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Pilot

Series 1 (1957)

Series 2 (1957)

ABC #101

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  Vocabularies: marginalia, roboright, Erse, paravane
  
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  Verse: Gray’s “…Distant view of Eton College”, Gilbert Bab Ballads, Milton “Lysidas”, Shakespeare “Richard II”
  
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  Origins and derivations: put the kibosh on, lay by the heels, Baedecker rains, cast sheep’s eyes
  
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  “Two blacks do not make a white” (DN)/ “My bonny lies over the ocean” (FM)
  

JL

EJM, TS

27:43, 12995, m

ABC #102

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  Vocabularies: Janeite, about-sledge, dan, wertherism
  
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  Books and characters: Smee, Mr. Goldfinger, Mr. Slope, Abel Mankwitch
  
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  Poetry and verse: Marlowe “The passionate shepherd and his love”, Carroll “Bruno and Sylvie”, Rossetti “The blessed damoiselle”, Shakespeare “Henry VIII”
  
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  French and Latin sayings: cherche la femme, sic transit Gloria muni, mens sana in corpose sano, dulcie et decorum est
  
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  “The die is cast” (FM) / “Keep right on to the end of the road” (DN)
  

JL

EJM, TS

27:20, 12820, m

ABC #103

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  Vocabularies: romaunt, furbish, animacule, tort
  
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  Descriptions: gorgons, Don Juan, Peter Pan, Shakespeare
  
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  French and Latin tags: QED, if youth only knew…, O tempore o mores, morituri te salutem
  
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  Origins and Derivations: haversack, a decent chap, delirium, checkmate
  
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  “Sweet are the uses of adversity” (DN) / “The better part of valour is discretion” (FM)
  

JL

EJM, TS

27:42, 12989, m

ABC #104

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  Vocabularies: emeritus, perigee, salacious, telearchics
  
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  Who or What Was: Alatlanta, Atlantis, Bucephalus, Calypso
  
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  Origins and Derivations: to lay it on with a trowel, to sail the high seas, to feel hipped, to browbeat
  
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  Shakespeare: What You Will, Shakespeare’s children, plays with more than one part, a wound
  
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  “Here’s to the girl with the pair of blue eyes” (DN) / “I wonder who’s kissing her now” (FM)
  

JL

EJM, TS

27:42, 12989, m

ABC #105

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  Vocabularies: desiderata, ruth, siffleur, rumtum
  
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  Rigins and Derivations: hooligan, moonraker, namby-pamby, knickerbockers
  
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  Authors: George Eliot, Jack London, Harrison Amesworth, Thomas Hardy
  
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  Who/Why/Where: The bell in Edmonton, ate mince and quince with a runcible spoon, Walrus doubts the strand can be swept, Winnie the Pooh
  
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  “Oh what a beautiful morning” (FM)/ “Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean” (DN)
  

JL

EJM, TS

27:17, 12793, m

ABC #106

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  Vocabularies: gingival, flocsinocinihilipilification, meed, hymnody
  
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  Shakeperean first lines: Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Henry V, Merry Wives of Windsor
  
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  Verse and Poetry: Ode to a Nightingale by Keats, Time I’ve Lost in Wooing by Thomas More, Hamlet, Goldsmith about Garrick
  
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  Origins and Derivations: slough of despond, belfry, barracking, catchpole
  
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  “Slow and steady wins the race” (DN) / “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket” (FM)
  

JL

EJM, TS

27:37, 12951, m

ABC #107

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  Vocabularies: rahat lakoom, jobation, fleming, hoky poky
  
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  Court questions: court cupboard, court plaster, court of pied power, court of love
  
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  Origins and Derivations: out Herod Herod, Clerk known as Nobby, italics, to peach on someone
  
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  Who/Why/What/Where: rook as parson, Great Plague, Tennyson’s “The Revenge”, Herrick’s “Julia”
  
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  “I will return” (FM)/ “Should auld acquaintance be forgot” (DN)
  

JL

EJM, TS

27:36, 12945, m

ABC #108

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  Vocabularies: hagiolatry, sabreur, indigene, gnosis
  
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  Verse and Poetry: Tennyson’s The Brook, Kingsley’s The Sands of Dee, Poe’s Annabelle Lee, Omar Khayaim
  
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  Origins and Derivations: for a song, backroom boys, to be made a cat’s paw, baggage
  
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  Call words: call a man out, call bird, call of the House, call day
  
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  “All quiet on the western front” (DN) / “A little more than kin and less than kind” (FM)
  

JL

EJM, TS

27:17, 12794, m