The Hastings Flyer — Robbed
| "The Hastings Flyer — Robbed" | |
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| The Goon Show episode | |
| Episode: no. | Series: 6 Episode: 15 |
| Written by | Spike Milligan |
| Based on | The Pevensey Bay Disaster |
| Announcer | Wallace Greenslade |
| Produced by | Peter Eton |
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| Recording Number | TLO 93838 |
| First broadcast | 27 December 1955 |
| Running time | 29 mins 23 secs |
The Hastings Flyer — Robbed is an episode of The Goon Show that aired on the BBC Light Programme on 27 December 1955, having been pre-recorded on 18 December 1955. It wa written by Spike Milligan and produced by Peter Eton. The script for this show was almost identical to the episode The Pevensey Bay Disaster which had been intended to have been episode 10 in the sixth series but was re-scheduled due to a fatal train crash having occurred on the day the show was recorded. The Hasting Flyer was, in fact. the repeat. However as it was aired first the public thought it to be the original version. The Hasting Flyer was mostly the same as Pevensey Disaster, even incorporating the same timing cuts. The exception being that the title announcements were changed.
Story
The story begins on the night of the Great English Blizzard owing to a severe outbreak of hand typing on his snow-plough. Neddie Seagoon, engine driver extraordinaire, has been foiled in his valiant attempt to clear the line between Hastings and Pevensey Bay for the Hastings Flyer. His hijacked snow-plough races on through the night – but at the wheel are two unscrupulous down and out MPs with a dastardly plan to wreck the Flyer.
Things are looking pretty hopeless for Neddie as he lies bound, hand and foot, in a snow-drift. Meanwhile, midnight ticks nearer and nearer...
The Flyer, unaware of its danger, thunders on towards Pevensey Bay... And in a signal box west of Pevensey Bay station, the crime of the century is about to be committed...
