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
Producer: John Browell
Recorded: Sunday 4 January 1959
First Broadcast : Monday 5 January 1959 on the BBC Home Service
Listen to Ned’s Atomic Dustbin on BBC Sounds
The show opens with Greenslade consulting the BBC Censorship Department concerning the use of the word ‘holly’ in the show’s opening announcement. The plot proper begins after the first musical number. Ned Seagoon has invented a new anti-atomic dustbin to keep Britain’s rubbish atom-free. Parliament intends to find out if it’s possible for a man to go over Niagara Falls in a dustbin. Meanwhile, the Russians send agents Ecclesvich and Bluebottleski to get the plans of the British anti-atomic dustbin. Bloodnok, an expert in atomic explosions, is put in charge of the Niagara Falls operation. Eccles is chosen as pilot for the dustbin. Ned, upset at the debasement of his invention, sues the Government to get the plans back. Bluebottleski tries to use his powers of mesmerism to subdue Seagoon but only succeeds in crossing his eyes. They fail to rescue Eccles from a death worse than fate.
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