7/24  Ill Met by Goonlight

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
Producer: Pat Dixon
Recorded: Sunday 10 March 1957
First Broadcast: Thursday 14 March 1957 on the BBC Home Service


Field Marshal Montgoonery sends Lieutenant Seagoon undercover to Cyprus to capture the German General Von Gutern. Ned, Ellington, and Eccles travel to Portsmouth (barely evading detection by Willium, the ticket collector) and are taken by Moriarty’s French submarine to Cyprus. There Bluebottle leads them to the guerrilla hideout. Eccles and Bluebottle are left on the road to stop Von Gutern’s staff car, while Seagoon and Ellington dynamite the bridge further down. The car gets by Eccles and Bluebottle, but is captured by Seagoon, who drives it back to pick up the other two. But when Bluebottle sees the car returning he has Little Jim put dynamite in the road. The car is blown up, and Eccles, Ellington, and Seagoon along with it. But as they await the return of Moriarty’s submarine to take them away from Cyprus, they are captured by Willium, who it turns out is the German spy, Von Gutern.

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