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 22 December 1957
First Broadcast: Monday 23 December 1957 on the BBC Home Service
American archaeologists are hard at work at Stonehenge. Grytpype and Moriarty encounter rock ’n’ roll saxophonist Ned Seagoon in the unemployment line. Posing as publicity agents, they arrange to get Seagoon discovered by burying him at Stonehenge. Britain’s leading archaeologists are bemoaning the fact that the Americans are making all the discoveries at Stonehenge. For a fee, Grytpype and Moriarty offer to show them the spot at Stonehenge where lies buried a man of the Plasticine period. They dig up Neddie and fill him with alcohol to preserve him. He escapes and falls asleep in a drunken stupor, where he’s discovered by constable Willium. Ned flees to disguise experts Crun and Bannister, who hide him in a grandfather clock. Grytpype and Moriarty show up, take the clock back to the British Museum, and claim the reward. To prevent Seagoon escaping again, he’s taken to the National Gallery, where he’s framed and hung on the wall. He bribes the night watchmen, Eccles and Bluebottle, into helping him escape. He flees to his old commanding officer, Major Bloodnok. When Bloodnok finds out Seagoon is 6000 years old and figures out the amount of old age pension he must be owed, he agrees to swap identities with Seagoon. But he’s arrested by the Ministry of Pensions for not stamping his card for 5000 years.
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