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 and Larry Stephens
Producer: Charles Chilton
Recorded: Sunday 13 October 1957
First Broadcast: Monday 14 October 1957 on the BBC Home Service
Grytpype lures Fire Chief Seagoon out of the Wandsworth Fire Station with news that Jayne Mansfield is on fire. He then auctions off Seagoon’s furniture. Moriarty sings “You Gotta Face Disaster with a Smile”, the Government’s answer to national ruin. A report comes in from China that the British Embassy there has caught fire. Seagoon and Willium post brown paper parcels of water to Peking, but on reaching the Middle East the water completely evaporates. Seagoon visits Bloodnok, the British military advisor in Abyssinia. He suggests solving the evaporation problem by sending the parcels by a cooler route—over the North Pole. Seagoon discovers that the sun is causing the water to evaporate and so plans to put the sun out. But Grytpype has set two Interpol sun-worshippers, Eccles and Bluebottle, to guard the sun. Eccles discovers that he’s growing older all the time. In the British Embassy, Peking, Min and Henry receive a parcel of water from Moriarty that was disguised as petrol to get it through customs. Seagoon has Crun put the Embassy on a lorry and drive it to Addis Ababa. Meanwhile, Bloodnok has had the parcels of water frozen and placed in a cold storage van. As they drive to Addis Ababa there is a problem with the temperature swinging from too cold to too hot. Finally, Greenslade reports a collision in Addis Ababa between a lorry with a blazing British Embassy on the back and a cold storage van containing 23 sunburnt and frostbitten men.
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