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 Larry Stephens
Producer: Pat Dixon
Recorded: Sunday 18 March 1956
First Broadcast: Tuesday 20 March 1956 on the BBC Home Service
A recording of the show was aired on BBC Radio 4 Extra for the first time in January 2025. Another recording of much the same script appeared as Series 8, episode 21.
It is April 1944. The problem for the Allies – how to keep Germany from learning about the intention to invade Sicily. An uncooked German Army boot is discovered washed up at Southend and in it is a microfilm with what appear to be the plans of a secret German weapon. Seagoon takes the microfilm to the head of British International Intelligence, Major Bloodnok. Seagoon is sent with the microfilm to the Woolwich Arsenal where they will build the secret German weapon. He is shot at by Willium, the sentry, and listens to Count Moriarty’s story of why he is still in England (his braces got caught in a bollard at the Southend Pier). Crun, Bannister, and Lew Ginsberg have a plan to hoodwink the Germans regarding the secret weapon. They will put a copy of the microfilm in the pocket of a man dressed as a German naval officer and float him ashore from a submarine off the enemy coast. The volunteer that they found for the job is Field Marshal Montgoonery, also known as Eccles. Meanwhile, the Woolwich Arsenal is ready to test the secret German weapon. As everyone cowers behind the forty inch gamma ray-resistant lead wall, the crank is turned and the weapon is revealed to be – a barrel organ.
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