Starring Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan, with Valentine Dyall
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 17 January 1960
First Broadcast: Thursday 21 January 1960 on the BBC Home Service
Yes, the official title is misspelled…..
On the sea coast in Cornwall, Ned Seagoon wants to borrow a shovel from Grytpype and Moriarty, as he’s heard that during the Armada a Spanish galleon went down off Brown Cove, and at low tide you can dig for Spanish doubloons. Moriarty feigns illness of the wallet, curable only by a tablespoonful of silver doubloons three times a day. They give Seagoon a shovel in return for him helping cure the Count. For weeks, Ned digs up doubloons for the con men, delivering them to their hotel in Paris. They agree to arrange for a holiday for Ned – up the lift from his basement in Bloodnok’s flats. For the second part of his holiday, he visits Count Valentine Dyall in his old country manor. There he discovers that the Count’s son (his son Dyall) collects silver milk bottle tops, collects them in sacks, takes them away, and buries them. The show ends with Grytpype and Moriarty unable to pay their 10,000 franc restaurant bill because their doubloons turn out to be milk bottle tops.
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