Foiled by President Fred
| "Foiled by President Fred" | |
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| The Goon Show episode | |
| Episode: no. | Series: 6 Episode: 7 |
| Written by | Spike Milligan |
| Announcer | Wallace Greenslade |
| Produced by | Peter Eton |
| Music |
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| Recording Number | TLO 89727 |
| First broadcast | 1 November 1955 |
| Running time | 31:38 |
Foiled by President Fred (announced as In Honour Bound) is an episode from The Goon Show. It is the seventh show in the sixth series. The show was recorded at 3.45pm on Sunday 30 October 1955. The recording took place at the Garrick Theatre, Charing Cross Road, in the City of Westminster,London.
The first British public broadcast was on the Home Service on Tuesday 1 November 1955 at 8.30pm. It reached a peak listenership of 3.8m.
The show's first repeat was the following Saturday at 7.30pm, 5 November 1955, on the Light Programme. It was listened to by 2.3 million. The next repeat was nine years later on Friday 30 January 1964 on the Home Service in Vintage Goons.
Radio Times Synopsis
Two poverty-stricken foreign devils. Senor Grytpype-Thynne and Count Moriarty, skint to the wide, are one day watching TV in their chicken-run in a King's Cross back alley when Neddie Seagoon arrives to empty the gas meter. Staggering under the weight of a sack bursting with coppers, he foolishly accepts an offer to join them in a quarter-bottle of Maurice Ponk's doped apple-jack. While still reeling from the effects of this vicious carousal he is introduced to Gladys Knees, a diaphanous spy and part-time dustwoman, who introduces him to sink further into the abyss of vice by partaking of a portion of heavily loaded smoked haddock. Before he lapses into unconsciousness he overhears the mysterious Count Jim booking reservations for South America, and he realises that once again he has become enmeshed in the plot to kidnap President Fred and relieve him of his historic portion of the International Christmas Pudding.
Music
- The BBC Radio Orchestra was conducted by Wally Stott
- Max Geldray plays Have You Ever Been Lonely (Have You Ever Been Blue)? (Peter De Rose / William J. Hill (as George Brown))
- The Ray Ellington Quartet plays The Birth of the Blues (Ray Henderson / Buddy G. DeSylva / Lew Brown)
Technical
Originally recorded on TLO 89727 (15 ips ¼" tape recorded at Broadcasting House). This tape survived in TS, and was used for subsequent CD releases.[1]
References
- ^ Kendall, Ted (2018). The Goon Show Compendium Vol 12 (Booklet 2). BBC Worldwide. p. 18. ISBN 978-1-7852-9449-5.
