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 23 October 1955
First Broadcast : Tuesday 25 October 1955 on the BBC Home Service
It is 1942 at El Alamain. The Afrika Corps is about to retreat. General Rommel entrusts to Count Moriarty the secret of his treasure, a black box which he conceals at the top of a ten-foot high mound. Lieutenant Ned Seagoon, NAAFI manager, arrives in the vanguard of the advancing British troops and captures Count Moriarty. He hands Moriarty over to Major Bloodnok for interrogation and orders Eccles to guard the spot, and not to move until he gets back. Five years later, after the war’s end, Grytpype, proprietor of a curiosity shop in Libya, is trying to get Moriarty to remember where the treasure is, but he cannot. Seagoon arrives in the shop. Grytpype sells him a bogus pyramid. Moriarty recognises Neddie as the soldier who captured him. Seagoon tells them that Major Bloodnok has the original maps that show the spot where Moriarty was captured. Moriarty phones Bloodnok and offers him money in return for the maps. Meanwhile, Seagoon is driven to the bogus pyramid, a ten-foot mound of earth, and left there. He finds Eccles, who is still on guard. Air ace Bluebottle is flying by, and in their attempt to fire a gun to attract his attention they shoot him down. Grytpype, Bloodnok, and Moriarty arrive. Moriarty and Bloodnok attempt to steal the treasure, but they drive through a minefield and are blown up. The box lands on Bluebottle. Lifting the lid of the black box reveals that it is a music box.
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