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 9 December 1956
First Broadcast: Thursday 13 December 1956 on the BBC Home Service
Henry Crun, inventor of the black telephone, wants a phone and the GPO sends Neddie Seagoon to install it. He finds Grytpype and Moriarty in Crun’s house in North Finchley. They tell him that Crun has moved to 17A, Africa. Moriarty gives Neddie a brown paper parcel for Mr. Crun. Neddie, Eccles, and Willium follow the Finchley Road to Africa, stringing phone cable as they go. In Africa, they encounter Major Bloodnok, who tells the story of how Henry lured Minnie Bannister away from him with sensual Caucasian knee-dancing. He agrees to escort Neddie on safari. Chief Ellinga shows up and leads Neddie to Crun’s house at 17A, Africa. Inside, Minnie is playing the saxophone and Henry offers to entertain her with his knee-dancing. Neddie and company arrive. Bloodnok carries Minnie off from the squalor she is living in … to the squalor he lives in. Neddie gives Crun the package from Moriarty and asks where he’d like the telephone. Crun responds that he’d like it in the study inside his house in North Finchley. We never do find out what’s in the brown paper parcel.
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