Starring Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan, with George Chisholm
Announcer: Wallace Greenslade
Music by Max Geldray and The Ray Ellington Quartet
The Orchestra was conducted by Wally Stott
Script: Spike Milligan
Producer: Tom Ronald
Recorded: Sunday 12 January 1958
First Broadcast: Monday 13 January 1958 on the BBC Home Service
Grytpype and Moriarty are stealing string in order to keep Moriarty’s socks from falling down. To solve the crimes Inspector Seagoon is called from Scotland Yard to Scotland. Inspecting the scene of the crime, Seagoon and MacChisholm find a piece of string on the table with a space in the middle – the part that’s missing. Seagoon points out that it’s a practical joke – someone cut the string in half and pulled the two ends apart, making it look like a piece is missing from the middle. But MacChisholm notices that when the two pieces are put together the outer ends get shorter. Instead of looking for one piece of string they’re now looking for two separate ends. Crun and Bannister hear the police message asking people with two pieces of string to report to the police. They drive their house to the police station and present their three pieces of string to Seagoon. He’s only looking for people with two pieces of string, so they throw one away and thus become suspects. They drive the house away with Seagoon in pursuit. As a police cordon is thrown around England, Grytpype and Moriarty escape by diving into the English Channel. Seagoon has Bloodnok launch his lifeboat into the Channel where they apprehend Grytpype and Moriarty. The villains run for it, land at Dover, and thumb a ride from Crun’s passing house. Bluebottle took a photograph of the house’s number, which they have Lalkaka and Banerjee develop. They hide in wait in the basement of 66 Fairy Cake Lane, Crun’s address. When the house arrives, they force Grytpype and Moriarty to return the two pieces of string, but then they find that they can’t get up out of the cellar because Crun’s house doesn’t have a cellar. Then where are they? They’re all in the mind . . . .
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