Dr. Jekyll and the Butler

In a Victorian laboratory crammed with glassware, a skeleton and anatomical wall charts, a gentleman summons his butler and asks him to take the skeleton away because it gives him the creeps, then changes his mind about touching it. He moves on to a chart of a man apparently stuffed with silver worms, which the butler explains was the lesser evil compared with an even less suitable poster. The gentleman asks for a wholesome picture to hang instead, lets the butler keep a suggestive diagram for his own private use, and orders all the apparatus cleared out, finally explaining why none of these mad-scientist trappings suit him: he is a fireman.

Broadcast in the fourth episode of Big Train's first series on BBC Two on 30 November 1998, a week after the same laboratory set and costume appeared in the sketch Dr. Jekyll and Very Tart.