The Treasure in the Lake Originally broadcast on 27 February 1956 / . . . / - Parts cut out of Transcription Service { . . . } - Parts in Transcription Service only (these apply only to the songs) ~~~ - Parts I don’t understand (???) parts I'm not sure of GREENSLADE: This is the BBC /Home Service/ SECOMBE: Let that be a lesson to you! GREENSLADE: I’ll strike you down, sir! SECOMBE: /Don’t you dare raise your Radio Times to me!/ One false move and I’ll horse-whip you with this ECCLES: [Muffled] Put me down! SECOMBE: Eccles, you must stop wearing those leather suits GREENSLADE: Shut up, both of you! ECCLES: Shut up, both of you! SECOMBE: Shut . . . Kindly allow me, please! Kindly allow me to announce The Highly Esteemed . . . ORCHESTRA: Short distorted chord interrupts Secombe SECOMBE: . . . Goon Show. You came in too quick there, Mister Conductor. Hmm, hmm, hmm. Close your eyes FX: Gunshot BRUCE CAMPBELL: Aeiough! FX: Thud SECOMBE: Get up, man. Get up; stop sulking about that silly little hole in your head. Mister Greenslade, cease framing that copy of The Listener and/ give us the old chat, there. Come along, lamonge (*1) GREENSLADE: Ladies and Gentlemon lamonge, presenting the story of . . . ORCHESTRA: Timpani Roll SCOTSMAN (SELLERS): [Talks with bagpipe music] ‘The Treasure of Loch Lomond’. It was six hundred years ago that the Spanish treasure galleon, San Itary (*2), sunk in Loch Lomond with great treasure aboard her GREENSLADE: So much for the clumsy, heavily-laboured plot. We move now to the clumsy, heavily-laboured hero SEAGOON: My name is Neddie MC Seagoon. My story starts one warm day in London; my business partner had just handed me a vital financial report WILLIUM: We’re skint mate! SEAGOON: Skint, mate? Well let’s try Leicester Square, they like good music there WILLIUM: Will you take the solo this time, mate ? SEAGOON: I’m not afraid; give me your tin hat. Keep an eye open for coppers, and silver SEAGOON & WILLIUM: [‘Sing’] Twen’y tiny fingo’, twen’y tiny toe’, two angel faces, eac’ wi’a turn up no’! FX: Coin in mug SEAGOON & WILLIUM: Give it here, it’s mine, here! Let go of it! SEAGOON: That penny is mine! I’m the company director WILLIUM: I’ll bring this up at the next board meeting, mate, you see if I don't. After all, it was in my mug it fell in to, mate SEAGOON: I don’t care, I’m the lead singer. You’re always moaning WILLIUM: No I’m not! I stop when I’m asleep, don’t I? Oowa, look out, here come the rozzers, mate GRAMS: Whoosh, whoosh FX: Door closes SEAGOON: Ha, that’s given them the slip. Bolt the door FX: Bolt being slid home WILLIUM: Oooh, it's coming up the stairs, mate SEAGOON: Quick, we’ll fool him; slide this window under your wig GRAMS: Shattering glass SEAGOON: There, now help me fold up the walls, [strains over FX] FX: Squeaking SEAGOON: That’s better, now get the floor into this sack [strains with Willium] FX: Thud SEAGOON: Ah, ha ha, he won’t find this house here anymore WILLIUM: Mate, the floor’s stuck, mate SEAGOON: Fool, you’re standing on it FX: Sliding object, thud, knock on door WILLIUM: Aeoough, he’s at the door, mate SEAGOON: Hurry, let’s put the door up at the ceiling where he can’t reach it [strains with Willium] FX: A couple of thuds SEAGOON: There FX: Knock on door ADOLPHUS SPRIGGS: [off] I say, you two down there, open up in the name of the knee (???) SEAGOON: It’s no good, we’re trapped. Put on these master disguises; this lead beard for you, /~hurry, man~/. Now I’ll just put this pear of plastic ears around my waist [strains]. There, now he’ll never recognise us. Come in! FX: Door opens ADOLPHUS SPRIGGS: Neddie Seagoon? SEAGOON: [Sadly] Yes NORRIS TOOF (SELLERS): I’m Norris Toof of Messers Meal, Thin and Sudder, commissioners for oaths, and small bets placed SEAGOON: You should know NORRIS TOOF: I have been instructed to inform you that you are next in line to the treasures of Laird McGool. It’s a heritage, sir, worth 10,000 pounds SEAGOON: Oh well, I’ll have to inform the Labour Exchange NORRIS TOOF: One point, sir, before you do; you must prove to me that you are of Scottish blood SEAGOON: Simple, [coughs]. Och aye mon, it’s a warm black munich nach un it (moon lit night tonight), Robert the Bruce,Partick Thistle 3, Celtic Rangers (???) nil. PS down with England von hoots (???) NORRIS TOOF: Proof positive, sir, proof positive SEAGOON: Needle nardle McNoo NORRIS TOOF: ("This sounds like a mistake" You can’t go a word against a [gibberish]) You can’t go against the word of a patriot. You must leave for Scotland at once SEAGOON: Well how do I get there, mon. I’ve nier siller mon, no silver, man NORRIS TOOF: Your dear uncle has provided for the journey. Put these boots on and off you go GRAMS: Running footsteps with Seagoon singing "For he'll take the high road and I'll take the low road, and I'll be ..." and speeding up "be in Scotland a-fore yee, ...bonny banks of Loch Lomond" ORCHESTRA: Scottish-type link (bag pipes) ending messily GREENSLADE: At dawn the following year, Ned Seagoon galloped into the great yard of the castle McGool FX: Coconut shells galloping and fading in SEAGOON: [Over FX] Whoa, proud beauty! /ELLINGTON: Welcome to Scotland, white man! Let me help you down off these coconut shells/ /SEAGOON: Gad, a member of the black watch! Are you the night porter?/ /ELLINGTON: No, no, I am a Gillie/ /SEAGOON: Of course, the famous Gillie Porter, hup!/ /ORCHESTRA: Ta-daaa chord/ /SEAGOON: Thank you, thank you [laughs]. Now, I’ll have you know I am of Finchley blood. I’ve come to claim my treasure’s and heritage. I bring with me all the wealth of my London domain/ /ELLINGTON: Ah, let me take the honourable prince’s brown-paper parcel/ /SEAGOON: I ah - I admit I have been travelling light/ /ELLINGTON: Too light, you forgot your trousers/ /SEAGOON: I didn’t forget them, I just came prepared for the kilting season/ McGOOL (SELLERS): [Talks with bagpipe music] [Gibberish Scottish for 5 sec.] You must be wee Neddie SEAGOON: And you, you must be my uncle, Laird McGool McGOOL: [Talks with bagpipe music] Come in lad, you must be cold, you must be cold. Put on this porridge, come in. Come in and warm yourself by this roaring candle SEAGOON: Ah, thank you, uncle. Real regal Scots’ hospitality. Tell me, Mc uncle, why have you brought me to Mac Scotland? McGOOL: [Talks with bagpipe music] The truth is, Neddie, I’ve no heirs left SEAGOON: I’ve gone a bit thin myself [laughs at joke, clears throart] McGOOL: [Talks with bagpipe music] There’s treasure waiting for you, 10,000 pounds. It’s yours, you get it when I die SEAGOON: Only when you die? McGOOL: [Talks with bagpipe music] Ah yeah (pause) SEAGOON: How’s your health been lately? McGOOL: [Talks with bagpipe music] Fine, fine, fine. I've one weakness mind in me chest eh . . . SEAGOON: Gad, it’s stuffy in here, I’ll open a window FX: Window sliding open GRAMS: Gale wind, bagpipe music playing at various speeds McGOOL: [Over Grams: chokes and coughs] GRAMS: Stop FX: Window sliding closed McGOOL: [Talks with bagpipe music] [chokes more for 2 sec] Oh, you devil, you tried to get rid of me the noo! Now get out or I set the hounds on you SEAGOON: No, no, I was only joking . . . McGOOL: [Talks with bagpipe music] Rover, see ‘im off, boy, go on ECCLES: OK, bow ow ow ow ow wow, bow wow wow wow! SEAGOON: Shut up, you Mc idiot, you’re not a dog ECCLES: Ssh, don’t give me away, ~~~~~ pound and free collar. Bow ow ow ow ow SEAGOON: I’m going, I'm going, but you haven’t heard the last of me. /I’m on House Wives Choice tomorrow/ McGOOL: /You’re always on House Wives Choice,/ get out! FX: Door closes SEAGOON: [Off] Bow wow wow McGOOL: [Talks with bagpipe music] Good work, Rover, good dog. ECCLES: [Dog pants] McGOOL: [Talks with bagpipe music] Now of you go to the loch and bring up some more of that treasure from the sunken galley ECCLES: OK and you listen to Max McGeldray McGOOL: Alright, ~~~~~~! MAX GELDRAY & ORCHESRTA: /"I’m Beginning to See the Light"/ {"You’re Driving Me Crazy"} GREENSLADE: The Treasure in the Loch, part Mc two ORCHESTRA: Scottish-type link ending messily GRAMS: Bird calls , howling wind MORIARTY: Sapristi freezing blue Mc sporrons! Three days we’ve stood waist-deep in this ice-bound Loch Lomond. What’s the idea, ay? GRYTPYPE: Don’t you like fishing, Moriarty? MORIARTY: Fishing? Oiawiawiywiuw type O! We haven’t any rods. How do you catch fish like this? GRYTPYPE: Well they’ve go to die sometime, we just wait until then MORIARTY: /By the great measurements of Sabrina,/ you must be of your nut! GRYTPYPE: Ssh! /Frog eater,/ look GRAMS - ECCLES: (off) . . . Bow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow, doa doa doa, my love, wow wow wow wow wow, wow, ~~~~~~~~~~, wow wow wow wow . . . MORIARTY: [Over Eccles] It’s a ragged idiot wearing a dog collar GRYTPYPE: [Over Eccles] Quick, dive down and put out the fire. We don’t want to be spotted MORIARTY: [Over Eccles] Too late, I’ve already been spotted GRYTPYPE: [Over Eccles] How? MORIARTY: [Over Eccles] I had measles GRYTPYPE: [Over Eccles] Silence, heavily-oiled French joker. Observe yon dog-type man GRAMS: Splash MORIARTY: What’s he dived in for? GRYTPYPE: We’ll see when he surfaces GRAMS: Water bubbling MORIARTY: [Over Grams] Do you think he’s trapped on the bottom? GRYTPYPE: [Over Grams] No, he would’ve shouted for help GRAMS - ECCLES: Ow, be my love, bow . . . GRYTPYPE: [Over Eccles] See what he’s got round his hind leg MORIARTY: [Over Eccles] Sapristi, a platinum chandelier with a diamond set of candlabra. Pass the telescope, now hold the jewellers glass on the end. Sapristi, those diamonds are genuine. After him, money moolah, ooooh, money money money ooooyooooyoooyoo . . . GRYTPYPE: Silence, reeking garlic wreck. There’s more diamonds where that comes from at the bottom of the loch MORIARTY: But neither of us can swim under water. How do we get down to it? GRYTPYPE: We’ll drain the loch. The question is, how? SEAGOON: Ahoy there, good fishermen. Are they biting today? MORIARTY: Yes, and I’ve been scratching them all night as well SEAGOON: Ah well, I must be on my way. It seems as though I must leave for Scotland for I, and take the open road ORCHESTRA: Snare drum accompanies Seagoon: SEAGOON: [Sings terribly:] I’ve got a great big rock for my pillow And tuft of grass for my bed. I sleep naked by the roadside It’s a wonder I'm not dead! Walking through the fields of corn, Leaning up against a rick of new mown hay. The open road, the open road, The open road, for meeeeeeeeee! [clears throat] GRYTPYPE: You raving idiot, you SEAGOON: Thank you. Have you been here long? GRYTPYPE: Three hundred years MORIARTY: [Whisper] What are you talking about, Grytpype? GRYTPYPE: [Whisper] Shut up, shut up. It’s the plan, my plan SEAGOON: You’ve been here three hundred years, ay? Ha, ha, they don’t give holidays like that anymore. Baaaaaaaaaaaaah! You’re three hundred years old! GRYTPYPE: Yes, it is a shock, I know. Let me explain, you see, my fast disintegrating friend and I have been keen drinkers of the loch waters. You see it has a sort of mysterious properties that rather prolong the lifespan SEAGOON: I don’t believe this longevity story GRYTPYPE: Is that so? See that mountain? That’s over two thousand years old SEAGOON: Really? GRYTPYPE: Yes, and it’s not full grown either SEAGOON: Proof positive [laughs] so that’s why it’s bald [laughs]. Well you can’t go against the word of a mountain, can you? Oooh dear, friend, what a lucky break. If I drink this lake water, I’m sure to live longer than my uncle Laird McGool and thereby inherit his treasures [laughs] GRYTPYPE: Is that so? Well we’ll help you, won’t we, Moriarty? Give Neddie a glass of the loch water MORIARTY: Here, one shilling FX: Cash register ding, then coin falling in MORIARTY: Thank you GRYTPYPE: Fiendish ~~~~, give the gentleman back that ha’penny in the silver paper. This glass of loch water is on the house SEAGOON: Thank you, here’s health [three gulps]. Ah, marvellous, I’ll outlive him! GRYTPYPE: Of course you will, Neddie. You've put ten years on your life MORIARTY: He’d put ten years on anybody’s life GRYTPYPE: Here, Neddie, here’s another SEAGOON: Thank you [gulps] GRYTPYPE: [Under gulps] Moriarty, this is the Charlie who’s going to drink Loch Lomond for us MORIARTY: Of course, then that would reveal the treasure at the bottom. Ohhyhooyhoo, money money money money oooooooo SEAGOON: Ah, lovely GRYTPYPE: Have another SEAGOON: [gulps] GRYTPYPE: And again, Neddie SEAGOON: [gulps] Thank you, I . . . [gulps] GRYTPYPE: And more SEAGOON: [straining gulps] GRYTPYPE: Is the level of the loch going down? MORIARTY: No, this way it would take years GRYTPYPE: Yes. Ah, Neddie, lie down. Good. Now put this end of the hose in your mouth. Moriarty, put the other end in the lake MORIARTY: Right GRYTPYPE: Now, Neddie, suck away SEAGOON: [gulps] GRYTPYPE: [over gulps] Good boy, drink as much as you can. That’s it, it’s all free MORIARTY: [over gulps] It’s going down! Slowly, mark you, but it is going down GRYTPYPE: [over gulps] Yes GRAMS: Thunder rumble, rain MORIARTY: [over gulps and grams] Ooh, sapristi! What bad luck, it’s starting to rain GRYTPYPE: [over gulps] Drink faster, Neddie, faster SEAGOON: [gulps faster] GRYTPYPE: [over gulps] There’s a charabanc of, ah, pensioners arriving. Drink drink drink MORIARTY: [over gulps] That’s it, that’s it, drink ~~~ water ~~~ SEAGOON: [more gulps] MORIARTY: [over gulps] Quick, plug his ear, it’s leaking SEAGOON: Hah, it’s no good, I have to stop /MORIARTY: What for?/ SEAGOON: /Can’t you guess?/ I’m feeling faint MORIARTY: Faint? Here, have this glass of water SEAGOON: Thanks [gulps] GRYTPYPE: Now, Neddie, on with the drinking. You want to live longer, don’t you? SEAGOON: Oh, [gulps]. No more tonight, please. I must get a good night’s sleep! I promise I’ll come back tomorrow, needle nardle McNoo. I’ll be staying over in that old, red lodge. Goodnight MORIARTY: Sapristi, tomorrow’s too late! We must have that treasure tonight. Our plane leaves for Amsterdam at dawn GRYTPYPE: Let me think, I have it. The water for that old red lodge comes from the lake. Let’s go and turn all the taps on and fix ‘em so they can’t be turned off MORIARTY: Right GRYTPYPE: Wait! The water for that old red lodge comes from the lake. Let’s go and turn all the taps on and fix ‘em so they can’t be turned off MORIARTY: I heard you the first time GRYTPYPE: You don’t count, I’m only interested in the listeners. Ssh, Ray Ellington MORIARTY: Let’s hide GRYTPYPE: Yes RAY ELLINGTON QUARTET: /"I’ve Changed My Mind a Thousand Times"\"Who’s Sorry Now?"/ {"Hold Him Tight"} GREENSLADE: The Treasure of Loch Lomond, part Mc three the noo, arch ay ORCHESTRA: Scottish-type link ending messily GRAMS: Gush of water FX: Hammer hitting metal object MINNIE: Naaaaaw FX: Hammer hitting metal object MINNIE: Naaw. Naaaaaw FX: Hammer hitting metal object MINNIE: Naaaaaw FX: Hammer hitting metal object MINNIE: Naaaaaw FX: Hammer hitting metal object MINNIE: Naaw FX: Door opens HENRY: What’s going on in here, Min? You’re waking all the people in the lodge MINNIE: I can not turn this tap off, Henry HENRY: Give me the hammer FX: Hammer hitting metal object to a fancy rhythm HENRY: Min MINNIE: Yes, Hen? HENRY: I can’t turn it off either. I know, I know, hold my saxophone a minute. /just roll up my kilt/ /MINNIE: Not too high, Henry/ HENRY: Min, have you got the monkey wrench? MINNIE: I gave it back to the monkey HENRY: We don’t wish to know that type joke, Min MINNIE: I got it from a very expensive Christmas cracker, buddy HENRY: Oh, we’d better do something; the water is up to my sporron. Call a plumber, Min MINNIE: Plumber, Min FX: Door opens SEAGOON: Ah, dear landlord, I heard running water so I came running down. Good heavens, you’re flooded HENRY: Yes, we’ve got a burst pipe SEAGOON: Which one of you MINNIE: Naughty Neddie! Naughty, naughty, naughty needle nardle noo Neddie. It’s the tap SEAGOON: Ah, I see. Let me try, I didn’t study astronavigation in the isotopes brew for nothing , you know [laughs]. FX: Hammer hitting metal object, 3x, metal object hitting floor SEAGOON: There, that’s got the tap off HENRY: The water is still coming out of the pipe SEAGOON: What bad luck. Where’s the stop cock? HENRY: We don’t know Cock MINNIE: Ooooooh, look. There’s something coming out of the burst pipe FX: Squeezing, pop GRAMS: Pop, splash BLUEBOTTLE: Enter Bluebottle through pipe! Thank you, thank you little sausage makers, thank you. /Returns to serious business of acting. Strikes Frank Sinatra, man with golden arm pose. Thinks: ‘ere, I like that bit where Kim Novac keeps him warm, eee hee hee!/ SEAGOON: Who are you? BLUEBOTTLE: I’m Mac Blunebottles, talk of North Finchley. I go through life with a smile and a song, with a smile and a song, life is like . . . FX: Thud with metal object BLUEBOTTLE: . . . ~~~~~~, nit, uee. Who threw that porcelain-type sink at me? SEAGOON: I did. How dare you come through Mr. Crun’s water pipe without knocking? BLUEBOTTLE: I’m sorry, it was not my fault, Captain. Do you know that I was swimming in the lake with my first class swimmer’s badge pinned to my water wing, when suddenly, ploodgee! I was sucked up into the nasty water pipe. Then there was hours of darkness and writhing agony and finally, splunge, blat, I was squirted out into this bathtub here, but I was not afraid SEAGOON: Spoken like a man BLUEBOTTLE: Yes, I can do impressions, you know. Ooh, I have got a message for you. Major Bloodnok says he wants you all to start building him a boat SEAGOON: Why? BLUEBOTTLE: He’s drowning in the lake FX: Thud with metal object BLUEBOTTLE: Eiiiy! Stop clouting me with sink-type sink. I must not be nutted by strangers SEAGOON: Wait! SEAGOON & BLUEBOTTLE: If this young, cardboard captain ~~~ tale is true, then this pipe is draining the lake and its life prolonging waters SEAGOON: Shut up! BLUEBOTTLE: Shut up! SEAGOON: All this water here must be returned to the lake. Form a bucket chain! BLUEBOTTLE: Can I help? SEAGOON: No, I must do this alone. A horse and bucket, horse and bucket BLUEBOTTLE & MINNIE: [with rhythm] They go together like a . . . SEAGOON: Shut up! Gid up, Dobbin, come on, Dobbin ECCLES: OK, neeeeeeiiiiigh! SEAGOON: Eccles, you’re not a horse, you’re a dog ECCLES: I know, but I do impressions SEAGOON: Right, gid up there, Dobbin come on, to the lake, Dobbin! ECCLES: OK [makes chicken noises] no that isn’t a horse. [Makes dog noises] No, that’s a dog. [Makes car noises] No, no, I’ll get it, I’ll get it SEAGOON: I can’t wait, I must save the lake. Out of my way! GRAMS: Horse galloping ORCHESTRA: Allegro, dramatic link GREENSLADE: So started that epic night of adventure. Back and forth went Seagoon with his bucket, trying to return the water. Meantime, back at the lake: GRAMS: Bird calls MORIARTY: It’s going down fast GRYTPYPE: Good, it won’t be long now GREENSLADE: Meantime, back in the bathroom: FX: Hammering MINNIE: It’s got to the ceiling HENRY: Swim, Min swim GREENSLADE: Meantime, on the road to the lake: GRAMS: Galloping SEAGOON: On proud beauty! GREENSLADE: Back in the bathroom: FX: Hammering MINNIE: Good old (???) Neddie, the water’s going down GREENSLADE: Back at the lake: MORIARTY: Sapritsti, the water’s going up! GREENSLADE: On the road to the lake: GRAMS: Galloping SEAGOON: The water’s going backwards and forwards! GREENSLADE: Meantime, in the middle of the lake: BLOODNOK: Help, heeeeelp! GREENSLADE: Back in the bathroom: FX: Hammering HENRY: We must stop it rising GREENSLADE: Back at the lake: MORIARTY: We must stop it rising GREENSLADE: Meantime in the steam baths in Edgewell Road: THROAT: Cor blimey! GREENSLADE: And in the cave Fred: GRAMS: Dance music sped up MORIARTY: You dance divinely GRYTPYPE: Yes, but the water’s reached flood level GREENSLADE: Back in the bathroom: FX: Hammering MINNIE: The water’s reached flood level GREENSLADE: Meantime, back in . . . BLUEBOTTLE: What about me? GRAMS: Long explosion BLUEBOTTLE: You rotten swine, you, eeh hee hee! GREENSLADE: Meantime, back in the studio I was about to say meantime, back in the castle: McGOOL: [Talks with bagpipe music] You’ve been good to me, laddie. For the last eighteen years you’ve been salvaging the treasures of the sunken galleon ECCLES: Yeah, for the last eighteen years! McGOOL: [Talks with bagpipe music] Aye, and now we’ve got the lot, 20,000 pounds! ECCLES: 20,000 pounds, that money must be worth a fortune McGOOL: [Talks with bagpipe music] You know what it means to us both? ECCLES: No McGOOL: [Talks with bagpipe music] It means that I’m a rich man and you’re a far better swimmer GREENSLADE: Meantime, back in the bathroom [silence]. Meantime, back in the lake [silence]. Back on the road to the lake [silence]. Don’t some people get discouraged easily, goodnight ORCHESTRA: Ta-daa chord GREENSLADE: Thank you. And now Mr Adolphus Spriggs, with Rubin Croucher at the piano ORCHESTRA: Piano gives intro. Then accompanies Spriggs: SPRIGGS: [Sings "I’m Walking Backwards for Christmas:] I’m walking backwards for Christmas, Across the Irish Sea. I’m walking backwards for Christmas, It’s the only thing for me. I’ve tried walking sideways, And walking to the front. But people just look at me, And say it’s a publicity stunt. I’m walking backwards for Christmas, To prove that I love you! ORCHESTRA: End music: "Lucky Strike" GREENSLADE: That was The Goon Show, a BBC recorded programme featuring Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan, with the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray. The orchestra was conducted by Bruce Campbell, script by Spike Milligan, announcer Wallace Greenslade, the programme produced by Pat Dixon! ORCHESTRA: Music continues Notes *1) I believe that what Secombe says here is a sound joke on the word Lomond. Instead of "Come along" he transposes the sound of the word "Loch" onto the syllable "long" of "along" and hence gets, Come alonglomond. ... Loch Lomond is not generally pronounced with the final 'd'. It is spoken (and sung) as Loch Lomon. (Yukka Tukka Indians, Mar '04) *2) Spanish treasure galleon Sanitary is pronounced San Itary, as a play on words (Spanish names typically starting San as in San Cristobal, or even San Fransisco). (Nautilus, Mar '04)