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 1 January 1956
First Broadcast: Tuesday 3 January 1956 on the BBC Home Service
Back in the Rhondda valley in Wales bach, Eccles is taking talking lessons and practising his Shakespeare. Ned Seagoon has been playing the organ in the chapel, which explains why half the congregation has changed their religion. The villagers send in Greenslade with money to send Neddie away for a musical lesson. Eccles and Neddie leave the village. They are next seen in the Sahara by Grytpype-Thynne and Moriarty, arms agents for the Egyptians, who are searching North Africa for old derelict tanks. They see Neddie driving his Wurlitzer at speed – he doesn’t want people copying his technique, so he keeps moving. Grytpype realises that the organ pipes would make good gun barrels for the tanks awaiting shipment to Egypt. The two fiends convince Neddie that he will never become a great organist, but if he became the first man to break the world’s land speed record in a Wurlitzer he’d make Reg Dixon green with envy. They travel to Daytona for the record attempt and hire the great military organ engineer, Major Bloodnok. Moriarty bribes Bloodnok to loosen all the nuts and bolts so that the organ falls to pieces once it reaches speed. Bloodnok recognises Eccles as his old batman and they reminisce. Just then Minnie and Henry, driving the Festival Organ, prepare for an attack on the land speed record. From one of the spectators, Bluebottle, Neddie discovers that Crun’s organ is faster than his Wurlitzer. He pays Bloodnok to put a bomb in Crun’s organ. He climbs into the cockpit of his Wurlitzer, but it falls to pieces as he drives off. Not to be forestalled, he jumps into Crun’s Wurlitzer and starts it up. It explodes, and that is how Neddie Seagoon set the world altitude record for organs.
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