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Round the Horne Round the Horne RoundRound thethe HorneHorne The Collector’s Edition SERIES THREE FEBRUARY 1967 - JUNE 1967 PAN352 PAN 314 PAN 362 BLACK CD 9 CD 10 CD 7 CD 8 At the mic from left to right: Hugh Paddick, Kenneth Williams, PROGRAMME THIRTEEN PROGRAMME FIFTEEN SERIES THREE PROGRAMME SEVENTEEN PROGRAMME NINETEEN Kenneth Horne and Betty Marsden 4 JUNE 1967 18 JUNE 1967 7 MAY 1967 21 MAY 1967 n October 1966, a bout of ill-health led to Kenneth Horne’s medical advisers prescribing 1 BASTE AN ARCHDEACON WITH 1 FRANKENSTEIN’S LABORATORY 1 UNZIP A HYAENA FOR PEACE WEEK 1 TRAILER FOR THE NUDE CYCLIST OF him two to three months’ complete rest. Christmas that year, therefore, saw the SYRUP OF FIGS FOR FUN AND POLPERRO broadcast of the only Round the Horne episode to be made without the eponymous star. 2 COMMONWEALTH SENNAPOD DAY 2 ARMPIT THEATRE – YOUNG HORNE I PROFIT WEEK WITH A MAN 2 SMEAR A GOOSE IN CAMEMBERT Although eight years had passed since Kenneth Horne’s stroke which forced him to give 3 THE PALONE RANGER 2 THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – THE BOXER 3 BROTHERHOOD OF MAN (FHF) FOR INTERNATIONAL up his business career (and left him with intermittent speech problems and a noticeable 4 ZING ZING AY (FHF) MOTHERHOOD WEEK limp), there had long been a perceived tendency for the entertainer to work himself too 3 MICHAEL ROW THE BOAT ASHORE (FHF) 4 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE BIG TOP hard and accept more work engagements than he should.At this stage in his career he was 4 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 5 EXCERPT FROM A SUPERNATURAL FILM 6 J PEASEMOLD GRUNTFUTTOCK THE 4 MY RESISTANCE IS LOW (FHF) very much in demand on radio and TV panel games and talk shows, and it seems that this 5 CHARLES AND FIONA ON SCRIPTWRITER 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO inability to resist such offers of work was instrumental in bringing on a state of exhaustion. HONEYMOON 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 7 CHARLES AND FIONA IN THE SOUND 7 BONA SEANCES Not only would this affect the seasonal one-off episode (Horne’s lines were re-distributed 6 J PEASEMOLD GRUNTFUTTOCK AT 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO EFFECTS DEPARTMENT PROGRAMME FOURTEEN amongst the rest of the cast), but it also had implications for the start of Series Three. THE CINEMA 7 LA CASSEROLE DE BONA GOURMET Recording of the third series had originally been planned for November 1966, but 8 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 14 MAY 1967 7 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 8 AN APOLOGY FOR KENNETH WILLIAMS Horne’s condition naturally made this impossible. His Round the Horne co-stars – Betty 9 BBC WARDROBE DEPARTMENT 8 IT’S COMING 8 BONA GUEST HOUSE Marsden, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Bill Pertwee – had, however, already been PROGRAMME TWENTY 9 SMEAR A TRAFFIC WARDEN IN PROGRAMME SIXTEEN 28 MAY 1967 booked for the weekly recordings. For some of them the postponement represented a loss PROGRAMME EIGHTEEN 25 JUNE 1967 BLOATER PASTE FOR ASIA DAY 11 JUNE 1967 of work; Betty Marsden in particular had turned down a pantomime booking in Scotland in 10THE SOURCES OF MATERIAL 10ARMPIT THEATRE – THE MALTESE 9 TRAILER FOR HAWKEYE, LAST OF order to be available for Round the Horne. In the event, she and the rest of the cast were 9 TRY TO SLIP A DOUBLE ENTENDRE BRASS MONKEY THE PEEPING TOMS PAST THE PRODUCER DAY 11THE HEAD OF THE BBC WHO CAME available for the rescheduled recording dates (due to commence in February 1967), and IN FROM THE COLD 11SOON IT’S GONNA RAIN (FHF) 10BRITISH LEGION BARBEQUE A settlements for the cancelled recordings were made via each artist’s agent. 10THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – THE BISHOP FOR LENT DAY Since its inception in 1965, Round the Horne had become a mainstay of the BBC Light 12GONNA BUILD A MOUNTAIN (FHF) 12COLOUR SUPPLEMENT There were a couple of recording and transmission hiccups with this series. For some BULLFIGHTER 11THE MUFFPLASTER SAGA – Programme schedules. For households all over the country it had become as much a part of reason the episode recorded fourth was brought forward to be transmitted first, with 11WHEN I’M NOT NEAR THE GIRL I LOVE 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 13EXCERPT FROM WHERE NO HIPPOS DISCOVERY OF AMERICA Sunday lunchtimes as the traditional roast, whilst the press’s early concerns over smut and FLY episodes One,Two and Three then following on in order. It was traditional with Round the (FHF) 14CHARLES AND FIONA, NUDISTS 12GOTTA TRAVEL ON (FHF) double entendre had apparently subsided.At the end of each series Kenneth Horne would 14RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Horne that, following each new episode’s Sunday broadcast, a repeat transmission would 12COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 13COLOUR SUPPLEMENT celebrate their success by throwing a luncheon party for all those involved; a typical printed follow in the next few days. In the very first week of Series Three, however, a mistake was 15BONA HUNT invitation to such an event read, ‘Monday, June 12 is an occasion of world-shattering importance. 13CHARLES AND FIONA AT BINGO 16BODY BONA 14CHARLES AND FIONA ON TOP OF made and, instead of a repeat on Wednesday, listeners were treated to the second new There will be Rabbi titillating at Cockfosters, Foster titillating at his own convenience, and cock- 14BONA TV LIMITED 17THE CAST SAY GOODBYE BIG BEN episode in the series! baiting at Mirabile Dictu...And by some quirk of fate, there will be a Round the Horne lunch... 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Let me know if you can come – list of invitees overleaf, in case you want to avoid anyone.’ 16GUIDED TRIPETTES 2 15 14 3 PAGE 2 PAGE 15 PAGE 14 PAGE 3 PROGRAMME TEN 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE PHANTOM CD 4 16BONA NATURE CLINIC 16 APRIL 1967 OF BOGMOUTH HIP PROGRAMME SEVEN 17RAMBLING SYD RUMPO Round the Horne Even before the third series had 15COMPLAINTS ABOUT LAST WEEK’S 4 ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TRACKS 26 MARCH 1967 18LATE NEWS ITEM drawn to a close, the Heads of Light SHOW 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 1 ANTIQUE SHOW CD 5 The Collector’s Edition Entertainment were already looking 16COAT A SHEEP IN RASPBERRY JAM 6 CHARLES AND FIONA ON GAMBLING 2 AN APOLOGY TO THE REVEREND PROGRAMME NINE forward to a fourth.The winds of WEEK 7 BONA TAX CONSULTANTS GOOSECREATURE 9 APRIL 1967 SERIES THREE change were on their way, however, 17ARMPIT THEATRE – GASLIGHT, SON 3 ARMPIT THEATRE – THE ADMIRABLE and a cost-cutting directive from on OF FLICKER 8 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 1 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, ROUND FEBRUARY 1967 - JUNE 1967 LOOMBUCKET PART ONE THE HORNE PRESENTS... high would find Edwin Braden and the 18GOODBYE CHARLIE (FHF) 9 POLICE MESSAGE 4 MATCHMAKER (FHF) 2 GRUNTFUTTOCK AS A BABY Hornblowers, the Fraser Hayes Four 19COLOUR SUPPLEMENT PROGRAMME TWELVE and Bill Pertwee absent from future 30 APRIL 1967 5 COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 3 GRUNTFUTTOCK’S SCHOOLDAYS 20EXCERPT FROM A NAVAL WARTIME CREDITS episodes. Meanwhile Marty Feldman’s 6 RAMBLING SYD RUMPO FILM 10DETAILS OF FORTHCOMING 4 GRUNTFUTTOCK’S POLITICAL LIFE own burgeoning career, as a writer and WRITTEN BY PROGRAMMES 7 CHARLES AND FIONA IN A ‘PHONE BOX 5 DAME BELLA GOATCABIN performer, was taking him in new and 21BONA PRODS Barry Took and Marty Feldman 11THE ROUND THE HORNE AWARDS 8 BONA CATERERS 6 WORLD WAR ONE IN SONG exciting directions.With three series 22RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 12ARMPIT THEATRE – A MAN IS TWO 9 POLICE MESSAGE (FHF AND CAST) STARRING of Round the Horne under his belt as 23POLICE MESSAGE – THE NUDE FOOT TALL Kenneth Horne, Betty Marsden, Hugh Paddick, Bill Pertwee, co-writer and creator, he decided to CYCLIST OF POLPERRO PROGRAMME EIGHT 7 GRUNTFUTTOCK OF ARABIA 13I BELIEVE IN YOU (FHF) 2 APRIL 1967 Douglas Smith and Kenneth Williams call it a day. CD 6 8 CAPTURED BY THE TURKS PRODUCED BY But as the cast waved goodbye in 14COLOUR SUPPLEMENT 10ANY QUESTIONS 9 WORLD WAR TWO PROGRAMME ELEVEN John Simmonds the last episode of Series Three, they 23 APRIL 1967 15RAMBLING SYD RUMPO 11PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS 10CHARLES AND FIONA IN HYDE PARK would have had little intimation of how 1 DO ANYTHING RATHER THAN 16BONA BIJOU TOURETTES 12ARMPIT THEATRE – THE ADMIRABLE 11INTERNATIONAL CABARET PLUG MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT BY things would never be quite the same LISTEN TO ROUND THE HORNE 17COMPLAINTS BY A SMALL MINORITY LOOMBUCKET PART TWO Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser Hayes Four again for their happy line-up – or that 12REAR ADMIRAL MONTY FIGGIS 2 FESTOON A GNOME WITH BACON OF KILLJOYS 13HEY, LOOK ME OVER (FHF) EPISODES RESTORED AND REMASTERED FOR CD BY the next year of Round the Horne 13BONA PRESS RIND DAY 14COLOUR SUPPLEMENT Ted Kendall would be its very last. 14GRUNTFUTTOCK,‘TIS OF THEE 15EXCERPT FROM THE WAYWARD WITH THANKS TO STREPTOCOCCUS Programme notes researched and written by Steve Arnold Michael Stevens ILLUSTRATIONS BY Radio Times Gary Smith 9 February 1967 4 13 12 5 PAGE 4 PAGE 13 PAGE 12 PAGE 5 CD 2 CD 3 BIOGRAPHIES PROGRAMME THREE PROGRAMME FIVE TRACK LISTING BIOGRAPHIES 26 FEBRUARY 1967 12 MARCH 1967 Kenneth Horne was born in 1907. His first career was in business, during which time he NOTE: Kenneth Williams was born in London in 1926. rose to become a director of Triplex Safety Glass and 1 TOASTMASTER 1 FRANZ KAFKA BAND SHOW These episodes have been restored to their fullest versions using both Home Having trained as a cartographer’s apprentice, he was chairman of Chad Valley Toys. 2 LAST WEEK’S QUIZ 2 DOUBLE ENTENDRE (BBC Light Programme) and Overseas (BBC Transcription Service) recordings.
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