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: Peter Eton
Recorded: Sunday 28 February 1954
First Broadcast : Monday 1 March 1954 on the BBC Home Service
This episode was rerecorded as V/2 The Greatest Mountain in the World.
The Right and Left Honourable Sir Harry Seagoon announces to a meeting of the Royal Geographical and Archaeological Society his intention to go one better than Hillary and Tenzing by climbing Everest, the highest mountain in the world. He is crestfallen to learn that they have already climbed it, so he proposes to build a higher mountain in Hyde Park. Henry Crun’s idea is to start with a little lump on the ground – a molehill, and he will make a mountain out of it. Ellington arrives with a parcel addressed “With love to our dear British friends, from your pals the Egyptians.” But it contains a lion rather than the mole for Henry’s molehill. After a narrow escape from the lion, work proceeds on the mountain, but it violates the height rule for objects close to Nelson’s Column, and the Ministry of Works blows it up. A meeting of the Royal Alpine Club is convened, and it’s decided to climb the one mountain higher than Everest, Mount Fred. Unfortunately, it’s 300 fathoms beneath the sea. Seagoon, Bloodnok, Eccles, Bluebottle, and Ellington duly set sail, and, when over Mount Fred, hop in the car and drive down to its base. Midway up the mountain, they get lost. Seagoon asks the inhabitant of a nearby oyster (Minnie Bannister) for directions, but is told to clear off. They send Bluebottle floating up to the surface by clutching a mine. He is, of course, deaded when the mine blows up. The explosion has blown Mount Fred to bits. Eccles tries to console the distraught Seagoon by giving him one of those red TNT brand cigars that the Ministry of Works fellow had left at the base of the mountain in Hyde Park. The resulting explosion blows up the rest of the cast.
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