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: Roy Speer
Recorded: Sunday 3 November 1957
First Broadcast: Monday 4 November 1957 on the BBC Home Service
Gunner Neddie Seagoon is a World War I deserter who’s paying corrupt Military Policeman Grytpype and Moriarty to hide him. When they discover he only has 38 shillings left, they sell him a 20-foot ladder that he can climb so that he can hide in space. Seagoon finds out from Greenslade that World War I is over and visits Bloodnok in Whitehall to collect his 38 years of coward deserter pay. There they hear about the launch of the Russian satellite moon. The space race is on. Henry Crun attempts to launch Minnie Bannister into space but she gets stuck half-way up the chimney. In an attempt to shoot Seagoon up the chimney on his ladder to free Minnie, Henry fires Seagoon into space, where he becomes the first army deserter in orbit. Military Policeman Eccles is sent up in a rocket after him. Seagoon is rescued from orbit, where he learns of World War II. He pays Grytpype and Moriarty to hide him . . . .
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