What Do We Have on Hockey Sticks?
- Episode aired Dec 18, 1988
Rocking the world on its axis. But life goes on for those that hear the music.Rocking the world on its axis. But life goes on for those that hear the music.Rocking the world on its axis. But life goes on for those that hear the music.
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- TriviaThe title of this episode isn't quite the first thing said. As Hobson enters the police station he whispers to the desk sergeant "what's the code today?" To be told "1999" (same as the day before). Hobson then uses the code to enter the CID area and his office where he picks up the phone and asks "What do we have on hockey sticks?"
- GoofsAt one point Ivan, in an attempt to illustrate the fragility of the capitalist financial system, points out to Jill that if one took a banknote into a high street bank and asked to exchange it for an equivalent amount of gold one would be given short shrift. Ivan's point being that a faith in a currency is built on shifting sand. This is a valid point and not wrong per se. But the reference to gold is anachronistic. In 1971 President Nixon unilaterally withdrew the US from the Bretton Woods agreement governing the international monetary system thereby effectively abandoning the gold standard. The Uk soon followed suit. The pound thereafter became a fiat currency backed by nothing more than a shared faith in the probity of the Bank of England.
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Jill Swinburne: [surveying the beauty of the countryside hills] I look at this and I can't work out how we've turned all this into that lot back there, where we've come from. Where did we go wrong?
Trevor Chaplin: Precincts and motorways and takeaways?
Jill Swinburne: And kids trying to sell cavity wall insulation by telephone.
Trevor Chaplin: And getting mixed up with conmen and bank robbers!
Jill Swinburne: And you saying 'I will steal for my child's education' and everybody cheering! Nobody should have to steal.
Trevor Chaplin: I'll tell you what went wrong.
Jill Swinburne: Go on.
Trevor Chaplin: People don't hear the music!
Jill Swinburne: [Amused] Back to music!
Trevor Chaplin: [Looking at First Born] Certainly! What else is there? *He* can hear it!
Jill Swinburne: Bix?
Trevor Chaplin: And Duke and Bird and Prez.
Jill Swinburne: The Beiderbecke Connection!
Trevor Chaplin: That's the 'Sanity Clause': you only have to listen.
Jill Swinburne: You know how to listen, don't you? You just put your ears together. So what do we do now, Butch?
Trevor Chaplin: Hang about... watch the sunset.
Jill Swinburne: Better still, we could walk into the sunset!
Trevor Chaplin: [Protesting] Walk?
Jill Swinburne: Yes!
Trevor Chaplin: Hell's teeth - have you seen the sunsets around here? They're miles away! I'm not walking!
Jill Swinburne: Alright, we'll *drive* into the sunset!
Trevor Chaplin: Howay, then!