How many of The Telegoons films still exist?
The Goon Show Preservation Society of Great Britain (GSPS) owns copies of all of The Telegoons TV episodes on 16 mm B&W film. Other copies may still exist in the BBC film archives, and possibly also in the archives of Television New Zealand and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The last showing of The Telegoons on BBCtv (The Terrible Revenge of Fred Fu-Manchu) occurred 27th September, 1965. This was not the end, however, as on September 15th, 1996, a clip of The Telegoons was shown on BBCtv in ‘Kicking and Screaming’, a programme about football. The clip was from The Whistling Spy Enigma (2nd Series, #9) so, presumably, the BBC still have copies of The Telegoons films somewhere. More recently, one of The Telegoons films was shown in its entirety at the 2nd annual convention of the GSPS (Son of A Weekend Called Fred), which was held in Brighton, UK, October 1997. I learned from one of The Telegoons puppeteers, who talked to the BBC recently (2002), that the BBC still have eightee
