The Toothpaste Expedition
| "The Toothpaste Expedition" | |
|---|---|
| The Goon Show episode | |
| Episode: no. | Series: 4 Episode: 20 |
| Written by | |
| Announcer | Wallace Greenslade |
| Produced by | Peter Eton |
| Music |
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| Recording Number | TLO 49072 |
| First broadcast | 12 February 1954 |
| Running time | 29:18 |
The Mummified Priest is an episode from The Goon Show. It is the twentieth show in the fourth series. The show was recorded at 9pm on Sunday 7 February 1954 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 12 February 1954 at 9.45pm (except Northern Ireland). It reached a peak listenership of 1.9m.
The show's first repeat was the next morning at 8.45am, Saturday 13 February 1954, on the Home Service. It was listened to by 0.8 million.
Sketches
- Education takes a look at England's oldest school, Rottingdean (originally used in Story of the Trans Siberian Express).
- Toothpaste Miners sees Commander Burke investigate reports of toothpaste below the Sahara Desert (originally used in The Expedition for Toothpaste (3/5)).
Music
- The BBC Radio Orchestra was conducted by Wally Stott
- Max Geldray plays Orange Coloured Sky (Milton De Lugg / William Stein)
- The Ray Ellington Quartet plays That's My Desire (Carroll Loveday / Helmy Kresa) / All for the Love of Lil (Jerry Bresler / Larry Wynn)
Technical
Originally recorded on TLO 49072 (Agfa FR tape stock at 15 ips ¼" tape recorded at Broadcasting House).[1]
Ted Kendall's Restoration
This programme (on Compendium Vol 14) came from an acetate disc cut from a domestic tape recording, probably taken from an AM transmission (from the same collection as 4/18). The opening and closing were missing. The closing for this show, 4/18 and 4/19 were taken from the recording of 4/15 issued in Compendium Vol 13, as this is the best surviving fourth series closing announced by Wallace Greenslade and crediting Larry Stephens, who drops out of the credits for 4/21 onwards.The opening was completed using material from other recordings in the same collection.[2]
References
- ^ Kendall, Ted (2018). The Goon Show Compendium Vol 14 (Booklet 2). BBC Worldwide. p. 26. ISBN 978-1-7875-3266-3.
- ^ Kendall, Ted (2018). The Goon Show Compendium Vol 14 (Booklet 2). BBC Worldwide. p. 9. ISBN 978-1-7875-3266-3.
