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 25 November 1956
First Broadcast: Thursday 29 November 1956 on the BBC Home Service
It appears that at one time they mass-produced Neddie Seagoons, but there is only one original Seagoon, signed at the bottom by his father. Grytpype and Moriarty spot Neddie eating out of dustbins in Lisle Street. Realising that if he’s an original Seagoon he’s worth a fortune, they trap Neddie in a dustbin. He and Eccles (who’s also in the dustbin) are collected by the WVS Dustbin Collection Society, who make up parcels of rubbish for the poor peoples of Acton. They’re delivered to Henry and Minnie, who are ecstatic to have their own rubbish at last. When they let Seagoon out, Grytpype and Moriarty kidnap him and take him to Bloodnok, the art expert. Bloodnok proclaims Neddie to be a fake – on removing his outer layer they discover underneath a man in his underwear. Seagoon is so outraged at being called a forgery that he cannot say his line – he gets Greenslade to say it for him, whereupon Grytpype and Bloodnok apprehend him and take him to John Snagge, the only man who can tell whether he’s an original Greenslade or a fake Seagoon. Under the Greenslading they find Bluebottle, who tells them that his Auntie Min has an original Seagoon in a dustbin. On opening the dustbin they find Eccles. The Eccles washes away in a turpentine bath, revealing an original Neddie Seagoon by Elder the Brueghel. Neddie argues with this Seagoon (pre-recorded). Bloodnok invites the listeners to decide for themselves which one is the genuine Seagoon.
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