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 9 November 1958
First Broadcast : Monday 10 November 1958 on the BBC Home Service
It is 1941, and the Germans are plotting to capture Field Marshal Montgomery. Herr Von Schlapper Eccles, Germany’s greatest fighter ace, has been ordered to shoot down all planes carrying Montgomery back and forth between Africa and England. But little do they know he is not Von Schlapper. The enigma – who is Eccles? Meanwhile, Bloodnok and Seagoon plan to deceive the Germans by creating a double of Monty. In case the double is killed, they will create a Monty’s treble. Henry Crun, the Statistician Royal, determines that they need 40,000 Monty’s doubles. The Germans are suspicious that Monty was seen in three different locations with three different women. They set out to get the plans of an original Field Marshal Montgomery. German agents Moriarty and Grytpype succeed in destroying the statue of Montgomery’s future movements, but in fact it is only a statue of John Mills and Richard Attenborough’s future movements. Next comes the Battle of Alemain. Bravely the British forces resist the German counter-attack of singing rude songs, and by dawn victory is theirs. But it turns out that the Battle of Alemain that they won was a fake – it was Alemain’s double, played by Eccles.
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