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 16 November 1958
First Broadcast : Monday 17 November 1958 on the BBC Home Service
The first third of the show is The Sock Jelly Murder. Inspector Seagoon and Constable Willium find a dead man with a sock half full of jelly next to him. The hunt is on for a man wearing one sock and eating a jelly. The murder is solved during Max Geldray’s number.
The remainder of the show is Ned the Miser. Miserly Ned Seagoon lives in a lonely house on the moors with his servant Jeeves. His hoard of coins consists of one penny, which he guards in his safe. Fiendish criminals Grytpype and Moriarty hear of this hoard of wealth and set out to steal it. Moriarty hits Ned over the head with a sock full of jelly and they carry off the penny. It is valuable because it has been left £1,000,000 in the will of Neddie’s grandmother. All they have to do now is to finish granny. Meanwhile Eccles captures Bloodnok shooting fish in the river. Seagoon comes to and visits granny Min and Bluebottle. Eccles and Bloodnok arrive and Min recognises Bloodnok as her childhood sweetheart. Henry Crun wants save Min from Bloodnok and agrees to Ned’s plan to put a bomb in Bloodnok’s coffee. Grytpype and Moriarty toss a coin, the rich penny, to see who is to kill Minnie. Just then Bloodnok happens along and accidentally swallows the penny. Moriarty tricks him into drinking castor oil, and that, on top of the coffee he had, results in an explosion. The penny falls at the feet of Eccles and Bluebottle, who set off to buy a lollipop.
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