New Zealand Listener, August 14, 1964, pp.6-7.
Copyright � 1964 New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation.
The Goons on TV? It has been tried before, but there was always one major obstacle--the Goons themselves. Sellers, Secombe and Milligan speak so many parts between them that it was impossible for them to reproduce all the faces behind the voices. The Goons were so essentially a radio show. It soon began to look as though TV would have to miss out on this particular brand of humour.
The BBC did try a TV show called The Idiot Weekly--a title later used for a weekly radio programme that Milligan did in Australia--but neither Spike nor the BBC was particularly happy about trying to make visual humour out of basically vocal material. Besides, Sellers and Milligan are not particularly well disposed towards TV at the best of times.
The BBC eventually overcame the problem of transferring The Goon Show to the screen by creating a puppet cast, using the voices of the original Goons. Producer Tony Young uses a blend of string and rod puppets. String figures are used in the action scenes, but in close-ups the rod puppets take over. Inserts of library film sequences, used as backdrops, have proved particularly effective. It means that the Telegoons can appear in a completely natural setting rather than in the usual artificial surroundings of studio puppet sets. These film sets convey the atmosphere of such exotic places as the Great Wall of China and London's outer suburbs.
The original scripts of 26 of the best radio Goon Shows have been specially adapted for television. The main differences between the two mediums is in the pace. It would be impossible for a TV show--particularly with puppets--to keep up with all the illogical switches of scene and character that occur in the radio show. On the other hand, with the original radio scripts cut down to TV essentials--many people may find the stories easier to follow. At least they're recognizable as stories. Regular Goon fans should be assured that the old humour is still there. Even the faces of Neddy, Eccles, Minnie, Bloodnok and others could turn out to be close to the imagined types their voices have already created.
Viewers will encounter such stirring episodes in Goon history as The Dreaded Batter-Pudding Hurler of Bexhill-on-Sea and the epic journey of Neddy Seagoon to the Great Wall of China with a certain English upright rosewood piano--complete with brass candle holders and keyboard orchestrated in Chinese from right to left. Bluebottle gets regularly "deaded" with screen-shattering aplomb.
New Zealand Listener, October 23, 1964, p.32.
Copyright � 1964 New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation.
Goonism, according to its creators, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan, is the art of bringing any situation to its illogical conclusion, with fantasy piled on fantasy and satire crammed upon satire. The radio version of The Goon Show made an immense impact wherever it was heard--it was adored or abhorred, but never ignored. Naturally, attempts were made to transfer the show to the TV screen, but the major obstacle was that the characters were out of this world. But finally a puppet cast was created, the result being the series Telegoons, which starts from DNTV-2 on Monday. The Producer Tony Young, has used a blend of string and rod puppets (samples are, above from left, Eccles, Moriarty and Neddy Seagoon), and inserts of film convey the atmosphere of such exotic places as "the Great Wall of China and London's outer suburbs". The original radio scripts by Eric Sykes and Spike Milligan have been adapted for television by Maurice Wiltshire, and the puppet's voices are of course those of that redoubtable trio of Goons, Sellers, Secombe and Milligan.
And now for what is probably The Telegoons most unusual outing in printed media:
Midi/Minuit FANTASTIQUE, n�14 Juin 1966, p.41.
Copyright � 1966 midi-minuit fantastique.
(Racquel Welch as Loana in One
Million B.C.)
FILMOGRAPHIE par Jean-Claude Romer (r�dacteur en chef pour MMF)
FILMOGRAPHY by Jean-Claude Romer (head writer for MMF)
FU-MANCHU A L'ECRAN
FU-MANCHU ON THE SCREEN
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Caption:
<< China Story >>, avec Fred Fu Manchu (dont on aper�oit la t�te au centre), un �pisode de la s�rie t�l�vis�e << The Telegoons >>, � la BBC.
"China Story", with Fred Fu Manchu (whose head we see in the center), an episode of the television series
The Telegoons,
from the BBC.
The China Story picture and caption was contributed to MMF by foreign correspondent, Michel Parry (UK).
Printed in the Essence lifestyles supplement to the
Surrey Herald,
24th November 2000, p.25. Copyright � 2000 Surrey Herald.
by Judy Parsons
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Background: During my October 2000 research trip to the UK, I
spent two days at the offices of the Surrey Herald newspaper*,
looking through back-issues for any information about the Nellie McQueens
restaurant and the Young family. In the process I met several staff members who
had known the restaurant well. I was subsequently interviewed by Judy Parsons. A short article based on this interview
was published in the History on Your Doorstep Section of the Herald's Essence lifestyles supplement, 24th Nov. 2000, on p.25. The article was
entitled Quest to find the TV Goons.
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*Surrey Herald Newspapers, 89 Eastworth Road, Chertsey, Surrey
KT16 8DX
