Transmission: Impossible With Ed And
Oucho
Louise
Gold featured as a guest-puppeteer performing Babs (the female termite), show
broadcast on BBC 2 from 10am to 11:30 am on Saturdays and on CBBC from 10am to 11:30am
on Sundays, from 16 May 2009. She was definitely in Episode 5 first broadcast
on 30 May 2009, Episode 8 first broadcast on 7 June 2009, Episode 10 first
broadcast on 14 June 2009, Episode 12 first broadcast on 21 June 2009, Episode
14 first broadcast on 28 June 2009, Episode 16 first broadcast on 5 July 2009,
and, Episode 24 first broadcast on 2 August 2009. The programme is recorded at
Pinewood Studios
Cast
Ed Petrie plays Ed
Louise Gold puppeteers Babs (the female termite, wife of Bob)
Production Team
Executive Producer Pete Davies
Director Geoff Coward
Music Dan Weller, and, Ciaran Cahill
Graphics J J Stereo
Production Designer Richard Hornsby
Art Director Sam Osborn
Floor Manager Mandy Read
Art Supervisor Hamish Bond
Make Up Gill Hoare
Camera Supervisor Matt Ingram
Cameras Pat McKeeman, and, David Smith
Camera Assistants Dave Collier, and, Ingrid Giuseppe
Lighting Director Dave Evans
Vision Mixer Chris Whiterod
Sound Supervisor Guy Rowland
Grams Operator Richard Stillitto
Sound Assistant - Charlotte John
Vieux Puppet - Andrew Jones
Tape Chris Waterford
Production Team Claire McCarthy, Wilson ?
Production Coordinator Sarah Scully
Researcher Peter Young
Assistant Producer Ruth Mills
Production Manager Zoe Jones, Dominic Parry
Series Producer - ?
Puppet Builder (Termites and others) Phil Fletcher
Episode Dates
Episode 1, first broadcast on BBC2 on 16 May 2009
Episode 2, first broadcast on CBBC on 17 May 2009
Episode 3, first broadcast on BBC2 on 23 May 2009
Episode 4, first broadcast on CBBC on 24 May 2009
Episode 5, first broadcast on BBC 2 on 30 May 2009 (Louise Gold was definitely performing on this episode, she sang Theres Gotta Be Something Better Than This)
Episode 6, first broadcast on CBBC on 31 May 2009
Episode 7, first broadcast on BBC2 on 6 June 2009
Episode 8, first broadcast on CBBC on 7 June 2009 (Louise Gold was definitely performing in this episode, she sang Somewhere Over The Rainbow)
Episode 9, first broadcast on BBC2 on 13 June 2009
Episode 10, first broadcast on CBBC on 14 June 2009 (Louise Gold was definitely performing in this episode, she sang I Want To Break Free)
Episode 11, first broadcast on BBC 2 on 20 June 2009
Episode 12, first broadcast on CBBC on 21 June 2009 (Louise Gold was definitely performing in this episode, and shouting).
Episode 13, first broadcast on BBC 2 on 27 June 2009
Episode 14, first broadcast on CBBC on 28 June 2009 (Louise Gold was definitely performing in this episode, moving performance)
Episode 15, first broadcast on BBC 2 on 4 July 2009
Episode 16, first broadcast on CBBC on 5 July 2009 (Louise Gold definitely performing in this episode, quite domineering)
Episode 17, first broadcast on BBC 2 on 11 July 2009
Episode 18, first broadcast on CBBC on 12 July 2009
Episode 19, first broadcast on BBC 2 on 18 July 2009
Episode 20, first broadcast on CBBC on 19 July 2009
Episode 21, first broadcast on BBC 2 on 25 July 2009
Episode 22, first broadcast on CBBC on 26 July 2009
Episode 23, first broadcast on BBC 2 on 1 August 2009
Episode 24, first broadcast on CBBC on 2 August 2009 (Louise Gold is definitely performing in this episode, quite a feature and 2 songs one from Girls Aloud and then Lets Face The Music And Dance)
For reviews/accounts of the Termite Sketches please click here.
Laugh??? I Nearly Paid My Licence
Fee, City Lights, Alexi Sayles
Merry-Go-Round, A Week In The West End,
The Alan Clark Diaries, and, Rita Rudner were all broadcast (usually first
broadcast) on BBC 2.
The
Production Designer Richard Hornsby
was previously the Design Consultant for Comedy
Tonight.
It
is not known, whether or not the Camera Assistant Dave Collier could possibly have been the child-actor David Collier in Squeak.
Warrick
Brownlow-Pike, and, Louise Gold have gone on to puppeteer on That Puppet Game Show, and, The Furchester Hotel.
Warrick
Brownlow-Pike, Louise Gold, and, Phil Fletcher all went on to appear, together at Muppets And
Puppets (Kaleidoscope Event).
Critics Comments
Links about Transmission: Impossible With
Ed And Oucho
Official Site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00kp4bb
Wikipedia Entry for the show: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission:_Impossible_with_Ed_and_Oucho
Agency Licensing Campaign (article in The Stage): http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/31022/theatre-stars-back-campaign-for-talent-agency,
and Online Petition (which anyone
who supports it can sign): http://www.gopetition.com/petition/41085.html , seeing as Ed Petrie is among the
performers backing this worthy campaign.
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