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 3 March 1957
First Broadcast: Thursday 7 March 1957 on the BBC Home Service
Due to the closing of the Suez Canal, British aeroplanes are being forced to fly around the Cape. Parliament commissions Seagoon to build a canal across Africa so that they can fly over that. So that nobody will drown if a plane should crash, the planes will be fitted with wooden lifeboats. And to prevent the lifeboats from sinking, the canal won’t have any water in it. Grytpype and Moriarty offer Moriarty’s Horse-drawn Zeppelin Service as an alternative. Seagoon sets out to build his canal, but he finds that Major Bloodnok’s house is in its path. Grytpype and Moriarty offer to lift Bloodnok’s house out of the way using sky hooks from Moriarty’s zeppelin. They convince Neddie to go into the house to tell Bloodnok that in 15 minutes, his house will become skyborne. Once Seagoon is in the house they attach the sky-hooks and lift it. With Seagoon out of the way, Grytpype bribes workmen to fill in the canal. The Moriarty Zeppelin Service is back in operation.
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