The ₤1,000,000 Penny
| "The ₤1,000,000 Penny" | |
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| The Goon Show episode | |
| Episode: no. | Series: 9 Episode: 3 |
| Written by | Spike Milligan |
| Announcer | Wallace Greenslade |
| Produced by | John Browell |
| Music |
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| Recording Number | TLO 69769 |
| First broadcast | 17 November 1958 |
| Running time | 31:14 |
The ₤1,000,000 Penny is an episode from The Goon Show. It is the third show in the ninth series.
A pre-recording session was performed on Wednesday 12 November 1958, 4.15pm, Aeolian Hall Studio 2 (DLO 69341) and Sunday 16 November 1958, 4pm, The Paris Theatre (DLO 69769/A).
The recording of the show for transmission was on Sunday 16 November 1958, 8pm, at the Paris Theatre.
The first British public broadcast was on the Home Service on Monday 17 November 1958 at 7.30pm . It reached a peak listenership of 1.1m.
The show's first repeat was the following Wednesday at 9.31pm, 17 November 1958, on the Light Programme. It was listened to by 2.3 million. Then again on Thursday 4 February 1960 at 7.30pm on the Home Service replacing The Sahara Desert Statue. Then 15 years later the show was repeated again on Radio 4 (not in Wales) at 6.15pm, 21 February 1975 as part of the Encore the Goons segment, re-titled as The ₤1 Million Penny. The ratings were 1.3 million.
Transcription Service Synopsis
How on earth can a half-hour script be written about a murderer who is described as wearing a sock and eating a jelly! Spike Milligan must have the same idea for the plot which dies an unnatural death on page nine. As if this were any better. The rest of the story is taken up with the adventures of a penny which has been left a fortune in the will of Neddie Seagoon's grandmother!
Music
- The BBC Radio Orchestra was conducted by Wally Stott
- Max Geldray plays Please Be Kind (Saul Chaplin / Sammy Cahn)
- The Ray Ellington Quartet plays That's My Girl (Barbara Tobias / Ray Ellington)
Technical
Originally recorded on TLO 69769 (15 ips ¼" tape recorded at Broadcasting House).
This tape survived in TS, but was cut about in the making of the POTG version, the cuts being kept and later restored.[1]
References
- ^ Kendall, Ted (2015). The Goon Show Compendium Vol 10 (Booklet 2). BBC Worldwide. p. 13. ISBN 9781785290312.
