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The announcer makes much of the fact that the Radio Times says that this episode should be The Six Ingots of Leadenhall Street, which indeed is the case. Radio Times for 1955-02-15
This episode is based on a real event when, in 1958, students at the University of Cambridge Tiddlywinks Club challenged HRH Prince Philip to a match. The Duke appointed the Goons as his Royal Champions, but they lost.
Peter Sellers was indisposed, and was replaced by Valentine Dyall as Grytpype-Thynne, Kenneth Connor as Willium and others, Graham Stark as Henry Crun, and Jack Train as Colonel Chinstrap from ITMA