SUPERIMPOSED CAPTION: 'TODAY IN PARLIAMENT HAS NOW
BECOME THE CLASSIC SERIAL'
Newsreader: He in turn has been revealed by D'Arcy as something less
than an honest man. Sybil feels once again a resurgence of her old
affection and she and Balreau return to her little house in
Clermont-Ferrand, the kind of two-up, two-down house that most
French workers throughout the European Community are living in
today.
SUPERIMPOSED CAPTION: 'THE CLASSIC SERIAL HAS NOW BECOME
THE TUESDAY DOCUMENTARY'
(Cut to a photo of a French construction site. The camera tracks over the photo.)
Presenter: The ease of construction, using on-site prefabrication
facilities (the camera starts to pull out slowbt from the photo to reveal the
photo is part of the backdrop of a documentary set about the building
trade; the documentary Presenter is sitting in a chair) makes cheap
housing a reality. The walls of these houses are lined with
prestressed asbestos which keeps the house warm and snuggly and
ever so safe from the big bad rabbit, who can scratch and scratch
for all he's worth, but he just can't get into Porky's house.
SUPERIMPOSED CAPTION: 'THE TUESDAY DOCUMENTARY HAS
BECOME "CHILDREN'S STORY" '
Presenter: Where is Porky? Here he is. What a funny little chap. (cut to
animated Porky doing little dance) But Porky's one of the lucky ones
- he survived the urban upheaval of the thirties and forties. For
him, Jarrow is still just a memory. (zoom out to see Porky as pan of
documentary-the graph) The hunger marches, the East End riots,
the collapse of the Labour Government in 193 ' ... (stock film of
Ramsay MacDonald)
SUPERIMPOSED CAPTION: 'THE CHILDREN'S STORY HAS GONE
BACK INTO THE TUESDAY DOCUMENTARY'
Presenter: ... are dim reminders of the days before a new-found
affluence swept the land, (stock shots of Christmas lights in Regent
Street, shopping crowds, tills and consumer goods ending up with toys)
making it clean and tidy and making all the shops full of nice
things, lovely choo-choo trains ...
SUPERIMPOSED CAPTION: 'NO IT HASN'T'
Presenter: . .. and toys and shiny cars that go brrm, brrm, brrm, (shots of
toys) and everybody was happy and singing all the day long (cut to
the Presenter; by now he has a big kiddies' book which he shuts) and
nobody saw the big bad rabbit ever again.
(Cut to a politican giving a party political broadcast in one of those badly
lit sets that they use r broa4kasts of that nature.)
Politician: But you know it's always very easy to blame the big
bad rabbit...
SUPERIMPOSED CAPTION: 'NOW IT'S BECOME A PARTY POLITICAL
BROADCAST!'
Politician:.. when by-elections are going against the Government, (he
turns and we cat to side camera which reveals a cross behind him as Jbr
religious broMcast) Do you think we should really be blaming
ourselves?
SUPERIMPOSED CAPTION: 'NO, SORRY, ''RELIGION TODAY" '
Politician: Because you know, that's where we really ought to start
looking.
(A football comes in, he heads it neatly out of shot.)
SUPERIMPOSED CAPTION: 'MATCH OF THE DAY'
(Cut to stock film of ball fiying into net and shot of Wembley crowd
roaring. Then cut into short sequence of footballers in slow-motion kissing
each other.)
Series 3 Scripts