The Toothpaste Expedition

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"The Toothpaste Expedition"
The Goon Show episode
Episode: no.Series: 4
Episode: 20
Written by
AnnouncerWallace Greenslade
Produced byPeter Eton
Music
Recording
Number
TLO 49072
First broadcast12 February 1954 (1954-02-12)
Running time29:18
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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

An example of toothpaste mined from under the Sahara Desert

Music

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

  1. ^ Kendall, Ted (2018). The Goon Show Compendium Vol 14 (Booklet 2). BBC Worldwide. p. 26. ISBN 978-1-7875-3266-3.
  2. ^ Kendall, Ted (2018). The Goon Show Compendium Vol 14 (Booklet 2). BBC Worldwide. p. 9. ISBN 978-1-7875-3266-3.