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 30 November 1958
First Broadcast : Monday 1 December 1958 on the BBC Home Service
Destitute confidence tricksters Grytpype and Moriarty meet Lord Seagoon in a Paris restaurant. They borrow £50 from Ned in order to cure Moriarty’s poverty. They tell Ned they will go to the Louvre and sign an IOU on the Mona Lisa. Seagoon visits the Louvre and indeed finds “IOU £50” in the corner, signed Leonardo Da Vinci. He takes the painting. He meets Eccles and his trainer, Willium. Eccles is training to eat Mount Snowdon. Seagoon offers £50 (the money he’s expecting back from Grytpype and Moriarty) to become Eccles’s stand-in. Meanwhile in Venice, Grytpype and Moriarty have spent most of the money they got from Seagoon. They encounter detective Max Geldray who is investigating the theft of the Mona Lisa. Grytpype and Moriarty set out to find Neddie to obtain the painting. To prevent mountain-eating in England, commissioners Crun and Bannister raise the licence fee to £50. Seagoon and Eccles encounter Bluebottle and the Third Finchley Wolf Cubs, who are collecting for the East Finchley Poor Mothers Christmas Pudding Club Jumble Sale Fete. They discover that eating mountains in India requires no licence and set out to devour Mount Everest. Banerjee and Lalkaka set out to find out why Mount Everest is getting shorter. The mountain eating is being interrupted by Bloodnok playing the saxophone. Ned gives Bloodnok the Mona Lisa to get him to stop. As they finish Mount Everest, Grytpype and Moriarty arrive and explain to Seagoon that his £50 was ill, so they took it to Italy for a holiday. They find out Bloodnok has the Mona Lisa. But Bloodnok has sold the painting to the Finchley Wolf Cubs for three pounds ten. Grytpype and Moriarty arrive at the Jumble Sale to find that the opening bid price for the painting is £500,000.
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