More Telegoons

The Telegoons was one of several attempts to bring the Goons’ humour to the television. The first episode, ‘The Ascent of Mount Everest’, was broadcast on 5 October 1963.

The script was adapted by Maurice Wiltshire from the fourth series episode ‘The Ghastly Experiments of Dr Hans Eidelburger’, which featured the Everest adventure in its second and third acts.

While the BBC’s Genome project only holds images of Radio Times pages up the end of 1959, you can still see the basic information from the listing on the Genome website, announcing the episode as “BBC radio world-famous Goons in a new puppet series for television”.

Fortunately, you can see the whole episode here, via Daily Motion.

Episode two, ‘The Lost Colony’, was adapted from ‘The Sale of Manhattan’, the 11th episode of the sixth radio series. It’s also available on Daily Motion.

First Series

Episode	Title	Based on	Broadcast
1	The Ascent of Mount Everest	The Ghastly Experiments of Dr Hans Eidelburger (S04E03)	5 October 1963
2	The Lost Colony	The Sale of Manhattan (S06E11)	12 October 1963
3	The Fear of Wages	The Fear of Wages (S06E25)	19 October 1963
4	Napoleon's Piano	Napoleon's Piano (S06E04)	26 October 1963
5	The Last Tram	​The Last Tram (from Clapham) (S05E09)	2 November 1963
6	The China Story	China Story (S05E17)	16 November 1963
7	The Canal	The Canal (S05E06)	23 November 1963
8	The Choking Horror	The Choking Horror (S06E22)	28 December 1963
9	The Hastings Flyer	The Hastings Flyer - Robbed (S06E15)	7 December 1963
10	The Mystery of the Marie Celeste Solved?	The Mystery of the Marie Celeste (Solved) (S05E08)	14 December 1963
11	The International Christmas Pudding	The International Christmas Pudding (S06E09)	21 December 1963

'The Choking Horror' was postponed by a few weeks due to the repeat broadcast of a new series called Doctor Who. I wonder what happened to that?

Second Series

Episode	Title	Based on	Broadcast
1	Scradge	Scradje (S06E26)	28 March 1964
2	The Booted Gorilla	The Booted Gorilla (Found?) (S05E10)	4 April 1964
3	The Underwater Mountain	The Greatest Mountain in the World (S04E23)	11 April 1964
4	The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler of Bexhill-on-Sea	The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler (of Bexhill-on-Sea) (S05E03)	18 April 1964
5	Tales of Old Dartmoor	Tales of Old Dartmoor (S06E21)	25 April 1964
6	Lurgi Strikes Britain	Lurgi Strikes Britain (S05E07)	2 May 1964
7	Captain Seagoon RN	Personal Narrative (S07E08)	9 May 1964
8	The First Albert Memorial to the Moon	The First Albert Memorial to the Moon (S04E07)	16 May 1964
9	The Whistling Spy Enigma	The Whistling Spy Enigma (S05E01)	23 May 1964
10	Tales of Montmartre	Tales of Montmartre (S06E18)	30 May 1964
11	The Africa Ship Canal	The Africa Ship Canal (S07E22)	6 June 1964
12	The Affair of the Lone Banana	The Affair of the Lone Banana (S05E05)	13 June 1964
13	The Terrible Revenge of Fred Fu-Manchu	The Terrible Revenge of Fred Fu-Manchu (S06E12)	1 August 1964
14	The Nadger Plague	The Nadger Plague (S07E03)	27 June 1964
15	The Siege of Fort Knight	The Siege of Fort Knight (S04E30)	18 July 1964

Episodes 13 and 15 were delayed due to sport.

For those interested in more information, including plot summaries, cast and crew details, images and pretty much anything else you can thing of (and plenty you won't have), I highly recommend immersing yourself in the Telegoons website. It's a treasure trove of material and deserves to be appreciated.