The Silver Dubloons
| "The Silver Dubloons" | |
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| The Goon Show episode | |
| Episode: no. | Series: 10 Episode: 5 |
| Written by | Spike Milligan |
| Announcer | Wallace Greenslade |
| Produced by | John Browell |
| Music |
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| Recording Number | TLO 6251 |
| First broadcast | 21 January 1960 |
| Running time | 30:23 |
| Guest appearance | |
| Valentine Dyall | |
The Silver Dubloons is an episode from The Goon Show. It is the fifth show in the tenth series.
Pre-recording: Wednesday 13 January 1960, 4.15pm, Aeolian Hall Studio 2 (TLO & C/DLO 5387) and Sunday 17 January 1960, 4pm, The Camden Theatre (DLO 6251/A).
The show for transmission was recorded at 8pm on Sunday 17 January 1960. The recording took place at the Camden Theatre, Camden Town, London.
The first British public broadcast was on the Home Service on Thursday 21 January 1960 at 7.30pm. It reached a peak listenership of 0.6m.
The show's first repeat was the following Tuesday at 8pm, 26 January 1960, on the Light Programme. It was listened to by 2.0 million. The next repeat was 15 years later on Friday 7 March 1975 at 6.15pm in Encore the Goons on Radio 4 (except Scotland and Wales).
Transcription Service Synopsis
Where there's money, there's Moriarty! And when there's a Spanish Galleon buried in the sands off Cornwall, you can bet that he'll be there, searching for Dubloons! (or is it Doubloons!). As usual it's Neddie who gets the Thynne end of the wedge, and once again his downfall appears to be hastened by Messrs. Banerjee and Lalkaka.
Music
- The BBC Radio Orchestra was conducted by Wally Stott
- Max Geldray plays Love Walked In (George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin)
- The Ray Ellington Quartet plays This Can't Be Love (Richard Rodgers (music) / Lorenz Hart (lyrics))
Technical
Originally recorded on TLO 6251 (15 ips ¼" tape recorded at Broadcasting House).
The TLO 6251 master tape survived almost entirely intact in TS, and has been used for the version of the show included on Compendium 11, a small cut being restored from the TGS disc.[1]
References
- ^ Kendall, Ted (2015). The Goon Show Compendium Vol 11 (Booklet 2). BBC Worldwide. p. 16. ISBN 978-1-7852-9129-6.
