The Missing Ten Downing Street (VG)

"The Missing Ten Downing Street"
The Goon Show episode
Episode: no.	Series: Vintage Goons Episode: 3
Written by	Spike Milligan
Based on	The Missing Prime Minister
Announcer	Wallace Greenslade
Produced by	Roy Speer
Music	Orchestra: Wally Stott Geldray: 'S Wonderful Ellington: Lover Come Back to Me'
Recording Numbers	T1/AG/3054 TLO 52769
First broadcast	Never broadcast in the UK
Running time	23:45

The Missing Ten Downing Street (aka 10 Downing Street Stolen) is an episode from The Goon Show. It is the third show in the Vintage Goons series (although the show's title was announced as 'The Missing Prime Minister of 1953') and was based on the series 4 episode 15 show: 'The Missing Prime Minister'. There was a pre-recording rehearsal show at 4.30pm Sunday 3 November 1957, but the show was actually recorded later at 8.30pm. Both the pre-recording and recording was done at The Camden Theatre, London.

This episode has never been broadcast in the UK. The commercial release rights were not available to the BBC until the late 2000s for it to be publically released on CD.

Story

Guinness — The Man in the White Suit — introduces the story of the Missing Prime Minister of 1953, relating the events that unfolded on Christmas Eve when Inspector Seagoon and Scotland Yard received a mysterious telephone call from a Mister Avery Tom Tom Deacon-Harry.

Music

• The BBC Orchestra was conducted by Wally Stott
• Max Geldray plays 'S Wonderful (George Gershwin (music) / Ira Gershwin (lyrics))
• The Ray Ellington Quartet plays Lover Come Back to Me (Sigmund Romberg / Oscar Hammerstein II)

Technical

Originally recorded on T1/AG/3054 (Agfa FR tape stock at 15 ips ¼" tape recorded at St. Hilda's, Maida Vale).