This was in effect a televised radio production of an original "Goon Show" script, broadcast by Thames Television. The Three Goons reunited with the addition of John Cleese as announcer. This followed two years after the Goons re-enacted "The Whistling Spy Enigma" for inclusion in a broadcast of Secombe and Friends (1966).
According to John Cleese, who was friends with Peter Sellers, the latter based the voice of his character Bluebottle on a "very boring scoutmaster in full gear", a fan whom Sellers had met after one of his theatre shows. Sellers had first tried to avoid the man, but upon hearing him speak, he immediately invited him for a drink in his dressing room and kept him talking, so that he could study the man's voice and speech pattern.