Voices of Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan
Music by
Edward White
Country of origin
United Kingdom
No. of episodes
26
Production
Producer
Tony Young
Running time
15 minutes per episode
Original release
Network
BBC
Release
5 October 1963 (1963-10-05) – 1 August 1964 (1964-08-01)
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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[1] and first shown during 1963 and 1964.[2] Two series of 13 episodes were made.[3] 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.[4] Among the puppeteers were Ann Field, John Dudley, and Violet Phelan.[5][6] 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.[7]
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.[8]
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^"The Telegoons (a Titles & Air Dates Guide)". epguides.com.
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^"People". roxburgh.org.
^"The anniversary of the first showing of 'The Telegoons'". 6 October 2013.
^"The Telegoons 4 Dual Layer DVDs Goon Show Puppet TV Series". store.earthstation1.com.
^"The Goon Show Compendium: Volume 11 (Series 9, Pt 2 & Series 10), Twenty episodes of the classic BBC radio comedy series by Spike Milligan". penguin.co.uk.
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Alastair. "A Short History of TheTelegoons: Voice Actors, Puppeteers & Producers". TheTelegoons. Archived from the original on 1 May 2006. "BBC Programme...
ISBN 0-7535-0966-0. p.137 "Famous Telegoon Fans". www.telegoons.org. Archived from the original on 18 February 2012. "Live At The B.B.C". Jpgr.co.uk. Retrieved...
the BBC either currently or previously broadcast on the BBC in the United Kingdom. Programmes in this section have been broadcast by the BBC in the last...
of the Daily Mail wrote a short favourable review of the first episode, claiming that the ending "must have delighted the hearts of theTelegoons who...
Atterbury worked on the puppet series TheTelegoons (1963–64), which was based on Spike Milligan's radio show The Goon Show. In the 1960s, television puppets...
script for the show). Several of his radio scripts for The Goon Show were later adapted by Wiltshire for the TV puppet version, TheTelegoons. According...
Charles ISBN 978-1-4463-0283-5 "Biography of Audrey Atterbury". Telegoons.org. Archived from the original on 8 September 2009. 'ATTERBURY, Paul Rowley', Who's...
Holland Park, where the Holland Park Set would meet up to rehearse for TheTelegoons. Clare was born in London and began playing the piano as a young child...
Peter Sellers of The Goon Show in their feature film debut. In 1963–64 Young produced TheTelegoons for BBC Television. Secombe plays the part of Harry Flakers...
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Sooty Space Patrol Star Trek Supercar Tales of the Gold Monkey Target Tarzan TheTelegoons Tom and Jerry Arthur! The Bakers'...
of the BBC's TV channels. The following list gives some of the more notable ones. Some television series transfer in the other direction. Both the science...
author. She was involved in the production of TheTelegoons by making marionette figures and created the character Zippy for the children's television show...
(1963–1964) 30 September – Spotlight South-West (1963–present) 5 October – TheTelegoons (1963–1964) 6 October – Dig This Rhubarb (1963–1964) 9 October – Festival...
The Rolf Harris Show, drawn by Philip Mendoza. Sooty, based on the TV puppet show Sooty, drawn by Tony Hart and later Gordon Hutchings. TheTelegoons...
of Escape (1956) The Key Man (1957) The Diplomatic Corpse (1958) Violent Moment (1959) A Question of Suspense (1961) TheTelegoons (1963) "BFI | Film...
British comics artist (Mighty Moth, I Don't Believe It) and writer (TheTelegoons, Barney Bear), dies at age 81. February 6: Jacques Kamb, French comics...
including the BBC. The society also owns the Neddie Seagoon puppet from TheTelegoons. It no longer has formal regional groups within the United Kingdom...
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