I Was Monty's Treble

"I Was Monty's Treble"
The Goon Show episode
Episode: no.	Series: 9 Episode: 2
Written by	Spike Milligan
Based on	Battle of Algiers
Announcer	Wallace Greenslade
Produced by	John Browell
Music	Orchestra: Wally Stott Geldray: There Will Never Be Another You Ellington: Sunday
Recording Number	TLO 68950
First broadcast	10 November 1958 (1958-11-10)
Running time	29:55

I Was Monty's Treble is an episode from The Goon Show. It is the second show in the nineth series.

Pre-recording: Wednesday 5 November 1958, 4.15pm, Aeolian Hall Studio 2 (DLO 68889) and again on Sunday 9 November 1958, 5pm, The Camden Theatre (DLO 68950/A).

The show for transmission was recorded at 9pm on Sunday 9 November 1958. The recording took place at the Camden Theatre, Camden Town, London.

The first British public broadcast was on the Home Service on Monday 10 November 1958 at 8.30pm. It reached a peak listenership of 1.1m.

The show's first repeat was the following Wednesday at 9.31pm, 12 November 1958, on the Light Programme. It was listened to by 3.0 million. The next repeat was 12 years later on Saturday 26 September 1970 at 8.02pm on Radio 4's Vintage Goons. The show attracted 0.6m listeners.

Transcription Service Synopsis

At last we can tell the true story of how the Battle of Algiers came to be fought and won! Not only will listeners hear how the Master Plan was prepared, they will also be transported to German Headquarters - scene of stringent counter measures. Unfortunately, with the pay-off comes the realisation that it was not the Battle of Algiers which was won, but its Double!

Music

• The BBC Radio Orchestra was conducted by Wally Stott
• Max Geldray plays There Will Never Be Another You (Harry Warren / Mack Gordon)
• The Ray Ellington Quartet plays Sunday (Chester Conn / Benny Krueger / Jule Styne / Ned Miller)

Technical

Originally recorded on TLO 68950 (15 ips ¼" tape recorded at Broadcasting House).

The master tape, TLO 68950, no longer exists, and the version of the show found on Compendium 10 was compiled from the TGS and POTG master tapes and a domestic recording of the original transmission.