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: Larry Stephens and Maurice Wiltshire
Producer: John Browell
Recorded: Sunday 14 December 1958
First Broadcast : Monday 15 December 1958 on the BBC Home Service
Grytpype and Moriarty, hitch-hikers on the Great North Road, flag down Ned Seagoon, who is driving a piano. When they discover Ned had been hygiene orderly in charge of Eighth Army ablutions at El Alamein, they convince him to write his war memoirs on the piano. They set out for the Labour Exchange where former field marshals are queuing up. On hearing that Seagoon intends to reveal the true facts about the hygiene of the general staff, they offer Grytpype ten shillings reward for the piano on which Seagoon’s writing the memoirs. Meanwhile, on the Great North Road, Willium arrives to collect the rent from Seagoon, and repossesses the piano, which is then sold at auction to Henry Crun. Min and Hen fill the piano with water so that they can have a bath. The water’s too cold, so they light a fire under the piano, which of course catches fire. Fireman Eccles is unable to put it out in time and the piano burns to the ground. The only copy of Ned’s memoirs are in his head. Moriarty hires Bluebottle, Little Jim, and Eccles to capture Seagoon from Bloodnok’s laboratory. They do so and Moriarty takes him to a publisher. Bloodnok arrives to recapture him. The confrontation that follows is ended by an explosion. Soon afterwards Seagoon was published in an edition of 4000 copies.
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