 
Goon Show Series: 9 Cast includes Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe, Spike Milligan, The Ray Ellington Quartet, Max Geldray and Wallace Greenslade as announcer. Episode Details: 01: The Sahara Desert Statue First broadcast: 03/11/1958 Recorded: 02/11/1958 Author: Spike Milligan Producer: John Browell Notes: Not coherently announced. 02: I Was Monty's Treble First broadcast: 10/11/1958 Recorded: 06/11/1958 Author: Spike Milligan Producer: John Browell 03: The £1,000,000 Penny First broadcast: 17/11/1958 Recorded: 16/11/1958 Author: Spike Milligan Producer: John Browell Notes: Announced as 'The Story of a Crime-Type Murder'. After the first musical break it becomes 'Ned the Miser' - it is this plan which is the story of the £1,000,000 Penny. The BBC Transcription Services publicity for their re-issue of this as 'Pick of the Goons' No. 81 wrongly describes it as 'The £1,000 Penny'. 04: The Pam's Paper Insurance Policy First broadcast: 24/11/1958 Recorded: 23/11/1958 Author: Spike Milligan Producer: John Browell Notes: Not coherently announced. 05: The Mountain Eaters First broadcast: 01/12/1958 Recorded: 30/11/1958 Author: Spike Milligan Producer: John Browell Notes: Not coherently announced. 06: The Childe Harolde Rewarde First broadcast: 08/12/1958 Recorded: 07/12/1958 Author: Spike Milligan Producer: John Browell Notes: Not coherently announced. 07: The Seagoon Memoirs First broadcast: 15/12/1958 Recorded: 14/12/1958 Author: Larry Stephens and Maurice Wiltshire Producer: John Browell Notes: Not coherently announced. 08: Queen Anne's Rain First broadcast: 22/12/1958 Recorded: 21/12/1958 Author: Spike Milligan Producer: John Browell Notes: Not coherently announced. 09: The Battle of Spion Kop First broadcast: 29/12/1958 Recorded: 28/12/1958 Author: Spike Milligan Producer: John Browell Notes: Not coherently announced. 10: Ned's Atomic Dustbin First broadcast: 05/01/1959 Recorded: 04/01/1959 Author: Spike Milligan Producer: John Browell Notes: Not coherently announced. With John Snagge (pre-recorded). 11: Who Is Pink Oboe? First broadcast: 12/01/1959 Recorded: 11/01/1959 Author: Spike Milligan Producer: John Browell Notes: Without Peter Sellers but with Kenneth Connor, Valentine Dyall, Graham Stark, Jack Train and John Snagge (pre-recorded). Announced as 'The Spy, or . . .'. Sellers developed throat trouble shortly before the recording and the other four actors were brought in by John Browell at very short notice. They take the various parts written for Sellers, with minimal re-writing. Dyall replaces Gryptype-Thynne, Connor replaces Willium and a few others, Stark replaces Henry Crun (the Min and Henry episode becomes an Irish couple who are not as successful as the other replacements) and Train as Colonel Chinstrap, replaces Major Bloodnok. 12: The Call of the West First broadcast: 20/01/1959 Recorded: 18/01/1959 Author: Spike Milligan Producer: John Browell Notes: Announced as 'Captain Stingo, or Goon Law, or Anythinggggggg (Hern)'. 13: Dishonoured - Again First broadcast: 26/01/1959 Recorded: 25/01/1959 Author: Spike Milligan Producer: John Browell Notes: Announced as 'I Knew Terence Nuke' ('From the book, I Knew Terence Nuke, by Eileen Beardsmore-Lewisham, tiddley-doo spot, we present the play, "I Knew Terence Nuke", from the book by Eileen Beardsmore-Lewisham'). This show is a new production of the script 'Dishonoured' from episode 12 of the 5th series; there are only slight variations in the text. It is this later version which was issued on Parlophone Record (PMC 1108), despite their title of 'Dishonoured'. 14: The Scarlet Capsule First broadcast: 02/02/1959 Recorded: 01/02/1959 Author: Spike Milligan Producer: John Browell Notes: With Andrew Timothy (pre-recorded). Announced as 'Quatermass O.B.E.'. This show is a parody of the highly successful BBC-TV serial 'Quatermass and the Pit'. Andrew Tmmothy reads announcements at the beginning and end of the show that were originally intended to be read by John Snagge. 15: The Tay Bridge First broadcast: 09/02/1959 Recorded: 08/02/1959 Author: Spike Milligan Producer: John Browell Notes: With George Chisholm. Not coherently announced. 16: The Gold Plate Robbery First broadcast: 16/02/1959 Recorded: 15/02/1959 Author: Spike Milligan Producer: John Browell Notes: Announced (eventually) as 'The Kleens of Blenchinghall, the story of an ordinary English comedy half-hour'. 17: The £50 Cure First broadcast: 23/02/1959 Recorded: 22/02/1959 Author: Spike Milligan Producer: John Browell Notes: Without Harry Secombe, with Kenneth Connor. Not coherently announced.  |
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