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: Larry Stephens
Producer: Roy Speer
Recorded: Sunday 24 November 1957
First Broadcast: Monday 25 November 1957 on the BBC Home Service
Grytpype and Moriarty plan to escape dire poverty in the Slagley-on-Ooze rubbish dump by taking out a £10,000 life insurance policy on Neddie. They tell him he can collect the money the moment he’s deceased, and they give him a book 100 Easy Ways to Get Deceased. He tries hanging himself from the rafters but his weight pulls them down. His next attempt is to sleep in the open on Salisbury Plain during a snowstorm. Standing asleep in his long flannel night-shirt, he’s discovered by Boy Scouts Eccles and Bluebottle, who mistake him for a short, fat tent. When they find Seagoon in the ‘tent’, they march him to Major Bloodnok. Seagoon finds out what ‘deceased’ is and tells Bloodnok about the villain’s plans to collect on insurance. Bloodnok takes out a life insurance policy on Neddie and tries to poison him, but Seagoon escapes. He rents a room from Henry and Minnie at the Albert Memorial. In his room he receives a gramophone record of Grytpype and Moriarty trying to shoot him. Fleeing the room just in time, he finds Major Bloodnok and his regiment, come to kill him. Seagoon is left trapped between the British Army and a loaded record.
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