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 and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton
Recorded: Sunday 28 November 1954
First Broadcast : Tuesday 30 November 1954 on the BBC Home Service
Neddie Seagoon and Major Bloodnok are on safari in the Congo. Ellinga discovers the footprints of a gorilla stopping behind a bush and then starting again as boot prints. This is the trail of the legendary booted gorilla. Bloodnok sends Seagoon to Bwana Grytpype at the Gorilla Collectors’ Society. Grytpype advises that they acquire a collapsible boot repair shop, as eventually he will look for a boot repairer. He sends the barefoot Eccles along. Seagoon visits cobbler Crun and offers £500 to buy his boot shop, but Minnie Bannister succeeds in knocking him down to £50. Seagoon returns to the Congo with Eccles, Henry, Minnie, and the collapsible boot shop. It turns out that Minnie and Bloodnok had a romantic affair in India long ago. Eccles and Bluebottle are sent as scouts to track down the gorilla. Henry and Minnie are stationed in their shop and told to wait for a customer wearing a hairy coat. They converse about their pets (a pussycat named Ruffles owned by Bluebottle, and a bunny rabbit owned by Eccles). Henry calls from the boot shop to inform Neddie that the lights have fused. Neddie sends Eccles to the lamp store for new bulbs. Bluebottle then phones to report that he and Eccles are on guard up a tree. But Eccles has been sent to the lamp store – it’s the gorilla up the tree with Bluebottle! Neddie and Bloodnok rush to the rescue, but only succeed in catching the gorilla as it jumps from the tree. They run off. Henry phones to inform Seagoon that the gentleman in the hairy coat has arrived at the shop. They send Eccles in to subdue the gorilla, and a horrific fight ensues, which ends with Eccles bound head and foot, while the booted gorilla chases Henry Crun across the jungle.
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