sentences:  Later he became one of the first BBC television newsreaders (albeit out-of-vision) from July to September 1954.Timothy announced the show from its inception in 1951, but left part-way through the fourth series in 1953 "fearing for his sanity" and was replaced by Wallace Greenslade, who remained on the show until it ended in 1960.However, when "The Last Goon Show of All" was produced in 1972 Greenslade had died, and so Timothy came back to announce the special reunion show.