On the evening of September 22, 1970, mankind would be forever changed. At 10:55 pm, the BBC began airing the second episode of the second season of a surreal sketch comedy that to this day cannot be distinctly described.
It was in the first skit following the opening when a mill worker approaches a woman quietly knitting as she sat comfortably on a couch. "One of the cross beams has gone out askew on the treadle," he tells her.
The woman expresses confusion and repeatedly asks the mill worker to explain himself. Increasingly frustrated, he finally bursts out, "I didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition!"
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