical of the fourth season. A wire recording made from an AM transmission. The sound was actually quite good for a wire recording, but the only copy available to Kendall had appalling wow throughout and slurred nearly to a stop at several points. Judicious use (and calculated abuse) of CEDAR Respeed produced the result found on the recording of the show from Compendium 14, which at least doesn't get in the way of the comedy.