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I'm watching The Best of the Two Ronnies, which contains a frightening number of sketches and gags I remember. ("At St Pansy's Primary, you could have a reign of terror with a balloon on a stick"). I find myself glad that TV is much more frank these days; the schoolboy smut of seventies British comedy made sex seem the equivalent of going to the toilet (or indeed, sitting on the dougnut in Grannie's greenhouse) - about as appealing as a fart. But au pairs and lavatories aside, there's fantastic wordplay and comic timing. I defy anyone but Ronnie Barker to rattle off "King Jockocatepetl's popstrap."

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Say, Dagger of the Mind was pretty good. I have a memory of childhood trauma - being made to help with moving house instead of being allowed to watch it, in 1982 - and I've never seen the whole story. The mind meld scene is pretty intense, and the chix0r, although wearing such an outrageous girdle she looks like she's in drag, gets to kick ass while Kirk does girly skreems in the torture room. Plus we have the original "I love my work" zombie, so familiar from South park.

What Are Little Girls Made Of? was cool up until the end, when it sort of went to pieces. Try to imagine a Tempest in which the characters randomly kill each other until no-one is left.