Starring Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan, with Charlotte Mitchell as Maid Marian
Announcer: Wallace Greenslade
Music by Max Geldray and The Ray Ellington Quartet
The Orchestra was conducted by Wally Stott
Script: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton
Recorded: Sunday 19 December 1954
First Broadcast : Tuesday 28 December 1954 on the BBC Home Service
A Christmas pantomime in which the various Goon Show characters play the roles. It is December in late twelfth century Doncaster. The Sheriff of Nottingham (Grytpype) has Will Eccles load his bags on the coach to Nottingham. Minnie Bannister and Wallace the Greenslade are also passengers. As the coach passes through Sherwood Forest, it is held up by Friar Balsam (Bloodnok), one of Robin Hood’s band. Greenslade joins the band as a saxophonist, and Balsam lets the coach go. Robin Hood (Seagoon) arrives and has Greenslade fitted out with a suit of Lincoln green. Will Eccles, who had been thrown out of the coach by the Sheriff, arrives to inform Robin that the Sheriff has imprisoned Maid Marian. Robin and his band set off to rescue her. The scene shifts to the dungeon where Marian is being kept. She discovers Robin chained to the wall behind her. They discover Eccles is also a prisoner. When the Sheriff arrives to take Marian away, Eccles blows out the candle, and just then Friar Balsam arrives on the scene. The Sheriff escapes in the ensuing fight, trapping all of them in the dungeon. Ernie Cash arranges for Bluebottle to deliver the ransom money. Meanwhile, Greenslade leads his ‘Greensladers’ fan clubs in a “two, four, six, eight, who do we appreciate?” cheer. Marian and the Sheriff are dining at a banquet when Bluebottle arrives. He is interrogated by Moriarty, the Sheriff’s henchman, who forces Bluebottle to drink an explosive alcoholic drink. Robin and Balsam arrive and best Moriarty and the Sheriff in comic-strip-type fisticuffs. The Sheriff gives up Maid Marian to Robin Hood. Friar Crun is summoned to perform the wedding, and pronounces Marian and Greenslade man and wife.
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