"The Count and the Pauper"
or "I Ain't Gonna Work On Maggots Farm No More!" Season 2 Episode 8 (episode 34 overall) Original broadcast date: 31st October 1989 Writer: Jimmy Hibbert, Jan Needle Additional voices: Sid Quack : David Jason Granny Reekie : Brian Trueman Farmer Stink/Walter: Jack May Walter's wife/Policeman: Jimmy Hibbert Peasants: All Joke Credit: Author's assistant - Mark Twain Castle transport visual not used. Well, here's another surprise. Two doppelganger episodes in a row! The random nature of this blog is a constant joy. Just as well they weren't broadcast in that order though. This is also an important episode to me because it was one of a handful I taped from ITV during its original broadcast in 1989. Especially precious as it was never to my knowledge, released on any home media, at least until the advent of the DVD sets in the mid 2000s. I recall