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 27 January 1957
First Broadcast: Thursday 31 January 1957 on the BBC Home Service
Aspiring poet Neddie Seagoon buys a poetic licence from Grytpype and Moriarty and begins making verses praising the moon. Grytpype and Moriarty persuade Neddie that the moon was in Moriarty’s family for years but is now being auctioned off. Ned buys the moon at auction for £12/12. He then hears Bloodnok singing “It was spring, and the moon above Paris”, whereupon he realises that the one over England must be a forgery. They set off to the Royal College of Astronomy to find out. At the Royal College, astronomers Eccles and Bluebottle see the moon in the giant telescope and put the cap on the end to trap the moon inside. Seagoon arrives and informs them that the moon they’ve trapped is the forged one – the real one’s over Paris. Neddie sets out for Paris and tracks down Grytpype and Moriarty, who attempt to flee. Neddie pursues them across Europe and to Tangiers. When captured they agree to sell Neddie the real moon for £14. Grytpype holds a jam jar up to the sky and in it Neddie sees the moon. He caps the jam jar, thus capturing the moon, and takes it back to England.
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