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 4 December 1955
First Broadcast : Tuesday 6 December 1955 on the BBC Home Service
In 1895, at the Great Expedition at the Crystal Palace, the biased judges award the prize in the international heavyweight saxophone contest to the Englishman, Bloodnok, rather than the great Oriental bamboo saxophonist Fred Fu-Manchu. The slighted Fu-Manchu vows a terrible revenge. He and his fiendish assistants concoct a potion that cause the drinker to explode anything he points at. To insure it will be drunk by a stupid white man, he pours it into a whisky bottle and leaves it in Hyde Park. Sure enough, six months later in Hyde Park it is drunk by Bloodnok. Fu-Manchu bribes him into becoming his henchman. Chief Commissioner Neddie Seagoon is concerned about the victory of Birmingham over Arsenal, and also about the reports of a man with an explodable finger and a Chinese accomplice who have blown up 27,000 saxophones. Grytpype and Moriarty, Eiffel Tower specialists, offer their services to Seagoon. Disguised as Charing Cross Station, they surround the Adelphi, where Fred Fu-Manchu, disguised as Jim Fu-Manchu, is performing as a conjurer. He and Bloodnok escape and make for Dewsbury, where lives Minnie Bannister, possessor of the last remaining British metal saxophone. Henry is trying, unsuccessfully, to treat the saxophone with green steam to immunise it against explosions. Meanwhile Seagoon leaves dynamite with Bluebottle and Eccles, instructing them to blow up Fu-Manchu when he arrives. Eccles’s inability to count beyond seven results in both of them being blown up. Meanwhile, Neddie’s attempt to enter the Bannister home eventually results in both he and Minnie being locked out. Bloodnok arrives and is about to explode them both when he recognises Minnie as his old sweetheart. Fu-Manchu arrives and, seeing that he’s been betrayed, uses his explodable finger to blow up Bloodnok and the rest of the cast, including Greenslade.
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