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 17 November 1957
First Broadcast: Monday 18 November 1957 on the BBC Home Service
Seagoon is performing as a comic in “Variety Awash” aboard the HMS Boxer. Grytpype gets the crew to jump overboard by announcing that Sabrina has fallen overboard. Only the two stokers, Eccles and Flowerdew, are left on board—and Neddie. Grytpype and Moriarty maroon them on a desert island (the Isle of Alassie), where they discover Bloodnok. They hear on the radio of a £1000 reward for information leading to the recovery of the stolen battleship, HMS Boxer. They sail the island to London. Meanwhile, Grytpype and Moriarty sail the battleship to the Pool of London and hold up England. On the Isle of Alassie, Bluebottle and Eccles are on watch as they collide with the Isle of Man. As Seagoon is about to tell the Admiralty about Grytpype’s theft, he’s arrested for driving a piece of land without due care and attention. Grytpype and Moriarty happen to have a battleship, the HMS Wrestler, of the same size and speed as the stolen one and offer, for £10,000, to search for the Boxer. As far as anyone knows, they’re still looking.
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