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 and Larry Stephens
Producer: Pat Dixon
Recorded: Sunday 28 October 1956
First Broadcast: Thursday 1 November 1956 on the BBC Home Service
Seagoon, christened King Arthur because his parents had a round table, visits Cornwall, the land of Arthurian legend, seeking a way to prove that he is descended from Mallory’s Mort D’Arthur. A Cornishman tells him of haunted Tintagel Manor, the legendary site where Arthur buried his treasure. A Spectre haunts the manor, and anyone who hears its ghostly music three times dies. Seagoon finds the cave wherein live the house agents, Grytpype and Moriarty, and rents the manor for a month. Valentine Dyall, caretaker of the Manor, is taken aback to find that the place has been rented and tries to frighten Seagoon off. King Arthur Seagoon determines to see the Spectre and waits up with his assistant, Bluebottle. In the night they hear the ghostly music and Dyall clouts him on the nut from behind. Major Bloodnok, who owns the Manor, escapes from prison and, together with Dyall, digs up the loot he had buried – the Regimental Plate of the Second Poona Horse. Seagoon comes to and finds that the Spectre is really Eccles, put up to haunting by Dyall. Back in the Manor, they hear the ghostly music, but Eccles is with them. Thinking it must be the ghost, they flee, leaving the treasure behind. Seagoon enters – it was he who played the violin to scare them off. Seeing the loot, he thinks it must be the treasure of King Arthur and when the police arrive he claims it is his. The police carry him off in the van that all their King Arthurs and Napoleons ride in.
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