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 21 November 1954
First Broadcast : Tuesday 23 November 1954 on the BBC Home Service
The show starts with a brief radio documentary of the ceremony that marked the moment when London’s last tram rolled into the depot. At the London Pleasure Transport Board, Redundant Tram Department, Ned Seagoon receives a phone call saying that there’s still a tram at large on the Highgate-Kingsway route. Seagoon drives down to the Kingsway subway, where he finds a number 33 tram, its driver, Henry Crun, conductress Minnie Bannister and Eccles, who has a ticket for Kingsway. Henry refuses to drive the tram to the shed quietly – he wants the full Last Tram Ceremony. Meantime, the Country and Town Planning Society is meeting to discuss the construction of a block of flats on the site of the old Kingsway tram subway. Grytpype, the chairman, has awarded the construction contract to his wife’s brother. Seagoon interrupts the meeting to tell them about the 33 tram that is still down there. Grytpype agrees to do another Last Tram Ceremony, but secretly and on the cheap. He sends Seagoon to Major Bloodnok and Moriarty. Seagoon returns to the subway, where Crun can’t drive the tram out because there’s no electricity. Seagoon returns to the Planning Society, where Grytpype plans to just build over the tram, as they must start building. Meanwhile, Bloodnok, who has been standing all night waiting for the ceremony to start, bursts into Seagoon’s office. There the new office boy, mistaking him for Seagoon, gives him an envelope containing £20,000 of departmental wages. Seagoon, assisted by Bluebottle, struggles to get electricity to the tram. Bluebottle carries the electric cables down the subway, where he encounters a couple of workmen. The workmen need lighting, so they connect up the electricity, electrocuting Bluebottle. Greenslade shows up to announce the BBC broadcast of the new Last Tram Ceremony. As the tram drives out, he informs Seagoon that there is no last tram reception committee at the entrance of the subway, but there is a Black Maria there waiting for Seagoon, who is to be arrested for absconding with the departmental wages.
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