Witches always anointed themselves with ointments before departing up the chimney to their Sabbaths. One such ointment was composed of Aconite, Belladonna, Water Parsley, Cinquefoil and Babies' Fat.

The British Cable Authority, for its part, in its special Code of Practice on Programme Sponsorship, issued on an experimental basis in 1985, permits the use of a short advertising copyline in addition to acknowledgement of the sponsor.

As the show suggests, the center of gravity today has shifted from North America and Europe to Asia and the Middle East, where supertalls are rising at a frenetic pace.

But for this anachronism of keeping Saturday holy when you had Sunday also to laze on, Daniel felt a hundred higher careers would have been open to him.