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 and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton
Recorded: Sunday 25 September 1955
First Broadcast : Tuesday 27 September 1955 on the BBC Home Service
Hercules Grytpype-Thynne has filled the house that he shares with Moriarty with pattern books. Each pattern would make a complete suit for a man three inches tall. All they have to do is to find hundreds of such men and they’ll make a fortune. In a matchbox, Grytpype has a man who used to be six foot three but was shrunk to three inches by a serum concocted by the fiendish Malayan, Dr. Fred Fu-Manchu. Moriarty sets out in search of a charlie to shrink. Disguised as a news-lad, he gives Neddie a newspaper with a story about a man found dead in a matchbox. Grytpype says he knows where the man is and leads Seagoon into his (Neddie’s) escritoire. There he finds the dead man in the matchbox. He goes to the police to report the murder, but they don’t believe him. When he returns to Piccadilly Circus, his escritoire is gone. Moriarty lures Neddie to the docks, where Willium tells him that Grytpype put the escritoire aboard the SS Clarence. He pays Bloodnok fifty pounds for a cabin, but Bloodnok throws him overboard. He comes ashore in Malaya, where he starts to pursue Grytpype. Meanwhile, Bloodnok is passing through Malayan customs. The customs officer discovers Eccles in his luggage – he had told Eccles it was a first-class cabin. After shooting the customs officer they are able to enter the country, where they encounter Seagoon. When Bloodnok finds out a murder is involved, he gives Seagoon the address to which the escritoire was delivered. Minnie, Henry, Old Uncle Oscar, and Ellinga live there. After the usual chaos involving missing teeth and opening the door, Neddie is told that Grytpype took the escritoire away. Neddie, Gladys, Bloodnok, and Eccles set off through the jungle in pursuit. Bloodnok sells Neddie an anti-shrink pill for £1000. They are accosted by Jungle Jim Bluebottle, who leads them into the interior and to the escritoire. Grytpype injects Neddie with the serum and Neddie takes the anti-shrink pill. He emerges a moment later, three inches tall and wearing a new suit.
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