Series 9 (1958-59)

Cast includes Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe, Spike Milligan, The Ray Ellington Quartet, Max Geldray and Wallace Greenslade as announcer.

Episode Details:

1 : The Sahara Desert Statue

First Broadcast: 1958-11-03
Recorded: 1958-11-02
Author: Spike Milligan
Producer: John Browell
Notes: Not coherently announced.
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2 : I Was Monty's Treble

First Broadcast: 1958-11-10
Recorded: 1958-11-06
Author: Spike Milligan
Producer: John Browell
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3 : The £1,000,000 Penny

First Broadcast: 1958-11-17
Recorded: 1958-11-16
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'.
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4 : The Pam's Paper Insurance Policy

First Broadcast: 1958-11-24
Recorded: 1958-11-23
Author: Spike Milligan
Producer: John Browell
Notes: Not coherently announced.
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5 : The Mountain Eaters

First Broadcast: 1958-12-01
Recorded: 1958-11-30
Author: Spike Milligan
Producer: John Browell
Notes: Not coherently announced.
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6 : The Childe Harolde Rewarde

First Broadcast: 1958-12-08
Recorded: 1958-12-07
Author: Spike Milligan
Producer: John Browell
Notes: Not coherently announced.
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7 : The Seagoon Memoirs

First Broadcast: 1958-12-15
Recorded: 1958-12-14
Author: Larry Stephens and Maurice Wiltshire
Producer: John Browell
Notes: Not coherently announced.
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8 : Queen Anne's Rain

First Broadcast: 1958-12-22
Recorded: 1958-12-21
Author: Spike Milligan
Producer: John Browell
Notes: Not coherently announced.
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9 : The Battle of Spion Kop

First Broadcast: 1958-12-29
Recorded: 1958-12-28
Author: Spike Milligan
Producer: John Browell
Notes: Not coherently announced.
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10 : Ned's Atomic Dustbin

First Broadcast: 1959-01-05
Recorded: 1959-01-04
Author: Spike Milligan
Producer: John Browell
Notes: Not coherently announced. With John Snagge (pre-recorded).
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11 : Who Is Pink Oboe?

First Broadcast: 1959-01-12
Recorded: 1959-01-11
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.
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12 : The Call of the West

First Broadcast: 1959-01-20
Recorded: 1959-01-18
Author: Spike Milligan
Producer: John Browell
Notes: Announced as 'Captain Stingo, or Goon Law, or Anythinggggggg (Hern)'.
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13 : Dishonoured - Again

First Broadcast: 1959-01-26
Recorded: 1959-01-25
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'.

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14 : The Scarlet Capsule

First Broadcast: 1959-02-02
Recorded: 1959-02-01
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.

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15 : The Tay Bridge

First Broadcast: 1959-02-09
Recorded: 1959-02-08
Author: Spike Milligan
Producer: John Browell
Notes: With George Chisholm. Not coherently announced.
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16 : The Gold Plate Robbery

First Broadcast: 1959-02-16
Recorded: 1959-02-15
Author: Spike Milligan
Producer: John Browell
Notes: Announced (eventually) as 'The Kleens of Blenchinghall, the story of an ordinary English comedy half-hour'.
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17 : The £50 Cure

First Broadcast: 1959-02-23
Recorded: 1959-02-22
Author: Spike Milligan
Producer: John Browell
Notes: Without Harry Secombe, with Kenneth Connor. Not coherently announced.
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