Doctor vanishes without further pursuit as our half-hour is nearly up. Did he continue his evil trade? Greenslade, toothless, provides the final line which answers this question. Wallace did not do all the closing credits in gums only, a pity as this would have been good fun.   
So another Show concludes: a strong story with well-scheduled appearances by all our favourites. I wonder as they worked through Series 6 how they all felt about the future. To Spike it was the fearful task of finding new ideas for another 26 shows, an enormously long run. Sellers approaching mega stardom no doubt would have found Sundays a relief, and often said as much. Harry too had loads of other work on hand but loved to get together with his mates.

Footnotes (or handnotes if you don't want to bend down) …

(1) Early in the Show the Doctor is referred to as Longdongle, later it became Longdongler. A peep at the official BBC script might help in this discrepancy.
(2) I have a tape of redubs after the Show came off the air. It is interesting to note Greenslade takes charge of proceedings in touch with the control room, and sounds quite bossy. Well, I suppose a BBC announcer had to act posh as well as talk posh.

The famous Mike Coveney

ARCHIVE FACT FILE:    "The House of Teeth"
Now available on Volume 23 of the CD re-issues.

This was the twentieth show of the Sixth series, recorded Sunday 29th January 1956 at the Camden Theatre but with the first UK broadcast Tuesday 31st (Home Service, 20:30).
Starring Spike, Peter, Harry.
Script by Spike Milligan (appears in The Goon Show Scripts)
Produced by Peter Eton
Recording No. TLO 96271
TS Issue: original Series No. 24
TS Reissue: No. 67 (CN 1546/SS)
Guest: Valentine Dyall
Repeated 23 December 1997, Radio 2 (15:00)

This Show, as recorded, appears to contain the only tip-of-the-hat acknowledgement by the Goons of their nascent 1950s fan club. When Seagoon and his retinue lift the flagstone to reveal the horde of toothless ragged men, Ned is heard to comment "Is this the Goonist Movement?" (see Newsletter No 68)
The comment appears in the UK original transmission, but did not survive into the edited, shorter 27 minute TS reissue version, presumably for being obscure and in-jokey. I wonder if it is now in the new CD issue….
Neil Trickey,    Author of the Encyclopaedia Goonicus