Season 5 1954 - 1955

First Broadcast: 1954-09-28
Recorded: 1954-09-26
Author: Spike Milligan
Producer: Peter Eton

First Broadcast: 1954-10-05
Recorded: 1954-10-03
Author: Spike Milligan
Producer: Peter Eton
Notes: Announced as 'Death in the Desert'.

First Broadcast: 1954-10-12
Recorded: 1954-10-10
Author: Spike Milligan
Producer: Peter Eton
Notes: Announced as 'The Terror of Bexhill-on-Sea'.

First Broadcast: 1954-10-19
Recorded: 1954-10-17
Author: Spike Milligan
Producer: Peter Eton

First Broadcast: 1954-10-26
Recorded: 1954-10-24
Author: Spike Milligan
Producer: Peter Eton

First Broadcast: 1954-11-02
Recorded: 1954-10-31
Author: Spike Milligan
Producer: Peter Eton
Notes: With Valentine Dyall.

First Broadcast: 1954-11-09
Recorded: 1954-11-07
Author: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton
Notes: Not coherently announced.

First Broadcast: 1954-11-16
Recorded: 1954-11-14
Author: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton

First Broadcast: 1954-11-23
Recorded: 1954-11-21
Author: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton

First Broadcast: 1954-11-30
Recorded: 1954-11-28
Author: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton

First Broadcast: 1954-12-07
Recorded: 1954-12-05
Author: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton
Notes: Not coherently announced.

First Broadcast: 1954-12-14
Recorded: 1954-12-12
Author: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton

First Broadcast: 1954-12-21
Recorded: 1954-12-19
Author: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton

First Broadcast: 1954-12-28
Recorded: 1954-12-19
Author: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton
Notes: With Charlotte Mitchell.

First Broadcast: 1955-01-04
Recorded: 1955-01-02
Author: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton
Notes: Orchestra conducted by Bruce Campbell. Inspired by George Orwell's '1984'. The show was such a sucess that it was re-performed as episode 20 later in the series.

First Broadcast: 1955-01-11
Recorded: 1955-01-09
Author: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton
Notes: Not coherently announced.

First Broadcast: 1955-01-18
Recorded: 1955-01-16
Author: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton

First Broadcast: 1955-01-25
Recorded: 1955-01-23
Author: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton
Notes: Announced as 'Beau Geste'.

First Broadcast: 1955-02-01
Recorded: 1955-01-30
Author: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton
Notes: Announced as 'The Lost Music of Purdom'.

First Broadcast: 1955-02-08
Recorded: 1955-01-30
Author: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton
Notes: This is a repeat of episode 15. It is a new performance of the same script, which was re-typed, incorporating all but one of the timing cuts made for the first version. In this show John Snagge (pre-recorded) reads the telescreen announcement near the beginning.

First Broadcast: 1955-02-15
Recorded: 1955-02-13
Author: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton
Notes: Billed in Radio Times (and Programme Index) as 'The Six Ingots of Leadenhall Street'. The script was changed at short notice to a story inspired by a photograph of the floating pier at Westminster under several feet of water with an 'Out of Order' notice pinned to it. Greenslade tries to announce the show as 'The Six Ingots of Leadenhall Street' (insisting that the Radio Times is never wrong). Finally Sellers announces it as 'The Port of London Authority's valuable hand-carved, oil-painted, valuable floating pier'.

First Broadcast: 1955-02-22
Recorded: 1955-02-20
Author: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton
Notes: 'Milton Street' is the name of a village in Sussex.

First Broadcast: 1955-03-01
Recorded: 1955-02-27
Author: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton
Notes: The title situation for this show can best be described as confusing. The front of the script, Radio Times, Programme Index and the 'Programme as Broadcast' files give the title as 'The Terrible Blasting of Moreton's Bank'. However, the show is in fact 'The Six Ingots of Leadenhall Street', the script postponed from 15th February 1955, is announced as such, and titled as such by TS. Strictly speaking, the title ought to match the official files, but since the 'Six Ingots' title makes more sense, and in fact would have been the official title of the script had not the last-minute change of plan happened. Hence the given title.

First Broadcast: 1955-03-08
Recorded: 1955-03-06
Author: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton

First Broadcast: 1955-03-15
Recorded: 1955-03-13
Author: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton
Notes: Not coherently announced.

First Broadcast: 1955-03-22
Recorded: 1955-03-20
Author: Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes
Producer: Peter Eton
Notes: Announced as 'The Confessions of a Secret Senna-pod Drinker'.