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: Roy Speer
Recorded: Sunday 1 December 1957
First Broadcast: Monday 2 December 1957 on the BBC Home Service
Lord Seagoon loses his entire fortune of 2,000,000 francs to Eccles in a poker game in Monte Carlo (Eccles is playing Snap, but he wins anyway). He sets out for Africa to seek his fortune. He joins Bloodnok, Trader Horn, Spriggs, and Cyril in an expedition arranged by Grytpype and Moriarty, agents for a rich man. They are in search of King Solomon’s Mines. The rich man turns out to be Eccles, who is nailed up in a wooden crate. Travelling up river by boat, Cyril and Little Jim both fall in the water. The safari, led by headsman Ginger (Ray Ellington), forms up for the trek inland. Moriarty, who has the map, runs away with it. Grytpype sets off after him. They’re both captured by Seagoon – it was a plot where Moriarty ran away and Grytpype arranged to make it look like he knew nothing about it. They let Eccles out of the crate, nail Grytpype and Moriarty into it, and throw the crate in the river. It’s then that they discover that Eccles’s money is in the crate. An unhappy ending? Not for Bloodnok, who jumps into the river after the crate.
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