The Navy Lark, one of radio’s longest running laughter-makers, kept the nation within the crest of the wave from 1959 to 1977. All at sea in the Older Service had been conniving Chief Petty Official Jon Pertwee, silly-ass Sub-Lieutenant Leslie Phillips with his cry of ‘Left hand down a bit!’, as well as the continuously bemused Stephen Murray mainly because ‘Amount One’. Tenniel Evans made mischief as Leading Seaman Goldstein, and Ronnie Barker played (barely) Able Seaman Fatso Johnson and Engineer Queeg, a man completely about The Navy Lark Volume 19: Simply The Ticket out of his depth. Arranged sail with them once again in these hilarious shows as the crew head back to Portsmouth by train – only to find Troutbridge is somewhere else; the Admiral proposes Troutbridge for a high secret exercise to recuperate a space capsule; Murray’s courtship of Heather is normally frustrated by Pertwee; and Troutbridge prepares to take two ambassadorial travellers back again to Tratvia for any trade festival. Contains: ‘Searching for their Ship’/’Where is normally Troutbridge’ (4 September 1966); ‘Buoying Up’/’Buoys Will Be Buoys’ (25 Sept 1966); ‘Buying Seat tickets’/’Just the Ticket’ (23 October 1966) and ‘Pertwee and the Tratvian Beer’ (6 November 1966).