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: Charles Chilton
Recorded: Sunday 2 February 1958
First Broadcast: Monday 3 February 1958 on the BBC Home Service
Ned Seagoon is destitute and starving in Paris (Why not starve in England? He prefers French cooking.). Grytpype and Moriarty offer to book him in South America as a Scottish act. They provide him with bagpipes stuffed with illicit senna-pods to be smuggled to Henry Crun, proprietor of the Club Enrico. Seagoon auditions as a nude piano dancer (he dances with a nude piano). When Henry asks for the bagpipes, Seagoon doesn’t have them – the Customs took them and put them in quarantine. Searching the quarantine kennels Ned encounters Eccles, who lives in quarantine masquerading as a dog. In the corner of the kennel are the bagpipes, which Eccles thought was a spider in a tartan sweater. Eccles and Neddie escape into the jungle interior from William the quarantine officer. They encounter gold prospector Major Bloodnok, who receives a gramophone record from Moriarty instructing him to be on the alert for Seagoon, who has the bagpipes stuffed with illicit senna-pods. Eccles and Neddie flee only to encounter intrepid British explorer Bluebottle. As everyone arrives at the scene, it turns out they’re all secret agents from Interpol. Who is the man behind the illicit senna-pod trade? He’s all in the mind, you know.
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