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FINALLY THEN…
This was the situation, Bloodnok is pursued by the mob (you will have forgotten he tried to sell his course of Thunder Pills).
Bluebottle is pursued by his mother.
Henry Crun fires at MIN who confirms that it hurts.
The dinner is getting burnt but Crun feels that the Indians will never attack a burnt dinner.
[In the version heard on the original tape the rather naughty sentence uttered by Minnie is left out (cut-out more likely) but in the lovely new world of The Ted Kendall Mystery Tours, it is put back in, to whit; ]
Crun: Lookout, the Nacker-Tacker Indians are attacking!
Min: Are they the one's who commit atrocities?
Crun: Yes
Min: Oh good, I'll go upstairs and get ready then…
Next, Uncle Oscar's teeth fall to the floor (meaning more dinner for Henry and Minnie).
SERIES OF NACKERTACKER INDIAN WAR WHOOPS HEARD IN THE DISTANCE.
Door bell rings (reality striking again) Pistol Shot/Spit in Bucket and Closing Music…
"I Want To Be Happy".
What else did you expect… blood?… now get out…
Mike Childs (Leather expert)
ARCHIVE FACT FILE: CALL OF THE WEST
This was the twelfth show in the Ninth Series, recorded as usual on Sunday evening (18.1.59) but it was broadcast on Tuesday (20.1.59) instead of the Monday as were the other sixteen episodes in this series; as always, first broadcast was on the Home Service, with a repeat on the Light on 21.1.59.
Script was by Spike Milligan; Production was by John Browell.
The programme was performed at the Camden Theatre and recorded on tape over landline at Broadcasting House: Tape No. TLO 76074.
Max Geldray played A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square whilst the Ray Ellington Quartet played You'd Better Know It.
The show was released as No. 75 in the Goon Show series by Transcription Services, and later re-issued in edited form as No. 25 of the Pick Of The Goons series [Mono only]; BBC Sound Archives did not initially retain a copy.
With assistance from GSPS, an off air recording was located and extracts from this were added to the edited version of Call of the West kept by Transcription Services, by Ted Kendall; this restored version was broadcast on Radio 4 on 12.10.92, previous repeats being on 25.2.60 and 28.1.78.
The programme has been released by BBC Enterprises on the Goon Show Classics Volume 5 with the script published in More Goon Show Scripts [Woburn Press 1973/Sphere Paperbacks 1974].
Stuart Monk, Leather Archivist
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