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...Saturday mornings. Or to any age group at any time, for that matter. "We wanted a children's drama," explained Mike Dann, senior vice president for programming at CBS television. "But we didn't want Disney. We didn't want a story about a cat in Scotland, in other words...
Hellish Times. Ever since the great train robbery, things have gone steadily downhill for the bandits who made off with 120 sacks of money. Most were captured before they could spend more than a few quid. Those who eluded Scotland Yard for a while had a hellish time, and it is clear that little of the $6,400,000 that is still unaccounted for went towards riotous living. Consider some of Biggs' accomplices...
...This is the sort of thing one doesn't get over," he told a crowd estimated by Scotland Yard at 3,500. "If I were really alive, wouldn't I be the first to admit it?" Amid a chorus of anguished protest from the audience, McCartney re-entered his crypt and was seen to bolt it from the inside...
...pull off the hoax, "a Paul lookalike contest was held and a living substitute found in Scotland... an orphan from Edinburgh named William Campbell... Minor plastic surgery was required to complete the image." Not only did Campbell look amazingly like McCartney, according to LaBour, but "the difference in voice timbre between the original and phony Paul... was so slight" that the Scottish orphan was able to sound the same as Paul...
...head sheared off," four hours after he drove off on a rainy night in November, 1966. "The surviving Beatles decided to keep the information from the public for as long as possible ...a Paul look-alike contest was held and a living substitute found in Scotland," LaBour wrote...