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 17 February 1957
First Broadcast: Thursday 21 February 1957 on the BBC Home Service
Count Moriarty bets Lord Neddie Seagoon a thousand sovereigns that Seagoon can’t reach the age of 22 before the Count. To his horror, Seagoon finds that however far he races in front of the Count, they both reach the next day at exactly the same time. Bloodnok sends Ned to Dr. Crun for an age treatment – being chased around by an axe-wielding Ray Ellington. But despite this, he still didn’t get older than Moriarty. But then Ned discovers that by crossing the International Date Line he could gain one day, thereby getting a day older than Moriarty and winning the wager. He sets off in Eidelburger’s Zeppelin, but finds out that Moriarty was in the front cabin and thus passed the International Date Line first.
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