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: Larry Stephens and Maurice Wiltshire
Producer: Tom Ronald
Recorded: Sunday 5 January 1958
First Broadcast: Monday 6 January 1958 on the BBC Home Service
Terror has struck the Welsh town of Llandahoy. There is a mysterious Thing atop Mount Snowdon that makes a horrible trumpeting noise. Seagoon takes up the offer of a £5 for capture of the monster. Grytpype and Moriarty sell Neddie a Snow-Master Complete Mountaineering Kit – a box of matches. To climb the mountain, all you need is a long ladder, which is on a fire engine. To get the fire engine, you start a fire using a match from the box of matches. Ned sets fire to Bloodnok’s trousers. After they’ve been put out, Bloodnok, who turns out to be a mountaineering expert, offers to catapult Ned to the top of Snowdon. He ends up instead at the top of Blackpool Tower, where he finds he can’t get down without a ticket. He’s rescued by Moriarty’s Zeppelin. Grytpype and Moriarty pitch him out for not having the fare. Ned finally takes Greenslade’s suggestion and rides the train to the top of Snowdon. Grytpype attempts to sabotage this by giving fireman Eccles a bomb. Ned nonetheless ends up at the top of the mountain, where he discovers a tea shack run by Min and Henry that serves elephant’s eggs. Min uses a trumpet to call in the elephants—this is the sound that has terrorised the villagers. The elephants turn out to be chickens, which explains why they wouldn’t lay. The show ends with Min, Henry, and Ned searching the shack for the Snowdon Monster.
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