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
Producer: Charles Chilton
Recorded: Sunday 23 February 1958
First Broadcast: Monday 24 February 1958 on the BBC Home Service
1917 – England was at war, France was at war, Eccles was at lunch. Grytpype and Moriarty sell German army shares to Seagoon. They claim that the Germans are bound to win any war they enter. Seagoon is called up. Uniform fitters Crun and Bannister send Ned to the Elephant Equipment Unit in Poona. There, Seagoon finds out from Major Bloodnok that the Germans are losing. Bloodnok sells Seagoon 10,000 unused 1904 calendars. Grytpype’s plan is to drop the 1904 calendars on England by Zeppelin, making the English think the war hasn’t even started, thus giving the Germans an advantage. But then the British drop 1918 calendars on Berlin, and the Germans surrendered.
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