Starring Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan, with Valentine Dyall
Announcer: Wallace Greenslade
Music by Max Geldray and The Ray Ellington Quartet
The Orchestra was conducted by Wally Stott
Script: Spike Milligan
Producer: Pat Dixon
Recorded: Sunday 7 October 1956
First Broadcast: Thursday 11 October 1956 on the BBC Home Service
The Honourable Nedward Seagoon, undefeated World Champion 1936 and scion of the noble House of Rowton, is summoned to Scotland by the law firm of Messrs. McHairy McLegs. Baron Seagoon has left Neddie the sum of £1,000,000, but he is not allowed to spend it until his hundredth birthday. He tries to auction off the money, but to no avail. Minnie Bannister, representing the British Museum, offers to exhibit the £1,000,000 next to an ancient Peruvian calendar stone – their calendar is different from the British – if Neddie were Peruvian, he’d be 100 years old now. Neddie at once realises that if he becomes Peruvian he’ll inherit the money immediately. He and Bloodnok set out on a boat for Peru. They’re rescued in the Atlantic by Grytpype and Moriarty, who tell them that since Cardiff originally came from Peru on a raft, all Welsh people are Peruvian. To prove it, they need merely sail a Kon Tiki-type raft to Peru. Neddie pawns the £1,000,000 for seven shillings to purchase the raft. They land in South America and are escorted by native Chief Ellinga to a rude wooden hut, in which they find rude wooden Baron Seagoon, who had been advised by Grytpype to hatch this scheme to get his money out of the country. Realising that they’d been single-crossed (not double-crossed – this was the first time), they set off in search of the pawnshop. They run Grytpype and Moriarty aground in the Hotel Fred. When they refuse to turn over the money, the Baron sings act three from Tosca. The hotel manager demands the fee for singing in the Royal Suite and discovers that the £1,000,000 is all forged money. Before he can call constable Eccles, Grytpype and Moriarty flee. Baron Seagoon kills himself, leaving Neddie in possession of the money. He is arrested as a Peruvian forger, for which crime he must do a life sentence.
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