Starring: Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan, with Bernard Miles
Announcer: Wallace Greenslade
Music by Max Geldray and The Ray Ellington Quartet
The Orchestra was conducted by Wally Stott
Script: Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens
Producer: Pat Dixon
Recorded: Sunday 30 December 1956
First Broadcast: Thursday 17 January 1957 on the BBC Home Service
Moriarty and Grytpype answer an advertisement by Henry Crun, who will pay £1000 to anyone willing to collect the £8000 11/4 in back rent from Death Grange, Slaughter Hill. But it’s more than their life’s worth to go there. They con Neddie, who’s never heard of the place, into collecting the rents for £5. The bus won’t stop at Slaughter Hill so Ned is forced to jump off. He lands in the canal, thus giving Little Jim the first opportunity to say, “He’s fallen in the wa-ter!” Grytpype and Moriarty happen by in a motorboat, but he doesn’t have the money to pay their rescue fee. He’s forced to swim to the shore and climb out. There he’s arrested by Constable Willium for swimming in the canal, thereby contravening the by-laws. The Court of Little Filthmuck sentences him to be hanged. When Ned insists on appealing, he’s sent to the Squire at Death Grange. The Squire is a drink-crazed Bloodnok who thinks he’s in Afsponistan, and that Neddie is a King’s Messenger. Bloodnok agrees to sign a reprieve for Neddie, for a consideration – the sum of £8000 11/4.
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