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 20 October 1957
First UK Broadcast Monday 29 September 1958 on the BBC Home Service
Based on 4/23 The Greatest Mountain in the World
Ned Seagoon proposes climbing the greatest mountain in the world – Everest – only to find out that Tenzing and Hillary have already climbed it. He sets out to build a higher mountain in Hyde Park. Henry Crun’s has a mole-hill and hopes to make a mountain out of it. A lorry delivers the mole for the mole-hill, but it turns out to be a lion instead. Soon the mountain reaches 21,000 feet. But it is in violation of a rule prohibiting mountains higher than knee level within a radius of Nelson’s Column, and so Grytpype and Moriarty from the Ministry of Works dynamite it (and nearly Eccles, who mistakes the dynamite for strong cigars). With Hyde Park Mountain destroyed, Seagoon leads an expedition to Mount Fred, which at 40,000 feet high is taller than Everest, but it’s three miles beneath the sea. Since Alpine Club regulations require that all mountains must be climbed up to reach the top, the plan is to drive down to the bottom and then climb up. They lose their way and an attempt to ask an oyster for directions is unsuccessful. They send up Bluebottle hanging onto the horns of a mine to find out where they are. The mine explodes, deading Bluebottle and blowing Mount Fred to bits. Eccles consoles Seagoon by giving him one of the cigars he got from the Ministry of Works fellas. The explosion kills the rest of the cast. The show ends with Bluebottle trying to persuade Eccles to be deaded.
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