World War One
From The Goon Show Depository
| "World War One" | |
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| The Goon Show episode | |
| Episode: no. | Series: 8 Episode: 22 |
| Written by | Spike Milligan |
| Announcer | Wallace Greenslade |
| Produced by | Charles Chilton |
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| Recording Number | TLO 49663 |
| First broadcast | 24 February 1958 |
| Running time | 29:52 |
Show Notes
- Spike was unwell and when sending out the scripts for that Sunday's recording, Doreen wrote ‘I do hope it's nothing more serious than a heavy cold’ and of his script for the episode World War One, remarked that ‘your [script] this week is very, very funny – it seems to me to have got away from the accustomed more than usual’.
- Indeed, by now, Spike's scripts were often working at a frenetic speed, abandoning the longer character-driven dialogue in favour of more fragmented narratives which made a heavy use of pre-recorded sound effects. The first show taped on Sunday 23 February was a remake of The Silent Bugler and was followed by World War One in which the Australian voice complaining ‘Don't like what he's doing Pat’ was now scripted for Peter to deliver. *The episode also had an exchange between Bloodnok and Eccles in which reference was made to the Wolfenden Report which had recommended the legalisation of homosexuality when published on 4 September 1957.
- When Seagoon was questioned, the music of the ATV quiz show The $64,000 Question was used, followed by Peter impersonating Hughie Green, the host of Associated-Rediffusion's Double Your Money.
