Starring Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan
Announcer: Andrew Timothy
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 4 October 1953
First Broadcast : Friday 9 October 1953 on the BBC Home Service
The GSPS has a recording of this show
This episode, had two sketches:
- Handsome Harry Secombe, on Moriarty’s direction, joins the Brighton Lifesaver’s Association in order to rescue the rich Miss Gingold from drowning and thus reap a big reward. Sanders, the Chief Lifesaver, lets him into the Lifesaver’s Association, but the whole scheme comes to nought because Secombe can’t swim.
- The Man Who Tried To Destroy London’s Monuments begins with a telegram to Prime Minister Gladstone threatening to blow up various ancient monuments – Nelson’s Column, the Albert Memorial, and Anna Neagle – followed by blowing up Greater London. The threat is proves to be no idle one when Nelson’s Column lands in the garden at Number Ten. Neddie Seagoon and Major Bloodnok are put in charge and spend considerable time trying to explain to Bluebottle what the little green pins in the map are for. They recruit a bomb diviner, Henry Crun, to help thwart the maniac, but only after a harrowing experience getting Minnie and Henry to open the door. Henry’s bomb-divining stick is in the Imperial War Museum. Our heroes have considerable difficulty getting past the guard, Eccles, to retrieve it. The bomb turns out to be inside the House of Commons, and there’s an all-night sitting on (Eccles: “Oh, here’s a chance of getting’ rid of all of ’em!”). Crun is unable to dismantle the bomb before it explodes. Neddie is visited in hospital by Bluebottle, who wants to know what all them little green pins are for.
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