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 10 January 1960
First Broadcast : Thursday 14 January 1960 on the BBC Home Service
Lord Seagoon is holding a masked ball in his ancestral home of Robin’s Post. The ball happens to be made of gold. Grytpype and Moriarty fuse the gas mantles. Since the band can’t read their music in the dark, Seagoon plays the drums and sings the dance tune. By the light of dawn he finds himself in the middle of a field – the golden ball, and Robin’s Post, are gone. He’s apprehended by Constable Willium and put in the loony bin. With the help of Bloodnok and the law firm of Whacklow, Futtle, and Crun, Bannister, he escapes. Meanwhile, Grytpype and Moriarty are driving Ned’s missing house, the dance still continuing inside, along the King’s highway. They intend to ransom the more important guests to Eastern Potentates. On the highway they encounter Bluebottle and Eccles, who thus are able to tell Seagoon when he phones that they saw his house on a lorry on the Great North Road. When Seagoon arrives, he finds the door to Robin’s Post floating in a nearby canal, and inside the party’s still going on. A rather weak ending, but it’s near enough for jazz.
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