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 2 March 1958
First UK Broadcast: Monday 20 October 1958 on the BBC Home Service
Based on 4/29 The Great Bank of England Robbery.
Grytpype-Thynne hires Ned Seagoon to help burgle the gold bullion of the Bank of England. Bloodnok and Eccles meet Seagoon at midnight outside the Bank, but there is a difficulty. Seagoon has hidden himself in a parcel in the pillar box but made a fatal mistake—he’s insufficiently stamped and thus the postman won’t collect him. In an attempt to get Seagoon out Eccles and Bloodnok also end up trapped in the pillar box. They escape by drilling a hole through the bottom of the pillar box, down to the bed of one of London’s underground rivers. They proceed up a secret tunnel that leads directly under the vaults, where they blow a hole in the vault floor and get the gold. Grytpype tricks them into allowing him to escape with the gold while they’re left in the lurch.
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