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
Recorded: Sunday 31 January 1954
First Broadcast : Friday 5 February 1954 on the BBC Home Service
This episode was rerecorded as V/5 The Kippered Herring Gang.
Inspectors Hercules Seagoon and Dennis Bloodnok are on the trail of the fiendish Kippered Herring Gang, who always leave a single kippered herring at the crime scene. Forensic analyst Eccles verifies scientifically that not only are the kippered herrings single, they are also dead. After police dogs are put on the scent and fail, they try police cats, but to no avail. Moriarty attempts to shoot Seagoon over the phone. Seagoon decides to thwart the gang by putting all of Britain’s kippers under guard at Scotland Yard. Still the robberies continue, and still a kippered herring is left at each crime scene. The gang must have a secret source of supply. The trail leads to a nosh bar in Brighton run by Angus MacDonald, who get the herrings from a fisherman at the end of the pier. He turns out to be Mad Houdini Bluebottle, a member of the Kippered Herring gang. Bluebottle leads them to the gang headquarters, where Minnie Bannister refuses to let them in. Willium shows up to collect a wardrobe from the house. Seagoon and company help him out with it and thus are able to gain entry. They find the place deserted – the gang were all in the wardrobe – except for a kippered herring.
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