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 7 March 1954
First Broadcast : Monday 8 March 1954 on the BBC Home Service
This episode was rerecorded as V/8 The Mustard and Cress Shortage.
The great mustard and cress shortage is on, and it causes havoc to British Railways, as it means the disappearance of mustard-and-cress sandwiches from the railway buffets. Undercover work by Gladys Seagoon and Ellington reveals that the fiend Bluebottle has destroyed every slice of mustard and cress in the world. In desperation, British Railways sends out Henry Crun to farm 6000 acres of mustard and cress in the Amazon. On arrival in South America, Seagoon, Crun, and Ellington are greeted by the British Ambassador, Major Bloodnok. They trek to the spot where the plantation is to go up. They are attacked by natives, but the natives run when they hear what sounds like the river steamer. But it turns out to be just Minnie Bannister playing the saxophone. And what happened to the great mustard and cress shortage? Nothing—it still exists.
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