Starring Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan, with Cécile Chevreau.
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: Tom Ronald
Recorded: Sunday 29 December 1957
First Broadcast: Monday 30 December 1957 on the BBC Home Service
This show is a parody of the film Bridge over the River Kwai. British prisoners of General Von Gutern, commander of the German colony in East Africa, are forced to build a railway bridge over the River Carpatee. Seagoon manages to escape. Meanwhile Major Spon (who sounds suspiciously like Alec Guinness) decides that, as the river is 2000 miles long but only three yards wide, they’ll build the bridge across it. Seagoon is sent back in charge of a raiding party to destroy the bridge. They attach limpet mines to the bridge over the ice-cold River Carpatee (there’s nothing worse than a cold Carpatee). Willium, disguised as a coconut tree, is waiting with the plunger. Before he can, Eccles, who had been sent to the other bank to chop down trees, chops him down. But he manages to press the plunger anyway, the bridge is destroyed, and, as Little Jim reports, they fall into the water.
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