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: Charles Chilton
Recorded: Sunday 6 October 1957
First UK Broadcast Monday 22 September 1958 at on the BBC Home Service
Based on 4/17 The Mummified Priest.
In 1889, Ned Seagoon and Eccles, late of Cambridge, take jobs as Assistant Egyptologists at the British Museum, working under Professor Henry Crun. They translate an ancient manuscript that turns out to be the personal narrative of an Egyptian priest. It gives the location of his tomb. Obsessed by the thought of the gold that must be in the tomb, Ned leaves Henry and Minnie trapped in the cellar and leaves for Egypt. There he persuades Major Bloodnok to lead an expedition to the Valley of Eagles in search of the tomb. Desert madness strikes—they find a house surrounded by trees that turns out to be a mirage. They find the entrance to the tomb and become lost in a labyrinth of tunnels. Eventually, they dynamite a hole in the wall to gain access to the tomb, only to find that they’ve released Crun and Bannister from the cellar in which they were trapped.
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