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 11 October 1953
First Broadcast : Friday 16 October 1953 on the BBC Home Service
The GSPS has a recording of this show
This episode, had two sketches:
- The first segment is The Ghastly Experiments of Dr. Hans Eidelburger, announced as “The Adventures of Fearless Harry Secombe”. Fearless Harry is recruited by Gravely Headstone to be a guinea pig for the medical experiments of Dr. Eidelburger and his assistant, Yakamoto, who are trying to find a man who can take the weight of a steamroller on his face.
- The remainder of the show is The Mount Everest Project. Great Britain may have the largest navy, largest army, and finest plum, but it does not have the world’s largest mountain. Lord Harry Seagoon convinces Parliament that Mount Everest must be brought to England to make it the tallest country in the world. Bloodnok, Eccles, Crun, Ellington, and Seagoon duly blow up Everest, wrap it in brown paper parcels, and ship it to England aboard the HMS Regurgitant. Unfortunately, they are forced to throw the mountain overboard to lighten the load during a storm. Which leaves the question – what did Hillary and Tenzing climb?
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