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Dr. Jekyll and Very Tart
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
Alone in his gaslit laboratory, Dr. Jekyll carefully distils a dark red potion and drinks it to a swelling, ominous score. He throws back his head, gurns and convulses, and his hands clench into claws before his fingers break into a frantic little tabletop dance. Just as the horror seems to peak, the fit subsides and the doctor calmly considers the drink's flavour, the whole terrible transformation reduced to a pun on his famous alter ego.
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Ooh. Very tart.
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
Broadcast in the third episode of Big Train's first series on BBC Two on 23 November 1998; the title plays on Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
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