Stephen Hawking Kept Alive by Demons?

[Pcdunn]

Honestly?!

I wouldn't take a penny whistle to this place :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YThgdACFLhQ

Good Lord, I 've seen plenty of programs from the Beeb on our local PBS channels over my life, but this one escaped my notice! (Luckily!) It reads like a parody clip. Was it for real?

[Robert]

Hi Pat

This was a parody, some time after the series had been scrapped.

The soap opera "Crossroads" was on commercial TV for 20 or 30 years and was well-known for actors fluffing their lines etc - not helped by the fact that it was on 4 or 5 times each week, if memory serves, so it was a punishing schedule.

[Pcdunn]

Hi, Rob.

Thank you very much for the reply and info. Parodies only really work if you've seen or read the original version, but can be amusing all the same, as I learned from reading twenty years' worth of MAD magazines. This one did.

[Robert]

This is a great parody :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLq1aTTZ-FY

[Pcdunn]

This is a great parody :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLq1aTTZ-FY

Ha! Agreed! Will have to look up Stanley Baxter, don't know his name, I'm afraid.