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 18 November 1956
First Broadcast: Thursday 22 November 1956 on the BBC Home Service
It is 1662. Captain Neddie Seagoon’s ship is patrolling the Channel. They spot a Dutch ship. Seagoon heads to London to warn the Admiralty. Grytpype and Moriarty, hired by the Dutch to sabotage the British fleet, end up being caught in the fiendish trap that they laid on Seagoon’s route. The Sea Lords send Seagoon back to his battleship. A beacon will be lit at Nag’s Head as the signal to open fire. A messenger is dispatched to Henry and Minnie, the beacon lighters, but they cannot light the beacon because Moriarty has dampened the matches. Meanwhile, Eccles and Bluebottle are on watch in the battleship. Minnie and Henry finally get the beacon lit, but Bluebottle cannot fire the cannons because the matches that he got from Moriarty are damp. Grytpype, Moriarty, and fiendish Dutchman Max van Geldray reveal that they have lit a powder trail in the hold, and that Seagoon and crew have two minutes to abandon ship. Neddie sends Bluebottle with a cup of water to extinguish the powder trail. Will he be in time? You guessed it – no.
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