Starring: Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan, with George Chisholm
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 30 December 1956
First Broadcast: Thursday 10 January 1957 on the BBC Home Service
Fort Spon is under siege and the garrison is out of supplies. They eagerly await an aeroplane to bring them supplies, but the aeroplane hasn’t been invented yet. Fortunately Seagoon and McChisholm, trying to build a mangle, accidentally invent the aeroplane. Air Minister Grytpype arrives and arranges, for a fee, to have the air fixed in place over Lisle Street when Seagoon phones. There’s just one problem – whenever Seagoon tries to take off from Lisle Street, the lights turn red. He needs a taking off-type aerodrome. Henry Crun is building one, called Croydon Airport, in Croydon. While the aerodrome is still under construction, the lights finally turn green in Lisle Street and Seagoon’s test pilot gets the plane off the ground. He can’t land both because the airport isn’t there yet and because he hasn’t got enough petrol. They build a steam-driven rocket to carry the supplies to Fort Spon. Moriarty brings an Arab stallion on board to show that the horse still has a place in aviation. A Geographical Society representative comes on board to photograph the Earth from a great height, to prove it’s flat. They succeed in parachuting the rifles to the garrison and save the day.
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