The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town: Part 4

In the fourth weekly instalment of the Two Ronnies' Victorian penny-dreadful spoof, a narrator recaps the Phantom's raspberry attacks on London's upper classes while an exhausted police force tracks his strikes across a map. Then Mrs. Socks arrives to tell Inspector Corner of the Yard and Sergeant Bowles that the Phantom is her son: his father, a maker of whoopee cushions trapped in a decade-long prank war between two aristocrats, died of shock when an exploding giant cushion went off beneath his chair, and the boy swore revenge on the ruling classes and even royalty. Learning only that the culprit is called Dick, the Inspector orders every Dick with royal connections rounded up, which leads the detectives to a dim-witted cobbler whose shop sign boasts of royal patronage. After the baffled policemen leave, the cobbler reveals he is secretly hiding the Phantom in his back room.

The cobbler is played by Derek Deadman, a prolific English character actor who decades later played Tom, the landlord of the Leaky Cauldron, in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001).