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 18 January 1959
First Broadcast : Tuesday 20 January 1959 on the BBC Home Service
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In 1867, Ned Seagoon arrives in Boston and there encounters Grytpype and a fish crate containing Moriarty. They hire a spot on Ned’s covered wagon and set out for California. Moriarty is making saxophones which Grytpype plans to sell to the Indians. The covered wagon is attacked by Indians. Ned sends Davy Eccles off to Fort Fertangg for help. Nearby, Colonel Slocombe, Lootenant Hern-Hern, and Sergeant Fladoo of the US 6th Cavalry are visited by Chief Sitting Bull and Bear of the Nobblynee Indians, who threatens to go on the warpath if they don’t leave. Grytpype and Moriarty start selling saxophones to the Indians. Slocombe sends Hern-Hern to apprehend Grytpype and Moriarty. In Dodge City, quack Dr. Dennis Bloodnok hawks his thunder pills but is found to be a fake. Grytpype and Moriarty are discovered in the saloon by Hern-Hern. A card game between Hern-Hern, Eccles, and Bluebottle ends when Bluebottle’s mum arrives. Grytpype and Moriarty are being chased by Lootenant Hern-Hern and Bluebottle is being chased by his mum. Meanwhile, in Fort Fertangg Henry, Min, and Old Uncle Oscar prepare for the Indian attack. The show ends amid the war whoops and saxophones of the Nakertaker Indians.
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