V/3  The Missing Ten Downing Street

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: Roy Speer
Recorded: Sunday 20 October 1957
First UK Broadcast – never broadcast in the UK!

Based on 4/15 The Missing Prime Minister


Bow Street police station receives a phone report that 10 Downing Street is missing. Inspector Seagoon arrives on the scene to find that 10 men overpowered Willium, the constable on duty, packed Number Ten on the back of a monster lorry, and drove off. Seagoon and Bluebottle set off in pursuit. Eccles throws a brick at the driver of a vehicle that’s acting suspicious. It turns out to be Seagoon’s car. Major Bloodnok, in charge of a military roadblock, finds Ellington, who had dropped off a lorry with a large building strapped to the back. Bloodnok sends Fred Bogg to Crun’s house to phone Seagoon. But what Bogg thinks is the phone ringing is really an alarm clock that Henry can’t turn off because he can’t find his spectacles. Then comes a report that 10 Downing Street is in France. Seagoon sets off in pursuit and finally finds it in a wood. He decides to leave the British Government in the wood in France – can you think of a better place to leave them?

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