The Telegoons

The Telegoons
Created by	Grosvenor Films
Starring	Voices of Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of episodes	26
Production
Running time	15 minutes per episode
Original release
Network	BBC
Release	5 October 1963 – 1 August 1964

The Telegoons is a comedy puppet show, adapted from the highly successful BBC radio comedy show of the 1950s, The Goon Show produced 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. A Telegoons comic strip appeared in TV Comic during the 1960s. Among the puppeteers were Ann Field, John Dudley, and Violet Phelan.

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.

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.

External links

• The Telegoons at IMDb
• The Official G.S.P.S. Telegoons tribute site
• Rare British Television Reviews — The Telegoons