The Flying Saucer Mystery
| "The Flying Saucer Mystery" | |
|---|---|
| The Goon Show episode | |
| Episode: no. | Series: 4 Episode: 10 |
| Written by | Larry Stephens |
| Announcer | Wallace Greenslade |
| Produced by | Peter Eton |
| Music |
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| Recording Number | TLO 39091 |
| First broadcast | 4 December 1953 |
The Flying Saucer Mystery is an episode from The Goon Show. It is the tenth show in the fourth series. The show was recorded at 9pm on Sunday 29 November 1953 The recording took place at Aeolian I, 135–137 New Bond Street, London.
The first British public broadcast was on the Home Service on Friday 4 December 1953 at 9.30pm (except Northern Ireland). It reached a peak listenership of 1.5m. The show's first repeat was on the Light Programme on Saturday 5 December 1953 it was listened to by 1.5m people.
No known, publically available recording is known to exist as of 21 December 2024.
The show's title, The Flying Saucer Mystery, isn't the official title. The official title (generally considered to be the one on Spike Milligan's script) isn't known as the wereabouts of Milligan's script isn't known either. Roger Wilmut unilaterally decided to use the name of the second sketch for his book, The Goon Show Companion, and from then on it seemed to become canon.[1]
Story
- The Adventures of Fearless Harry Secombe: Chapters Four and Five: Harry answers an advertisement seeking a Welsh idiot and finds himself being used by Dr Hans Eidelburger as an exhibit in his waxwork show; reports come in of mysterious flying Lights over East Acton, the North of England and the North Pole, with a flying saucer heading for a US Weather station in Greenland which is also being visited by an armoured ENSA concert party including Fred Bogg, Crun, Minnie, Eccles, Ernest Bluebottle and Webster Smogpule.
Music
- The BBC Radio Orchestra was conducted by Wally Stott
- Max Geldray plays Saint Louis Blues (WC Handy)
- The Ray Ellington Quartet plays The Continental (Con Conrad (music) / Herb Magidson (lyrics))
Technical
Originally recorded on TLO 39091 (Agfa FR tape stock at 15 ips ¼" tape recorded at Broadcasting House).[2]
References
- ^ Wilmut, Roger (1976). The Goon Show Companion. Robson Books. p. 121. ISBN 0860518361.
- ^ Kendall, Ted (2017). The Goon Show Compendium Vol 13 (Booklet 2). BBC Worldwide. p. 26. ISBN 978-1-7852-9877-6.
