I Was a Male Fan Dancer

"I Was a Male Fan Dancer"
The Goon Show episode
Episode no.	Series 03 Episode 03
Written by	Spike Milligan Larry Stephens
Produced by	Peter Eton
Music	Orchestra: Wally Stott Geldray: When I Take My Sugar to Tea Ellington: Bim Bam Baby
Editing by	Jimmy Grafton
Production code	SLO 18332
Original air date	23 November 1952 (1952-11-23)

I Was a Male Fan Dancer (aka Show 45) is an episode from The Goon Show. It is the third show in the third series. The show was recorded at 9.30pm on Sunday 23 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 25 November 1952 at 9.30pm. It reached a peak listenership of 2.9m. Its first repeat on the Light Programme at 4.30pm on Sunday 30 November 1952 increased the peak listernship to 5.1m.

Sketches

• Handsome Harry Secombe receives a visit from Inspector Delysius Sellers of Scotland Yard when he gets mixed up with Moriarty’s contraband.
• Survey of Britain: I was a male fan-dancer recounts the attempts to get a male dancer past the local watch committee.
• Adapted from the Classics: Goon with the Wind sees Eccles as one of the characters in a spoof of Gone with the Wind.

Music

• Max Geldray plays When I Take My Sugar to Tea (Sammy Fain (music), Irving Kahal (lyrics)).
• The Ray Ellington Quartet plays Bim Bam Baby (Sammy Mysels).

Technical

Originally recorded on SLO 18332 (33⅓ rpm, coarse-groove 16" disk recorded at Broadcasting House).