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 20 February 1955
First Broadcast : Tuesday 22 February 1955 on the BBC Home Service
Panic strikes the villagers of the little Kentish village of Milton Street when Henry Crun photographs the sun and discovers that it is on fire. The squire, Bloodnok, sends Neddie off to London to tell the Queen. He takes up a silver collection to defray the expenses, but sends Seagoon off without the money, of course. Neddie arrives at the Ministry of Works, where he tells Grytpype-Thynne, the Minister of the Crown, about the sun being on fire. Grytpype proposes the following plan: Using a lot of junk . . . er, special materials . . . that the Ministry of Works has on hand, the villagers of Milton Street will build a rocket to take them to the sun where they will put out the fire. The villagers will pay in advance for the materials, but when they return, the Ministry will buy the rocket back at twice the price. Meanwhile in Milton Street, Bluebottle challenges the idea that the sun is on fire. To prove it isn’t, he climbs a tall ladder with a piece of bread to see if it gets toasted. He forgets his toasting fork, but Eccles climbs up with it and hands it to him. Unfortunately, Eccles was holding the ladder so they both fall. Seagoon gives the money that Bloodnok had collected the previous day to Moriarty. The rocket is built. The villagers, each carrying a bucket of water, board the rocket and it takes off. Moriarty and Grytpype chortle as they count the money, but then it starts to get dark. No, they couldn’t have . . . .
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