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: Larry Stephens
Producer: Peter Eton
Recorded: Sunday 21 March 1954
First Broadcast : Saturday 27 March 1954 on the BBC Home Service
In this parody of the Western film Shane, Harry Secombe is sheriff of the Arizona town of Bedsprings Creek. The town is being terrorised by Dangerous Earnest McGrew and his gang, who want to set up a television transmitter there. The sheriff decides to enlist the aid of gunslinger Henry Crun, also known as Drain. But Crun and his companions Eccles and the British railway porter Jasper Bass have renounced the life of a gunman. They suffer from the dreaded parlorgameitis and are seeking a place free of the scourge of television. When they turn up in the Last Chance Saloon, they are arrested by Senator McEllington’s Committee on Un-American Activities (they were drinking tea – how un-American can you get?). The sheriff and Crun organise a posse to search for the McGrew Gang, and after a futile attempt to extract information from a couple of old-timers, they find that the McGrew Gang is holed up in the Last Chance Saloon. Eccles shoots Bluebottle McGrew in the foot, thus ridding the town of the menace of television. Furthermore, for correctly being the first person to answer the phone that he is Julius Caesar, he wins the Videophonic Company’s contest prize – a television set.
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