Underplayed Gems

The Telegoons (1963)

The Telegoons poster
Genre
comedy television series
Country
United Kingdom
Length
2 seasons, 26 episodes
Rating
5.2 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This is a comedy puppet show that adapts scripts from a famous British radio series. Well-known comedians reprise their voice roles for the puppets.

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What happens

The Telegoons is a comedy puppet show, adapted from the highly esteemed and successful BBC radio comedy show of the 1950s, The Goon Show produced by Tony Young for BBC television and first shown during 1963 and 1964. Two series of 13 episodes were made. The series was briefly repeated immediately after its original run, and all episodes are known to have survived. Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan reprised their original voice roles from the radio series and appeared in promotional photos with some of the puppets from the series. Among the puppeteers were Ann Field, John Dudley, and Violet Phelan. The original radio scripts were adapted by Maurice Wiltshire, who had previously co-written a number of radio episodes with Larry Stephens. The only official broadcasts of any Telegoons material since the 1960s were a short excerpt, claimed to have been newly printed from the original negative, shown on the 1980s BBC archive series Windmill, and a brief excerpt during the quiz programme Telly Addicts. However DVD compilations of all episodes (from unknown sources) are available on eBay and other outlets. A lengthy excerpt from a cast recording for the episode "The Lost Colony" is included on The Goon Show Compendium Volume 11 CD box set. The recording, made at Olympic Studios, is taken from a tape kept by the studio's former owner. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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