What's My Line?
| "What's My Line?" | |
|---|---|
| The Goon Show episode | |
| Episode: no. | Series: 7 Episode: 10 |
| Written by | |
| Announcer | Wallace Greenslade |
| Produced by | Peter Eton |
| Music |
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| Recording Number | TLO 17361 |
| First broadcast | 5 December 1956 |
| Running time | 30:29 |
| Guest appearance | |
| John Snagge (uncredited) | |
What's My Line? is an episode from The Goon Show. It is the tenth show in the seventh series.
Pre-recording: Sunday 2 December 1956, 12.45 noon/4pm,The Camden Theatre. DLO 17361 & DLO 17361 /A.
Recording: Sunday 2 December 1956, 9pm, The Camden Theatre. TLO 17361.
First Home Service Broadcast Wednesday 5 December 1956, 9.15pm.Ratings: 1.9 million.Rl:64.
Repeat Monday 10 December 1956, 8pm, 3.4 million [Light Programme]; Saturday 23 May 1992, 1.02pm [Radio 2 in Comedy Hour:the Radio 2 Comedy Season].
Two pre-recording sessions took place:
- Wednesday 28 January 1959, 4.15pm/5.15pm. Aeolian Hall Studio 2 (TLO & C/DLO 76382, TLO 77924)
- Saturday 1 February 1959, 5.45pm, The Paris Cinema (DLO 76513/A)
The recording for transmission was created at 8pm on Sunday 14 December 1958, at The Camden Theatre, Camden Town, London (TLO 72138).
The first Home Service broadcast was the next day at 8.30pm on Monday 15 December 1958, its ratings were 1.1 million.
The show was repeated:
- Wednesday 9.31pm, 17 December 1958, on the Light Programme to 2.3 million listeners.
- Friday 9.30pm, 6 March 1964 on the Home Service in Vintage Goons, to 0.5 million listeners.
- Friday 9.30pm, 20 August 1965 on the Home Service in Let's Laugh Again, to 0.2 million listeners (the broadcast was affected by a fault on the reproduction equipment).
BBC Audiobooks' Synopsis
Great span of nukes! It's What's My Line? meets The Goon Show … Mr 'Eddie Neecroon' reveals his gift for melody and 'The Famous' Eccles plays the telephone in 'E' flat. However, Major Bloodnok is missing and needs the number of a good tailor because he's in a phone box. Naked. In Alaska. Now that's some long distance call. Fortunately, Eccles and Neddie are hot on the Major's trail. The Major's mime starts in India, in 1883, and outnumbered by naughty tribesman. Bloodnok teaches them a lesson and Bluebottle blows his bugle (and does himself an injury). But will Eccles ever play the telephone again?
Music
- The BBC Radio Orchestra was conducted by Wally Stott
- Max Geldray plays C-Jam Blues (Duke Ellington)
- The Ray Ellington Quartet plays [[[w:Roll 'Em Pete|Roll 'Em Pete]] (Pete Johnson / Joe Turner)}}
Technical
Originally recorded on TLO 17361 (15 ips ¼" tape recorded at Broadcasting House).
This tape no longer exists, and the master tape of the TGS issue was destroyed in 1963. The version of the show found on Compendium 5 had to be compiled from the TGS disc and a domestic 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.
