The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town: Part 1

London, 1898: a caped figure glides through the fog to 10 Downing Street and asks the butler for the Prime Minister, handing over a calling card that bears nothing but a picture of a raspberry. When the butler presses for a message, the visitor delivers it in person with a raspberry so violent that it leaves the poor man flat and hospitalised, while a newspaper hawker spreads the news. At the Sebastopol Ward, Inspector Corner of the Yard and the bearded Sergeant Bowles battle a formidable nurse for a chance to question the shaken butler, who cannot bring himself to describe the noise without disgracing himself, leaving Bowles wondering how to spell it. Riding back in a hansom cab along a suspiciously long road, Corner decides the attacker has probably blown himself out, just as the narrator promises London will hear from the Phantom Raspberry Blower again.

The serial began life as a 1971 play Spike Milligan wrote for LWT's Six Dates with Barker; Ronnie Barker, writing as Gerald Wiley, reworked it into this eight-part Two Ronnies serial five years later.