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 15 February 1959
First Broadcast : Monday 16 February 1959 on the BBC Home Service
Lord Ned Seagoon’s butler, Jeeves, quits when he wins the pools. Seagoon hires the destitute Moriarty as a replacement. Moriarty falls in a mock faint. Grytpype convinces Ned that it is a food trance and the only cure is a fifteen-course dinner and a drive round the grounds in the car with the gold plate in the back. With this ruse they steal Ned’s gold plate. Fifteen years later, Ned decides they’re not coming back and reports the theft. While he’s at the police station Moriarty is brought in. He tells them that Grytpype has brought the gold plate to Algiers. Seagoon sets off in pursuit and visits the British Ambassador in Marrakech, Major Bloodnok. Bloodnok has just had a visit from the Red Bladder, who tells him where he can find guns, bullets, and drip-dry shirts after being bribed by a gold plate. The Red Bladder tells Seagoon that the Captain of the Foreign Legion fort of Sidi Bel Abbes has a lot of gold plate. Seagoon finds out that the Captain is indeed Grytpype-Thynne, who has had the gold plate melted down into gold bullets. Grytpype shoots Seagoon, who gleefully proclaims that he is going to die rich.
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