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: Eric Sykes and Spike Milligan
Producer: Peter Eton
Recorded: Sunday 27 February 1955
First Broadcast : Tuesday 1 March 1955 on the BBC Home Service
Also known as The Terrible Blasting of Moreton ’s Bank. The show is based on the real life events of the Siege of Sidney Street.
Grytpype reads in the Times that there has been a theft of six gold bars from the Bank of England, but Moriarty told him that he only managed to get five. Their argument is interrupted by Police Inspector Ned Seagoon, who is collecting for the Police Ball. Moriarty, disguised as a fortune-teller, tells Neddie that if he’s ever offered the job of a bandleader to take it. Grytpype asks Neddie if he knows a bandleader who could take a two-piece band abroad. Neddie volunteers, as soon as he’s cleared up the bank robbery. Grytpype and Moriarty send the gold bars to a smelting shop where Minnie and Henry are casting them as band instruments. Grytpype calls the shop and Henry tells him that, yes, Moriarty did deliver the five bars of gold. This starts an argument with Minnie over whether there’s four or five bars. Meanwhile at Scotland Yard, Bloodnok, summons Ned Seagoon to help him solve the robbery. He dresses Neddie in a prisoner’s uniform, has him hold six fake gold bars, then calls in a sergeant to arrest him. But Seagoon flees to Grytpype. Eccles arrives with the instruments made from the gold – a single triangle. Eccles tricks the others into going into another room to listen to the triangle and escapes with it to Paris. The police discover Grytpype’s and Seagoon’s hideout in Sidney Street and begin a siege. Bluebottle delivers an ultimatum: they must leave before he counts to ten, or he’ll lob a bomb through the window. He counts very quickly to ensure that they will find out what it’s like to be deaded. He throws the bomb, misses, but doesn’t kill himself – just all the rest of the cast except Greenslade.
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