(Cut back to the aninmtion again: a parrot.)
Parrot: And parrots started to announce television programrues. It's 8
o'clock and time for the News.
(Cut back to the same narrator at desk.)
Narrator: Good evening. Here is the News for parrots. No parrots were
involved in an accident on the M1 today, when a lorry carrying
high octane fuel was in collision with a hollard ... that is a bollard
and not a parrot. A spokesman for parrots said he was glad no
parrots were involved. The Minister of Technology (photo of
minister with parrot on his shoulder) today met the three Russian
leaders (cut to photograph of Brahnev, Podgomy and Kosygin all in a
group and each with a parrot on his shoulder) to discuss a �4 million
airliner deal ... (cut back to narrator) None of them went in the
cage, or swung on the little wooden trapeze, or ate any of the nice
millet seed yam, yam. Thats the end of the news. Now our
programmes for parrots continue with part three of 'A Tale of Two
Cities' specially adapted for parrots by Joey Boy. The story so far
... Dr Manette is in England after eighteen years (as he speaks
French Revolution type music creeps in under his words) in the Baslille.
(cut through to a Cruikshank engraving of London). His daughter Lucy
awaits her lover Charles Damay, whom we have just learnt is in
fact the nephew of the Marquis de St Evremond, whose cruelty
had placed Manette in the Bastille. Darnay arrives to find Lucy
tending her aged father...
(Superimposed caption: 'LONDON 1793' Music reaches a climax and we mix slowly through to an
eighteenth-century living room. Lucy is nursing her father. Some low
music continues over. Suddenly the door bursts open and Charles Darnay enters.)
Darnay: (in parrot voice) 'Allo, 'allo.
Lucy: 'Allo, 'allo, 'allo.
Old Man: 'Allo, 'allo, 'allo.
Darnay: Who's a pretty boy, then?
Lucy: 'Allo, 'allo, 'allo.
(And more of the same. Cut back to the narrator.)
Narrator: And while that's going on, here is the news for gibbons. No
gibbons were involved today in an accident on the M 1 ...
(The narrator's voice fades.)
Series 2 Scripts