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 and John Antrobus
Producer: Charles Chilton
Recorded: Sunday 2 March 1958
First Broadcast: Monday 3 March on the BBC Home Service
Grytpype-Thynne fashions a pill to cure the non-existent Spon Plague, using Moriarty as a model. He persuades National Health doctor Ned Seagoon that Moriarty has the Spon, the symptom of which is bare knees, and that Seagoon himself has caught it. To prove it, he has Ned roll up his trousers to reveal the bare knees. The British Medical Council are in a panic as the Spon Plague spreads. Grytpype’s pills provide the cure – take the pill, stretch out the right arm, and roll down the trouser legs. Then Eccles and Bluebottle discover a way to prevent the Spon – wear long woollen underpants. Soon all of Britain has been immunised. To prevent the ruin of their plan, Grytpype tells Seagoon, who is now in Scotland, about a new disease, the Quodge, whose symptoms are bare knees covered with long underpants. Scotland is soon full of Quodge victims. Lalkaka and Banerjee, arrived from India to investigate the Quodge, are shot at the Scottish border. Seagoon finds Grytpype and Moriarty hawking a cure for the Quodge – swallow the pill, then remove long underpants. Ned does so, only to see his bare knees – he’s got the Spon again. Grytpype gives him a Spon cure – swallow pill, put on underpants. Now Ned’s got the Quodge . . . .
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