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 21 December 1958
First Broadcast : Monday 22 December 1958 on the BBC Home Service
It is 1880 in the village of Upper Dicker. It has been raining non-stop for 40 days. Ned seeks shelter at the house of Min and Henry. Eccles, who is in training for the World sleeping contest, arrives. Town Crier Geldray announces that the valley is flooded and the bridge to London (Seagoon’s destination) is under water. Seagoon next appears at Bloodnok’s house – he had been sleeping on a piano when the great dam burst. Bloodnok fits an outboard motor to the piano and the two set off. The villagers conclude that it is Queen Anne’s rain. Grytpype and Moriarty arrive and claim that the sky over Upper Dicker is leaking and that is why the rain is getting in. They plan to sue the Government for neglecting to keep the sky in good repair. On hearing that the villagers have are accusing Queen Anne of raining too long, Parliament sends a steam gunboat up the River Dicker. Meanwhile Bloodnok, Seagoon, and Eccles try to cross the River Dicker by iron bedstead. It is sunk by the gunboat. Ned has failed to get the money from the government, thus foiling Grytpype’s plan. Ned, Henry, and Minnie are saved from drowning when Queen Anne stops reigning.
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