Starring Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan, with Valentine Dyall
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 29 January 1956
First Broadcast: Tuesday 31 January 1956 on the BBC Home Service
Mike Coveney’s review of this show
In 1889 Lord Seagoon and his servants – Abdul, O’Brien, and Willium – are travelling in the Dolomites. A terrible storm forces them to seek shelter in the creepy castle of Doctor Londongle. The master is out but his servants, Crun and Bannister, put them up for the night. Londongle looks in on his guests when he returns. He’s collecting false teeth from which to make castanets for his beloved, Señorita Gladys la Tigernutta, who has agreed to marry him if he can supply her Flamenco troupe with fifty sets of castanets. When all the guests are asleep, Londongle and Minnie sneak into their room. Londongle bashes Willium on the back of the skull with a mallet and Minnie catches his teeth in a bucket. Willium’s cries of pain and dismay awaken the other sleepers. Seagoon decides to have a word with Dr. Londongle. While searching for the doctor they encounter Bluebottle – and strange noises from under the floor. It turns out to be Grytpype, Moriarty, and forty-six other toothless men who have been kept prisoner in the dungeons after having their false teeth stolen. Dr. Londongle needs only one more set of false teeth. Major Bloodnok arrives, seeking refuge from the police. Londongle succeeds in harvesting his false teeth. He escapes the pursuit of Seagoon and the toothless men. They finally find him in the Café Filthmuck, where Señorita La Tigernutta and her troupe are performing Flamenco. The black paint comes off the castanets, revealing the missing false teeth. The missing teeth hoard is recovered, but Londongle escapes. Seagoon often wonders if he ever continued his teeth activities. The show ends with Greenslade delivering a gummy, toothless announcement
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