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 11 December 1955
First Broadcast : Tuesday 13 December 1955 on the BBC Home Service
Ned Seagoon, MP discovers that there are no 1956 calendars anywhere in England. After a debate in Parliament, it is concluded that the year 1956 is missing. Ned sets off to Africa aboard the SS Venus to search for it. A reward is set of £10,000 for its recovery. Ned sends Eccles off on a dog-sledge in search of the North Pole. Grytpype and Moriarty are pulled on board the good ship Venus, where Grytpype tells Neddie that the year 1956 is in the shape of a roller (which is why they say the years roll by). Neddie gives Moriarty a photograph of the Bank of England as an advance payment. Moriarty enters the Bank in the photograph. On reaching the interior of Africa they spot the trail of a roller. 100 miles inland Grytpype relieves Neddie of all his loose cash and leaves him with no water. He’s rescued by Bluebottle. Eccles shows up in his sledge, still in search of the North Pole. Together they reach a British outpost where Bloodnok joins the expedition. Behind a bush they find a roller and two pairs of footprints. It appears to be 1956, but disguised as 1897. They wait in the bush with a stick of dynamite for whoever brought the roller there to return. They waited for a year, but of course by then the year had gone.
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