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 Bruce Campbell
Script: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton
Recorded: Sunday 2 January 1955
First Broadcast : Tuesday 4 January 1955 on the BBC Home Service
It is the year 1985. 846 Winston Seagoon is a worker in the news-collecting centre of the Big Brother Corporation, what we used to know as the BBC. In every room a television screen gives out a stream of orders and announcements. Eccles remarks, it’s good to be alive in 1985. Seagoon is caught calling Greenslade a big, fat slob by Vision Master Waldman. Moriarty leads the citizens in the “Hate Half Hour”, directed against Maurice Winnick, the leader of the ITA, the Independent Television Army. Seagoon begins to hate Big Brother Corporation. He meets his love, 612 Miss Fnutt, and they plan a rendezvous in the forbidden Goon Sector. Seagoon makes his way there, and stops off at a pub, where he encounters Bluebottle with a lurid book, Mrs. Dale’s Real Diary. Seagoon enters an antique shop run by Henry Crun, where he finds a cricket bat and listens to Crun reminisce about 1954. Miss Fnutt shows up and, they kiss, once they succeed in throwing Eccles out of the room. Eccles and Bluebottle discuss whether they’ve ever kissed a girl. Bluebottle tells Seagoon the location of ITA secret headquarters. Seagoon finds Vision Master Waldman there, and they toast the downfall of the BBC. But Seagoon is arrested for conspiring with the ITA and is taken to Room 101, the dreaded BBC listening room. He discovers that Waldman has betrayed him and was with BBC all along. To save himself, he must sign a BBC contract. He refuses and is forced to listen to speeded-up themes of Mrs. Dale’s Diary, Life with the Lyons, and Have a Go. The torture continues with Seagoon being subjected to Harry Secombe singing “On with the Motley”. Waldman and Moriarty hand the torture over to Bluebottle, who leaves Seagoon with a pile of dynamite and flees to the American desert. Unfortunately, he picks the US nuclear testing range and is blown up. Bloodnok and Eccles arrive to save Seagoon, but the dynamite explodes before they finish the job. But Seagoon’s legs are now free. Just then, Maurice Winnick appears on the TV screens and announces that he has gained control of the BBC. The first of the new-style ITA programmes is Ray’s a Laugh.
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