The Moon Show
| "The Moon Show" | |
|---|---|
| The Goon Show episode | |
| Episode: no. | Series: 7 Episode: 18 |
| Written by | |
| Announcer | Wallace Greenslade |
| Produced by | Pat Dixon |
| Music |
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| Recording Number | TLO 21793 |
| First broadcast | 31 January 1957 |
| Running time | 30:39 |
First Home Service Broadcast: Thursday 31 January 1957, 8.30pm. Ratings: 1.5 million. RI: 68.
Repeats: Monday 4 February 1957, 8pm, 3.4 million [Light Programme]; Sunday 28 August 1983, 12.00 noon [Radio 4 in Smash of the Day]
Transcription Service Synopsis: It is 1853. The poet, Neddie Seagoon, in search of romance, cries for the moon. Blood tests show that the moon, which is owned by Count Moriarty, is French. He is forced to sell it by public auction. Neddie outbids all his opponents and the moon is his. But is it the genuine moon! We doubt very much whether this programme will tell you.
Music: Max Geldray plays Tenderly (Walter Lloyd Gross/Jack Lawrence); The Ray Ellington Quartet plays Is This The Way? (Ray Ellington).
The Moon Show is an episode from The Goon Show. It is the eighteenth show in the seventh series.
A pre-recording session took place Sunday 27 January 1957, 5pm. at The Camden Theatre, Camden Town, London (DLO 21793/A). The recording for transmission was created later that same Sunday at The Camden at 9pm (TLO 21793).
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 following Thursday at 8.30pm 3 January 1957, its ratings were 2.6 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).
Transcription Service Synopsis
It is 1853. The poet, Neddie Seagoon, in search of romance, cries for the moon. Blood tests show that the moon, which is owned by Count Moriarty, is French. He is forced to sell it by public auction. Neddie outbids all his opponents and the moon is his. But is it the genuine moon! We doubt very much whether this programme will tell you.
Music
- The BBC Radio Orchestra was conducted by Wally Stott
- Max Geldray plays I Kiss Your Little Hand, Madame (Ralph Erwin (music) / Fritz Rotter (lyrics))
- The Ray Ellington Quartet plays The Late Late Show (Murray Berlin (music) / Roy Alfred (lyrics))
Technical
Originally recorded on TLO 72138 (15 ips ¼" tape recorded at Broadcasting House).
The TLO 72138 master tape no longer exists, and the version of the show included on The Goon Show Compendium Vol 6 was compiled from the TGS disc, the POTG master tape and domestic recordings of both the original transmission and the 1964 repeat.[1] Originally recorded on TLO 21793.This tape no longer exists.and this issue has been compiled from the TGS disc, the POTG tape and a domestic recording of the original transmission
References
- ^ Kendall, Ted (2012). The Goon Show Compendium Vol 6 (Booklet 2). BBC Worldwide. p. 13. ISBN 978-1408-468548.
