 Appearing on a program entitled 'Goons Night' on BBC Radio 2, broadcast 29 May 2001, Spike Milligan announced this as his favourite episode of The Goon Show.Like many of "The Goon Show" titles, it was a parody of a contemporary film, The Wages of Fear (1953).Wallace Greenslade initially announces that title as ""Le Salaire de la peur", meaning "The Wages of Fear", or in English...".