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 11 April 1954
First Broadcast : Monday 12 April 1954 on the BBC Home Service
This episode was rerecorded as V/11 The Great Bank of England Robbery.
That Napoleon of Crime, Moriarty, recruits Harry Secombe to burgle the Bank of England. He sends his associate, Grytpype-Thynne, with the elaborate plans for the robbery. When midnight strikes and the robbery is to commence, Bloodnok finds that Secombe is hiding in a brown paper parcel in a pillar-box. He can’t get out because the postman won’t collect the parcel because it’s insufficiently stamped. Eccles has a key to the box, but only succeeds in locking himself in. In his attempt to pull them out through the mouth of the letterbox, Bloodnok is pulled into the box. When the parcels of water run out, they’re forced to dig for it. They drill down through the base of the pillar box and find one of London’s underground rivers, which takes them directly beneath the Bank of England. They travel down a tunnel and find Moriarty’s gramophone record with the rest of the plan. They must dynamite their way through the ceiling into the gold vault. Bluebottle, of course, sets the charge and ends up being deaded. But a hole has been blown in the ceiling, and they climb through, only to find they’re back in pillar-box again.
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