THE
MISSING BATTLESHIP
GOON SHOW: TLO 41935
8TH SERIES: No 8
RECORDED: 18 Nov 1957[1]
GREENSLADE: This is the BBC light programme. We
present the new, all-leather Goon Show.
GRAMS: The Greig Piano Concerto in A minor – opening.
Cut before final chord. Body into water.
GREENSLADE: Yes. Tonight our story begins…
ANCIENT MP: (Interrupting)
The man’s a fool – an absolute idiot, a ridiculous idiot. A load of
cock-and-bull, absolute nonsense. A stupid nit. I can’t understand how he gets
away with it. (Self fade) I don’t
know…[2]
GREENSLADE: Tonight our story begins on board
SELLERS: And here to open the show, is that wacky
king of coons, your kimpare and compare – Halley Seaton!
GRAMS: Variety Hall Organ introduction with wild,
rapturous applause.
SEAGOON: (over)
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Ha ha! Hello shipsmates. Well, well, well,
well, well, well! Ha ha gnya gnya gnya gnya! It’s nice to be on board ship with
all the lads in blue again.
GRAMS: Quick burst of laughter.
SEAGOON: Thank you! But seriously
though, I was in the Navy myself, you know. As a matter of fact I was standing
at the sharp end one day, leaning over the railings, when the Captain came up
and said, “You can’t be sick here!” – and I said, “Can’t I? Just watch!”
GRAMS: Recorded laughter.
SEAGOON: (over) Please! Ha ha ha. No, no, no! But seriously though, as a
matter of fact, I can’t seem to ***. As a matter of fact, let’s get on with our
first act. So here to sing for you is Miss Millie Toolie. And here she is, Miss
Millie Toolie. To sing for you, Miss Millie Toolie!
GRAMS: Applause – Crackly old recording
of Gracie Fields singing the ‘Laughing Song’ from Act 2 of ‘Die Fledermaus’ with
piano accompaniment. Continue under.
SELLERS: (Close to mic) Hello listeners, Brinnel Jolson here. It’s a really
wonderful sight to see this simple country girl bringing the sailor’s memories
of home, tears streaming down her innocent little face, and trickling onto her
black, fishnet stockings.
GRAMS: Final note of song. Rapturous
applause. Shouts of ‘encore’.
SEAGOON: (Over) Thank you! Thank
you music lovers. Millie Toolie of course, was singing that lovely old ballad “In
a Reformatory Garden’.[4]
(laughs) Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ahem. No,
but seriously though, aren’t women wonderful? Now take my wife…please. Hahahaha.
Now there’s a woman – I think.
GRAMS: Laughter, whistles etc
SEAGOON: (Over) Ha ha. But talk about fat! – when she walks down the street
wearing slacks, it looks like two kids fighting under a blanket.
GRAMS: Laughter, cheering. Continue
laughter under.
SEAGOON: Thank you. Ha ha ha. Ah,
you’re spoiling me tonight. You’re spoiling me. Yes… She’s… (Please…Please… Haha,
no, no! I… I can’t stand all this larkin.) [5]
Now then, she’s a very funny woman, my wife. (self fade) Would you
believe it, but last week I was talking to her in the kitchen…
GRYTPYPE: Men, Sabrina has fallen
overboard.
GRAMS: Massed boots running into
distance. Slight pause. Multiple splashes.
GRTPYPE: Well, that’s got rid of
them Moriarty. Right, full steam ahead for the open sea!
GRAMS: Ship’s bell.
SEAGOON: (Fade in) No, no, no! But seriously lads – I always take my wife
with me everywhere. I’d rather take her than kiss her goodbye. Ha ha ha … ha ha…
aha. (Pause) Aye, you’ll have to see
them faster than that. I said ‘I’d rather take her than kiss her goodbye!’… What’s
the matter with the audience tonight? I paralysed them at
GRYTPYPE: Control your powers,
Neddie. You see, they heard that Sabrina had fallen overboard.
SEAGOON: What!? What, what, what!
Sabrina fallen overboard? Poor little innocent photographer’s model. I must get
a lifebelt. Now, I’ll just join these two together and… [6]
GRYTPYPE: No, no, no, no, no, Neddie.
With the crew gone, we need you on board as ballast.
SEAGOON: What? What, what, what?
Where’s my speaking trumpet? (I have it in my hand.) Hello… (Megaphone)
Hello! Hello folks! Calling folks! The speaker was a tall man, wearing the full
dress uniform of a Naval confidence trickster.
GRYTPYPE: Ahoy! And now ship-mattey,
the legs you see protruding from that swill bucket, belong to none other than
Count Jim ‘Bilge’ …
MORIARTY: Owww.
GRYTPYPE: … Moriarty, voted ‘Miss
Galley Slops’ of nineteen fifty-one and part owner of the suit he is now
wearing.
MORIARTY: Owwwww.
GRYTPYPE: And again, Moriarty.
MORIARTY: Owwwww.
GRYTPYPE: There. Two for the price
of one.
SEAGOON: Wait. Why are we heading
out to sea?
GRYTPYPE: Neddie, light yourself a
hammock and let me explain. We are offering you the life of a modern-type buccaneer.
Come lad, join us. You can live a life of luxury!
SEAGOON: Right! I’ll join you.
GRYTPYPE: Splendid. Now to swear you
in. Drink this bucket of slops and say after me, “I am a Charlie.”
SEAGOON: (Swallowing noises – smacks
lips) I’m a Charlie.
GRYTPYPE & MORIARTY: Yay-eeee!
GREENSLADE: Meanwhile, HMS Boxer headed
southwards to sunlit seas, where nought but the plaintive cry of the seagull
and the soft lapping of the opalescent cobalt waters disturbed the hot, endless
silence ‘neath the still, burning orb of the tropic sun.
GRYTPYPE: Have you quite done?
GREENSLADE: (Distant)
Aye-aye, Sir.
GRYTPYPE: Then, left turn… Queeg hhaarrl.
GRAMS: Boots marching across deck.
Pause, splash.
LITTLE JIM: He’s fallen in da water.
GRYTPYPE: And the best place for him,
little Jim.
MORIARTY: Starboard five, ahoy!
GRAMS: Distant sea. Ship’s bell.
MORIARTY: Mid ships!
GRAMS: Ship’s bell.
MORIARTY: Maternity ward, ahoy!
Starboard kipper on the cranbahal-mishplghyiyonghuplkhowwww. Owwww
GRYTPYPE: Shut up, you nautical
French steamer!
MORIARTY: Owwwww!!
GRYTPYPE: Ahoy, little marker buoy.
SEAGOON: There are strange noises
coming from the stoke hole.
GRYTPYPE: What!? [7]
Lift the manhole, and let me listen.
FX: Clank of manhole cover. Shovelling noises.
ECCLES: (sings) Somebody
loves me…
I live in a dream.
Oh hohoho.
Melody divine.
I love da moon…
and da moon loves me…(&c rubbish)
FLOWERDEW: (Goosed) Oooh!
ECCLES: Oh oooh!
FLOWERDEW: Eccles, mind what you are
doing with that long handled shovel. You never know where it’s been. [8]
SEAGOON: Come here at once. Hup!
GRYTPYPE: So… stokers eh?
ECCLES: Stokers aye. Aye, stokers. (&c rubbish)
GRYTPYPE: Didn’t you hear me shout
that Sabrina was overboard?
ECCLES: Who cares about him?
MORIARTY: Grytpype, what are you going
to do with them?
GRYTPYPE: Simple you fool, we’ll
just maroon them somewhere, including Neddie.
SEAGOON: You can’t do that, you need
me! I, I… I keep you entertained, with jokes and merry songs. Look, I’ll show
you… (Music hall turn) Well, hello
there! No, but seriously though…[9]
(Megaphone) Well, hello there. No, but seriously though. My wife’s got a
face like a million dollars – all green and crinkly. (Laughs) Hahaha. All green and crinkly. Ahem.
(sings) Oh, the moon belongs to
everyone,
the best things
in life are-free.
Horray… (Laughs) Hahah-ha.
GRYTPYPE: (close) Moriarty, lower the desert island.
MORIARTY: Right, over the bulwarks.
GRAMS: Hawsers lowering something heavy.
Splash.
GRYTPYPE: Right you three, over you
go. Hup!
ECCLES: Arrgghhhhh… (self fade)
SEAGOON: You can’t do this to me… (self
fade)
FX: Bodies hitting ground.
GRYTPYPE: Goodbye!
GRAMS: Ship’s hooter.
ECCLES: (Distant) Neddie, you need your boots resoling.
SEAGOON: How do you know?
ECCLES: (As before) You’re standing on my face. Do you wish to know about
that?
SEAGOON: I don’t wish to know about
that. I wonder where we are? I’ll just play this map on the gramophone.
GRAMS: Theme of “
SEAGOON: Good heavens, we’re on a desert
island.
ELLINGA: White man, take off that
record.
SEAGOON: What - and expose my
turntable!?
ELLINGA: Yim bom darna goollas undum
bluulan gunta looba.
SEAGOON: Let me handle this. (clears
throat). You listen me. Me brave English Welshman. You no frighten me. Me
give you clean, British punch-up-the-conk. That told him.
ECCLES: ‘Ere, that’s a nice spear
stickin’ out the back of your head.
SEAGOON: Whatwhatwhatwhatwhatwhat?? (chicken clucking)
ELLINGA: Ah-ha! You there!
FLOWERDEW: (Distant) Awhhh!
ELLINGA: You nice-um young fella.
You come along me! And you – little, round pudding…
SEAGOON: What what what? You can’t
do this to me, do you hear? I’m free, white and twenty-one stone. Where are you
taking us?
ELLINGA: Me going to put you all
inside.
SEAGOON: Inside where?
ELLINGA: ME!
SEAGOON: (Gulps) CANNIBALS!! RUN FOR
YOUR LIVES!!
GRAMS: Boots running into distance.
GREENSLADE: The intrepid trio ran on and on
through the steaming jungle, till finally they heard a strange noise emanating
from a clearing.
ORCHESTRA: Bloodnok theme played by single
saxophone.
BLOODNOK: Oh, ho ho ho!
ORCHESTRA: Saxophone – single note.
BLOODNOK: Oh!! Jigger me crudlers!
SEAGOON: The speaker was a military
gentleman, clad in a grass skirt.
BLOODNOK: That’s the last time I
stand near a lawnmower. Ohhhh! That gardener. Oh, what a snake-in-the-grass he
is.
SEAGOON: Pardon me sir, could you tell
us the name of this island?
BLOODNOK: Yes, I can. It’s the Isle
of Alassie, so called after our national anthem. (Sings) I love a lassie,
a bonny Chinese lassie…
SEAGOON: Splendid, I knew her
mother!
BLOODNOK: Nonsense. We were just
good friends, I tell you…
SEAGOON: Wait a minute! Haven’t I
seen your photograph in the papers? Something about…
BLOODNOK: It’s a lie!! It’s a lie, I
tell you! I never went near the regimental safe! Anyway, I was going to put the
money back. I…could I help it if the horse lost? It was two other fellows named
Smith, I tell you.
SEAGOON: Bloodnok!! Bloodnok! That’s
it, you’re Major Bloodnok!
BLOODNOK: Well…er…I…er...I was.
SEAGOON: What do you mean, you were?
BLOODNOK: Well, I had to change my
name, you know. It got dirty.
SEAGOON: Really? What did you change
it to?
BLOODNOK: The Famous Eccles.
ECCLES: Ooooh. Dat’s my name! Oh,
‘erewrghrghrgh. ‘Ere, if you’re de Famous Ecc…If you’re de Famous Eccles, den
who am I? I said… “DEN WHO AM I?”
(sings) Who am I,
who am I? (Sings rubbish &c)
SEAGOON: Just a minute. Let me see
that, Ellington, Minnie. He’s
Eccles, that’s Flowerdew, I’m Seagoon – you must be Major Bloodnok.
ECCLES: Ooo. If I’m Major
Bloodnok, I’d better start practising. (Imitating
Bloodnok) Ohohohoh! Dat’s better. (Into
distance) Hohohoho! I can’t sit ‘ere all day.
FX: knock on door – door opens.
ECCLES: Oh. Yeah?
WILLIUM: Oh, good mornin’. Five
pound money order for Major Bloodnok.
ECCLES: Oh, dat’s for me. Thank you,
my good man.
BLOODNOK: Here! Give me that money
order!
ECCLES: It’s mine, I’m Major
Bloodnok.
BLOODNOK: Nonsense! You give it to
me, you thieving coward!
ECCLES: I’m not a thieving coward!
BLOODNOK: Then that proves it –
you’re not Major Bloodnok!
SEAGOON: Major! Shh, I can hear something
in the jungle, there.
BLOODNOK: It’s those cannibals
again, they always attack when it gets dark.
SEAGOON: I’d better strike a match.
BLOODNOK: Don’t do that, you fool!
They’ll see it! Here, use my lighter.
GRAMS: Man-eating Tiger
BLOODNOK: Do you hear that? That’s a
cannibal, doing an impression of a tiger.
ELLINGA: (Distant) Um ban nooka loogs an
BLOODNOK: There’s worse to come,
lad. Now they all get together and do an impression of the Ray Ellington
Qintool!
SEAGOON: Men! Lower aim and fix
earplugs!
RAY
ELLINGTON QUARTET - “Up
Above my Head”
GREENSLADE: And while Mr Ellington quickly
changes back into his full drape lion-cloth for the part of the cannibal chief,
let us re-set the scene. ‘The Stolen Battleship’ – part two. Maddened by the
rhythm-type melodies, the cannibals surge into a frenzied attack.
GRAMS: Attacking natives. War whoops etc
– continue under.
SEAGOON: Right men, fire!
GRAMS: Pistol shots, machine guns.
BLOODNOK: Keep firing.
GRAMS: Machine guns. (Continue
under.)
SEAGOON: Gad! These magazines are
red hot!
BLOODNOK: I know, I’ve been reading
some of them.
SEAGOON: Wait, hold your fire! Someone’s
coming!
ANCIENT MP: Ohh, man’s a fool,
absolute idiot. Never afford a Sputnik with him in office, never. (Self
fade) Never.
SEAGOON: Well, he seems to have
scared away the cannibals.
BLOODNOK: Splendid, now, where was
I? Oh yes, yes. Give me that money order. Give me that money order I tell you.
ECCLES: No, dat’s mine.
BLOODNOK: Wait a minute, it’s mine,
I tell you!
SEAGOON: Major, Major, please,
enough of this carefully rehearsed ad-libbing. Please! Who cares about money?
BLOODNOK: Who cares about money??
You must be mad.
SEAGOON: I want to get back to
BLOODNOK: Then you are mad!
SEAGOON: Bloodnok, if you just
switch on the radio, everything will be explooned and explinned.
GRAMS: Radio being tuned in. [10]
GREENSLADE: (distorted
– on the radio) And here is the news. This morning, five thousand dog
lovers demonstrated outside Aldershot Barracks as a result of reports that
soldiers had been smoking dog-ends.
SEAGOON: Never mind about dogs, or
dog-ends. What about the reward?
GREENSLADE: (distorted
– on the radio) I’m coming to that, you steaming nit. The government is
offering a thousand pounds reward for information leading to the recovery of
the stolen battleship, HMS Boxer.
SEAGOON: Now do you see, Major? That
reward is ours if only we can get back to
BLOODNOK: But how? There aren’t any
boats here.
SEAGOON: Let’s all concentrate.
ECCLES: Yeah. Let’s all…concentrate.
Ooh. A thought just crossed my mind.
BLOODNOK: It didn’t take it long.
SEAGOON: It didn’t have far to go.[11]
Wait! Wait…I’ve just had an idea! Eccles… You three carry it out while I…while
I explain to the listeners. Where’s my speaking trumpet? Quickly, my speaking
trumpet! There - it’s on the chair there.
Thank you, well done gentlemen. (Megaphone)
Hello folks! Calling folks, and a little desperate hurry there. Folks! In
order to make a sail, the others are now removing their shirts, trousers,
vests, underpants and lapis lazuli belly binders. (I do hope the kiddies are in
bed. Hahahaha!) They are now running the sail up a tall palm tree, and… (Without megaphone) Why aren’t we
moving?
ECCLES: Ha hum. There ain’t any
wind.
SEAGOON: What?! We must have some
wind!
BLOODNOK: I’ve got a small packet of
curry powder…
SEAGOON: No Major! Major, I’ve got
it!
BLOODNOK: Then you won’t need the
curry powder.
SEAGOON: Take your saxophone…
BLOODNOK: By the right…
SEAGOON: Now, stand behind the sail
and blow.
ORCHESTRA: Solo saxophone – Bloodnok theme –
continues vamping. Fade into distance.
GREENSLADE: And so, the Isle of Alassie sailed
away, homeward bound. But that same night, a muffled battleship sailed silently
up the Thames to the Pool of London, carefully aimed its guns, and as dawn
broke…
GRYTPYPE: (In distance, through
loudhailer) Hands up, England! Your money or your life!
FX: Large quantity of coins spilling.
GRYTPYPE: (
GRAMS: Ships bell.
ORCHESTRA: Dramatic link.
SPRIGGS: Ohhhhh. All in all
gentlemen, they got away with
LORD CHANCELLOR: [12]
(As old as god.) Good heavens. Were
there any witnesses?
SPRIGGS: Oh, yes sir. Constable
Willium Mate. (sings) Willium Ma-ate. Willium Mate.
WILLIUM: Yes. Well sir, er… ‘bout spon
o’clock I was receding along the beat in the direction of where I come from,
trying all the shop doors to see if any of them had been left unlocked in which
case I could nip inside and whip a few odds and ends.
LORD CHANCELLOR: Yes, yes constable.
SPRIGGS: Yes constable, but this
battleship, what did it look like?
WILLIUM: I dunno sir. (sings)
I dunno si-irrr.
SPRIGGS: (sings) Are you
taking the Mickey out of me-ee? Jeeem?
WILLIUM: It was wearing a black
rhythm mask.
LORD CHANCELLOR: Anything else? (sings)
Anything e-else?
WILLIUM: (sings) No sir.
LORD CHANCELLOR: Ahhhh, gentlemen. A
nude battleship!
WILLIUM: Yes, and it was flying the
‘Jolly Roger’.
SPRIGGS: What? Who’s flag is that? (sings)
Who’s flag it that?
FIRST LORD:[13]
Captain Kidd’s!
SPRIGGS: Gentlemen,
FIRST LORD: But he’s dead.
SPRIGGS: Then we’ve won!
OMNES: Cheers - applause
GREENSLADE: That night, as the Isle of Alassie
sailed steadily northwards, two sturdy lookouts stood on watch.
GRAMS: Distant ocean. Ship at sea
sounds.
BLUEBOTTLE: He he he he he! Eccles?…
ECCLES: Huh? What, what, what, what?
BLUEBOTTLE: Eccles?…
ECCLES: Yeah?
BLUEBOTTLE: Have you ever…um… Hehehehe.
Don’t do dat, Eccles – it’s not nice.
ECCLES: Dat’s what you think! Ohha
haha hooo
BOTH: Hehehe! (Extended.)
BLUEBOTTLE: It wasn’t a joke. It’s
called.. hehe…what is ‘grass skirt’ Eccles. I say, have you ever worn a grass
skirt Eccles?
ECCLES: No, but I once had a green
top hat with a Union Jack sticking out the top. I’ve lived!
BLUEBOTTLE: Ohh, but didn’t people
laugh at you when you was went out?
ECCLES: Oh, I never went out. I just
used to sit in my room with a hammer, practicing Beethoven’s Fifth on my head.
BLUEBOTTLE: You must have been mad!
ECCLES: I wasn’t locked up in that
place for nothin’. I was a private patient.
BLUEBOTTLE: Ah, well… Dat’s life, I
suppose, my good man.
ECCLES: Yeah…‘Ere, Bottle?
BLUEBOTTLE: What?
ECCLES: What are we supposed to be
lookin’ for?
BLUEBOTTLE: Land, of course! When we
see land, we give like what is a warning.
ECCLES: Oh ghnghnghniy.
BLUEBOTTLE: Ho ho. Really, my good
man. Did you know that it is as easy as A.B.C?
ECCLES: A.B.C is easy?!
BLUEBOTTLE: Of course it is, my good
man!
ECCLES: (Rubbish)
BLUEBOTTLE: You went to school,
didn’t you?
ECCLES: Yeah, but the door was locked.
BLUEBOTTLE: Why was dat?
ECCLES: I think they saw me comin’. (Laughs) Hohohohoho.
(sings) Somebody loves me,
I wonder who,
I wonder…
BLUEBOTTLE: (Loud whisper) Eccles!!
ECCLES: What?
BLUEBOTTLE: Remember the cannibals. We
must be quiet.
ECCLES: Ohh, den I’d better take my
shoes off. (Effort) Now my socks.
One… two… three!
BLUEBOTTLE: What about your feet?
ECCLES: I think I’ll leave them on.
BLUEBOTTLE: Yeah, it is a bit chilly
tonight, isn’t it?
ECCLES: You ought to… ‘Ere Bottle!
BLUEBOTTLE: What?
ECCLES: Look in front of us – lights!
BLUEBOTTLE: Oh, it’s land. Quick,
shout the warning!
ECCLES: OK. (shouts) WHAT A… (normal)
What do I shout?
BLUEBOTTLE: Wait a minute; I’ve got
it here in my Finchley Sea Scout’s Diary.
FX: pages turning
BLUEBOTTLE: (reads) Here, now. ‘How to
give artificial drowning.’ No. ‘How
to rescue Girl Guides from Boy Scouts.’ Ah, here it is. ‘Land ahoy!’
ECCLES: OK. (clears throat) Ahem. LAND AH……
GRAMS: Enormous crash.
GREENSLADE: (distorted - on radio) And here is a police message…Early this
morning, there was a collision between an unknown desert island, and the Isle
of Man. Any person who can give information… (self fade)
FIRST LORD: Gentlemen. There is
still no sign of the battleship HMS Boxer, despite a search by our entire
fleet, consisting of six armoured rowing boats, and one paddle-driven destroyer.
FX: door opening
SEAGOON: I wish to claim the reward
for information about the stolen battleship. I…
GRYTPYPE: Stop! All right constable,
there’s your man.
WILLIUM: Oh, right sir. (Clears throat) Are you the owner of
island number DXB double six eight?
SEAGOON: Well, I – I – I – I…
WILLIUM: Then I must charge you with
drivin’ a piece of land, without due care and attention.
SEAGOON: Now…I…I can explain it all.
You see…
GRYTPYPE: And now gentlemen, your
present ships are far too small and slow to get to the HMS Boxer.
OMNES: (Members of the House of Commons) Hear, hear. Too small? &c
GRYTPYPE: However, my friend here [14]
happens to have a battleship outside, of exactly the same size and speed as the
stolen one. (Aside) Did you remember to paint in the new name, Moriarty?
MORIARTY: (Low) In brown paint, yes.
GRYTPYPE: Its name is the HMS Wrestler.
SEAGOON: It’s the HMS Boxer, I tell
you!
SPRIGGS: How can it be the HMS
Boxer, you fool, when it’s the HMS Wrestler?
SEAGOON: But these men are the men
who took it from me.
SPRIGGS: Silence! Silence Jim!
Gentlemen, it’s the deal.
GRYTPYPE: Ten thousand pounds,
please.
FX: Cash register, coin in till.
GRYTPYPE: I thank you.
SPRIGGS: Hon. members – now with the
aid of this new battleship, we shall easily be able to find the HMS Boxer. (sings)
Full steam ahe-ead.
GRAMS: Ships bell.
SPRIGGS: Drive off.
GRAMS & OMNES: Tug boat hooters. Cheering.
GREENSLADE: And as far as anyone knows, they’re
still looking. It’s all in the mind, you know. Goodnight.
ORCHESTRA: End theme.
GREENSLADE: That was the Goon Show, a BBC
recorded programme, featuring Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe, and Spike Milligan,
with the Ray Ellington Quartet. The orchestra conducted by Wally Stott. Script
by Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens. Announcer; Wallace Greenslade. The
programme produced by Roy Spear.
ORCHESTRA: Playout.
[1] Geldray missing. Title not coherently announced.
[2] Who is this? A later reference in the show p8 demonstrates that it
is a political reference to sputnik. Check house of Lords. ‘Never
afford a Sputnik with him in office, never.’
[3] The HMS Boxer, a landing ship, was built in 1942, and thereafter
earned distinction as one of the Allied Landing Ships in the invasion of
[4] Ref to In a
[5] This appears to be a real life caricature. The band goes up badly, as they recognise the source.
[6] Milligan is making fun of her boobs I think.
[7] Sellers loses Grytpype’s voice for a second and interjects, “Must be trills for budgies!” before resuming the script in Grytpype’s normal voice.
[8] Long handled shovels down into stokers hold. Mmm. Was there a common joke about this?
[9] Somebody, most likely Milligan, hands him his megaphone as he is speaking. He interjects, “My… Thank you,! My speaking trumpet.” before resuming the script.
[10] After a burst of high frequency, Eccles says ‘Pardon!’
[11] Eccles interjects, ‘Anyone want to add to that?’
[12] Secombe.
[13] Sellers.
[14] Spike (as Moriarty) screams violently at this point.