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 and Larry Stephens
Producer: Peter Eton (substituted by Jacques Brown?)
Recorded: Sunday 3 January 1954
First Broadcast : Friday 8 January 1954 on the BBC Home Service
This episode was rerecorded as V/3 The Missing Ten Downing Street.
At midnight on Christmas Eve, 1953, Constable Willium is on guard outside Ten Downing Street. A report is phoned in to the Bow Street Station that Number Ten is missing. Inspector Gladys Seagoon rushes to Downing Street to discover a gap between numbers Nine and Eleven, and Willium tied up and gagged with a hand towel from Number Ten. Willium says that a monster lorry pulled up outside, ten men jumped out, and walloped him on the head. When he came to, the house was gone. The Prime Minister must be returned! Seagoon orders police and military roadblocks to be set up. Major Bloodnok, in charge of one of the roadblocks, sends Fred Bogg out to investigate someone creeping about outside. It turns out to be Ellington, who had just dropped off a lorry with a large building strapped to the back. Private Bogg knocks on the door of a nearby house to ask if he can use their telephone. Henry Crun, a resident of the house, wakes up when the alarm clock goes off early, but he can’t find his spectacles in the dark and so can’t shut it off. It wakes up Minnie, a three-way argument between Henry, Minnie, and Bogg starts, and the result is total pandemonium. Meantime, Seagoon discovers that Ten Downing Street and the PM have been sighted in France. He sets off, with Eccles and Bloodnok in pursuit. They find Number Ten, and discover that the French kidnapped the PM to perform a very short job for them – Prime Minister of France.
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