Ye Bandit of Sherwood Forest (transcript): Difference between revisions

From The Goon Show Depository

(Created page with "Ye Bandit Of Sherwood Forest by Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes Guest Starring Charlotte Mitchell Greenslade: This is the BBC Home Service Throat: Cor Blimey! Orchestra: "Jingle Bells" Thespian: 'Tis Christmas, and in every home are sounds of revelry and good cheer. But alas outside... Grams: Snow Blizzard Over Speech Thespian: Outside in the driving snow a lone tragic ragged figure stumbles through the icy streets, his thin frost-bitten fingers clutching at the thread-b...")
 
No edit summary
Line 3: Line 3:


Guest Starring Charlotte Mitchell
Guest Starring Charlotte Mitchell
{|"style="max-width: 850; padding-bottom: 1em;"
|style="width: 150px;"|
|style="width: 540px;"|
|-
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Greenslade''':
This is the BBC Home Service
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Throat''':
Cor Blimey!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Orchestra''':
"Jingle Bells"
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Thespian''':
'Tis Christmas, and in every home are sounds of revelry and good cheer. But alas outside...
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Grams''':
Snow Blizzard Over Speech
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Thespian''':
Outside in the driving snow a lone tragic ragged figure stumbles through the icy streets, his thin frost-bitten fingers clutching at the thread-bare overcoat. He stumbles into a decrepit hovel ignoring the poor wretches who lay groaning on the straw-covered floor. He staggers in, lets fall his ragged coat, lurches forward and says...
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Seagoon''':
Welcome to the Goon Show!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Grams''':
Various moans and wailings...
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Seagoon''':
Thank you listeners. And a Merry Christmas to all our readers. For the Christmas festival we present on the new curved speaker radio set, A Bandit Of Sherwood Forest
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Omnes''':
Ole
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Orchestra''':
Grand Opening
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Greenslade''':
Doncaster late in the 12th century, 'tis December and the snow covered coaching yard of the Bowman's Inn is thronged with travellers each awaiting to go his journey
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''The Sheriff''':
Oh coach master, a word I pray
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Seagoon''':
(country accent) Coming sir! Ah 'tis the Sheriff of Nottingham. A pleasure to talk to the only real gentleman here
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''The Sheriff''':
Oh really?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Seagoon''':
Yes, that's him over there by the wall. Wallace the Greenslade
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''The Sheriff''':
Hm, forsooth this day I would travel to Nottingham, I wish to buy a ticket for the coach
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Seagoon''':
Coach don't need a ticket, it travels free ha ha ha...
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''The Sheriff''':
Now then, I wish a seat with my back to the horses
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Seagoon''':
Dun't matter, if you're downwind you'll still cop it! Hur hur hur...
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''The Sheriff''':
Ye good joke.(lapses into cockney) Now belt up will ya!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''The Sheriff''':
Baggage boy! Baggage boy!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Eccles''':
Hello. Didst thou call, sire?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''The Sheriff''':
Long thin lad put my three bags top of the coach for Nottingham
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Eccles''':
Forsooth I will do that, I say sooth, sooth, sooth, sooth and... sooth!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''The Sheriff''':
What manner of an idiot is this that keeps saying sooth?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Eccles''':
Little does he know that I'm a soothsayer! (laughs) Now don't hit me now! Ooh, what was that?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''The Sheriff''':
Just my little foot. Now get those bags and...
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Eccles''':
Okay, I got the bags, I'll get all the bags, I've done this before you know!?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Grams''':
Cases being moved and thumped about
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Eccles''':
Steady on, I'll get them up, I've done this before you know? I'll just get them up there! (faintly) There you are all safe and sound on top. Oooh! I forgot the bags! I'll come down and...
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''The Sheriff''':
No no no, stay there and I'll throw them up to you. Here's one - two - three. Got them?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Seagoon''':
Excuse me sir, could you give I a hand around the other side of the coach?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''The Sheriff''':
Why?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Seagoon''':
There's a lad lying down with 3 cases on top of him
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''The Sheriff''':
Idiot! Idiot!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Eccles''':
OK, it's okay Sire, I didn't hurt myself
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''The Sheriff''':
Well jump again
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Eccles''':
I fell on this old woman
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Greenslade''':
I'm not an old woman
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Eccles''':
I'm sorry, I meant this old man
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Greenslade''':
I'm not an old woman or an old man
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Eccles''':
Ooooh!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Greenslade''':
I'm a young man
Coachman and |style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Eccles''':
Laugh, ye good joke!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Flowerdew''':
Hark ye all! Hark ye all! The coach for Nottingham leaves but quick, do you hear me? So quickly! I Could spit!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Seagoon''':
Everyone aboard
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Omnes''':
Good-bye!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Seagoon''':
Next stop Sherwood Forest
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Orchestra''':
Cheerful Link
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Grams''':
Carriage Rolling Along Over Speech
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Minnie Bannister''':
(snoring) Oh dear, dear, dear dear! I must have dozed off. Where are we, pray, gentlemen?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''The Sheriff''':
We're in Sherwood Forest, madam. Pity you're not younger
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Minnie Bannister''':
Oh! Oh dear! What's become of the long, thin lad?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''The Sheriff''':
I threw him out of the coach a mile back
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Minnie Bannister''':
What in heaven made you do that, sir?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''The Sheriff''':
I don't know, just high spirits I suppose
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Minnie Bannister''':
The poor, poor lad, lost in the forest the wolves will get him
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Hungarian''':
(heavily accented) Please don't mention the wolves!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Minnie Bannister''':
Why not?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Hungarian''':
(heavily accented) I'm an Hungarian!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Grams''':
Carriage Screeches To A Halt
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Friar Balsam''':
Stand and deliver! Hands up or I'll split your grotkin in each quarter!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Minnie Bannister''':
Oh mercy! It's an outlaw!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Friar Balsam''':
I warn you madam, one step nearer and I'll scream
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Greenslade''':
Art thou one of Robin Hood's men?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Friar Balsam''':
I art, me name is Friar Balsam
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Greenslade''':
What luck! Oh indeed, what luck! I wish to join your band, I play the saxophone
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Friar Balsam''':
Oh, just what we need, right we shall keep you. Now churchman, you may drive on unharmed?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Seagoon''':
Giddup!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''FX''':
Horse Gallops Off (Getting Faster) Into Distance
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Friar Balsam''':
Now then my lad, from now on you will be known as Little John and...
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':
Ahoy there my merry men, it is I Robin Hood nee Neddy Seagoon known as handsome Harry plus Harry Secombe now playing in pantomime (singing) Be my love! Falling in love with love is like falling for make-believe! Maria!(stops singing) More! More? Thank you, more!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''The Sheriff''':
Come along Robin there's no need to be so shy. Robin this is our new recruit
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':
Welcome to the band, I'll have you fitted for a suit of Lincoln Green. Call Nobby the tailor!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Nobby''':
(Lew/Jewish) Yes er, what is it doublin?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':
Measure this man
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Nobby''':
Why, is he dead?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':
For a suit
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Nobby''':
Oh a suit, alright then. Elkan, you got the tape?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Throat''': Yes!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Nobby''':
Good. Right now then um - and the chalk Elci - er chest 17 including shoulders, waist 56 - 'ere you're a bit of a nosher ain't you? Never mind it's nice to see it on you - Right arm 18, left arm 28 - now then inside leg...
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Greenslade''':
Oooooh!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Nobby''':
Sorry! That's all now, half a nicker to you
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Greenslade''':
I refuse to be seen wearing half a nicker!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Eccles''':
Here here here! Ooh help! Robin Hood, help!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':
It's Will Eccles, what's happened?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Eccles''':
The Sheriff of Nottingham, he threw me out of the coach, clung! But I learnt something else: his men have captured Maid Marion
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':
Oh no! Maid Marion, she's the most beautiful girl in the world!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Friar Balsam''':
You must rescue her
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':
Yes. I must rescue her, she's so beautiful!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Friar Balsam''':
It will mean certain death for you
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':
I don't know, she wasn't that pretty. I wonder where they're keeping her
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Eccles''':
Where they're keeping her? In the forest of course, because there's plenty of good hiding places there, my dad used to take me there
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':
What for?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Eccles''':
A good hiding - Ha ha!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Friar Balsam''':
You're all cowards, do you hear me? The fair Maid Marion must be rescued at all costs. Will Eccles, saddle me horse
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':
Max Geldray strap on a perforated mackerel sheet - zounds!


Greenslade: This is the BBC Home Service
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Max Geldray''':  
Throat: Cor Blimey!
"Oh, Lady Be Good"
Orchestra: "Jingle Bells"
 
Thespian: 'Tis Christmas, and in every home are sounds of revelry and good cheer. But alas outside...
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Orchestra''':  
Grams: Snow Blizzard Over Speech
Dramatic link
Thespian: Outside in the driving snow a lone tragic ragged figure stumbles through the icy streets, his thin frost-bitten fingers clutching at the thread-bare overcoat. He stumbles into a decrepit hovel ignoring the poor wretches who lay groaning on the straw-covered floor. He staggers in, lets fall his ragged coat, lurches forward and says...
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Maid Marion''':
Seagoon: Welcome to the Goon Show!
Oh no, no! No!
Grams: Various moans and wailings...
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''The Sheriff''':  
Seagoon: Thank you listeners. And a Merry Christmas to all our readers. For the Christmas festival we present on the new curved speaker radio set, A Bandit Of Sherwood Forest
Get in there you naughty Maid Marion
Omnes: Ole
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Maid Marion''':
Orchestra: Grand Opening
Sheriff of Nottingham take your hands off me. If they are not off in the next 3 hours I'll write to the police
Greenslade: Doncaster late in the 12th century, 'tis December and the snow covered coaching yard of the Bowman's Inn is thronged with travellers each awaiting to go his journey
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''The Sheriff''':  
The Sheriff: Oh coach master, a word I pray
Little Spitfire!
Seagoon: (country accent) Coming sir! Ah 'tis the Sheriff of Nottingham. A pleasure to talk to the only real gentleman here
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Maid Marion''':
The Sheriff: Oh really?
Fie, oh fie! You see, my fiance, Mr. R. Hood will come and fisticuff you. He'll hit thee. Splat thun blat zowee zocko blam thud biff. He learnt all his boxing from comic strips. Have you ever seen a comic strip?
Seagoon: Yes, that's him over there by the wall. Wallace the Greenslade
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''The Sheriff''':  
The Sheriff: Hm, forsooth this day I would travel to Nottingham, I wish to buy a ticket for the coach
Only in a Turkish Bath
Seagoon: Coach don't need a ticket, it travels free ha ha ha...
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Maid Marion''':
The Sheriff: Now then, I wish a seat with my back to the horses
I don't wish to knowest that
Seagoon:Dun't matter, if you're downwind you'll still cop it! Hur hur hur...
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''The Sheriff''':
The Sheriff:Ye good joke.(lapses into cockney) Now belt up will ya!
In that case goodbye-est!
The Sheriff: Baggage boy! Baggage boy!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''FX''':
Eccles: Hello. Didst thou call, sire?
Heavy Door Shutting
The Sheriff: Long thin lad put my three bags top of the coach for Nottingham
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Maid Marion''':
Eccles: Forsooth I will do that, I say sooth, sooth, sooth, sooth and... sooth!
Oh! Sobs of despair! Sobs! Locked in this dark dungeon with nothing but an old straw television set! This is the chamber of torture. Oh woe! Oh misery! Fie! Oh what shall I do.
The Sheriff: What manner of an idiot is this that keeps saying sooth?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Smoothy Announcer''':
Eccles: Little does he know that I'm a soothsayer! (laughs) Now don't hit me now! Ooh, what was that?
The part of Maid Marion is being played by Miss Charlotte Mitchell and a ripe little ham she's proving. Pray, continue
The Sheriff: Just my little foot. Now get those bags and...
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Maid Marion''':  
Eccles: Okay, I got the bags, I'll get all the bags, I've done this before you know!?
But I know my fiance Robin Hood will rescue me alon
Grams: Cases being moved and thumped about
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':  
Eccles: Steady on, I'll get them up, I've done this before you know? I'll just get them up there! (faintly) There you are all safe and sound on top. Oooh! I forgot the bags! I'll come down and...
Psssst!
The Sheriff: No no no, stay there and I'll throw them up to you. Here's one - two - three. Got them?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Maid Marion''':  
Seagoon: Excuse me sir, could you give I a hand around the other side of the coach?
What is that pssst I hear?
The Sheriff: Why?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':  
Seagoon: There's a lad lying down with 3 cases on top of him
Pssst!
The Sheriff: Idiot! Idiot!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Maid Marion''':
Eccles: OK, it's okay Sire, I didn't hurt myself
How do you spell it?
The Sheriff: Well jump again
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':  
Eccles: I fell on this old woman
Pee ss tte!
Greenslade: I'm not an old woman
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Maid Marion''':  
Eccles: I'm sorry, I meant this old man
That's how my Robin spells his pssst. Is that you, Robin, come to rescue me?
Greenslade: I'm not an old woman or an old man
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':
Eccles: Ooooh!
Yessssst
Greenslade: I'm a young man
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Maid Marion''':
Coachman and Eccles: Laugh, ye good joke!
Where are you my clever one?
Flowerdew: Hark ye all! Hark ye all! The coach for Nottingham leaves but quick, do you hear me? So quickly! I Could spit!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':
Seagoon: Everyone aboard
Chained to the wall behind you. The truth is I'm a prisoner. My arms are chained
Omnes: Good-bye!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Maid Marion''':  
Seagoon: Next stop Sherwood Forest
Are your legs chained?
Orchestra: Cheerful Link
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':
Grams: Carriage Rolling Along Over Speech
No
Minnie Bannister: (snoring) Oh dear, dear, dear dear! I must have dozed off. Where are we, pray, gentlemen?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Maid Marion''':
The Sheriff: We're in Sherwood Forest, madam. Pity you're not younger
Then let's dance, Robin!
Minnie Bannister: Oh! Oh dear! What's become of the long, thin lad?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Orchestra''':
The Sheriff: I threw him out of the coach a mile back
Lounge Dance Music Over Speech
Minnie Bannister: What in heaven made you do that, sir?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Maid Marion''':  
The Sheriff: I don't know, just high spirits I suppose
Oh you waltz divinely!
Minnie Bannister: The poor, poor lad, lost in the forest the wolves will get him
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':
Hungarian: (heavily accented) Please don't mention the wolves!
Do you come here often? Stop! (ORCHESTRA STOPS) Stop this mad soiree
Minnie Bannister: Why not?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Maid Marion''':
Hungarian: (heavily accented) I'm an Hungarian!
But you're so handsome
Grams: Carriage Screeches To A Halt
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':
Friar Balsam: Stand and deliver! Hands up or I'll split your grotkin in each quarter!
I know, isn't it a bore? But we must escape. Wait, this stone I'm chained to, it's loose, I can feel the draught. Hnnnnnnn Hnnnnn Hnnn. Ah! I've done it!
Minnie Bannister: Oh mercy! It's an outlaw!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Maid Marion''':
Friar Balsam: I warn you madam, one step nearer and I'll scream
What?
Greenslade: Art thou one of Robin Hood's men?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':  
Friar Balsam: I art, me name is Friar Balsam
Taken an aspirin, I don't want to catch cold
Greenslade: What luck! Oh indeed, what luck! I wish to join your band, I play the saxophone
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Maid Marion''':
Friar Balsam: Oh, just what we need, right we shall keep you. Now churchman, you may drive on unharmed?
Robin, try and pull the stone out, beloved!
Seagoon: Giddup!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':  
Fx: Horse Gallops Off (Getting Faster) Into Distance
My arms are chained, but my teeth aren't! Place the chain twixt my teeth
Friar Balsam: Now then my lad, from now on you will be known as Little John and...
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Maid Marion''':  
Robin Hood: Ahoy there my merry men, it is I Robin Hood nee Neddy Seagoon known as handsome Harry plus Harry Secombe now playing in pantomime (singing) Be my love! Falling in love with love is like falling for make-believe! Maria!(stops singing) More! More? Thank you, more!
There, it is twixt. Now pull, Robin!
The Sheriff: Come along Robin there's no need to be so shy. Robin this is our new recruit
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':
Robin Hood: Welcome to the band, I'll have you fitted for a suit of Lincoln Green. Call Nobby the tailor!
Right. Hnnnn, it's coming I think, hnnn
Nobby: (Lew/Jewish) Yes er, what is it doublin?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Maid Marion''':  
Robin Hood: Measure this man
That's it, Robin, beloved, pull! Let those strong white teeth pull us to freedom
Nobby: Why, is he dead?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''FX''':
Robin Hood: For a suit
Set Of Teeth Falling On The Floor
Nobby: Oh a suit, alright then. Elkan, you got the tape?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':
Throat: Yes!
Well don't just stand there! Pick them up!
Nobby: Good. Right now then um - and the chalk Elci - er chest 17 including shoulders, waist 56 - 'ere you're a bit of a nosher ain't you? Never mind it's nice to see it on you - Right arm 18, left arm 28 - now then inside leg...
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Maid Marion''':  
Greenslade: Oooooh!
Robin you've pulled the stone out! Let's go through to freedom. Follow me. Oh! tis dark in here. Oooh! Robin, please!
Nobby: Sorry! That's all now, half a nicker to you
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':
Greenslade: I refuse to be seen wearing half a nicker!
It wasn't me
Eccles: Here here here! Ooh help! Robin Hood, help!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Maid Marion''':  
Robin Hood: It's Will Eccles, what's happened?
Then who else?
Eccles: The Sheriff of Nottingham, he threw me out of the coach, clung! But I learnt something else: his men have captured Maid Marion
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Eccles''':  
Robin Hood: Oh no! Maid Marion, she's the most beautiful girl in the world!
There's more than one prisoner in here
Friar Balsam: You must rescue her
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':
Robin Hood: Yes. I must rescue her, she's so beautiful!
'Tis the noble Eccles. What are you doing here?
Friar Balsam: It will mean certain death for you
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Eccles''':
Robin Hood: I don't know, she wasn't that pretty. I wonder where they're keeping her
Six months!
Eccles: Where they're keeping her? In the forest of course, because there's plenty of good hiding places there, my dad used to take me there
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':
Robin Hood: What for?
You captured too?
Eccles: A good hiding - Ha ha!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''FX''':  
Friar Balsam: You're all cowards, do you hear me? The fair Maid Marion must be rescued at all costs. Will Eccles, saddle me horse
Heavy Prison Door Opened
Robin Hood: Max Geldray strap on a perforated mackerel sheet - zounds!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Maid Marion''':  
Max Geldray - "Oh, Lady Be Good"
It is the sheriff!
Orchestra: Dramatic link
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''The Sheriff''':
Maid Marion: Oh no, no! No!
Yes, I've come to take you, Maid Marion
The Sheriff: Get in there you naughty Maid Marion
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':  
Maid Marion: Sheriff of Nottingham take your hands off me. If they are not off in the next 3 hours I'll write to the police
Splat Thun Zowee Blun Thud Biff Club Wallop Than Blat Sokko! There, let that be a lesson to you! Blat! Blat!
The Sheriff: Little Spitfire!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''The Sheriff''':
Maid Marion: Fie, oh fie! You see, my fiance, Mr. R. Hood will come and fisticuff you. He'll hit thee. Splat thun blat zowee zocko blam thud biff. He learnt all his boxing from comic strips. Have you ever seen a comic strip?
You silly twisted boy, you! Come Maid
The Sheriff: Only in a Turkish Bath
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Friar Balsam''':
Maid Marion: I don't wish to knowest that
(Blows out candle)
The Sheriff: In that case goodbye-est!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''The Sheriff''':  
Fx: Heavy Door Shutting
Who blew my candle out?
Maid Marion: Oh! Sobs of despair! Sobs! Locked in this dark dungeon with nothing but an old straw television set! This is the chamber of torture. Oh woe! Oh misery! Fie! Oh what shall I do.
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Eccles''':  
Smoothy Announcer: The part of Maid Marion is being played by Miss Charlotte Mitchell and a ripe little ham she's proving. Pray, continue
Ho ho
Maid Marion: But I know my fiance Robin Hood will rescue me alon
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Friar Balsam''':  
Robin Hood: Psssst!
Don't move, sheriff, or this club will mash your nugglers
Maid Marion: What is that pssst I hear?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':  
Robin Hood: Pssst!
It's Friar Balsam. Let the sheriff have it
Maid Marion: How do you spell it?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Omnes''':
Robin Hood: Pe ss tte!
Thuds and screams of fighting
Maid Marion: That's how my Robin spells his pssst. Is that you, Robin, come to rescue me?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Maid Marion''':
Robin Hood: Yessssst
My fiance Robin is in there!
Maid Marion: Where are you my clever one?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Friar Balsam''':  
Robin Hood: Chained to the wall behind you. The truth is I'm a prisoner. My arms are chained
Club'n'yukka. Now, you swine, had enough?
Maid Marion: Are your legs chained?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Eccles''':
Robin Hood: No
Yup, I've had enough'
Maid Marion: Then let's dance, Robin!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Friar Balsam''':
Orchestra: Lounge Dance Music Over Speech
Eccles! Where's the sheriff?
Maid Marion: Oh you waltz divinely!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':
Robin Hood: Do you come here often? Stop! (ORCHESTRA STOPS) Stop this mad soiree
I've got him by the throat, help me!
Maid Marion: But you're so handsome
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Friar Balsam''':
Robin Hood: I know, isn't it a bore? But we must escape. Wait, this stone I'm chained to, it's loose, I can feel the draught. Hnnnnnnn Hnnnnn Hnnn. Ah! I've done it!
No!
Maid Marion: What?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':  
Robin Hood: Taken an aspirin, I don't want to catch cold
Why not?
Maid Marion: Robin, try and pull the stone out, beloved!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Friar Balsam''':
Robin Hood: My arms are chained, but my teeth aren't! Place the chain twixt my teeth
My throat!
Maid Marion: There, it is twixt. Now pull, Robin!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''FX''':  
Robin Hood: Right. Hnnnn, it's coming I think, hnnn
Heavy Prison Door Shut
Maid Marion: That's it, Robin, beloved, pull! Let those strong white teeth pull us to freedom
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Friar Balsam''':
Fx: Set Of Teeth Falling On The Floor
Flatter me nurtures with crods, he's got away with Maid Marion
Robin Hood: Well don't just stand there! Pick them up!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Eccles''':  
Maid Marion: Robin you've pulled the stone out! Let's go through to freedom. Follow me. Oh! tis dark in here. Oooh! Robin, please!
Oooh!
Robin Hood: It wasn't me
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''FX''':
Maid Marion: Then who else?
Phone Rings
Eccles: There's more than one prisoner in here
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Friar Balsam''':  
Robin Hood: 'Tis the noble Eccles. What are you doing here?
(Smooth hern) I'll get it, baby. Hello? (normal Bloodnok) It's for you
Eccles: Six months!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':
Robin Hood: You captured too?
Hello? Robin Hood here
Fx: Heavy Prison Door Opened
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Ernie Cash''':  
Maid Marion: It is the sheriff!
(Jewish, on other end) Hello. Listen listen, Ernie Cash here. Now listen, listen Robin. The sheriff's been on the blower to me from the Windsor 'ere and he says unless you pay him 2000 pounds ransom he's going to kill ya
The Sheriff: Yes, I've come to take you, Maid Marion
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':
Robin Hood: Splat Thun Zowee Blun Thud Biff Club Wallop Than Blat Sokko! There, let that be a lesson to you! Blat! Blat!
2000 pounds? What shall I do?
The Sheriff: You silly twisted boy, you! Come Maid
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Ernie Cash''':
Friar Balsam: (Blows out candle)
Offer him 1750 and take a chance on it
The Sheriff: Who blew my candle out?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':
Eccles: Ho ho
I haven't got a penny on me
Friar Balsam: Don't move, sheriff, or this club will mash your nugglers
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Ernie Cash''':
Robin Hood: It's Friar Balsam. Let the sheriff have it
Don't worry, don't worry schmooliker I sent the geezer on his way with the geldt to get you out of schtuck
Omnes: Thuds and screams of fighting
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':
Maid Marion: My fiance Robin is in there!
Thank you, thank you, you've saved my life
Friar Balsam: Club'n'yukka. Now, you swine, had enough?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Ernie Cash''':
Eccles: Yup, I've had enough'
Well we all make mistakes. Good-bye
Friar Balsam: Eccles! Where's the sheriff?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':  
Robin Hood: I've got him by the throat, help me!
All's well. Ellington, tell us why you're in prison as well
Friar Balsam: No!
Robin Hood: Why not?
Friar Balsam: My throat!
Fx: Heavy Prison Door Shut
Friar Balsam: Flatter me nurtures with crods, he's got away with Maid Marion
Eccles: Oooh!
Fx: Phone Rings
Friar Balsam: (Smooth hern) I'll get it, baby. Hello? (normal Bloodnok) It's for you
Robin Hood: Hello? Robin Hood here
Ernie Cash: (Jewish, on other end) Hello. Listen listen, Ernie Cash here. Now listen, listen Robin. The sheriff's been on the blower to me from the Windsor 'ere and he says unless you pay him 2000 pounds ransom he's going to kill ya
Robin Hood: 2000 pounds? What shall I do?
Ernie Cash: Offer him 1750 and take a chance on it
Robin Hood: I haven't got a penny on me
Ernie Cash: Don't worry, don't worry schmooliker I sent the geezer on his way with the geldt to get you out of schtuck
Robin Hood: Thank you, thank you, you've saved my life
Ernie Cash: Well we all make mistakes. Good-bye
Robin Hood: All's well. Ellington, tell us why you're in prison as well
Ray Ellington - "Framed"
Ray Ellington - "Framed"
Greenslade: (singing) Oh what a night, ah what a night it was! It really was! I believe for every drop of rain that falls someone gets wet (stops singing) Yes Greensladers it's your own Wallace Greenslade singing to you again and don't forget - you too can have a signed photograph of Wallace Greenslade for only 3 guineas. So, fan clubs, keep those cheques rolling in, old Wallace will find a use for them. So 'til next time this is Mr. Rhythm Greenslade saying chigidi-boo-boo rock-holy-coo-coo obi-doobi-doo chiggidy-snitch 2 4 6 8 who do we appreciate? Greenslade!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Greenslade''':  
Grams: Cheers And Whistles
(singing) Oh what a night, ah what a night it was! It really was! I believe for every drop of rain that falls someone gets wet (stops singing) Yes Greensladers it's your own Wallace Greenslade singing to you again and don't forget - you too can have a signed photograph of Wallace Greenslade for only 3 guineas. So, fan clubs, keep those cheques rolling in, old Wallace will find a use for them. So 'til next time this is Mr. Rhythm Greenslade saying chigidi-boo-boo rock-holy-coo-coo obi-doobi-doo chiggidy-snitch 2 4 6 8 who do we appreciate? Greenslade!
Greenslade: Stop! Thank you. And now to the rest of the B-feature - Ye Bandit of Sherwood Forest. Maid Marion played by Miss Charlotte Mitchell part 3, the sheriff's bank
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Grams''':  
Grams: Sounds of busy business activities
Cheers And Whistles
Maid Marion: Oh woe! Fie! Prithee! Oh zounds! Hither thither! Help! I am undone! Oh forsooth! Agony! Whither art thou Robin? Oh Robin where are you?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Greenslade''':  
Sellers: The part of Maid Marion is still being played by Miss Mitchell
Stop! Thank you. And now to the rest of the B-feature - Ye Bandit of Sherwood Forest. Maid Marion played by Miss Charlotte Mitchell part 3, the sheriff's bank
The Sheriff: Fair damsel, pray do not sulk. Eat?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Grams''':  
Maid Marion: No I'm not hungry
Sounds of busy business activities
The Sheriff: Not surprising after that dirty great kipper you wolfed. Now then, my dear, what I...
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Maid Marion''':  
Maid Marion: Oh Hot Rodkin, sir! Leave me alone! I love Robin!
Oh woe! Fie! Prithee! Oh zounds! Hither thither! Help! I am undone! Oh forsooth! Agony! Whither art thou Robin? Oh Robin where are you?
The Sheriff: You hot little bundle, you! Let me hold you
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Sellers''':  
Fx: Violin String Snaps
The part of Maid Marion is still being played by Miss Mitchell
The Sheriff: My, you are highly strung! But attractive
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''The Sheriff''':  
Maid Marion: Oh zooms!
Fair damsel, pray do not sulk. Eat?
The Sheriff: You mean zounds
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Maid Marion''':  
Maid Marion: No it only zounds like zooms
No I'm not hungry
The Sheriff: Oh, ye good joke, yes. What do you say, Baron Fred?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''The Sheriff''':  
Not surprising after that dirty great kipper you wolfed. Now then, my dear, what I...
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Maid Marion''':  
Oh Hot Rodkin, sir! Leave me alone! I love Robin!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''The Sheriff''':  
You hot little bundle, you! Let me hold you
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''FX''':
Violin String Snaps
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''The Sheriff''':  
My, you are highly strung! But attractive
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Maid Marion''':  
Oh zooms!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''The Sheriff''':  
You mean zounds
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Maid Marion''':  
No it only zounds like zooms
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''The Sheriff''':  
Oh, ye good joke, yes. What do you say, Baron Fred?
Baron Fred: hums a tune drunkenly
Baron Fred: hums a tune drunkenly
The Sheriff: He doesn't seem to care
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''The Sheriff''':  
Maid Marion: Ooh! There's someone crawling under the table. What are you doing under there Sir?
He doesn't seem to care
Winston Churchill: I'm looking for a telegram.
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Maid Marion''':  
Seagoon: Pardon me, zire, but there is a prisoner outzide
Ooh! There's someone crawling under the table. What are you doing under there Sir?
The Sheriff: Is he bound?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Winston Churchill''':
Seagoon: Of his health I know not, sir
I'm looking for a telegram.
The Sheriff: Well send him in
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Seagoon''':  
Ellington: Come on, come on this way you! In you get! Now, get on your knees there, son!
Pardon me, zire, but there is a prisoner outzide
Bluebottle: Stop it you. You hurted little me. Enter Bluebottle in doublet made from Mum's old drawers. These sausages, tee-hee!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''The Sheriff''':
Moriarty: Silence! I speak for the Sheriff of Nottingham. Who are you?
Is he bound?
Bluebottle: I'm a member of Robin Hood's gang
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Seagoon''':  
Moriarty: Sapristi!
Of his health I know not, sir
Bluebottle: I ran away to join him because I was a serf
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''The Sheriff''':
Moriarty: Tell me, little serf, why have you got a saddle strapped to your back?
Well send him in
Bluebottle: That's for serf riding! Tee-hee! I made a little jokules! Hee-hee!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Ellington''':  
Ellington: Silence, you!
Come on, come on this way you! In you get! Now, get on your knees there, son!
Bluebottle: If I had my arms free I'd give you a black eye
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Bluebottle''':
Ellington: What's the matter son? Are you colour blind?
Stop it you. You hurted little me. Enter Bluebottle in doublet made from Mum's old drawers. These sausages, tee-hee!
Bluebottle: Nic Nic, stop hitting me, nic nic. I don't like this game. Where's my friend Eccules. Lets' play another game. Let's play Rita Hayworth and husbands
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Moriarty''':  
Moriarty: Sapristi bombit neyakkos, now listen! Tell us, what is your position here?
Silence! I speak for the Sheriff of Nottingham. Who are you?
Bluebottle: Can't you see I'm kneeling down?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Bluebottle''':
Moriarty: Speak the truth
I'm a member of Robin Hood's gang
Bluebottle: I have broughted the ransom money to free my master Robin Swininge
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Moriarty''':  
Moriarty: I understand perfectly, but where is the money little string-bonce-yeomans?
Sapristi!
Bluebottle: First you must free Robin
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Bluebottle''':
Moriarty: Tie him to a stake!
I ran away to join him because I was a serf
Bluebottle: No! Do not tie me to a stake
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Moriarty''':  
Moriarty: Why not?
Tell me, little serf, why have you got a saddle strapped to your back?
Bluebottle: I'm a vegetarian. Hee, yehee.
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Bluebottle''':
Moriarty: Alright...
That's for serf riding! Tee-hee! I made a little jokules! Hee-hee!
Bluebottle: Stop knocking me.
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Ellington''':  
Moriarty: ...stop it man, listen to me, drink this!
Silence, you!
Bluebottle: No I must not drinkie alcoholic drinkies, I'm a minor
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Bluebottle''':
Moriarty: I don't care if you're a navvy, drink!
If I had my arms free I'd give you a black eye
Bluebottle: Well, as you asked me so nicely and also because you're holding a dirty big chopper over my little nut I'll have to drink it, won't I? Thinks: this must be the dreaded deading of Bluebottle part. hoo-hoo! Good luck to you. Picks up cardboard goblet and drinks. Gulp!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Ellington''':  
Grams: Whoosh, Kettle Whistle, Whoosh, Boing, Whoosh, Big Ben Strikes, Cat Shrieks, Whoosh
What's the matter son? Are you colour blind?
Bluebottle: Tee-hee! That was jolly nice that was! I thought that was going to dead me, but I was wrong
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Bluebottle''':
Grams: Big Explosion
Nic Nic, stop hitting me, nic nic. I don't like this game. Where's my friend Eccules. Lets' play another game. Let's play Rita Hayworth and husbands
Bluebottle: You rotten Norman swine you! There was dynamite in my drinkies, look my knees have dropped! Exits left with low knees, high groins and shattered boots
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Moriarty''':  
Robin Hood: Oh no, stop! hark ye, I am here!
Sapristi bombit neyakkos, now listen! Tell us, what is your position here?
Maid Marion: It's my fiance Robin
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Bluebottle''':
Robin Hood: Belt-up, you! 'Tis I Robin! Freed by Wallace the Greenslade. Come men, attack the sheriff!
Can't you see I'm kneeling down?
Omnes: Blang Bong Thud Whee Blut Zowee Blunge
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Moriarty''':  
Maid Marion: My fiance's in there somewhere
Speak the truth
Robin Hood: That's what you think
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Bluebottle''':
Maid Marion: Robin! What are you doing under that table?
I have broughted the ransom money to free my master Robin Swininge
Winston Churchill: He's helping me look for that blasted telegram!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Moriarty''':  
Friar Balsam: Club, whack. Oh Robin, we can't keep this up much longer, will they never arrive?
I understand perfectly, but where is the money little string-bonce-yeomans?
Robin Hood: Who?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Bluebottle''':
Friar Balsam: Those blasted sound-effects men. Blunge Thog
First you must free Robin
Robin Hood: Let me help. Blat
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Moriarty''':  
Maid Marion: My fiance did that
Tie him to a stake!
Robin Hood: Thud
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Bluebottle''':
Maid Marion: My fiance did that
No! Do not tie me to a stake
Moriarty: Blum and Bonk
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Moriarty''':  
Maid Marion: My fiance copped that
Why not?
Robin Hood: Blat. My fiance copped that
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Bluebottle''':
The Sheriff: Stop, Robin Hood. Robin, call your men off, you win, you win, you win. Your thuds blats and wallops were far louder than ours. Maid Marion is all yours
I'm a vegetarian. Hee, yehee.
Robin Hood: Friar Crun?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Moriarty''':  
Friar Crun: Yes, coming, coming
Alright...
Robin Hood: A wedding, let two be joined as one
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Bluebottle''':
Friar Crun: Stand there, both. Now do you take this - um - what is it?
Stop knocking me.
Maid Marion: Man
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Moriarty''':  
Friar Crun: Take this man to be your husband?
...stop it man, listen to me, drink this!
Maid Marion: Yes
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Bluebottle''':
Friar Crun: Yes, and do you take this woman as your wife
No I must not drinkie alcoholic drinkies, I'm a minor
Greenslade: Yes I do
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Moriarty''':  
Friar Crun: Pronounced man and wife 5 shillings please
I don't care if you're a navvy, drink!
Robin Hood: Stop! You married the wrong man!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Bluebottle''':
Greenslade: Oh yeah! 2 4 6 8est - who do girls appreciatest?
Well, as you asked me so nicely and also because you're holding a dirty big chopper over my little nut I'll have to drink it, won't I? Thinks: this must be the dreaded deading of Bluebottle part. hoo-hoo! Good luck to you. Picks up cardboard goblet and drinks. Gulp!
Maid Marion: Greenslade!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Grams''':  
Grams: Cheers And Whistles
Whoosh, Kettle Whistle, Whoosh, Boing, Whoosh, Big Ben Strikes, Cat Shrieks, Whoosh
Orchestra: End Theme Tune
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Bluebottle''':
Greenslade: That was the Goon Show, a recorded programme featuring Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe, Spike Milligan and Charlotte Mitchell with the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray. The orchestra as conducted by Wally Stott, script by Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes, announcer Wallace Greenslade, the programme produced by Peter Eton.
Tee-hee! That was jolly nice that was! I thought that was going to dead me, but I was wrong
Orchestra: Outro
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Grams''':  
Transcription and HTML by Kurt Adkins: gsd@goons.cx
Big Explosion
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Bluebottle''':
You rotten Norman swine you! There was dynamite in my drinkies, look my knees have dropped! Exits left with low knees, high groins and shattered boots
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':  
Oh no, stop! hark ye, I am here!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Maid Marion''':
It's my fiance Robin
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':  
Belt-up, you! 'Tis I Robin! Freed by Wallace the Greenslade. Come men, attack the sheriff!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Omnes''':
Blang Bong Thud Whee Blut Zowee Blunge
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Maid Marion''':  
My fiance's in there somewhere
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':
That's what you think
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Maid Marion''':  
Robin! What are you doing under that table?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Winston Churchill''':
He's helping me look for that blasted telegram!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Friar Balsam''':  
Club, whack. Oh Robin, we can't keep this up much longer, will they never arrive?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':
Who?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Friar Balsam''':  
Those blasted sound-effects men. Blunge Thog
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':
Let me help. Blat
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Maid Marion''':  
My fiance did that
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':
Thud
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Maid Marion''':  
My fiance did that
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Moriarty''':
Blum and Bonk
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Maid Marion''':  
My fiance copped that
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':
Blat. My fiance copped that
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''The Sheriff''':  
Stop, Robin Hood. Robin, call your men off, you win, you win, you win. Your thuds blats and wallops were far louder than ours. Maid Marion is all yours
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':
Friar Crun?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Friar Crun''':  
Yes, coming, coming
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':
A wedding, let two be joined as one
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Friar Crun''':  
Stand there, both. Now do you take this - um - what is it?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Maid Marion''':  
Man
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Friar Crun''':  
Take this man to be your husband?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Maid Marion''':
Yes
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Friar Crun''':  
Yes, and do you take this woman as your wife
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Greenslade''':
Yes I do
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Friar Crun''':  
Pronounced man and wife 5 shillings please
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Robin Hood''':
Stop! You married the wrong man!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Greenslade''': Oh yeah! 2 4 6 8est - who do girls appreciatest?
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Maid Marion''':
Greenslade!
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Grams''':  
Cheers And Whistles
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Orchestra''':
End Theme Tune
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Greenslade''':  
That was the Goon Show, a recorded programme featuring Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe, Spike Milligan and Charlotte Mitchell with the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray. The orchestra as conducted by Wally Stott, script by Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes, announcer Wallace Greenslade, the programme produced by Peter Eton.
|style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| '''Orchestra''': Outro
|-
|}
Transcription by Kurt Adkins

Revision as of 00:07, 20 November 2022

Ye Bandit Of Sherwood Forest by Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes

Guest Starring Charlotte Mitchell

Greenslade:

This is the BBC Home Service

Throat:

Cor Blimey!

Orchestra:

"Jingle Bells"

Thespian:

'Tis Christmas, and in every home are sounds of revelry and good cheer. But alas outside...

Grams:

Snow Blizzard Over Speech

Thespian:

Outside in the driving snow a lone tragic ragged figure stumbles through the icy streets, his thin frost-bitten fingers clutching at the thread-bare overcoat. He stumbles into a decrepit hovel ignoring the poor wretches who lay groaning on the straw-covered floor. He staggers in, lets fall his ragged coat, lurches forward and says...

Seagoon:

Welcome to the Goon Show!

Grams:

Various moans and wailings...

Seagoon:

Thank you listeners. And a Merry Christmas to all our readers. For the Christmas festival we present on the new curved speaker radio set, A Bandit Of Sherwood Forest

Omnes:

Ole

Orchestra:

Grand Opening

Greenslade:

Doncaster late in the 12th century, 'tis December and the snow covered coaching yard of the Bowman's Inn is thronged with travellers each awaiting to go his journey

The Sheriff:
Oh coach master, a word I pray
Seagoon:

(country accent) Coming sir! Ah 'tis the Sheriff of Nottingham. A pleasure to talk to the only real gentleman here

The Sheriff:

Oh really?

Seagoon:

Yes, that's him over there by the wall. Wallace the Greenslade

The Sheriff:

Hm, forsooth this day I would travel to Nottingham, I wish to buy a ticket for the coach

Seagoon:

Coach don't need a ticket, it travels free ha ha ha...

The Sheriff:

Now then, I wish a seat with my back to the horses

Seagoon:

Dun't matter, if you're downwind you'll still cop it! Hur hur hur...

The Sheriff:

Ye good joke.(lapses into cockney) Now belt up will ya!

The Sheriff:

Baggage boy! Baggage boy!

Eccles:

Hello. Didst thou call, sire?

The Sheriff:

Long thin lad put my three bags top of the coach for Nottingham

Eccles:

Forsooth I will do that, I say sooth, sooth, sooth, sooth and... sooth!

The Sheriff:

What manner of an idiot is this that keeps saying sooth?

Eccles:

Little does he know that I'm a soothsayer! (laughs) Now don't hit me now! Ooh, what was that?

The Sheriff:

Just my little foot. Now get those bags and...

Eccles:

Okay, I got the bags, I'll get all the bags, I've done this before you know!?

Grams:

Cases being moved and thumped about

Eccles:

Steady on, I'll get them up, I've done this before you know? I'll just get them up there! (faintly) There you are all safe and sound on top. Oooh! I forgot the bags! I'll come down and...

The Sheriff:

No no no, stay there and I'll throw them up to you. Here's one - two - three. Got them?

Seagoon:

Excuse me sir, could you give I a hand around the other side of the coach?

The Sheriff:

Why?

Seagoon:

There's a lad lying down with 3 cases on top of him

The Sheriff:

Idiot! Idiot!

Eccles:

OK, it's okay Sire, I didn't hurt myself

The Sheriff:

Well jump again

Eccles:

I fell on this old woman

Greenslade:

I'm not an old woman

Eccles:

I'm sorry, I meant this old man

Greenslade:

I'm not an old woman or an old man

Eccles:

Ooooh!

Greenslade:

I'm a young man Coachman and |style="vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 1em;"| Eccles: Laugh, ye good joke!

Flowerdew:

Hark ye all! Hark ye all! The coach for Nottingham leaves but quick, do you hear me? So quickly! I Could spit!

Seagoon:

Everyone aboard

Omnes:

Good-bye!

Seagoon:

Next stop Sherwood Forest

Orchestra:

Cheerful Link

Grams:

Carriage Rolling Along Over Speech

Minnie Bannister:

(snoring) Oh dear, dear, dear dear! I must have dozed off. Where are we, pray, gentlemen?

The Sheriff:

We're in Sherwood Forest, madam. Pity you're not younger

Minnie Bannister:

Oh! Oh dear! What's become of the long, thin lad?

The Sheriff:

I threw him out of the coach a mile back

Minnie Bannister:

What in heaven made you do that, sir?

The Sheriff:

I don't know, just high spirits I suppose

Minnie Bannister:

The poor, poor lad, lost in the forest the wolves will get him

Hungarian:

(heavily accented) Please don't mention the wolves!

Minnie Bannister:

Why not?

Hungarian:

(heavily accented) I'm an Hungarian!

Grams:

Carriage Screeches To A Halt

Friar Balsam:

Stand and deliver! Hands up or I'll split your grotkin in each quarter!

Minnie Bannister:

Oh mercy! It's an outlaw!

Friar Balsam:

I warn you madam, one step nearer and I'll scream

Greenslade:

Art thou one of Robin Hood's men?

Friar Balsam:

I art, me name is Friar Balsam

Greenslade:

What luck! Oh indeed, what luck! I wish to join your band, I play the saxophone

Friar Balsam:

Oh, just what we need, right we shall keep you. Now churchman, you may drive on unharmed?

Seagoon:

Giddup!

FX:

Horse Gallops Off (Getting Faster) Into Distance

Friar Balsam:

Now then my lad, from now on you will be known as Little John and...

Robin Hood:

Ahoy there my merry men, it is I Robin Hood nee Neddy Seagoon known as handsome Harry plus Harry Secombe now playing in pantomime (singing) Be my love! Falling in love with love is like falling for make-believe! Maria!(stops singing) More! More? Thank you, more!

The Sheriff:

Come along Robin there's no need to be so shy. Robin this is our new recruit

Robin Hood:

Welcome to the band, I'll have you fitted for a suit of Lincoln Green. Call Nobby the tailor!

Nobby:

(Lew/Jewish) Yes er, what is it doublin?

Robin Hood:

Measure this man

Nobby:

Why, is he dead?

Robin Hood:

For a suit

Nobby:

Oh a suit, alright then. Elkan, you got the tape?

Throat: Yes! Nobby:

Good. Right now then um - and the chalk Elci - er chest 17 including shoulders, waist 56 - 'ere you're a bit of a nosher ain't you? Never mind it's nice to see it on you - Right arm 18, left arm 28 - now then inside leg...

Greenslade:

Oooooh!

Nobby:

Sorry! That's all now, half a nicker to you

Greenslade:

I refuse to be seen wearing half a nicker!

Eccles:

Here here here! Ooh help! Robin Hood, help!

Robin Hood:

It's Will Eccles, what's happened?

Eccles:

The Sheriff of Nottingham, he threw me out of the coach, clung! But I learnt something else: his men have captured Maid Marion

Robin Hood:

Oh no! Maid Marion, she's the most beautiful girl in the world!

Friar Balsam:

You must rescue her

Robin Hood:

Yes. I must rescue her, she's so beautiful!

Friar Balsam:

It will mean certain death for you

Robin Hood:

I don't know, she wasn't that pretty. I wonder where they're keeping her

Eccles:

Where they're keeping her? In the forest of course, because there's plenty of good hiding places there, my dad used to take me there

Robin Hood:

What for?

Eccles:

A good hiding - Ha ha!

Friar Balsam:

You're all cowards, do you hear me? The fair Maid Marion must be rescued at all costs. Will Eccles, saddle me horse

Robin Hood:

Max Geldray strap on a perforated mackerel sheet - zounds!

Max Geldray:

"Oh, Lady Be Good"

Orchestra:

Dramatic link

Maid Marion:

Oh no, no! No!

The Sheriff:

Get in there you naughty Maid Marion

Maid Marion:

Sheriff of Nottingham take your hands off me. If they are not off in the next 3 hours I'll write to the police

The Sheriff:

Little Spitfire!

Maid Marion:

Fie, oh fie! You see, my fiance, Mr. R. Hood will come and fisticuff you. He'll hit thee. Splat thun blat zowee zocko blam thud biff. He learnt all his boxing from comic strips. Have you ever seen a comic strip?

The Sheriff:

Only in a Turkish Bath

Maid Marion:

I don't wish to knowest that

The Sheriff:

In that case goodbye-est!

FX:

Heavy Door Shutting

Maid Marion:

Oh! Sobs of despair! Sobs! Locked in this dark dungeon with nothing but an old straw television set! This is the chamber of torture. Oh woe! Oh misery! Fie! Oh what shall I do.

Smoothy Announcer:

The part of Maid Marion is being played by Miss Charlotte Mitchell and a ripe little ham she's proving. Pray, continue

Maid Marion:

But I know my fiance Robin Hood will rescue me alon

Robin Hood:

Psssst!

Maid Marion:

What is that pssst I hear?

Robin Hood:

Pssst!

Maid Marion:

How do you spell it?

Robin Hood:

Pee ss tte!

Maid Marion:

That's how my Robin spells his pssst. Is that you, Robin, come to rescue me?

Robin Hood:

Yessssst

Maid Marion:

Where are you my clever one?

Robin Hood:

Chained to the wall behind you. The truth is I'm a prisoner. My arms are chained

Maid Marion:

Are your legs chained?

Robin Hood:

No

Maid Marion:

Then let's dance, Robin!

Orchestra:

Lounge Dance Music Over Speech

Maid Marion:

Oh you waltz divinely!

Robin Hood:

Do you come here often? Stop! (ORCHESTRA STOPS) Stop this mad soiree

Maid Marion:

But you're so handsome

Robin Hood:

I know, isn't it a bore? But we must escape. Wait, this stone I'm chained to, it's loose, I can feel the draught. Hnnnnnnn Hnnnnn Hnnn. Ah! I've done it!

Maid Marion:

What?

Robin Hood:

Taken an aspirin, I don't want to catch cold

Maid Marion:

Robin, try and pull the stone out, beloved!

Robin Hood:

My arms are chained, but my teeth aren't! Place the chain twixt my teeth

Maid Marion:

There, it is twixt. Now pull, Robin!

Robin Hood:

Right. Hnnnn, it's coming I think, hnnn

Maid Marion:

That's it, Robin, beloved, pull! Let those strong white teeth pull us to freedom

FX:

Set Of Teeth Falling On The Floor

Robin Hood:

Well don't just stand there! Pick them up!

Maid Marion:

Robin you've pulled the stone out! Let's go through to freedom. Follow me. Oh! tis dark in here. Oooh! Robin, please!

Robin Hood:

It wasn't me

Maid Marion:

Then who else?

Eccles:

There's more than one prisoner in here

Robin Hood:

'Tis the noble Eccles. What are you doing here?

Eccles:

Six months!

Robin Hood:

You captured too?

FX:

Heavy Prison Door Opened

Maid Marion:

It is the sheriff!

The Sheriff:

Yes, I've come to take you, Maid Marion

Robin Hood:

Splat Thun Zowee Blun Thud Biff Club Wallop Than Blat Sokko! There, let that be a lesson to you! Blat! Blat!

The Sheriff:

You silly twisted boy, you! Come Maid

Friar Balsam:

(Blows out candle)

The Sheriff:

Who blew my candle out?

Eccles:

Ho ho

Friar Balsam:

Don't move, sheriff, or this club will mash your nugglers

Robin Hood:

It's Friar Balsam. Let the sheriff have it

Omnes:

Thuds and screams of fighting

Maid Marion:

My fiance Robin is in there!

Friar Balsam:

Club'n'yukka. Now, you swine, had enough?

Eccles:

Yup, I've had enough'

Friar Balsam:

Eccles! Where's the sheriff?

Robin Hood:

I've got him by the throat, help me!

Friar Balsam:

No!

Robin Hood:

Why not?

Friar Balsam:

My throat!

FX:

Heavy Prison Door Shut

Friar Balsam:

Flatter me nurtures with crods, he's got away with Maid Marion

Eccles:

Oooh!

FX:

Phone Rings

Friar Balsam:

(Smooth hern) I'll get it, baby. Hello? (normal Bloodnok) It's for you

Robin Hood:

Hello? Robin Hood here

Ernie Cash:

(Jewish, on other end) Hello. Listen listen, Ernie Cash here. Now listen, listen Robin. The sheriff's been on the blower to me from the Windsor 'ere and he says unless you pay him 2000 pounds ransom he's going to kill ya

Robin Hood:

2000 pounds? What shall I do?

Ernie Cash:

Offer him 1750 and take a chance on it

Robin Hood:

I haven't got a penny on me

Ernie Cash:

Don't worry, don't worry schmooliker I sent the geezer on his way with the geldt to get you out of schtuck

Robin Hood:

Thank you, thank you, you've saved my life

Ernie Cash:

Well we all make mistakes. Good-bye

Robin Hood:

All's well. Ellington, tell us why you're in prison as well Ray Ellington - "Framed"

Greenslade:

(singing) Oh what a night, ah what a night it was! It really was! I believe for every drop of rain that falls someone gets wet (stops singing) Yes Greensladers it's your own Wallace Greenslade singing to you again and don't forget - you too can have a signed photograph of Wallace Greenslade for only 3 guineas. So, fan clubs, keep those cheques rolling in, old Wallace will find a use for them. So 'til next time this is Mr. Rhythm Greenslade saying chigidi-boo-boo rock-holy-coo-coo obi-doobi-doo chiggidy-snitch 2 4 6 8 who do we appreciate? Greenslade!

Grams:

Cheers And Whistles

Greenslade:

Stop! Thank you. And now to the rest of the B-feature - Ye Bandit of Sherwood Forest. Maid Marion played by Miss Charlotte Mitchell part 3, the sheriff's bank

Grams:

Sounds of busy business activities

Maid Marion:

Oh woe! Fie! Prithee! Oh zounds! Hither thither! Help! I am undone! Oh forsooth! Agony! Whither art thou Robin? Oh Robin where are you?

Sellers:

The part of Maid Marion is still being played by Miss Mitchell

The Sheriff:

Fair damsel, pray do not sulk. Eat?

Maid Marion:

No I'm not hungry

The Sheriff:

Not surprising after that dirty great kipper you wolfed. Now then, my dear, what I...

Maid Marion:

Oh Hot Rodkin, sir! Leave me alone! I love Robin!

The Sheriff:

You hot little bundle, you! Let me hold you

FX:

Violin String Snaps

The Sheriff:

My, you are highly strung! But attractive

Maid Marion:

Oh zooms!

The Sheriff:

You mean zounds

Maid Marion:

No it only zounds like zooms

The Sheriff:

Oh, ye good joke, yes. What do you say, Baron Fred? Baron Fred: hums a tune drunkenly

The Sheriff:

He doesn't seem to care

Maid Marion:

Ooh! There's someone crawling under the table. What are you doing under there Sir?

Winston Churchill:

I'm looking for a telegram.

Seagoon:

Pardon me, zire, but there is a prisoner outzide

The Sheriff:

Is he bound?

Seagoon:

Of his health I know not, sir

The Sheriff:

Well send him in

Ellington:

Come on, come on this way you! In you get! Now, get on your knees there, son!

Bluebottle:

Stop it you. You hurted little me. Enter Bluebottle in doublet made from Mum's old drawers. These sausages, tee-hee!

Moriarty:

Silence! I speak for the Sheriff of Nottingham. Who are you?

Bluebottle:

I'm a member of Robin Hood's gang

Moriarty:

Sapristi!

Bluebottle:

I ran away to join him because I was a serf

Moriarty:

Tell me, little serf, why have you got a saddle strapped to your back?

Bluebottle:

That's for serf riding! Tee-hee! I made a little jokules! Hee-hee!

Ellington:

Silence, you!

Bluebottle:

If I had my arms free I'd give you a black eye

Ellington:

What's the matter son? Are you colour blind?

Bluebottle:

Nic Nic, stop hitting me, nic nic. I don't like this game. Where's my friend Eccules. Lets' play another game. Let's play Rita Hayworth and husbands

Moriarty:

Sapristi bombit neyakkos, now listen! Tell us, what is your position here?

Bluebottle:

Can't you see I'm kneeling down?

Moriarty:

Speak the truth

Bluebottle:

I have broughted the ransom money to free my master Robin Swininge

Moriarty:

I understand perfectly, but where is the money little string-bonce-yeomans?

Bluebottle:

First you must free Robin

Moriarty:

Tie him to a stake!

Bluebottle:

No! Do not tie me to a stake

Moriarty:

Why not?

Bluebottle:

I'm a vegetarian. Hee, yehee.

Moriarty:

Alright...

Bluebottle:

Stop knocking me.

Moriarty:

...stop it man, listen to me, drink this!

Bluebottle:

No I must not drinkie alcoholic drinkies, I'm a minor

Moriarty:

I don't care if you're a navvy, drink!

Bluebottle:

Well, as you asked me so nicely and also because you're holding a dirty big chopper over my little nut I'll have to drink it, won't I? Thinks: this must be the dreaded deading of Bluebottle part. hoo-hoo! Good luck to you. Picks up cardboard goblet and drinks. Gulp!

Grams:

Whoosh, Kettle Whistle, Whoosh, Boing, Whoosh, Big Ben Strikes, Cat Shrieks, Whoosh

Bluebottle:

Tee-hee! That was jolly nice that was! I thought that was going to dead me, but I was wrong

Grams:

Big Explosion

Bluebottle:

You rotten Norman swine you! There was dynamite in my drinkies, look my knees have dropped! Exits left with low knees, high groins and shattered boots

Robin Hood:

Oh no, stop! hark ye, I am here!

Maid Marion:

It's my fiance Robin

Robin Hood:

Belt-up, you! 'Tis I Robin! Freed by Wallace the Greenslade. Come men, attack the sheriff!

Omnes:

Blang Bong Thud Whee Blut Zowee Blunge

Maid Marion:

My fiance's in there somewhere

Robin Hood:

That's what you think

Maid Marion:

Robin! What are you doing under that table?

Winston Churchill:

He's helping me look for that blasted telegram!

Friar Balsam:

Club, whack. Oh Robin, we can't keep this up much longer, will they never arrive?

Robin Hood:

Who?

Friar Balsam:

Those blasted sound-effects men. Blunge Thog

Robin Hood:

Let me help. Blat

Maid Marion:

My fiance did that

Robin Hood:

Thud

Maid Marion:

My fiance did that

Moriarty:

Blum and Bonk

Maid Marion:

My fiance copped that

Robin Hood:

Blat. My fiance copped that

The Sheriff:

Stop, Robin Hood. Robin, call your men off, you win, you win, you win. Your thuds blats and wallops were far louder than ours. Maid Marion is all yours

Robin Hood:

Friar Crun?

Friar Crun:

Yes, coming, coming

Robin Hood:

A wedding, let two be joined as one

Friar Crun:

Stand there, both. Now do you take this - um - what is it?

Maid Marion:

Man

Friar Crun:

Take this man to be your husband?

Maid Marion:

Yes

Friar Crun:

Yes, and do you take this woman as your wife

Greenslade:

Yes I do

Friar Crun:

Pronounced man and wife 5 shillings please

Robin Hood:

Stop! You married the wrong man!

Greenslade: Oh yeah! 2 4 6 8est - who do girls appreciatest? Maid Marion:
Greenslade!
Grams:

Cheers And Whistles

Orchestra:

End Theme Tune

Greenslade:

That was the Goon Show, a recorded programme featuring Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe, Spike Milligan and Charlotte Mitchell with the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray. The orchestra as conducted by Wally Stott, script by Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes, announcer Wallace Greenslade, the programme produced by Peter Eton.

Orchestra: Outro

Transcription by Kurt Adkins