The Mystery of the Fake Neddie Seagoons
| "The Mystery of the Fake Neddie Seagoons" | |
|---|---|
| The Goon Show episode | |
| Episode: no. | Series: 7 Episode: 9 |
| Written by | |
| Announcer | Wallace Greenslade |
| Produced by | Pat Dixon |
| Music |
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| Recording Number | TLO 16986 |
| First broadcast | 29 November 1956 |
| Running time | 31:54 |
The Mystery of the Fake Neddie Seagoons is an episode from The Goon Show. It is the ninth show in the seventh series. Wallace Greenslade announces the show as "The Great Art Mystery or The Case of the Fake Neddie Seagoon".
A pre-recording session took place on Sunday 25 November 1956 at 5pm at The Camden Theatre (DLO 16989). The recording for transmission was created at 9pm on the same Sunday 25 November 1956, at The Camden Theatre, Camden Town, London.
The first Home Service broadcast was the following Thursday at 8.30pm on 29 November 1956, its ratings were 2.3 million.
The show was repeated:
- Monday 8pm, 3 December 1956, on the Light Programme to 3.6 million listeners.
- Sunday 9.30pm, 25 July 1982 on Radio 4 in Smash of the Doy.
Transcription Service Synopsis
As everyone knows, there is only one genuine signed original Neddie Seagoon. In their search for the genuine article, Grytpype-Thynne, Moriarty and Neddie Seagoon are concerned with an adventure in a dustbin, a noisy episode with sixty-eight pianos and a visit to a picture restorer's workshop. Finally Eccles is thrown into a bath of turpentine and is washed away, revealing the original Neddie Seagoon by Elder the Breugel. Unfortunately a second seemingly genuine Seagoon is discovered and the problem is, which is the fake?
Music
- The BBC Radio Orchestra was conducted by Wally Stott
- Max Geldray plays Boo-Dah (Billy Strayhorn)
- The Ray Ellington Quartet plays It's All Right with Me (Cole Porter)
Technical
Originally recorded on TLO 16989 (15 ips ¼" tape recorded at Broadcasting House).
The TLO 16989 master tape no longer exists, and the version of the show included on The Goon Show Compendium Vol 10 was compiled from a DAT copy of the Sound Archives shelf tape made in 1990 and a domestic tape recording of the original transmission.[1]
References
- ^ Kendall, Ted (2011). The Goon Show Compendium Vol 5 (Booklet 2). BBC Worldwide. p. 13. ISBN 978-1408-427286.
