Starring Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan
Announcer: Wallace Greenslade
Music by Max Geldray and The Ray Ellington Quartet
The Orchestra was conducted by Wally Stott
Script: Spike Milligan
Producer: John Browell
Recorded: Sunday 20 December 1959
First Broadcast : Thursday 28 January 1960 on the BBC Home Service
After a bit of a music hall joke-type intro, the main plot begins. The miserly Scrooge proclaims the death of his partner, Marley, and shoots him to make sure. Ned Scratchett puts three sugars into his boss’s tea instead of two and dives into the cup to retrieve the extra one. There he finds his office mate, Eccles. Scrooge refuses to let his clerks off early on Christmas Eve. Scrooge entrusts Eccles to deposit his Christmas pudding, full of gold threepenny bits and worth nearly £50,000, in the bank on his way home. They visit Scratchett’s home where they find Grytpype and Moriarty disguised as Ned’s twin sons. The fiends steal the Christmas pudding and escape first by silent movie piano and then by ladder, pursued by Ned on his piano. Ned runs the villains to ground in Wales, where he returns a match that used to belong to them. Grytpype and Moriarty having met their match, Ned returns to his home with the pudding where he finds Scrooge reformed. The plot peters out there with the cast finishing by singing “White Christmas”.
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