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
Producer: Peter Eton
Recorded: Sunday 27 November 1955
First Broadcast : Tuesday 29 November 1955 on the BBC Home Service
Grytpype-Thynne offers his services to members of the Athenæum Club to restore lost parts of the British Empire. When he asks for money, they leave in a panic, except for Sir Neddie Seagoon, who he had grabbed. Moriarty and Grytpype convince Neddie that he is a descendant of the Dutchman who bought New York from the Red Indians for a few paltry trinkets. The proof is that Neddie has the very same trinkets in his pocket. To recover New York, Neddie must dress as a Red Indian and row himself there in a zinc bathtub. Neddie does so and arrives at the quay in New York to an ovation. Little did he know that the American company that makes Filthmuck had offered a prize to the first idiot to cross the Atlantic in a zinc bath dressed as a Red Indian. To substantiate his claim to New York, Neddie visits the Indian reservation of Standing Room Only where, in return for a hundred dollars, Major Bloodnok and Chief Troubleless give him an Indian birth certificate. Neddie sues in court, claiming that New York is his. On hearing his plans, his lawyers, Minnie and Henry, plead insanity – for themselves, not for Neddie. Judge Feryerself sentences Neddie to be deported. On being paroled from prison, Neddie plots to blow up New York and enlists Bluebottle and Eccles to set dynamite charges in the New York sewers and detonate them at midnight. Grytpype and Moriarty plan to take him to the police and collect the reward for handing in a felon. Just before midnight Neddie receives a call from the Consul General in Washington – on reviewing the point of law, the US Government have discovered that Neddie is indeed the rightful owner of New York and have decided to give it to him. Just then the dynamite goes off, destroying New York and deading Bluebottle. Red Indian Chief Troubleless offers to buy the blackened ruin from Neddie for a few paltry trinkets.
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